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SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea on Thursday vowed to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United States, amplifying its threatening rhetoric hours ahead of a vote by U.N. diplomats on whether to level new sanctions against Pyongyang for its recent nuclear test. An unidentified...

Africa's western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world's largest conservation network. The subspecies of the black rhino -- which is classified as "critically endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's...

So I went and checked my old e-mail today and found the blizzard had invited me to the beta tests. However this e-mail didn't have an account on battle.net. So I went and made one, but as usual this e-mail won't receive the verification e-mail. Now because I can't verify I can't get the beta...

Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, as his hometown of Sirte fell to revolutionary fighters, Mahmoud Jibril, the prime minister of the Libyan transitional government, said Thursday. "We have been waiting for this moment for a long time. Moammar Gadhafi has been killed,"...

SYDNEY — Australia brought in new passport rules Thursday allowing citizens to state their official gender as male, female or “x”, without having to undergo surgery as proof of a sex change. Canberra had previously required a person whose gender was different from that of their birth to have...

SYDNEY, Australia — Australia’s female soldiers will soon be able to serve in all front-line combat roles, the government announced on Tuesday. The move will make Australia one of a handful of countries that allow women to serve alongside their male counterparts in some of the most dangerous...

Not sure what language it's in (one of the ones in China, not sure which), but it's still awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t80k2sBZmY&list=FL7DE0bN0E-_xP181n1fZwoQ&index=1&feature=plpp

OTTAWA–Jack Layton, the New Democratic Party leader who led his party to Official Opposition status in this year’s federal election, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 61. “Your support and well wishes are so appreciated. Thank you,” Layton, posted to the social media site Twitter in...

In a breakthrough that holds the promise of new treatments for cancer, heart disease and a host of other deadly illnesses, Canadian scientists have managed to isolate the stem cells for human blood. The research, published Thursday in the leading academic journal Science, opens the door to...

Some may have seen her as tough. Tough in love, tough in the way she bore her suffering, tough in battling anyone who tried to use her son’s image for self-gain. Betty Fox has died. She was Terry Fox’s mother. Tough? Perhaps. She was unvarnished. Plain spoken. The constitution of a...

This video almost made me cry. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BewknNW2b8Y&feature=aso

Colourized Hero Names (EXP BAR) FIXED Okay so my problem is simple to understand but I can't for the life of me find a way to fix it. I am trying to colourize the names on the exp bar on hero's. I'm doing this this because hero's have different types so colourizing make things look better...

Considering the size of the audience, the two sets of trumpeters, two choirs and several of the most senior clerics in the land, the presence of the entire British royal family, 45 crowned heads from around the world and a guest list stretching to nearly 2,000, it was quite an intimate wedding...

Two Ryerson University undergraduate biomedical engineering students are changing the world of medical prosthetics with a newly developed prosthetic arm that is controlled by brain signals. The Artificial Muscle-Operated (AMO) Arm not only enables amputees more range of movement as compared to...

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- A powerful earthquake struck one of New Zealand's biggest cities Tuesday at the height of a busy workday, toppling tall buildings and churches, crushing buses and killing at least 65 people in one of the country's worst natural disasters. It was the second major...

Tony Clement was celebrating his 50th birthday in an Ottawa restaurant Tuesday evening when news of the merger between the TMX Group, operator of the Toronto Stock Exchange, and the London Stock Exchange began to break. The Industry Minister is a teetotaller but the prospect of another...

Sources suggest the North American perimeter security talks announced last week will include an intriguing proposal: expanding NORAD to cover land and sea operations. In this scenario, Canadian and U.S. navies and land forces would integrate their command structures, headquarters and operations...

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down, more than two weeks after the protests that began January 25 in the country — and launched a flood of #Jan25 and #Egypt tweets as well as media coverage that broke the mold — to remove the president from power. From the beginning, the...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will meet with U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington on Friday, the Prime Minister's Office announced Tuesday. Dimitri Soudas, communications director for the prime minister, said on Twitter Tuesday afternoon that the two would meet on Feb. 4. Soudas wrote...

One of the most logistically complex moving jobs in Ontario’s history has begun as six giant beer vats are taken from Hamilton harbour to a Molson Coors brewery in northwest Toronto. "Today is the big day. It is finally here!" Sarah Sheehan, spokesperson for Challenger Motor Freight, said...