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A miscommunication appears to have caused a mobile crane to hit a light rail transit train in northwest Calgary on Wednesday.

Tropical storm Gustav crept toward Cuba Wednesday after slamming the Caribbean as a deadly hurricane a day earlier, killing at least 11 people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

While Canadians complain about the soaring price of gasoline at the pumps, oil industry experts say people in this country are actually paying the second-lowest prices in the Western world.

It will become mandatory for all large ships sailing into the Northwest Passage and Canada's other Arctic waterways to report to the Canadian Coast Guard, Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised Wednesday.

Organizers of Ottawa's annual gay pride parade want to know why the Canadian military didn't honour two requests this year for military officers to march with them.

The cores of a motley crew of nearby dwarf galaxies all weigh about 10 million Suns, suggesting galaxies need at least that much mass to form

Ocean-floor life everywhere is kept in check by viruses that infect microbes and prevent nutrients rising up the food chain

If a risky decision just feels right, your brain may have had some subliminal help in reaching it, says a study of gambling decisions

NASA's Opportunity rover is climbing out of Victoria Crater after one of its wheels seemed to show signs of failing

A new gene therapy that grows hearing cells in mice will not itself be of use to deaf people, but might point to new ways to reverse deafness in humans

Arizona State Representitive Mark Anderson, a Republican from Mesa, has a long history of loyal and devoted service to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the self-proclaimed "messiah" and leader of the Unification Church. Moon's followers have historically been called "Moonies." Almost ten years ago the Mesa Tr ...

Have you ever been bothered by unwanted visitors at your door trying to sell you on their religion? Probably the most familiar and persistent door-to-door proselytizers are "Jehovah's Witnesses," a sect seemingly historically obsessed with "doom and gloom." Witnesses have an apparent fascination s ...

Chuck Anderson, the head of an unaccredited school called the Endeavor Academy (EA) in the Wisconsin Dells, is dead. He was 83. Often referred to as a "cult leader" by his critics, Anderson's followers called him instead their "Master Teacher" (MT). The self-styled “miracle worker” (see photo ...

Yisrayl "Buffalo Bill" Hawkins, self-styled prophet and religious entrepreneur runs an operation called the "House of Yahweh" (HOY) near Abilene, Texas. Recently featured in a segment on ABC 20/20 and interviewed on CNN Nancy Grace, Hawkins held forth on the fate of the world, predicting with alleg ...

New York Times editors and researchers have selected a fugitive sex offender as an official resource about polygamists. Anton Hein, a former U.S. resident and registered sex offender with an outstanding warrant issued for his immediate arrest regarding a parole violation, runs a Web site called "Re ...

BANNU, Pakistan : At least 10 people, including police officers and prison staff, died in a suicide attack Thursday in a garrison town in northwest Pakistan as they headed to work, a police official told AFP.

PHNOM PENH - Anti-government protests in Bangkok have caused the Thai military to postpone talks to discuss withdrawing troops from a disputed border area near an ancient temple, a Cambodian general said Thursday.

BANGKOK - Thousands of Thai protesters trying to bring down the prime minister again defied orders Thursday to end their siege of government offices, forming human shields to protect their leaders from arrest.

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asian nations and China aim to finalise an investment agreement by December, completing a free trade deal that already covers goods and services, the two sides said Thursday.

MANILA : Philippine prosecutors are considering filing criminal charges against owners of a ferry that sank during a typhoon in June, resulting in almost 800 deaths, the justice secretary said Thursday.

Illinois senator is first African-American presidential nominee by a major party in the United States

Jimmy Carter says Obama could change US image abroad in 'first 10 minutes' of his presidency

Moscow's recognition of independence for Abkhazia and S. Ossetia sparks fresh attacks against ethnic Georgians living in and around territories, forcing thousands to flee their homes

Group of Seven says Russian action on South Ossetia and Abkhazia calls into question its commitment to peace and security of Caucasus region

Authorities say three of seven hostages taken by the militants also are feared dead after day-long wait in Hindu-dominated Jammu region

Salman Rushdie, the Booker prize-winning author, won apologies in the High Court yesterday over allegations that when living under police protection he was unhygienic, suicidal and sought to profit from the fatwa on him.

The market has been good to us. The areas in which we’ve been most heavily involved, such as top end private equity, leveraged loans and structured finance, have done very well. Which I suppose explains why profit per equity partner reached over £1 million this year. Maybe that means the cred ...

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Law firms are feeling the pinch as Britain's top companies, under pressure from the economic downturn, slash their spending on outside legal advice.

Their clients may be cutting jobs and reeling from millions of pounds in losses, but Britain’s corporate lawyers enjoyed record profits last year.

Terminally ill rodents with type 1 diabetes have been restored to full health with a single injection of a substance other than insulin by scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Since the discovery of insulin in 1922, type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes) in humans has been treated ...

At the 1st World Congress for Interventional Therapies for Type 2 Diabetes, prominent endocrinologists from around the world will convene in an exchange with leading surgeons about the role of surgery and other emerging new therapies for type 2 diabetes.

Low levels of LDL cholesterol as well as high levels are associated with cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes, found a prospective cohort study published in CMAJ.

Australian Medical Association President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said that findings in a new report show the obesity epidemic is costing the nation $58 billion a year and confirms that many Australians are suffering significant health problems due to obesity. "This reflects the dollar cost to Au ...

People at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes might be able to delay or prevent the disease by taking certain food supplements and making lifestyle changes, according to a new book by Dr. James W. Anderson, an internationally recognized authority on metabolic diseases and weight loss and profes ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Hijackers who forced a Sudanese airliner to land in Libya have demanded fuel to fly on to Paris, Libya's state news agency Jana said on Wednesday.

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgians on the streets of Tbilisi reacted defiantly but without surprise on Tuesday to Russia's recognition of two rebel provinces, some refusing to accept they may have lost Abkhazia and South Ossetia for good.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Two thousand Thai police took up positions in and around Bangkok's Government House on Wednesday, tightening the noose on protesters camping outside the prime minister's office to try to oust him from power.

TORONTO (Reuters) - An Air France-KLM Boeing 747 aircraft on a flight from Paris skidded off the runway after landing at Montreal's Trudeau airport on Tuesday but there were no injuries or serious damage, police said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A strong earthquake hit the Lake Baikal area of eastern Siberia on Wednesday, triggering panic, but there were no immediate signs of casualties or major damage, officials said.

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News of the movement for March 23, 2007 Josh Silver and Mike McCurry Face Off on Net Neutrality Free Press Executive Director Josh Silver faces off with telco industry shill Mike McCurry in a debate about the importance of Net Neutrality for innovation, investment, competition an ...

P A R A N E W S täglicher Newsletter 16 Mar 2007 Frau suchte Mordanleitung bei Google      zum Beitrag USA - Eine Frau aus New Jersey hatte laut einem Bericht des "DailyRecord" geplant, ihren Mann zu töten. Um für die Tat allerdings auch richtig gerüstet zu sein, befragte sie un ...

News of the movement for March 16, 2007 Free Press is hiring. We are seeking dynamic, highly organized, self-directed people who are fun to be around for several positions. If you want to work hard for a great cause and really make a difference, check out the job descriptions . ...