The Jurist Human Rights Watch (HRW) expressed concern Friday over aging men and women becoming the most rapidly growing group in US prisons and the ability of officials to provide appropriate housing and medical care to these individuals. The report,…
BBC News More than 100 Occupy protesters have been arrested in the US city of Oakland after trying to enter the City Hall and a convention centre. Police fired tear gas and smoke grenades to disperse crowds who threw rocks,…
BBC News Three members of an Afghan immigrant family in Canada have been convicted of murdering four female relatives in a so-called “honour” killing. The bodies – three teenage girls and their father’s first wife – were found in a…
CBC News Canada’s highest court will be asked to hear an appeal of the Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh case. MacIntosh was convicted in 2010 and 2011 of 17 counts of sex crimes against boys in the 1970s in eastern Nova Scotia.…
CBC News Costa Crociere SpA is offering uninjured passengers €11,000 ($14,454 Cdn) each to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma after its cruise ship ran aground and capsized off Tuscany when the captain deviated from his route. Costa,…
The Industry With the Worst Websites When it comes to bringing in revenue, these firms do a heck of a job. But designing compelling websites? They stink at that. When it comes to bringing in revenue and making headlines, law…
CBC News Police in southeast France have arrested the former head of a French company at the centre of a breast implant scandal affecting tens of thousands of women worldwide. Jean-Claude Mas, who ran the now-defunct French company Poly Implant…
BBC News The FBI is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material “scraped” from social networks. It says the application should provide information about possible domestic and global threats superimposed onto maps “using mash-up technology”. The bureau has…
CBC News The lawyer representing Hamed Shafia, one of three Montrealers accused of pushing four family members into the Rideau Canal and killing them, said his client is guilty of being “stupid” but not of murder. Patrick McCann told the…
BBC News A lawsuit has been filed in California suing US comedian Jay Leno for what it calls “racist” comments on the Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple of Amritsar. Indian-American Randeep Dhillon says Leno “hurt the sentiments of all Sikh…