Reuters - Don't mess with a century-old tradition even if it is sexist, Canadians told the Conservative government this week, forcing Ottawa to scrap plans to make the country's national anthem gender-neutral.
Reuters - Black and Hispanic Americans are more likely than whites and Asians to lose sleep over job and money worries, a sleep survey released on Monday found.
Reuters - Canada's parliamentary restaurant will be serving seal meat on Wednesday in a gesture of defiance aimed at a European Union ban on imports of seal products.
Surgeons in China have operated to remove a five inch tail from a four-month-old baby girl. The little girl, called Hong Hong, was born with the tail but it ...
Road safety chiefs have put up traffic signs warning motorists of drunks in the road in a bid to reduce accidents. Mayor Petru Antal ordered the signs ...
Yorkshire pudding makers have launched a bid for the same European legal protections enjoyed by Scotch whisky and champagne. Under EU law, businesses in ...
A Mexican judge has been sacked for trying to punish a teenage graffiti artist by spray painting his buttocks. Fernando Perez Hurtado, from San Juan Del Rio ...
Reuters - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Thursday banned men in the Gaza Strip from working in women's hair salons, vowing to arrest and try offenders.
Reuters - A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.
Reuters - Performers in London's West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors' union Equity.
Reuters - China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation's youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country's top sports university said Thursday.
Hundreds of desperate job-seekers took part in a 'binman olympics' to compete for just 14 jobs as road sweepers. Nearly 500 entrants competed for what are ...
The first signs of Oscar buzz can be seen on Hollywood Boulevard where the Acadamy Awards will take place on Sunday. A large Oscar statue has been placed at ...
Reuters - An investigation is underway into why a young child, apparently under an adult's supervision, was allowed to direct air traffic at New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. authorities said on Wednesday.
Reuters - A U.S. Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.
A US man who claimed his car had been stolen after he crashed it into a snow drift was arrested after police followed his footsteps back to the bar where ...
A Chinese man caused part of a city to be without power for four hours - when he performed a high wire act on power cables. Xiang Jun, 26, of Dongguan, ...
India Talkies Malaysia Hindu wins custody row with .. - Indiatalkies AP A Malaysian court Thursday granted an ethnic Indian woman custody of her child in a bitter dispute with her Muslim-convert husband, in a ruling that could ease religious minorities' worries about their legal rights.
NEWS.com.au Corey Haim was 'tormented soul' - News The Lost Boys actor Corey Haim was a "tormented soul", friend and fellow actor Corey Feldman has said. Paying tribute to the star, Feldman said he wept when he heard Haim had died at a California hospital on Wednesday aged 38.
AFP Dodd Ends Talks, Says Financial Bill Will Include .. - Google March 11 (Bloomberg) -- Senator Christopher Dodd, who today ended three weeks of talks with Republican Bob Corker on legislation to overhaul financial regulations, said elements they worked out will be in the bill he introduces next ...
The Guardian Brain scans 'can distinguish memories', .. - Guardian Scientists say they have been able to tell which past event a person is recalling using a brain scan. The University College London researchers showed people film clips and were able to predict which ones they were subsequently thinking about.
About - News & Issues (blog) International .. - Horror The story of a mismatched couple -- a disgraced magazine reporter and an antisocial young hacker -- teaming up to solve a 40-year-old disappearance, ...
USA Today Corvette Z06 gets carbon treatment - Content Each of the 500 Z06 Carbon Covettes gets its own removable series door number. Good for trackdays, even better for going to the shop.
TheMedGuru H1N1 Flu Spreads Slower Than Seasonal Flu: .. - Themedguru WEDNESDAY, March 10 (HealthDay News) -- The H1N1 swine flu appears to spread more slowly than "regular" seasonal flu in a household setting, but when it does spread it's more likely to affect children, a new study suggests.
Ananova Man takes the plunge and proposes - Ananova A Chinese man took his girlfriend to visit an aquarium and then shocked her with a surprise proposal - from inside the tank. Wang Jian, 28, had been taking ...
