Victoria teen's wallet returned with extra $20

Fifteen-year-old Courtney Barwick was hungry when she got off work Friday, so her granddad stopped at the Royal Oak McDonald's while driving her home. Neither noticed her wallet fall to the pavement when she got back in the vehicle. In fact, the Spectrum student didn't even k …

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Liberals ignoring committee on raw log exports: Dix

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal government has, since December, been exporting raw logs that its own advisory committee has been saying should be going to producers in B.C. On Tuesday, New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix said the Timber Export Advisory Committee (TEAC) de …

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China's new stealth technology: "Made in America"? | All about China | Radio86

In a twist that has echoes of a Hollywood spy thriller, Balkan military officials and other military experts have told the Associated Press that technology used in China's new stealth fighter might have been appropriated from an American F-117 Nighthawk, the world's first steal …

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James Cameron to explore Earth's deepest ocean trench

WASHINGTON — Canadian director James Cameron will try in the coming weeks to dive to the deepest place on Earth, further than any other human has on a solo mission, to return with specimens and images. Cameron would seek to accomplish his feat aboard a submersible "as fu …

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Monster earthquake threat looms over B.C. coastal communities

VANCOUVER — Anacla, a First Nations village on the west coast of Vancouver Island, is moving up, heading for higher, safer ground. A new "big house" has been built 50 metres up from the pounding surf of Pachena Bay.

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Nuclear watchdog team disappointed after Iran visit - CNN.com

Two days of talks in Iran went nowhere and the frustration of the global nuclear watchdog agency was palpable in the terse statement it issued afterward. The International Atomic Energy Agency team could not make progress with Iran.

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New Syrian videos claim to show more deaths after fall of Baba Amr - CNN.com

New videos posted from the Syrian flashpoint city of Homs suggest a fresh wave of killings by the Syrian military after the fall of the neighborhood of Baba Amr.

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Tsunami lessons learned: Indonesia and Japan | GlobalPost

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — Little connects Indonesia’s Aceh province, palm studded and poor, to the sometimes-frosty, first-world prefecture of Tohoku, Japan. But both are linked by a shared horror: colossal tsunami waves that washed away trees, buildings and people;  …

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Japan: Fukushima a year on | GlobalPost

FUKUSHIMA, Japan — A visit to the scene of Japan's worst nuclear accident, almost a year after the area was struck by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, is a study in contrasts. Elsewhere along the vast stretch of coast hit by the March 11 tsunami there are palpable sign …

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Mother raped own daughter for 'sex education'

A mother of four who raped her 11-year-old daughter and filmed it as a form of "sex education" has been jailed for four years in Australia.

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Chinese villagers revolt, elect fellow protesters as new leaders

Wukan villagers held elections today after revolting against their corrupt local government in December. The villagers elected fellow protesters as their new leaders, McClatchy Newspapers reported.

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Canada news: Canada's

TORONTO, Canada — It’s a dark time for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, often referred to — and not always fondly — as the “Mother Corp.” Created in large part to ward off U.S.

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Elections Canada swamped by complaints ǀ GlobalPost

More than 31,000 voters have lodged complaints with Elections Canada related to automated or harassing phone calls during last year’s federal campaign.

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Germany battles over the future of solar energy | GlobalPost

Last year Germany produced a record amount of energy from solar panels installed on rooftops and in fields across the country. With a total of about 25 gigawatts of installed panels, Germany now has half of the world's entire solar energy capacity. An unprecedented 7.5 gigawa …

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3D printing: A stepping stone to new human tissue and body parts | GlobalPost

— His team of doctors and engineers triggered headlines around the world last week by successfully operating to replace an elderly patient’s diseased jawbone with a prosthetic generated by 3D printing. Now Prof.

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Internet giants pull content after warning in India

NEW DELHI/BANGALORE - Internet giants Google Inc. and Facebook removed content from some Indian domain websites on Monday following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.

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Video: Toxic sugar blamed for diseases

Sugar: How bad is it? Too much can add to your weight, but a group of scientists led by one doctor, is blaming the sweet stuff for a range of diseases.

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Sugar: The Bitter Truth - YouTube

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Woman fired for working during lunch wins court battle

Find A Job Woman fired for working during lunch wins court battle By Steve Schmadeke, Chicago Tribune (MCT) January 17, 2012 Comments (27) Story Photos ( 1 ) Sharon Smiley poses for portrait in Chicago, Illinois, on January 12, 2012.

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Why Chinese-only signs aren't good for Canada | Vancouver Sun

A Richmond woman has been getting the bureaucratic brush-off in her efforts to restrict the predominance of Chinese-language signs in her hometown. Despite Richmond officials acknowledging that many residents are upset by the large Chinese-only signs being erected in the city, …

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Maher: Tories may target union haters in next fundraising drive

There are two things that are important in politics," said Mark Hanna, the bagman for William McKinley's successful 1897 U.S. presidential run. "The first is money, and I can't remember what the second one is."

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North Korean leader's death keeps world on edge

The anticipated death of North Korea’s “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il has been a matter of risk-assessment for many governments for at least three years.And those risks are not minor.

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Afghan says she must marry her rapist or suffer her brothers' wrath

She was jailed for adultery after being raped, then pardoned and set free.

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Core of new deep space camera is 'the coldest cubic metre in the universe'

The camera is essentially a refrigerator containing an array of superconducting silicon detectors attached to the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope, according to project software engineer and UBC astronomer Andy Gibb.

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Two drunks on Air Canada flight diverted to Vancouver fined $71,757

That's what a pair of Ontario men learned Monday when an Air Canada flight they were on from Toronto to Beijing had to make a landing at Vancouver International Airport after they became drunk and unruly, Richmond RCMP Cpl. Sherrdean Turley said today in a press release.

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