Month: January 2011

A US woman with “spying technology or a microphone” hidden in her teeth has been detained by Iranian customs authorities. The woman was captured in the border town of Nordouz in northwest Iran, the Iran […] […]

A US federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit alleging the wildly-successfully Harry Potter books were plagiarised from a story from a little-known British author. The suit filed in New York against the publisher of the […] […]

JURORS have been shown a video of an eight-year-old boy accidentally shooting himself with an Uzi submachine gun at a 2008 gun fair in the US. The video, taken by the boy’s father, shows Christopher […] […]

OTTAWA — When he headed home after work in Kandahar, Ghulam Wali Noori would never take the same route twice. As an interpreter working with the Canadian military, he was a prime target of insurgents […] […]

OTTAWA—The government of embattled Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo has announced it is expelling the Canadian and British ambassadors in Abidjan. Ottawa, however, is ignoring the expulsion order. Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon has issued […] […]

Some Coptic churches in Canada are cancelling part of their Christmas celebrations in the wake of a deadly terrorist attack in Egypt last week. In Toronto and Montreal, the regions with the most Coptic Orthodox […] […]

BEIJING—Twenty-four children have been hospitalized with lead poisoning caused by an illegal battery factory in their east China village, state media said Thursday, in the latest in a string of battery-related poisonings in recent years. […] […]