People wearing Islamic-style clothing and large beards are banned from riding public buses during the Xinjiang Sports Games in northwestern China, a Communist Party-run newspaper reports. The ban went into effect Monday in the city of Karamay, in the country’s restive northwestern Xinjiang region. It applies to passengers who wear veils, large beards, as well as three types of Islamic dresses — including those with the star and crescent symbol […]

In Pic :Neil Hamer feeds a four-year-old bear named Wimpy in 2012. The Ontario Court of Appeal has just ruled against him, upholding a by-law passed to prohibit feeding bears. Soon after the coming thaw, as she has done for years, a great black mother bear known as Belles will leave her den in the woods of northern Muskoka and saunter down to Neil Hamer’s general store, looking for her […]