Rights groups call for independent probe on the circumstances behind the death of Kavous Seyed Emami while in detention. Human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of Kavous Seyed Emami, a top environmentalist and academic, who died in mysterious circumstances while in detention at Tehran’s Evin Prison. Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for […]

Combined South and North Korean women’s team draws thousands of cheering fans but fall to Sweden 3-1 in warm-up match. Thousands of South Korean ice hockey fans chanted “we are one” as the joint Korean women’s team played their first pre-Winter Olympics game against powerhouse Sweden. About 3,000 fans packed the Seonhak International Ice Rink in Incheon on Sunday, loudly […]

A major Canadian insurance company is restoring long-term disability coverage to an Ontario woman following a Global News report on legal action taken against the insurer. Sun Life Financial had given notice to revoke long term disability benefits for Sandra Bullock of Georgetown, Ont. The company claimed Bullock was fit to work, and not entitled to payments, because she was […]

Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo face up to 14 years in prison for working on report on massacre by Myanmar security forces. Two Reuters news agency journalists held for two months by Myanmar authorities were arrested over their investigation of a massacre of 10 Rohingya men, the news agency said in a report that detailed the killings. It is […]

Nearby streetlights? A security system? Aliens? Theories were swirling on Wednesday as to what could possibly be causing key fobs to malfunction near an Alberta grocery store. Two days later, the Westview Co-operative in Carstairs, Alta., updated everyone on the “moment you all have been waiting for.” According to a Facebook post from the grocery store on Wednesday, employees were […]

Legislation aims to punish people for referring to Nazi German death camps located in Poland as Polish. Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has said he will sign into law a controversial bill that penalises acts blaming Poland or its citizens for complicity in Nazi war crimes.  Duda also said on Tuesday that he would send the bill, which has drawn strong […]

Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani invited by US President Donald Trump for meeting in the US capital. The Qatari government has announced that Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani will attend an April meeting in Washington, DC, with US President Donald Trump. The two leaders spoke by phone on Wednesday about regional developments and opportunities to “enhance the American-Qatari […]

Women should not be obliged to cover up in public with long garments, senior religious figure says. A senior religious scholar in Saudi Arabia has said women should not have to wear the loose-fitting abaya robe to cover up their bodies in public. Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq, a member of the Council of Senior Scholars – the highest religious body in […]

Mikheil Saakashvili, a Ukrainian opposition leader and a former president of Georgia, says he has been kidnapped in Kiev and sent to Poland. Security footage showed Saakashvili being dragged from a restaurant by men in military uniforms. Mikheil Saakashvili, a Ukrainian opposition leader and a former president of Georgia, says he has been kidnapped in Kiev and sent to Poland. […]

At Hamilton’s McMaster University, Dr. Bruce Wainman has been experimenting with the technology to give his anatomy students another avenue to learn about the human body. His team has developed programs for multiple platforms, including a full 3D rendering of the body that can be dissected using VR glasses and controllers. “The idea is that you could have a body […]