Month: January 2011

BRAZIL is grappling with its worst natural disaster in more than four decades, a calamitous collapse of rain-soaked hillsides near Rio that has killed nearly 400 people. The disaster zone is a mountainous area just […] […]

A NEW business in Georgia is offering single women who need household help the chance to hire “husbands” by the hour – but the company’s owner admitted yesterday that all some of his customers need […] […]

FRANCE was expected to urge Britain last night to back deeper European integration in order to save the euro. France say Britain risks facing catastrophe for its own economy if the currency fails. French Prime […] […]

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled in the northeastern United States after the second major snow storm this winter pounded the region. Hundreds of international and internal flights have been cancelled and postponed at New […] […]

A MAN was arrested early Thursday after breaking into a fashion accessories shop in central London and threatening to blow himself up, the Metropolitan Police said. Officers had surrounded the Accessorize store in Regent Street […] […]

BARACK Obama has urged Americans not to turn on one another with political point-scoring in the wake of the Arizona mass shooting as he leads his nation’s grief. Speaking a special memorial service in Tucson […] […]

HOMOSASSA, FLA.—A Canadian fugitive who has been on the run for 30 years has been arrested in Florida. U.S. authorities say they apprehended Ian Jackson MacDonald, 71, at a home in Homosassa on Tuesday. Authorities […] […]

Joe Varnell and his husband Kevin Bourassa are reluctant human rights heroes. They, along with Anne and Elaine Vautour, were the first same-sex couples to be married in Toronto at Riverdale’s Metropolitan Community Church on […] […]