102 units in townhouse complex may be without water for another week, contractor says Hundreds of people in Mississauga are still without water for the fifteenth straight day after an old pipe burst two  weeks ago, and the residents could be without water for another week. ‘The Colony’ complex, located at 180 Mississauga Valley Blvd, has a total of 102 units — all of which have been without water for more than two  week after the […]

The intimate looks at locations around the globe made possible by Google Street View has changed the way many of us look at the world. But according to a new piece of information revealed by Google, it turns out that our virtual tourism habits aren’t necessarily aligned with some of our real-world pursuits. According to Street View program manager Ulf Spitzer, the top virtual tourism destination in Asia using Google […]

A schoolteacher was arrested on Wednesday after hundreds of living and dead pythons in plastic bins were found stacked floor to ceiling inside his stench-filled suburban California home. As investigators wearing respirator masks carried the reptiles out of the house by the score and stacked them in the driveway, reporters and passers-by gagged at the smell. Some held their noses or walked away from the five-bedroom home to get a […]

A Guantanamo detainee, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab al-Rahabi, appears before a board on Tuesday. Like others held at the prison, he will wait to hear his fate. The hearing is the first one open to journalists under the Obama administration. More are planned. It is a hopeful sign for detainees. Al-Rahabi and others will be allowed to speak their mind – and say why they should be released. It […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS A 12-year-old has been taken by a crocodile in northern Australia A second boy, 15, was bitten but escaped The crocodile is believed to measure 2.5 to three meters (eight to nine feet) long Police are also looking for larger creatures that may have attacked the crocodile A 12-year-old boy is missing after being snatched by a crocodile in a remote part of the Australian Outback, authorities said […]

Jane Burnett, Nicky Walker and Sarah Daly sat for photo at Imire: Rhino and Wildlife Conservation in Zimbabwe Suddenly the seven-tonne bull elephant crept up behind them as they posed for pictures, waving its trunk There’s nothing more annoying than returning home to find an idiotic photo-bomber has ruined your favourite holiday snaps. But for these five women, it was a rather more welcome intrusion when a seven-tonne bull elephant […]

In the village school of Kuyu, in the heartland of Ethiopia’s Oromia region, more than 20 children put up their hands when asked if anyone in their family has eye problems. “My mother has lost vision in one eye and the other is causing her big problems,” says one boy. “She can’t see where she’s going.” Another child says her grandmother is blind in both eyes and is forever pulling […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Magnetic Hill in New Brunswick is an optical illusion that has fascinated tourists for decades The Moeraki Boulders in New Zealand are what geologists call septarian concretions Lightning and the Midnight Sun also wow visitors — and keep them awake at night Earth never stops surprising us. Every corner of the planet offers some sort of natural peculiarity with an explanation that makes us wish we’d studied harder […]

“There seems also to be a sentiment of honour among them; for it is said that they use poisoned arrows in hunting, but never against their foes,” wrote Charles Dickens about the Santhals, one of India’s oldest and largest tribal communities in his weekly literary magazine. “If this be the case – and we hear nothing of the poisoned arrows in the recent conflicts – they are infinitely more respectable […]

Is Step into the Void, a new 12,650-foot (3,856-meter) perch in the French Alps, the scariest? A person stands in the ‘Step into the Void’ installation in the French Alps. “I must have torrents, rocks, pines, dead forests, mountains, rugged paths to go up and down, precipices beside me to frighten me,” wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau of his love of rambling in the French Alps. “The odd thing about my liking […]