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The rapidly melting Arctic is not only a looming climate catastrophe, but new research shows it could be an economic disaster, as well. In findings published in the journal Nature, economists and polar scientists from the University of Cambridge and Erasmus University Rotterdam found that...

Madrid: At least 20 people were killed when a train derailed outside the northern Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela on Wednesday, state media and witnesses said. Train wagons lay on their sides with smoke billowing from the wreckage, photographs published on the Voz de Galicia...

Why would NBC replace him when he's still so dominant? “HERE’S A fascinating story,” the longtime host of NBC’s Tonight Show With Jay Leno told his audience last week, mentioning a recent Iowa Supreme Court ruling “that a dentist could legally fire his female assistant because he found her...

Should 'illegal' immigrants be rebranded as 'irregular' immigrants? The UN thinks so – Telegraph Blogs

Former energy minister Brad Duguid’s office was so concerned about political fallout from building a power plant near Sherway Gardens that it prepared a confidential dossier on how local Liberal MPPs were fighting it. The document was among more than 3,000 pages of emails released Tuesday...

Oil spills at an oil sands operation in Cold Lake, Alberta have been going on for weeks with no end in sight, according to a government scientist. Oil spills at a major oil sands operation in Alberta have been ongoing for at least six weeks and have cast doubts on the safety of underground...

Why are Canadians disengaged from public affairs? A former Clerk of the Privy Council hazards a guess: A lack of social trust: High social trust implies solidarity, the sense that the members of a society share a common fate and mutual responsibility and this is reflected in greater...

A minor incident in Sarnia's CN Rail yard recently was greatly exaggerated by a tweet from national Green Party leader Elizabeth May over the weekend, says a miffed Mayor Mike Bradley. He sent out a curt email response to May when it became clear that she had taken a phone call from “a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop turned film and TV actor best known for his role as wise-cracking detective Joe Fontana on the hit NBC police drama "Law & Order," died in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Monday, his publicist said. He was 69. Farina, who parlayed his...

mad mad mad mad mad :lol: The last two years has seen The Toronto Star become the Wyle E. Coyote of newspapers. Their editors and reporters have had all their outlandish attempts to dislodge Toronto's Mayor Rob Ford from office fail abysmally with their intended target emerging more secure...

George Zimmerman, who has been in hiding since he was acquitted of murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, emerged to help rescue someone who was trapped in an overturned truck, police said today. Sanford Police Department Capt. Jim McAuliffe told ABC News that Zimmerman “pulled an...

Most households in the UK will have pornography blocked by their internet provider unless they choose to receive it, David Cameron has announced. In addition, the prime minister said possessing online pornography depicting rape would become illegal in England and Wales - in line...

A Kitchener woman who operated a home day care has been arrested after she allegedly poisoned two young children in her care. Christine Allen, 32, who may have also used the name Christine Keilbar, is charged with two counts each of aggravated assault and administering a noxious substance...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged the city of Miami and its former budget director with fraud on Friday for allegedly making misleading statements and omissions in bond documents in order to mask general fund deficits. The SEC, which has limited authority over...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s food police have struck again! Outlawed are food donations to homeless shelters because the city can’t assess their salt, fat and fiber content, reports CBS 2’s Marcia Kramer. Glenn Richter arrived at a West Side synagogue on Monday to...

The Schenectady-based Wandering Dago food truck, which had a contract to operate at Saratoga Race Course this season, was told to leave the track after opening day on Friday because an unnamed state official found the name offensive, according to the truck's co-owner Brandon Snooks. "We got...

So there...plbbbthththth A fascinating map of the world’s most and least racially tolerant countries

The fine upstanding piece of dog sh!t The fight began almost as soon as an Orlando police officer pulled over a car with faulty taillights. It ended after Akil Asim Horsford's gun malfunctioned and he took a bite out of an officer's arm. Horsford, 23, began arguing when officers...

10 Countries That Love (and Hate) America the Most | The Exchange - Yahoo! Finance

Asylum-seekers arriving by boat will no longer be resettled in Australia but will go to Papua New Guinea, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced. The news came as Mr Rudd set out an overhaul of asylum policy ahead of a general election expected shortly. Australia has...