Tightrope walk over Niagara Falls scheduled for June 15Nik Wallenda, the tightrope walker who has secured permission to cross over the Niagara Gorge, will do so on June 15, the Toronto...
B.C. hang glider pilot might have (literally) swallowed evidence of woman’s deadly fallThe case of a woman who fell to her death from a hang glider in B.C.’s Fraser Valley last Saturday has taken a bizarre turn. The...
Obama spells out the end of the Afghan war and Taliban responds with deadly suicide bombIn a pop-up visit to Kabul marking the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s death, President Barack Obama spelled out the end of...
Former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge disagrees with successor Mark Carney on debt, housing bubbleMark Carney is used to having the last word in all matters related to the national economy. But the Bank of Canada governor took...
Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest and took refuge in US embassy, is now a "free" manChen Guangcheng, a prominent dissident who embarrassed Chinese authorities last week as he managed to escape his house arrest, has...
Addicted newborn babies latest sign of alarming overuse of painkillersBetween 1999 and 2009 the number of American newborns showing signs of intoxication with opiates tripled, according to a new...
Conrad Black will be heading back to Canada on a one-year permitConrad Black will be heading back to his native Canada after he finishes serving his U.S. prison sentence next weekend even though...
Where do you go after ’Change’? Barack Obama unveils his re-election campaign slogan It all comes down to one word: "Forward." President Barack Obama’s team has unveiled a video launching his re-election campaign...
British parliamentary committee says Rupert Murdoch "not fit" to run international firmAt 81, Australian media mogul Rupert Murdoch has been told by a parliamentary committee in Britain that he’s not fit to run an...
Bringing some sanity to airport securityThe former head of U.S. airport security is calling for an end to the check-in nightmare