A Montreal man has been ordered to pay $8,000 to a panhandler after an email...
A Montreal man has been ordered to pay $8,000 to a panhandler after an email he wrote complaining about her presence outside a liquor store was deemed discriminatory by the province's human rights...
View ArticleAmerican Police Want Legal Exemptions From Canadian Law When Inside Canada
The United States wants its police officers to be exempt from Canadian law if they agree to take part in a highly touted cross-border policing initiative, says an internal RCMP memo.The debate over...
View ArticleOne in 25 Americans Were Arrested in 2011
We've heard a lot of talk lately about mass incarceration, the stop-and-frisk policies in New York, reforming the drug laws, and mandatory minimum sentencing. There's also been discussion about...
View ArticleBill Gates about Google's internet balloons: "When you're dying of malaria, I...
Bill Gates has questioned whether Google's Project Loon, an effort to bring giant internet-giving balloons to less-developed countries, is really that good of an idea. During an interview with...
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Teenager Israel Hernandez Dies After Miami Beach Cops Catch Him Tagging,...
An 18-year-old skater died yesterday after Miami Beach Police officers caught him tagging a building and then Tasered him.Details about the death are still murky, but what is clear is that Israel...
View ArticleIn wishing George Bush well, Vladimir Putin has message for Barack Obama
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent a telegram today to his old sparring partner, former US President George W Bush, wishing him a quick recovery from heart surgery.It may have been coincidence that...
View ArticleMan who created own credit card sues bank for not sticking to terms
When Dmitry Argarkov was sent a letter offering him a credit card, he found the rates not to his liking.But he didn't throw the contract away or shred it. Instead, the 42-year-old from Voronezh,...
View ArticleFox News found to be a major driving force behind global warming denial
A new study published in the journal Public Understanding of Science (PDF available here) surveyed a nationally representative sample of over 1,000 Americans in 2008 and 2011 about their media...
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Cop beats woman detained for shoplifting, leaving her 60% blind in one eye.
Brandie Redell admits she was stealing at the Von Maur department store in Northpark Mall in February, caught on security camera stuffing clothing in her baby’s stroller.But when Davenport police...
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Encrypted email service Lavabit, thought to be used by Edward Snowden, shuts...
Picture of Edward Snowden's new refugee documents granted by RussiaAn encrypted email service believed to have been used by American fugitive Edward Snowden shut down abruptly on Thursday amid a legal...
View ArticleThe British Police: getting away with murder since 1969: 827 people have died...
Christopher Alder, a trainee computer programmer and former British Army paratrooper who had served in the Falklands War and Northern Ireland, died face down, handcuffed, with his trousers around his...
View ArticleDetroit community beats alleged rapist of 15 y.o. girl with Down Syndrome...
Community members in one Detroit neighborhood took matters into their own hands and beat an accused rapist of a 15-year-old girl with Down Syndrome after they say Detroit Police failed to...
View ArticleFrance’s $16M Anti-Piracy Agency Has Sent Two Million Warnings, But Only...
Anti-piracy agency Hadopi just broke a record. In less than three years, it has sent more than 2 million warning emails for copyright infringement. Warning emails are just the first strike in the...
View ArticleGrowing Number Of Restaurants Banning Children During Peak Hours
One restaurant in Texas has a special order for its patrons: “hold the kids.” The restaurant has joined a growing number of eateries that have closed their doors on the smallest diners.When a baby...
View Article10 healthy reasons to go bananas!
When it comes to health benefits, bananas are difficult to beat. They are delicious, cheap, available throughout the year and almost every part of a banana tree is useful – be it the leaves, flowers,...
View ArticleBarack Obama offers plan meant to ease concerns on US surveillance
President Barack Obama on Friday sought to get his administration ahead of the roiling debate over National Security Agency surveillance, releasing new information about spying activities and calling...
View Article8 Surprisingly Healthy Foods You’re Ignoring
Grocery shopping in the summer months is about as good as it can get. The produce department is overflowing with seasonal offerings and tasty options. From avocado to zucchini, bananas to yams, just...
View ArticleUnusual Uses for Greek Yogurt
Thick, creamy Greek yogurt is a nutrition rock star – so if you’re gobbling it down by the spoonful, good work. But why not get a little creative? Greek yogurt lightens, moistens and adds flavor, and...
View ArticleGerman companies to automatically encrypt emails
Two of Germany's biggest Internet service providers said Friday they will start encrypting customers' emails by default in response to user concerns about online snooping after reports that the U.S....
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Vietnamese Men Emerge From Jungle 40 Years After War, Have Had No Contact...
In the midst of the Vietnam War, after a bomb destroyed his family home and killed his wife and two of his sons, a desperate father grabbed his infant boy and fled into the forest.There they stayed for...
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