Environment Canada says Nova Scotia can expect some messy weather this weekend and early next week. The forecaster says a low pressure system passing south of Nova Scotia will begin in the west Saturday afternoon and spread eastward overnight. The system is expected to dump between 10 to 20 centimetres of snow throughout the province, with up to 40 centimetres […]

‘No one seriously believes that the city needs such a symbol.’ As part of city beautification for this year’s football World Cup, the Urals city of Yekaterinburg has demolished its most notable landmark – a rusty, brutalist, half-finished Soviet-era television tower built in the middle of the city. Local authorities in 11 host cities including Moscow, St Petersburg, Sochi and […]

The University of Michigan calls its latest, unprecedented research the “stuff of nightmares” because it features insects, big and small, devouring wildlife. A paper published in the science journal Amphibian & Reptile Conservation details a 2016 fact-finding mission in Peru’s corner of the Amazon rainforest. The submission, entitled “Ecological interactions between arthropods and small vertebrates in a lowland Amazon rainforest,” […]

TIJUANA (Reuters) – The United States is aiming to ramp up in coming weeks a program to send Central American asylum seekers to Mexico to await U.S. court dates, an experimental policy that Mexican officials and migrant shelters say risks overwhelming an underfunded system. In late January, the United States began sending Central American migrants who crossed at the Tijuana-San […]

The group was formed in 1939 by Lady Stella Reading, wife of Rufus Isaacs , the Earl of Reading, after she was asked by Home Secretary Samuel Hore to set up a female voluntary service. Initially named the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS), the ladies played a vital role in the war effort and completed 44 different tasks during the bloody […]

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Five years ago, their loved ones boarded a plane and vanished. The group of Malaysians meet about once a month – usually at a coffee shop or a home in Kuala Lumpur – to support each other and try to keep missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 in the public eye. Their relatives were among the 239 […]

    On this episode, we’ll hear from a pair of overagers who are having big seasons in Justin Brazeau (North Bay Battalion) and Kevin Hancock (London Knights). Three of the OHL’s top-five point getters are overagers, and that list includes both Brazeau and Hancock. We’ll hear stories of perseverance, as both players look back on their careers so far as […]

Police are seeking to identify a suspect in connection with a criminal harassment investigation in Barrie. Barrie police say the alleged incident occurred in the Bell Farm Road and Duckworth Street area. Police are now looking for a man in his late 30s, weighing around 180 pounds. Officers say he has gray hair parted on the right side of his […]

As part of an international effort to stabilise the country, forces from the European Union have been training soldiers in the Central African Republic in an attempt to rebuild the national army. Forces from the European Union have been training soldiers in the Central African Republic in an attempt to rebuild the national army. It’s part of an international effort […]

The then 23-year-old lost his left arm and right hand in the incident. Within a year, Pollard had tried snowboarding for the first time and now he is getting ready to represent his country at the Winter Paralympics. In October 2014, Australian Sean Pollard was attacked by two great sharks while out surfing. The then 23-year-old lost his left arm […]