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The United States has fallen three places to 49th in global press freedom, according to the newly-released Reporters Without Borders 2015 World Press Freedom Index. The index ranks the performance of 180 countries according to numerous criteria, including medial pluralism and independence...

Kidde is recalling more than 4.6 million disposable fire extinguishers in the U.S. and Canada because the plastic valves may not fully discharge when the lever is pressed and released. The company has received 11 reports of extinguishers failing to discharge, but no injuries have been...

Bill Proposes Sentencing Women To Five Years In Prison If They Wear Yoga Pants In Public Three Times Representative David Moore said introduced House Bill 365 on Tuesday in the House Judiciary Committee. He said the bill is in response to a group of nude bicyclists who participated in a...

“What we need to find out is how this happened,” he said in an interview. “When we find out that there was a lobbyist who had been working for Minister Baird, representing the company in question — we were under the impression that this was a sanction that was not relevant — but it is...

Let's go to another room so the TV can't hear us! Samsung's smart TVs don't just respond to your commands now – they also tell a third party what you're saying while you sit in from of them. Sharp-eyed folks have spotted Samsung's confession to that this effect in the UK privacy policy for its...

A B.C. woman is speaking out after a thief managed to steal $17,000 from her bank account using only her stolen driver's licence. Heather Wallace Barnes says her wallet was stolen on Oct. 30, while she was working at a vintage clothing store in Port Moody, B.C. The thief, a man, was...

Mexico is offering undocumented foreigners including Americans amnesty if they come forward and apply for legal status.“I have heard there are people here who don’t have the proper documents. We have illegal aliens here also,” said Arlene Van Note, a resident in San Miguel de Allende.“I’m a...

Almost 45 percent of the American population will be obese by 2030. That will increase the total toll on the healthcare system from related illnesses to a staggering $60 billion. Over the past 30 years, global obesity rates have more than doubled, and behind the stark statistics is a simple...

Google's independent advisory council says Europe's Right to Be Forgotten ruling should be contained within the continent and that its reach shouldn't extend to .com domains. The advisory council is composed of independent experts who were invited by Google and tasked with helping the search...

Weaver said he initiated the lawsuit in 2010 when the National Post refused to retract the offending articles “that attributed to me statements I never made, accused me of things I never did, and attacked me for views I never held.” “I felt I had to take this matter to court to clear my name...

crazy........... Think MLSE is bad? A look at 10 of the worst team owners in Canadian sports history | National Post

A Saskatchewan municipal leader was removed from office Thursday after an inquiry found that he stood to earn up to $57 million on a land development. Kevin Eberle, reeve of the Rural Municipality (RM) of Sherwood, owned land on which the Wascana Village development was to go. The matter...

Tony Abbott is on the ropes. The Australian public have about had it with his ways - equal parts thuggish and thick. Finally members of his own party seem to have had enough of this anchor round their necks and have introduced a "spill motion" that could result in a leadership contest. Abbott...

Obama at Prayer Breakfast affirms right to be godless Obama reminded his audience of the deplorable history of Christianity, pointing out the horrors of the Crusades and Inquisition, as well as America’s racist past with slavery and Jim Crow: "central to that dignity is freedom of religion...

An investigative report into the billionaire Koch brothers' connections to Canada was pulled from Global's newsmagazine show 16x9 shortly before broadcast, and an article published on the same topic was scrubbed from GlobalNews.ca, CANADALAND has learned. Last Thursday at 11:06am, an article...

He threatened to fight with members of the flight crew and referred to people on the plane as “peasants.”. Paris Hilton's younger brother, Conrad Hilton, reportedly grabbed a flight attendant’s shirt and said: “I could get you all fired in five minutes. I know your boss. My father will pay this...

Fiji will remove the union jack from its flag and replace it with a design that symbolises the Pacific country, not former colonial power Britain, the prime minister has said. “We need to replace the symbols on our existing flag that are out of date and no longer relevant, including some...

As clean water once again flows from taps in the city of Winnipeg, members of a nearby First Nation community say they remain under a boil water advisory that's been in effect for nearly two decades. Some members of the Shoal Lake 40 First Nation were in Winnipeg earlier this week to protest...

In these darkest of times, it appears that a newly discovered threat has arisen plunging all of mankind into a state of catatonic fear from which there is no recovery—a ring! A Kermit, Texas, fourth-grader named Aiden Steward brought a Hobbit-esque replica of the ring to class, claiming it...

Icelanders will soon be able to publicly worship at a shrine to Thor, Odin and Frigg with construction starting this month on the island’s first major temple to the Norse gods since the Viking age. Worship of the gods in Scandinavia gave way to Christianity around 1,000 years ago but a modern...