Saturday, January 19, 2008 Matthew Higa, 23, has been arrested in connection with the death of a 23-month-old boy. Higa is alleged to have thrown […]
Germany legalises medical use of cannabis
Friday, January 20, 2017 Yesterday, the German Bundestag passed a law to legalise cannabis drug for medicinal purposes. The law is to come under effect […]
Ontario Votes 2007: Interview with Green Party candidate Brett McKenzie, London North Centre
Saturday, October 6, 2007 Brett McKenzie is running for the Green Party of Ontario in the Ontario provincial election, in the London North Centre riding. […]
Keep your eyes peeled for cosmic debris: Andrew Westphal about Stardust@home
Sunday, May 28, 2006 Stardust@home logoImage: Stardust@home. Stardust is a NASA space capsule that collected samples from comet 81P/Wild (also known as “Wild 2) in […]
US novelist Tom Clancy dies at age 66
Wednesday, October 2, 2013 Tom Clancy signing books in Boston in 1989. Image: Gary Wayne Gilbert. The bestselling US novelist Tom Clancy died yesterday in […]
Pope Benedict XVI heads to the UK amid protests
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 The Roman Catholic Pontiff is visiting the United Kingdom for the first time since 1982, when his predecessor, Pope John Paul […]
Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center
Thursday, May 27, 2010 Space Shuttle Atlantis landing for the last time. Space Shuttle Atlantis landed Wednesday, May 26, at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, […]
30,000-year-old Austrian statue traced to stone from Italy
Saturday, March 5, 2022 In findings published on Monday in Scientific Reports, scientists from the University of Vienna and Vienna Natural History Museum, Austria found […]
NASA’s InSight lander and MarCO craft launch in new mission to Mars
Monday, May 7, 2018 The foggy launch of the Atlas V rocket carrying InSight and the MarCO cubesats. Image: Bill Ingalls, NASA. On Saturday, United […]
Governor of Tokyo is sued for insulting French language
Monday, July 18, 2005 On July 13, 21 French and Japanese individuals sued Shintaro Ishihara, the governor of Tokyo, for defamation towards people who use […]