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Since he's very much a "just folks" kind of guy, it's unlikely that Alberta Premier Ralph Klein ever reads the New York Review of Books. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is much more of a brainiac. His interest is in economic and financial matters, though, rather than in that magazine's usual...

A Manitoba woman who killed her newborn baby is not going to jail. 27-year-old Selena Stevenson was given an 18-month conditional sentence after pleading guilty to the rare charge of infanticide. Court heard Stevenson placed a plastic bag over her baby's head. The body was discovered in the dump...

By Lowell Ponte FrontPageMagazine.com | March 28, 2006 Europe’s botched civilization, perverted by socialism and lost faith, seems to have lost the will, the passion to sustain itself. If it continues to practice today’s multiculturalist leftism, Europe’s demographic doom will be sealed. Some...

A French court has sentenced an Algerian man to 10 years in jail in connection with the 1995 Paris Metro bombings which left eight people dead. Rachid Ramda, 35, was found guilty of criminal association with a terrorist organisation. He had been charged with providing logistical support to...

A Canadian soldier was killed early Wednesday when Taliban insurgents attacked a coalition outpost in a remote area outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. An American soldier and three more Canadian soldiers were also injured in the attack. Pte. Robert Costall was killed in a battle which took place...

Report: Holdings in dollars, other currencies may now top Japan's SHANGHAI, China - China’s foreign currency reserves reached $853.7 billion by the end of February, likely topping Japan’s to become the world’s largest, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday, citing an unnamed source. Japan’s...

4 years after civil war, government sets plan to clear mines from farms LUANDA, Angola - An estimated 7 million land mines are still hidden in unmarked minefields across Angola, four years after a protracted civil war ended, a government official said Tuesday. Up to the end of last year...

Boy, 3, crawls up into pizzeria claw toy machine, doesn’t want to leave MINNEAPOLIS - Devin Haskin isn't the first little boy to find the inside of a toy machine too enticing to resist. When the 3-year-old Austin, Minn., boy crawled through the discharge chute of a Toy Chest claw machine at a...

by Chris Hedges. I just finished reading this book, what a great read. From Troy to the Iraq, not much has changed about war, of course we all know that. This work explores war's universal power based on the firsthand experience of a talented correspondent. Vivid episodes illustrate the nature...

Dutchman Johan Huibers is building a working replica of Noah's Ark as a testament to his Christian faith. The 47-year-old from Schagen, 45km (30 miles) north of Amsterdam, plans to set sail in September through the interior waters of the Netherlands. Johan's Ark is a fifth of the size of...

WASHINGTON - Congressional Democrats promise to "eliminate" Osama bin Laden and ensure a "responsible redeployment of U.S. forces" from Iraq in 2006 in an election-year national security policy statement. In the position paper to be announced Wednesday, Democrats say they will double...

PARIS, France (UPI) -- To understand the current French political crisis, with street battles between police and protesting students and a general strike called for Tuesday, there are few better starting points than the latest GlobeScan survey of international opinion that finds France is the...

By John V. Fleming Princetonian Columnist Earlier this month, following widespread reporting of crowds howling in the street as embassies burned and corpses littered the ground, two guest columnists published an essay here complaining of a media-perpetrated anti-Muslim "stereotype" of unreason...

How to combat "global warming" without destroying the economy. BY PETE DU PONT Tuesday, March 28, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST Did the 1970s mark the beginning of an ice age? Scientists and the press thought so. In 1971 Global Ecology forecast the "continued rapid cooling of the earth." The New York...

Exec admits stealing from charity for S&M bill Accountant embezzled $237,000 to pay dominatrix to beat him up NEW YORK - A charity foundation’s former accountant, accused of embezzling heart disease research funds to pay a dominatrix to beat him, pleaded guilty Tuesday to grand larceny and...

ACCRA, Ghana - Tourists and scientists were gathering at spots around the world for the first total eclipse in years, a solar show that will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia and blot out the sun across swathes of the world's poorest lands. The last such eclipse in November 2003 was...

Whopper of an error! $4,334 for burgers Burger King cashier’s mistake overcharges California man PALMDALE, Calif. - A quick meal at George Beane’s neighborhood Burger King ended up costing a lot more than he expected when he got the $4,334.33 bill. Beane ordered two Whopper Jr.s and two Rodeo...

NEW YORK - Construction workers cleaning toxic waste from a vacant skyscraper near the World Trade Center site have found more bone fragments and human remains, officials said Tuesday. The city medical examiner's office plans to extract DNA from the latest remains to be recovered from the...

Moussaoui: White House was my 9/11 target He admits lying to protect attacks, possibly bolstering death penalty case ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11...

Could terrorists actually detonate a weapon of mass destruction on United States soil? According to the CIA, at least 20 countries - nearly half of them in the Middle East and South Asia - already have or may be developing weapons of mass destruction. Moreover, it is a matter of public record...