For the next few hours, you can get an extra 10 per cent off a purchase of £20 or more on whatever you want, over at eBay UK. The offer is live right now but finishes up at 8pm today, so be quick if you fancy it. You’ll need to enter the code PERKS to…
A woman in Australia was bitten on her by a snake that had curled up in a toilet bowl to seek refuge from a weeks-long heatwave that has seen temperature records smashed. Helen Richards said she got the fright of her life after she was bitten by a non-venomous carpet python hiding inside a toilet bowl in…
OTTAWA — A Twitter account billing itself as a parody of Iqra Khalid disappeared briefly but then returned Friday, its previous tweets deleted, after the Liberal MP complained about references to her Muslim heritage and claims she supports Sharia law and the Islamic State militant group. Khalid, who was targeted with hate mail and death…
Sherry Mendowegan feels very lucky that she already paid her tuition and bought books for the upcoming school year. The mother-of-two in Thunder Bay was using money from Ontario’s basic income pilot project to help cover the costs of going back to school. In July, the new Progressive Conservative government announced it would “wind down”…
Click:LC Adapter A Wisconsin man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl’s parents so he could kidnap her allegedly made up his mind to snatch her after he spotted her getting onto a school bus. Jake Patterson, 21, told detectives he planned his crime methodically after watching Jayme Closs board her school bus while driving…
“Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt”, which opens at London’s V&A museum next Saturday, 8th September, is not the first exhibition dedicated to games by an august institution of art and design. Many reading this might remember “Game On”, an exhibition staged by the Barbican in 2002 (and touring ever since, more or less) which featured such precious artifacts…
BEIJING — A senior European official on Monday urged U.S. President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and China to work with Europe to avoid trade wars and prevent conflict and chaos. Speaking before Trump and Putin were due to meet in Helsinki, European Council President Donald Tusk appealed for leaders to avoid wrecking a…
OTTAWA — Canadian and U.S. officials are up against time in their rocky attempts to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement. To get to the finish line, there are a number of obstacles to move out of the way. Dispute settlement NAFTA contains three mechanisms for settling disputes. One of them, known as Chapter…
The Paris Opera Ballet has withdrawn its invitation for Sergei Polunin to perform in Swan Lake because he posted “homophobic”, "sexist" and “fattist” comments on social media. Ukrainian-born Polunin, 29, nicknamed the “bad boy" of his art after walking out of London’s Royal Ballet in 2012, had been due to dance in Paris in February. Aurélie Dupont,…
OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government embarked on an exhaustive creative process and spent $24,000 to hire a consultant to help rebrand its new investment promotion body to grab the attention of foreign investors. In the end, they changed the name of their “Invest in Canada Hub” to “Invest in Canada.” The government’s “rigorous business…