The voices are western, their tone positive. In the TV ad playing on heavy rotation in luxury hotels around the G20 summit this weekend, foreign economists and investors call China a “model for all developing nations in the world,” a place with a lot ...

The world populations of fish, birds, mammals, amphibians and reptiles fell overall by 52 per cent between 1970 and 2010, far faster than previously thought, the World Wildlife Fund said. The conservation group's Living Planet Report, published every two ...

The number of hungry people in the world has fallen sharply over the past decade, but 805 million, or one in nine of the global population, still do not have enough to eat, three United Nations food and agriculture agencies said on Tuesday. The number of ...

Scientists announced on Thursday the discovery in Moroccan desert cliffs of new fossil remains of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, a 50-foot (15-metre) long, seven-ton African monster that breaks the mould for how a dinosaur predator looked and behaved.

July 26, 1845: Two whaling ships sight Franklin's ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror as they sail toward the Northwest Passage. Winter of 1845-46: The expedition winters at Beechey Island. The graves of three crew members who died that winter are ...

It has all the elements you would expect from a chilling mystery: the loss of two ships and 129 men; the discovery of human bones and the possibility there were desperate souls who turned to cannibalism to survive. So it was for the doomed Franklin ...

A Parks Canada-led team has found a ship lost in the doomed Franklin expedition to unlock the Arctic nearly 170 years ago, the fruit of a search championed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in his efforts to forge a Conservative brand of Canadian ...

The discovery of one of the two lost ships of the Franklin Expedition is a historic moment, and the Canadian government and the groups it worked with to make it possible deserve congratulations. But Prime Minister Stephen Harper's celebratory ...

As reported by E! News, the Tony-winning actor and ex-How I Met Your Mother star walked down the aisle with longtime partner David Burtka on Saturday in Italy. E! reports that Harris, 41, and Burtka, 39, both wore custom-made Tom Ford tuxedos for the ...

Nicaragua's government said Sunday that a mysterious boom heard overnight in the capital was made by a small meteorite that left a crater in a wooded area near Managua's airport. Government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo said a committee formed by the ...

BlackBerry Ltd. is using the nude photo hacking controversy to tout its strong reputation for security. As concerns mount after the theft of photos from celebrities such as Jennifer Lawrence via iCloud, the Canadian smartphone maker is taking to its official blog ...

New Chelsea signing Loic Remy grabbed the only goal as France squeezed past 2010 world champions Spain 1-0 in a friendly at the Stade de France on Thursday. The second-half substitute netted in spectacular style in the 72nd minute, pouncing on a pass ...

Fresh from acquiring Nokia's handset business, Microsoft unveiled the first of its new range of Lumia smartphones on Thursday, priced to challenge a market dominated by volume leader Samsung and Apple Inc. A week before Apple is expected to launch its ...

Derek H. Burney was Canada's ambassador to the U.S. from 1989 to 1993. Fen Osler Hampson is a distinguished fellow and director of Global Security at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. They are the authors of Brave New Canada: ...

Heavy shelling hit residential neighbourhoods in Ukraine's rebel stronghold of Donetsk and government forces fought street battles in other towns on Wednesday as they sought to crush a four-month-old separatist rebellion. The forces of the Western-backed ...

A Russian aid convoy resumed its travels toward Ukraine early Thursday and took the road leading south toward the rebel-held city of Luhansk. The convoy of about 262 vehicles had been parked at a military depot in the southern Russian city of Voronezh ...

As Canada prepares to ship out as many as 1,000 doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine, it is also preparing to hand off to international medical experts the gut-wrenching decisions about who in West Africa will receive an injection that could protect against ...

Turks began voting on Sunday with Tayyip Erdogan poised to become the country's first elected president, fulfilling his dream of what he calls a “new Turkey” and his opponents say will be an increasingly authoritarian nation. A victory for Erdogan would seal ...

West Africa's Ebola epidemic is an “extraordinary event” and now constitutes an international health risk, the World Health Organization said on Friday. The Geneva-based UN health agency said the possible consequences of a further international spread of ...

For three Quebec families, Air Algérie Flight AH5017 was supposed to be an interlude in a summer of happy moments. Two brothers had left their Montreal suburb, returning to their native Burkina Faso to attend their parents' 50th wedding anniversary.