SOMA, Japan – High levels of radiation leaked from a crippled nuclear plant in tsunami-ravaged northeastern Japan after a third reactor was rocked by an explosion Tuesday and a fourth caught fire in a dramatic escalation of the 4-day-old catastrophe. The government warned 140,000 people nearby...
A new study is raising questions about when ancient human ancestors in Europe learned to control fire, one of the most important steps on the long path to civilization.
A review of 141 archaeological sites across Europe shows habitual use of fire beginning between 300,000 and 400,000 years ago...
PARIS – Switzerland freezes plans to build new nuclear plants, Germany raises questions about its nuclear future, and opposition to atomic reactor construction mounts from Turkey to South Africa.
Will explosions at a tsunami-stricken Japanese nuclear plant halt what has come to be known as the...
TAGAJO, Japan – A tide of bodies washed up along Japan's coastline Monday, overwhelming crematoriums, exhausting supplies of body bags and adding to the spiraling humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisis after the massive earthquake and tsunami.
Millions of people faced a fourth night without...
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi dispatched forces to a western border area on Tuesday in defiance of Western military and economic pressure, stirring fears that the bloodiest Arab revolt may grow more violent.
As the West weighed military options, suspicions...
TRIPOLI, Libya – The embattled regime of Moammar Gadhafi is arming civilian supporters to set up checkpoints and roving patrols around the Libyan capital to control movement and quash dissent, residents said Saturday.
The reports came a day after protesters demanding Gadhafi's ouster came under...
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PARIS – Libya's regime might have to face international justice for its deadly crackdown on protesters, France said Thursday, as diplomats debated how best to pressure strongman Moammar Gadhafi into halting attacks on his countrymen.
NATO's chief...
UNITED NATIONS – The U.N. Security Council further isolated Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Tuesday, condemning his regime's crackdown on anti-government protesters and demanding that violence against civilians end immediately.
A press statement agreed by all 15 members of the U.N.'s most...
CAIRO – State TV says Egypt's top prosecutor has requested the freezing of the assets of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and his family.
In addition to the TV announcement, aimed at freezing domestic holdings, the prosecutor requested the Foreign Minister to ask other nations to freeze any...
Areas in red are under a weather warning issued by Environment Canada.
Much of southern Manitoba was under a weather warning late Thursday, as temperatures plunged and blizzard-like conditions made highway driving treacherous.
CBC Meteorologist John Sauder said driving conditions across...
High seas have stranded dozens of offshore workers on oil production platforms hundreds of kilometres east of St. John's.
Helicopter flights that carry workers offshore have been suspended since Monday.
Stormy winter weather is partly to blame, but a Transportation Safety Board of Canada...
-- Lots of state officials are pressing public employees to shoulder more of their health care and pension costs.
But in some places -- notably Wisconsin and Ohio -- officials are looking to go one step farther. Governors and lawmakers there are trying to limit or end public workers' collective...
Mild weather helped break a 27-year-old temperature record in Toronto on Thursday.
Just after 4:30 p.m. ET, temperatures at Pearson Airport reached 7.5 C, breaking a high of 7.4 C set back in 1984. Records were broken in other areas of southcentral Ontario.
"It's not uncommon to have yo-yoing...
-- Egyptian prosecutors have jailed a former ruling party official and three ministers from deposed strongman Hosni Mubarak's government, including its onetime interior minister, as part of a corruption investigation, state news outlets reported Thursday.
All four have been ordered held for 15...
About 200 people were forced from their apartments in a Toronto highrise after an electrical fire tore through part of the building late Tuesday night.
Lorne Buckingham, Toronto Fire Services division commander, said firefighters responded around 11:40 p.m. to the blaze, which spread through...
A ferocious storm hitting much of Newfoundland on Wednesday was so strong that snowclearing machinery was pulled in some areas.
Many schools in parts of Newfoundland were closed for a second day, amid warnings that included blizzard-like conditions, high winds and chilly temperatures.
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-- The post-Mubarak Egyptian government has asked the United States to freeze the financial assets of some officials from that country, according to a senior Obama Administration official.
The official, who was not...
President Barack Obama sent Congress a $3.73 trillion budget Monday that holds out the prospect of eventually bringing deficits under control through spending cuts and tax increases. But the fiscal blueprint largely ignores his own deficit commission's plea to slash huge entitlement programs...
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