How big is the world’s largest crochet blanket? Crochet Queens, an Indian group, is set to needle past the current South African world record-holders’ 3,377 square meter (11,080 foot) quilt by combining the forces of their 1,800 members. Mother India’s Crochet Queens team, composed of crocheters aged 8 through 85, is ready to earn a […]

Canada is excited about the nation’s newly appointed defense minister, Harjit Sajjan, called “the breakout celebrity of Prime Minister Trudeau’s new cabinet.” The former Vancouver gang unit officer said that he took a different route from many of the Indo-Canadian youths who became gang members while he transferred schools and later joined the police force. He […]

The 7-foot tall NutriTower is specifically designed to fit in small spaces and can hydroponically grow a variety of edible plants The NutriTower – a seven-foot tall vertical farm specifically designed for tiny spaces – may be the solution to urban gardening problems many have been asking for. Designed by Byrce Nagels of Montreal, the NutriTower […]

1,000mph with 135,000hp. The Bloodhound — the world’s most powerful racing car — has never been publicly viewed before today. It will be on display at Canary Wharf in London. The current land speed record is 763mph. That record was set by the same UK nationals behind this project. Andy Green was the driver of the ThrustSSC that set […]

“I personally experience public intimidation on a daily basis.” – Dutch Parisienne Rachel Wegner Warning: article contains some graphic language of a sexual nature Paris — After some days of rain, I could not be happier than to enjoy the sunshine in my favorite park 10 minutes located from my home. As I were tanning in […]

Frances Oldham Kelsey, a Canadian-born doctor and F.D.A. officer, argued tirelessly to keep the harmful drug out of the U.S. ONTARIO, Canada – Frances Oldham Kelsey, the doctor and pharmacologist who refused to allow thalidomide into America, died on Friday. Kelsey died at her daughter’s home in London, Ontario, where she had been inducted into […]

US citizen and former president George W. Bush was among a group of potential jurors in a Dallas courthouse Wednesday. “President Bush received his jury summons and reported for service this morning at the George Allen Courts Building in Dallas,” Bush spokesman Freddy Ford told CNN in a statement. “He sat through the jury selection […]

Nicholas Okumu is a teacher at a small school in Mombasa. Here he writes about the surprising rate at which public works slide into dilapidation — or destruction — in Kenya’s tourist hub. For the past one year and a half the county government of Mombasa has gone all out to upgrade the county’s infrastructure by re-carpeting roads […]

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — We usually ask ourselves, “How can we be more happy?” Rarely do we find the answer to this challenging question. Yet, Stefan Sagmeister’s “The Happy Show” will try to solve some of the most onerous dilemmas of happiness. How can one be more happy? I for one have not one perceptible clue. Do we […]

This three-week holiday represents a time of glee and feasting between two periods of fasting. The first records of the carnival in Bohemia and Moravia comes from the 13th century. The masquerade is the highlight of the Carnival. The important parts of the parade constitute singing, dancing and feasting. Doing pranks, jokes and fun on the audience […]

And why a good bar is special One of the national newspapers in Ireland hosts a blog called Generation Emigration and it reveals insights into the whos, whats, hows, and whys of the people who choose to leave Ireland. There are those who wish to return and those that don’t, those that miss it and […]

Leonard Nimoy, known as Mr. Spock to all who are fans of the original Star Trek series, passed away Friday morning at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles. He was 83. Last year the actor announced that he was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease as a result of years of smoking — a habit […]