FRANKFURT, Aug 13 (Reuters) — Bayer shares plunged as much as 14 percent on Monday, losing about $14 billion in value, after newly acquired Monsanto was ordered to pay US$289 million in damages in the first of possibly thousands of U.S. lawsuits over alleged links between a weedkiller and cancer. After the verdict in favor…
Click:10 watt led street light The National Rifle Association used to love Kirsten Gillibrand. When she was appointed to the Senate, taking over Hillary Clinton’s New York seat in 2009, she boasted that she used to sleep with guns under her bed and recalled her family hunting their own Thanksgiving turkeys. As far as the…
To no one’s surprise, Canada’s mortgage industry really, really doesn’t like federal regulators’ new mortgage stress tests. Its principal industry association, Mortgage Professionals Canada, released a report this week on the impact of the tests that is almost apocalyptic in tone. It blames the stress tests for this year’s housing market slowdown, estimating that the…
George Mendonsa, the ecstatic sailor shown kissing a woman in Times Square celebrating the end of World War II, has died. He was 95. Mendonsa fell and had a seizure on Sunday at the assisted living facility in Middletown, Rhode Island, where he lived with his wife of 70 years, his daughter, Sharon Molleur, told…
Harvey Weinstein plans to turn himself in to New York City law enforcement on Friday morning, The New York Times reported Thursday citing two unnamed law enforcement officials, along with other news outlets. The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office has been conducting a criminal probe into accusations against the disgraced former Hollywood producer. Inspired by October…
There can be few teachers in the world who have not privately cursed the kids in their classroom as little devils. Italy has now gone one step further – offering teachers the chance to take exorcism courses. An intensive, 40-hour course in “exorcisms and prayers of liberation” is now available to teachers through the ministry…
Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government announced Tuesday that it will scrap the province’s basic income pilot project. The previous Liberal government had launched it to give away free money in the hopes it would make recipients healthier and encourage them to get more education. The program launched in April 2017 and reached full enrollment with…
An unsuspecting couple experienced the royal treatment after welcoming a child yesterday at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. The couple, who has not been identified, stepped out of the hospital’s Lindo Wing with their newborn, not realizing the media and royal fans were eagerly waiting outside to catch the first glimpse of the third royal…
Former members of the Farc and other Leftist guerilla groups are working with the Maduro regime to arm civilian paramilitaries violently quashing protests over aid on the Colombian border. Amid clashes over the delivery of aid last weekend, a new ‘colectivo’ involving Colombian guerrilla forces has been mobilised to put down dissent on the frontier. …
OTTAWA — The Liberals escalated their criticism Sunday of Jody Wilson-Raybould’s decision to secretly record a phone call with the country’s top bureaucrat, with a prominent cabinet minister declaring her unease with the former attorney general remaining in caucus. Labour Minister Patty Hajdu told the CBC she believed it was “unethical” for Wilson-Raybould to secretly…