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Tony Blair's former deputy prime minister, John Prescott, thinks he can explain the radicalization of Britain's Muslim youth - his former boss Tony Blair's "bloody crusade" to topple Saddam Hussein. The outspoken former deputy PM, who was recently appointed as an unpaid adviser with special...

A man in Markham, Ontario is furious after his car, garage and home have been damaged due to lack of information from a Nissan recall. On February 13th he had taken his car to the dealership for regular maintenance checks and they verified that his car was fine. He has all the documentation...

U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia Issues Terror Warning - NBC News

The Mirador del Cretáceo dig in Coll de Nargó was found to have been attacked by during a routine visit by Angel Galobart, head of the research group Mesozoic centre. He discovered dinosaur footprints and the remains of hatched eggs trampled and smashed and contacted the Department of Culture...

Who could be correct........? A strengthening dollar and economic weakness in Europe and China could drive crude prices as low as $20 per barrel, according to Raoul Pal of The Global Macro Investor newsletter. The dollar has been climbing recently against the euro and the yen, pushing...

The home secretary said the public were yet to grasp the full scale of the problem. Her comments come after a new panel was announced for the parliamentary inquiry into historical child abuse. Mrs May said the inquiry marked a "new beginning", but warned allegations made so far were...

Disgruntled renters on travel forums like MilePoint and FlyerTalk want Hertz to put the brakes on “spy cams.” A loyal Hertz customer who rented a car in Chicago said it might make them never want to rent with Hertz again: So why is Hertz creeping out customers with cameras it’s not using...

allowing discrimination, judicial obstruction, and even domestic violence. Yet while the bill is far worse than Arizona’s notorious “Turn the Gays Away” bill, it’s attracted far less attention from national advocacy groups and businesses. The bill, the “Georgia Religious Freedom Restoration...

In what is one of the most surprising and generous contributions to Irish famine relief, a group of Choctaw people gathered in Scullyville, Oklahoma, on March 23, 1847 to collect funds for the starving Irish people. They passed money collected onto a U.S. famine relief organization, in an...

A 51-year-old Schomberg man who admitted killing two men with a crowbar in a brutal double homicide nearly four years ago has been found not criminally responsible. The morning of Aug. 30, 2011, was supposed to be just another day for shop foreman Jones and mechanics Wilson and Abernethy...

The International Monetary Fund has worked its magic on Ukraine. The carrot is about $17-billion in bailout funding. The stick is the market price of natural gas (link is external). Soon the democracy-loving Ukrainians will see their gas bills soar nearly threefold. While Kiev will have to...

Gene Patton, the NBC stagehand in Burbank who stole the spotlight as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine on NBC’s wacky The Gong Show, died Monday, his family announced. He was 82. Patton died in Pasadena, according to a spokeswoman at the local Woods-Valentine Mortuary. He had suffered from...

Diplomats say GOP letter to Tehran strengthens Iran’s hand in nuclear talks, doubt March deadline. more: German diplomat: Iran letter 'not helpful' - Michael Crowley - POLITICO Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reacts to letter from Republicans saying he is concerned about fate of nuclear...

"Freak", computer-bug discovered March 3rd affects more systems than initially thought On Tuesday, March 3, 2015, researchers announced a new SSL/TLS vulnerability called the FREAK attack. It allows an attacker to intercept HTTPS connections between vulnerable clients and servers and...

The double-standard in Western attitudes toward Saudi Arabia has looked particularly glaring in the past year The Swedish government this week decided to scrap an arms deal with Saudi Arabia, effectively bringing to an end a decade-old defense agreement with the kingdom. The move followed...

An opposition member of Ontario’s legislature will table a bill Wednesday that would bar any medical therapy aimed at preventing young people from growing up to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, or trans. The private member’s bill, to be introduced by Parkdale-High Park NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo, would...

On March 14, people will gather together in communities across Canada to speak out against Stephen Harper's reckless "secret police" Bill C-51. Experts have pointed out that, if passed, the bill will: Create a secret police force with little oversight or accountability. Facilitate government...

Hundreds of ID badges that let airport workers roam the nation's busiest hub have been stolen or lost in the last two years, an NBC News investigation has found. While experts say the missing tags are a source of concern because they could fall into the wrong hands, officials at...

Bell is arguing for less choice for consumers, claiming that Canadians should be satisfied with access to the programs it (and other Canadian broadcasters) licence. If anything, the Internet is leading to greater choice and options for Canadians that want access to U.S. programs. Blocking...

‘Embarrassing’ new bylaw in Taber, Alberta outlaws swearing, restricts public assembly With a sweeping new bylaw, the southern Alberta town of Taber has outlawed swearing in public, instituted a nightly curfew on kids and teenagers, and granted local law enforcement the power to break up...