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Mystery over why 'America the Beautiful' picked to accompany broadcast of China space launch BEIJING, China - China's state broadcaster isn't saying why the station ran the music to "America the Beautiful" during the gala live broadcast of the country's latest space launch. Strains of the...

Federal Court tosses bid to limit final report into Afghan prisoner abuse OTTAWA - The Conservative government has been dealt a major setback in its attempt to limit what a military watchdog puts in his final report on the handling of prisoners captured by Canadian troops in Afghanistan. A...

Just in time too. Too many questions were being asked about this guy...and he might have answered them to the wrong people. WASHINGTON - The same U.S. military counterterrorism unit that got Osama bin Laden used a drone and jet strike in Yemen on Friday to kill the U.S.-born cleric suspected...

OTTAWA - John Baird has set a new gold standard for business cards. The Conservative foreign affairs minister demanded — and got — gold embossing on his business cards shortly after being shuffled into the portfolio last May, contrary to government rules. Baird then ordered the word "Canada"...

Free range eggs? Syria regime supporters pelt US ambassador with eggs, US condemns intimidation campaign. BEIRUT - Angry supporters of President Bashar Assad's regime hurled tomatoes and eggs at the U.S. ambassador to Syria as he entered the office of a leading opposition figure and then tried...

A sunspot, 62,000 miles across - so big it would dwarf the Earth - is releasing gigantic solar flares that could in theory wreak havoc with electrical communications ranging from handheld electronics such as iPhones to sections of the power grid. Nasa has detected two X-class solar...

WASHINGTON—Iraq has finalized a deal to buy advanced U.S. fighter jets, the first step toward building a modern postwar air force, officials said. Associated Press A Lockheed Martin F-6 Fighting Falcon performs during a demonstration flight at the 49th Paris Air Show at le Bourget airport in...

I can understand prisoners using a Bible for rolling papers, smuggling porn, pills and weed but why would someone have a brand new Michellin snowtire? The data obtained by The Sun contains details of 2,444 separate seizures at the province’s nine federal prisons. That’s more seizures than...

Foreign Oil Companies To Help Ease Labour Shortages... Foreign national oil companies (NOCs) will likely increase their presence in Canada’s oil sands, with one or two non-Chinese deals likely be struck in the next year, Deloitte predicted in a new report. Their role could help the sector...

Lawsuits in US courts are exposing the role played by international banks in financing terrorism. JPost 09/09/2011 15:19 In a recent ruling that sent shockwaves through the Western financial world, the New York District Court revealed that Clearstream, a Luxembourg subsidiary of Deutsche...

By JPOST.COM STAFF AND REUTERS 08/22/2011 14:49 Group says it will "temporarily" stop firing rockets; "truce has started," says Palestinian official; PMO denies that Israel signed any agreement. The Popular Resistance Committees, the group Israel says is behind a deadly terror attack...

It's for a wheelbarrows. WTF else would an aircraft carrier be used for? AFP WASHINGTON — The United States said Wednesday it would like China to explain why it needs an aircraft carrier amid broader US concerns about Beijing's lack of transparency over its military aims. "We would welcome...

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — Prime Minister Stephen Harper boasted Friday that Canada's new free trade deal with Honduras will help that crime-ridden country emerge from poverty and political chaos, adding that his opponents are just "selfish" trade protectionists. But within minutes of Harper...

The dollar tumbled the most in at least 40 years against the Swiss franc after the Federal Reserve pledged to keep its key interest rate at a record low at least through mid-2013 to revive the flagging economic recovery. The greenback declined versus the majority of its most-traded peers as...

Immediately following the announcement of the S&P downgrade, defiant Chicagoans took the the streets and demanded the arrest of the Bankers and an the end of the Federal Reserve system. This was never covered on any news outlet. BREAKING: Post S&P Downgrade, Chicagoans Take to Streets, Demand...

A B.C. reseacher is hoping to develop a specialized HIV vaccine that could help aboriginal people in Saskatchewan, Danny Kresnyak reports. For more listen here: CBC.ca Player

With British Prime Minister David Cameron authorizing the use of rubber bullets and water canons in wake of the turbulent London riots spreading through Britain, questions have been raised about how authorities in the U.S. would respond to a similar domestic disturbance threatening the nation's...

Police departments in several cities around the country are investigating what appear to be incidents of “flash mob”-generated violence, in which packs of dozens or even hundreds of youths appear seemingly out of nowhere to commit assaults, robberies and other crimes against innocent bystanders...

Last weekend saw 250,000 protesers on Rothchild Blvd. in Tel Aviv. Damanding social housing and lower sales taxes. How big will it get this weekend? JERUSALEM — Israel's social protest movement on Wednesday called for demonstrations to be held across the Jewish state on Saturday except in Tel...

The debate over global warming has intensified in recent weeks after a new NASA study was interpreted by skeptics to reveal that global warming is not man-made. While a majority of Americans nationwide continue to acknowledge significant disagreement about global warming in the scientific...