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Canada's record on how it treats aboriginal people will be under global scrutiny within the next year by three human-rights groups, including two from the United Nations. More...

AP - Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws. More...

Bill Gates donates $750 million to global AIDS fund By John Callaham Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates recently put a rest to some rumors that he was planning to return full time to Microsoft, saying he was committed to his work with his charitable organization the Bill and Melinda Gates...

AP - A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly. More...

While global demand for oil has moved to an all-time high, one long-established theory suggests that oil production (and consumption) might be peaking out. If this is the case, might its price tank? If one thinks about it, the world will never run out of oil. As oil becomes scarce, consumers...

(CNN) -- After an eventful first term marked by humanitarian crises, a global recession and the Arab Spring, Ban Ki-moon announced Monday his intention to seek a second five-year stint as the United Nations' secretary-general. Ban voiced his hope of staying in place at a news conference Monday...

Chevron Corp (CVX.N), the second-largest U.S. oil company, reported a 36 percent jump in quarterly earnings as oil prices surged and refining profits improved along with the global economy. Oil companies have seen their earnings boosted by the jump in global oil prices above $100 per barrel in...

-- In the face of an "uneven" economic recovery, members of the G20 meeting in Paris agreed Saturday that the international monetary system has proven "resilient, but vulnerabilities remain." Delegates at the meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors cited in a communique issued...

Despite "Tangled's" continued lock on first place, "Black Swan" landed just a feather away from taking the top spot at foreign theaters over the weekend, missing No. 1 by a mere $131,664. An obvious "Oscar Bump" is strongly in play as international audiences in 29 territories boosted the...

A Vancouver TV reporter has been charged with sexual offences involving a minor, police say. Ron Bencze, who is employed by Global BC, has been charged with one count of sexual assault and two counts each of sexual interference of a person under 16 and invitation to sexual touching under 16...

"Gulliver's Travels" starring Jack Black surprisingly tops the international chart this week with $19.1 million in 20 territories and thus crosses the $60 million mark in global box office. Charting only as high as No. 8 in North America, "Gulliver" has made swift work of drawing overseas...

Al Gore Shocked by ‘The Great Cool-Down’ Is global warming over? For the second winter in a row, icy weather has struck the United States and Europe. Al Gore's global warming theory may be going up in smoke as new data suggests the earth may be cooling, not warming.. Almost a year ago a...

NEW YORK -- Changes in the global pecking order are coming. As western nations face stunted economic growth and years of painful budget-slashing ahead, developing nations like China, Brazil, India and Russia are slowly moving up on the world stage. The United States is struggling to hit 2.7%...

The government debt burden shouldered by employees in the rich world will more than double between 2007 and 2015 as an ageing population puts rising strain on welfare and health systems in advanced economies. In new calculations for the Financial Times, Eswar Prasad, a former International...

Ono: Affirm unity on Global Oneness Day NEW YORK, -- U.S. activist artist-musician Yoko Ono appealed to the world Thursday to "recognize that we are one" and show this recognition on the first Global Oneness Day. "They say if all the people in China were to jump up and down at the same...

Welcome to the beginning of the end............ricklbert The beginning of the NWO change over....... Saturday, May 1st, 2010 Europe's central bank president: To prevent crisis, global governance is needed There going for it! :mad:

Climate scientists hit back at the sceptics with new research they say has uncovered the "fingerprint" of man-made global warming. Researchers working like detectives investigating a crime compared real observational evidence with data from computer simulations to see how they matched up. They...

Pansat lawsuit to include Global Panarex seeks to distribute liability to Global Technologies, STB manufactures, claims they built the ability into the STBs for piracy.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Group of Seven leading industrialized nations will signal at a meeting in Washington this weekend that there are glimmers of economic hope but that the global economy is not out of the woods yet, a senior Canadian finance official said on Wednesday. The official, briefing...

Harper hails G20 agreement as 'unprecedented' global response By The Canadian Press LONDON - G20 leaders pledged an additional US$1 trillion Thursday to restore credit, growth and jobs around the world, an agreement Prime Minister Stephen Harper hailed as an "unprecedented" consensus plan...