Tom Mulcair urges Stephen Harper to make the issue of military suicides a personal priority. The Canadian military is dealing with another case of suspected suicide, the third sudden death in a week. The latest tragedy, which occurred Wednesday, involves a reservist belonging to The Princess of Wales’ Own Regiment, one of the country’s oldest military units, based in Kingston, Ont. Several defence sources identify the victim as Cpl. Camilo […]

  India’s Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid has sought to downplay the row with Washington over an Indian diplomat who was arrested in the US. There was “no stand-off” with the US, he told reporters in Delhi, and predicted problems would be sorted out. The row erupted after the diplomat, Devyani Khobragade, was arrested in New York on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her housekeeper. She is now back in […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS A lightning strike in Argentina kills three people and injures 22 Witness: “I saw my friend thrown to the ground” One victim was playing soccer on the beach A lightning strike killed three people on a beach in Argentina Thursday and injured 22 others, state media reported. “We were hiding in a tent to take shelter from the storm when we felt an explosion, and then I saw […]

Religion and astronomy may not overlap often, but a new NASA X-ray image captures a celestial object that resembles the “Hand of God.” The hand was produced when a star exploded and ejected an enormous cloud of material, which NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, glimpsed in high-energy X-rays, shown in blue in the photo. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory had imaged the green and red parts previously, using lower-energy […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS The temperatures from the polar vortex are far from being the coldest on Earth The U.S. holds two records — the greatest rainfall in a minute and the highest temperature The Kolyma Highway (M56) in Russia is the coldest road on Earth An escaped jail inmate turned himself in just so that he could warm up — that’s how cold the U.S. has been this week. With the […]

  An Indian diplomat whose arrest in the US sparked protests from India has been formally indicted by a US grand jury. However, prosecutors said that Devyani Khobragade, 39, had also been granted immunity and that officials had asked her to leave the US. The Indian foreign ministry later confirmed that she was on a flight back to India. Ms Khobragade was detained on charges of visa fraud and of […]

    Scientists have discovered the first-ever dinosaur fossils in Saudi Arabia, dating back to 72 million years. Dinosaur fossils are exceptionally rare in the Arabian Peninsula and the newly identified specimen were excavated in the northwest part of Saudi Arabia along the coast of the Red Sea. An international team of scientists from Uppsala University, Museum Victoria, Monash University, and the Saudi Geological Survey unearthed a string of vertebrae […]

STORY HIGHLIGHTS Venezuela has arrested 7 suspects in the double homicide Official says the killers are among the suspects The country was shocked by the killing of soap opera star Monica Spear The killers of a Venezuelan soap opera star and former beauty queen are among seven suspects who have been arrested, Venezuela’s interior minister said. The shooting deaths of actress Monica Spear and her ex-husband have galvanized the public […]

Tributes have been pouring in for a Pakistani teenager who was killed on Monday when he tackled a suicide bomber targeting his school in the Hangu area. Aitzaz Hasan, 15, was with friends outside school when they spotted a man wearing a suicide vest. Despite the pleas of his fellow students, he decided to confront and capture the bomber who then detonated his vest, his cousin told the BBC. Aitzaz […]

The political traffic jam that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is facing over his office’s involvement in controversial lane closures last year could intensify on Thursday as an official at the heart of the scandal is slated to testify.  The governor is also preparing to give a press conference late Thursday morning. The governor is trying to get a handle on the controversy, which could threaten the potential 2016 presidential […]