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According to various news reports, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kaula Lumpur with 295 passengers has gone down in Ukraine near Ukraine's border with Russia. Malaysian Airlines is confirming that lost contact with the flight: Malaysia Airlines said late Thursday...

The proper term is 'Climate Change' not 'global warming'.......... But temperature change itself isn't the most severe effect of changing climate. Changes to precipitation patterns and sea level are likely to have much greater human impact than the higher temperatures alone. For this...

Thousands of pictures including "naked selfies" have been extracted from factory-wiped phones by a Czech Republic-based security firm. The firm, called Avast, used publicly available forensic security tools to extract the images from second-hand phones bought on eBay. Other data...

I'd say the Father wasn't much of a communicator............... Man accused of killing father tried to get across border Officers were called to the home at around 9:30 Monday morning to check on the welfare of John Keenan after getting a call from agents at the U.S.-Canada border. News 4...

In such giveaways we're a world leader, a fact rarely noted when federal budgets are debated. While Canada slashes budgets for research, education and public broadcasting, there is one part of our economy that enjoys remarkable support from the Canadian taxpayer: the energy sector...

The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is refusing to cooperate with an insider trading investigation, saying its employees are “absolutely immune” from having to comply with subpoenas from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). U.S. District Court Judge Paul Gardephe ordered the...

Besides pouring paint down your drains, this seems to be a pretty good idea to share your message. I won't even comment on what they do to the girl around the 25 second mark but that's not the way to meet pretty girls...

The Vatican has declined a royal commission request to hand over documents about child sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests in Australia. The head of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, Justice Peter McClellan, revealed last month that he had...

A golfer who thought he'd won a $66,000 luxury sedan with a tournament hole-in-one is accusing the sponsoring car dealer of poor sportsmanship for switching the prize. Alan Ross, a Roseville chiropractor, sunk the lucky shot off the third tee at the Granite Bay Golf Club on May 7 during a...

Kansas has a problem. In April and May, the state planned to collect $651 million from personal income tax. But instead, it received only $369 million. In 2012, Kansas lawmakers passed a large and rather unusual income tax cut. It was expected to reduce state tax revenue by more than 10...

The old Public library of Cincinnati was the sort of place you only see in a Harry Potter film; colossal cast-iron book alcoves and spiral staircases that went several stories high, checker board marble floors that shone beneath the skylight roof; a magnificent maze of books that is now lost...

When Jason Kenney grandly announced his new temporary foreign worker program reforms last week - Putting Canadians First! - he slyly handed off the greater part of his troubles to Chris Alexander - Minister of Citizenship, and Immigration - and now also Minister of IMPs and ICTs. We don't...

Just how badly does the American Red Cross want to keep secret how it spent over $300 million after Hurricane Sandy? The charity has hired a fancy law firm to fight a public request we filed with New York state, arguing that information about its Sandy activities is a "trade secret." The...

A teenage girl and man have been jailed for defacing a mosque with strips of bacon. Chelsea Lambie, 18, from Paisley, and Douglas Cruikshank, from Galashiels, wrapped bacon around the door handles on the Central Mosque in Edinburgh and threw strips inside on January 31 last year. Usman...

Japan's parliament has passed a law that bans the possession of child abuse images which excludes pictures in comics, animations and video games. Child safety campaigners say the new legislation is a long-overdue improvement, but are unhappy with the exclusions. The ban does not apply...

By filing what's called a notice of claim on Tuesday, Jonathan Fleming has made a first move toward suing the city over case that put him in prison for nearly 25 years. He was freed and his conviction dismissed in April after the Brooklyn district attorney's office said it now agrees he had a...

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In 1898, you could purchase a Vive box camera for $5. More than 110 years later, no one at the Free Press knows how the old Vive glass negatives ended up in one of the drawers in our photo archives — decades untouched. But the power of a photograph in capturing a moment in time is undeniable...

Ahmed Abu Khattala had returned home Sunday night after a day of militia skirmishes in Benghazi when U.S. military commandos swarmed his residence south of the waterfront city and took him captive, quickly moving him out of Libya to a U.S. warship. One of the suspected ringleaders of the 2012...