Barack Obama celebrated the life of Nelson Mandela with his own gesture of reconciliation at Tuesday’s memorial ceremony in Soweto: a historic handshake with Cuban leader Raúl Castro. It was the first such greeting in public involving a president of the United States since the Cuban revolution, although Bill Clinton shook hands in...
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World leaders and family members will honor the life and legacy of late South African President Nelson Mandela today in Johannesburg. The planned speakers include U.S. President Barack Obama, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and South African President Jacob Zuma.
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Huge crowds and a who’s who of world leaders are expected to attend services honouring the late South African president Nelson Mandela. Officially-sanctioned services begin Tuesday (tomorrow at 4am EST) and culminate with a funeral in Mandela’s hometown next Sunday. Here’s a day-by-day breakdown of how the memorial events will unfold over the next...
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This is the dramatic moment that the once-powerful uncle of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was hauled away by police from a political meeting. Long regarded as the second most powerful man in the secretive state, Jang Song Thaek was key to his nephew’s rise to power. However, North Korean state-run news agency...
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Former US Presidents George W. Bush and Laura Bush will travel with President Barack Obama to South African to attend Nelson Mandela’s memorial. Former President Bill Clinton will also attend the memorial, but his travel plans were not released. A spokesman for former President George H. W. Bush said he is not attending the...
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The United States will face Germany, Ghana and Portugal in Group G at the 2014 World Cup. FIFA officials completed the World Cup draw Friday. Home country Brazil will face Croatia, Mexico and Cameroon in Group A.
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Nelson Mandela is Dead. At the London premiere last night of the new film on Mandela, it was announced over the closing credits that he’d died. Nelson Mandela died today at the age of 95, according to South African President Jacob Zuma. His death marks the final chapter in a life that changed South...
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How is this guy real? According to police documents published by CTV News on Wednesday, Toronto mayor Rob Ford may have lost his cell phone at a crack house a month before video of him smoking the drug hit the Internet. While wiretapping cell phone conversations during a drug trafficking investigation, police overheard suggestions...
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UPDATE: Mexican police located a truck stolen on Monday which contained dangerous radioactive material the UN warned could be used to construct a “dirty bomb.” An official has said the container holding that cargo was found empty. A truck carrying what is being described as ‘extremely dangerous’ radioactive material has been stolen in Mexico...
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U.S. Vice President Joe Biden should not expect to make much progress in defusing tensions over the East China Sea if repeats “erroneous and one-sided remarks” on the issue during a visit to China, a top state-run paper said on Wednesday. > Biden, who arrived in Beijing on Wednesday, is scheduled to meet Chinese...
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The lunar-grown produce fad is coming. NASA will take its green thumb to space with plans to send plant seedlings to the moon by 2015 in order to begin testing whether the terrain could support long-term human inhabitants. Seeds of basil, turnips, and Arabidopsis—a plant in the cabbage and mustard family—will be sent via...
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A senior commander for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was gunned down Wednesday outside his home in southern Beirut, security officials said. Hezbollah blamed Israel for the killing, something an official there quickly denied. Hezbollah immediately announced the death of Hassan al-Laqis and described him as one of the founding members of the group,...
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U.S. singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is being investigated on suspicion of inciting hatred in Paris over comments he made in Rolling Stone magazine, French prosecutors said Tuesday. An organization representing Croatians in France pressed charges against Dylan for allegedly comparing the conflict between Croatians and Serbs to the Nazis’ persecution of Jews in an interview...
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Thailand’s prime minister refused to resign Monday after eight days of protests, but said she is open to talks to find a peaceful resolution. Yingluck Shinawatra said police would not use force against protesters, but the national security chief later reported they were using rubber bullets against the crowd outside Yingluck’s office in Bangkok....
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Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continued his tradition of attending major football games in the city, arriving fashionably late to watch the Buffalo Bills play their annual game at Rogers Centre. Ford arrived after the first quarter began on Sunday. He sat in an aisle seat, 35 rows off the field. Fans lined up to...
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A Japanese construction company is proposing to solve the energy problems facing Japan, and ultimately the entire planet, by turning the Moon into a solar power plant. Shimizu Corp, which is based in Tokyo, wants to lay a belt of solar panels 350 kilometres wide around the equator of the Moon and relay the...
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A New Brunswick Mountie who has run afoul of a policy that says RCMP officers can’t smoke medicinal marijuana while in uniform has returned his red serge. Cpl. Ron Francis arrived today at the RCMP headquarters in Fredericton after he said he was ordered to return the dress uniform. He was prescribed medicinal marijuana...
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In an emotional video posted to his YouTube account, British Olympic diver Tom Daley sought to put an end to rumors about his sexuality by telling his fans that he is in a relationship with another man.
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Don Cherry’s status as an icon of Canadian TV hockey may prove to be his downfall as the groundbreaking deal between Rogers Communications and CBC ushers in a new era of “Hockey Night in Canada,” marketing experts said. The 12-year, $5.2-billion agreement announced this week gives Rogers national rights to all NHL games and...
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David Letterman’s Late Show aired a Ken Burns-style segment called The Statement, which featured famous faces from Jennifer Lawrence to Martha Stewart reciting segments of Ford’s various confessions and apologies in recent weeks. Also starring Vince Vaughn and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
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