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Meadowlark Lemon, whose halfcourt hook shots, no-look behind-the-back passes and vivid clowning were marquee features of the feel-good traveling basketball show known as the Harlem Globetrotters for nearly a quarter-century, died on Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz., where he lived. He was 83. Lemon...

The news from Afghanistan is very bad. No one says that, of course. President Ghani has a “national unity government” that “supports a strong partnership with the United States”, according to Barack Obama two months ago. Sure, Kunduz was captured by the Taliban – but then the Afghans got it...

I think he understands that people who live in the real world will consider his comments foolish...... Pope Francis has written a long, open letter to the founder of La Repubblica newspaper, Eugenio Scalfari, stating that non-believers would be forgiven by God if they followed their...

Ann Makosinski isn't an ordinary teenager. The 18-year-old Canadian won Shell Canada's Quest Climate Grant's $50,000 prize for creating two inventions that use heat to generate electricity. Her first invention was a flashlight that runs off your body heat, for which she won a prize at Google's...

A 37-year-old man was shot and killed by police after rampaging through industrial parking lots in a stolen front-end loader. Red Deer RCMP said they were looking for the man in connection to a sexual assault on a 47-year-old woman and an attempted murder on a 20-year-old man. The sex assault...

Russia is beefing up its military presence in the Arctic, sending troops and missiles to strengthen its position in the competition for the region’s extensive oil and gas reserves. Putin is building six bases in the Arctic, and sending troops and missiles Russia sends missiles to the Arctic...

The governor, facing a profound fiscal crisis, has proposed the imposition of a personal income tax for the first time in 35 years. State lawmakers, who recently moved into a palatial new office building here, where they work when not toiling in the far-off Capitol in Juneau, are now seeking...

Justin Pierre James Trudeau born December 25, 1971

it backfires predictably Parents in Idaho called the cops last week on junior-high student Brady Kissel when she had the nerve to help distribute a book they’d succeeded in banning from the school curriculum. The book in question was Sherman Alexie’s young adult novel “The Absolutely True...

A couple has forked out $275,000 to be the first in Britain to clone their dead dog. Laura Jacques and Richard Remde were devastated when their Boxer, Dylan, died of a heart attack in June, aged eight. They enlisted the help of South Korean biotech firm Sooam, which clones dead dogs for...

Thailand’s military junta, which took power in a coup last year and has smothered public criticism of its rule, has conducted a poll that found more than 99% of Thais are happy with its performance. The National Statistics Office released the results of the poll, which questioned 2,700 people...

Corrosion-resistant steel imports from China were sold at unfairly low prices and will be taxed at 256 percent, according to a preliminary finding of the U.S. Department of Commerce. “We’re concerned that the dumping that’s occurring is at higher levels than these determinations reflect,” Tim...

Rock Band The Slants Wins First Amendment Appeal Over 'Disparaging' Trademarks | Billboard www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC-4qQmGS_Q

Critics are upset with the NDP government for raising taxes on the wealthy, running a $6-billion deficit, borrowing $34 billion over five years on infrastructure and spending $49.9 billion this year alone. However, they seem to forget that the Progressive Conservatives in their budget...

Islamic banking is being touted as the next big thing for Canada's financial services sector, but experts say it's up to the new federal government to demonstrate that it welcomes Shariah-compliant investments. "It's absolutely fundamental that the Canadian government signal that, in fact, it...

Erdoğan began his ascent to power as a social reformer in opposition to the power elite; he was a rabble-rouser for popular Islam and social welfare. Once he takes political power he enriches his family and the business elite and purges adversaries and rivals. With political power and economic...

Stephen Wolfram set out to find the truth about Ada Lovelace, the 19th century mathematician hailed as the first computer programmer, and who died young. In "untangling the tale," he found a mystery much harder to unravel than he expected. Little-known until recent decades, her star rose with...

19 reasons why the world has fallen in love with Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau

French set to be the world's most commonly spoken language by 2050 because of soaring population growth in sub-Saharan Africa French on course to be the world's most commonly spoken language by 2050 | Daily Mail Online