VANCOUVER – Vancouver’s economy could suffer a $1.2-billion blow in the case of a major oil spill caused by Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, concludes a new report released by the city. The report, conducted by the University of B.C.’s Fisheries Economics Research Unit, examined the potential economic costs of a 16-million litre spill in Burrard Inlet, the body of water bordering to the city that is busy […]

LONDON: An unexploded 50kg World War II live bomb has been uncovered near UK’s national football stadium in London, forcing authorities to evacuate hundreds of people living nearby. Residents and traders have been evacuated from nearby buildings, and a 400m cordon has been erected in the area, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. A Britain’s Got Talent studio was also evacuated after the bomb was uncovered by builders near […]

This piece of news may not sound good for many ‘Maggi’ lovers as it may now face a ban in Uttar Pradesh after it has been found to contain harmful chemicals. The two-minute ‘Maggi’ noodles came under regulatory scanner after samples collected in some parts of Uttar Pradesh were tested in the lab and results showed that it contains high amount of monosodium glutamate (MSG) and lead. Shockingly, it has […]

WASHINGTON: The 22-year-old would-be-jihadist wrote to his reclusive father to say he was itching to join the fight. Hamza trained with explosives and embraced the terror network that killed 3,000 Americans in the September 11, 2001 attacks. But young Hamza was no run-of-the-mill jihadist recruit. He was the favorite son of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, who was grooming him to take over as al-Qaida’s leader, according to US intelligence […]

Last year, more than a thousand rhinos were poached in South Africa, elephant populations have plummeted 66% in just five years, and the export of lion “trophies” has increased ten-fold–hunters bringing home animals’ heads and bodies to stuff and mount. In response to such threats, South African Airways has declared an immediate, worldwide ban on transporting any hunting trophies made from rhinos, lions, elephants, and tigers. Now I need your […]

  Mayors in the Greater Montreal area are joining forces to push back against the planned cancellation of door-to-door mail delivery. They hope to join a lawsuit already under way by the postal union. “The way you deliver things is key, and don’t [try] to divide and conquer, because we’re sending a strong message today that we’re all together in it and we’ll do whatever we have to do to […]

  Denzel Washington is sure to turn some Hollywoodian heads after he told a graduating class at Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana to “Put God first in everything you do.” Washington told the students “Everything that you think you see in me, everything that I’ve accomplished, everything you think that I have, and I have a few things… Everything that I have is by the grace of God,” He […]

A Chinese boss has taken 6,400 of his staff on a four day holiday to France that finished with a world-record breaking human chain in the Cote D’Azur. Tiens Group Company Chairman Li Jinyuan, 57, who is featured on the Forbes list of billionaires, booked 4760 rooms in 79 four- and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco, in addition to 146 buses, for his employees, News.com.au reported. After some sightseeing, […]

  DUBAI: A 13-year-old girl in the UAE has invented a solar bag which can charge electronic devices, power lights and a fan for trekkers, becoming one of the youngest Emirati innovators. Fatima Al Kaabi, who has already invented a printer for the visually impaired, developed the solar bag after a visit to a desert with her family where she could not charge her cell phone. The solar bag can […]

Some time around 2010, stories began circulating on the Internet about a sexually transmitted disease called “Blue Waffle.” Use your imagination. For five years now, sexual health educators throughout Canada and the United States have been fielding questions about the disease which, according to web wisdom, is only passed from women to men and may be the result of poor hygiene or an overactive sex life. It does not exist. […]