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Women's Rights at the UN: Israel as the Only Violator, Anne Bayefsky Last Friday, March 9, 2007 the UN wrapped up its annual session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Guess where they found a violation of women's rights? Among the hundreds of thousands of women who are dead, dying...

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Are you green? How many flights have you taken in the last year? Feeling guilty about all those unnecessary car journeys? Well, maybe ... all » there's no need to feel bad. According to a group of scientists brought together by documentary-maker Martin Durkin, if the planet is heating up, it...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Canada needs to improve social services for its aboriginal population, particularly native women who face persistent and marked inequalities, a United Nations panel said on Friday. The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination found there was a "lack of...

Billions in costs make it more and more unlikely that the EU can continue to go it alone slashing carbon emissions BENNY PEISERFinancial Post Tuesday, January 09, 2007 A political drama is unfolding in Europe over the future of its Kyoto strategy. Its outcome will shape the future of...

By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com | March 7, 2003 Canadian anti-Americanism has always been a perfect reflection of the pathological nature of anti-Americanism as a whole. Indeed, in Canada, where I am a citizen and have grown up most of my life, anti-Americanism has literally defined...

The New Moon Race By Fred Guterl Newsweek International Feb. 5, 2007 issue - For a space hero, Sergey Krikalev is something of a grump. Krikalev holds the world's record for time spent in outer space—he has logged an incredible 803 days, including time on Russia's Mir space station back...

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have developed two strategies to reactivate the p53 gene in mice, causing blood, bone and liver tumors to self destruct. The p53 protein is called the "guardian of the genome" because it triggers the suicide of cells with damaged DNA. Inactivation...

Debate grows in Cuba six months after hand-over By Anthony Boadle Reuters Wednesday, January 31, 2007; 8:57 AM HAVANA (Reuters) - Six months after Cuba's sick leader Fidel Castro handed over power provisionally to his brother Raul, signs of an opening in public debate are emerging in the...

Long wait forces Ontario cancer patient to buy operation in land he fled LISA PRIEST From Wednesday's Globe and Mail An Ontario cab driver was faced with this choice: Wait more than 14 weeks for cancer surgery, or travel outside of Canada and purchase the lifesaving operation he could not...

So, I've made a decision. This year I will make the necessary modifications to my home in order to curb some of "personal" greenhouse gas emissions while slicing my annual energy costs by half. It's not going to be easy, I have done alot of research on it lately and it's going to be an uphill...

BRITAIN has come only 37th in a league of the world's best places to live, behind Panama, Mexico and Argentina. Its relatively poor standing was blamed on its bad weather, high cost of living, poor transport infrastructure and health service. As a result, Britain was narrowly beaten even...

The Canadian navy is pulling three ships out of planned NATO exercises off Nova Scotia next week, citing a lack of funding. There's no money for the warships to join the U.S. and German ships, navy officials said Friday. "It looks like we're going to wait to use our training assets, our...

By Marc Schulman Nick Cohen, a columnist for The Observer (the Sunday edition of The Guardian), was a "trenchant voice" on the liberal-left in the 1980s and 1990s. The Iraq war caused him to rethink his political allegiance. In a lengthy article in last Sunday's Observer, he provides a summary...

The need for more energy and rising greenhouse gases pose a dual challenge to global prosperity. A new vision of conservation—of doing more with less—may be the key. By Stefan Theil Newsweek International Jan. 29, 2007 issue - Forget the old cliche that conserving energy is a form of...

Raises head when hunter’s wife opens door The Associated Press Updated: 6:31 p.m. ET Jan 20, 2007 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Neither gunfire nor two days in a refrigerator could slay this duck. When the wife of the hunter who shot it opened the refrigerator door, the duck lifted its head, giving...

Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have voiced confidence that the panel will pass a resolution disapproving President Bush's war buildup, The Associated Press reports. More soon.

:shock::shock::shock: Diver tells of being swallowed by shark Australian says he was stuck for up to 2 minutes before jabbing shark's eye Reuters Updated: 7:45 a.m. ET Jan 24, 2007 SYDNEY, Australia - An Australian diver on Wednesday told of how he wriggled free from the jaws of a Great...

Ahmadinejad: Be assured that the US and Israel will soon end lives Yaakov Lappin Published: 01.23.07, 22:24 Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran...

In a raffle where a total of 3,000 tickets are issued and 10 prizes to be won (one prize with each draw), what are the odds of someone winning when he/she buys; 1 Ticket 2 Tickets 3 Tickets 4 Tickets Anybody know the answer?