Archive for April, 2013

National Post – What would ancient Ontario have smelled like? A lot like rotten eggs, apparently. That’s what new research published in this week’s Proceedings...

The New York Times – On Tuesday, Jawbone, which makes wireless headsets and music accessories, announced that it acquired BodyMedia, a company that sells wearable...

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USA Today – First lady Michelle Obama is praising businesses for hiring more military veterans — and also asking them to do more. “Today, we...

Voice of America – JERUSALEM — An Israeli air strike has killed a Palestinian man in the Gaza Strip, the first deadly air strike in the...

Fox News – The U.S. is calling on North Korea to immediately release on humanitarian  grounds an American citizen facing charges that carry the death...

ABC – Three climbers involved in a high-altitude brawl on Mount Everest have abandoned their expedition after fending off a group of angry Sherpa guides....

CBC – King Willem-Alexander today became the first Dutch male monarch in more than a century after his mother, Beatrix, abdicated to end a 33-year...

CBC News – Loblaw has said that it will provide compensation for the families of victims who worked at the Bangladeshi garment factory that collapsed...

CNN – In a wedding of China’s leading Internet darlings, online retailer Alibaba has taken a $586 million stake in the country’s most popular micro-blogging…...

The Telegraph – In Greece, the unemployment rate is now 26.4 per cent, the highest in the euro zone, with youth unemployment at a staggering 58...

CBC News – Ontario’s Liberal government is taking heat over the soaring costs associated with the cancellation of a gas plant west of Toronto, which...

CTV News – NEW DELHI — A 5-year-old girl has died after being raped in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, an official said...

Reuters – New Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta won a final confidence vote in his broad coalition government on Tuesday before setting off on a...

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CTV – A top court in Bangladesh asked the government Tuesday to “immediately”  confiscate the property of the owner of a building that collapsed last...

AP – A powerful bomb rocked central Damascus on Tuesday, killing 13 people according to Syrian TV, and sowing fear and chaos in a busy...

Bloomberg Businessweek – It’s hard out there for a tax-sheltering billionaire. Bloomberg News reports today that some of the wealthiest people in the world are...