A federal Green party candidate in Vancouver-Kingsway is standing behind a controversial editorial he wrote more than four years ago in which he describes the falling of the World Trade Center twin towers as "beautiful."

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Following Thompson, who took 32.2% of all votes cast, were Newt Gingrich with 17.6% and Tom Tancredo with 10.2%.  The presumptive GOP front-runners, Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani came in 4th and 5th place pulling 10.1% and 7.2% of the vote respectively while John McCain placed 12th with 1.7% of the vote.

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The bane of adults over 50 - the colonoscopy procedure to detect precancerous lesions in the large intestine (colon) - will become obsolete within the coming decade thanks to any of five innovative endoscopic technologies, four of which have been developed by Israelis.

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China surpassed the United States as the world's second-largest exporter in the middle of last year, according to figures released Thursday by the World Trade Organization, and the Asian country is pulling further and further ahead.

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Illegal immigration opponents have sued the Los Angeles Police Department, taking aim at its long-standing policy of ignoring most suspects' immigration status.

The lawsuit filed Wednesday in Superior Court seeks to force officers to inform federal immigration officials when illegal immigrants are arrested on drug charges

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One of them was "slightly pretty," so the freelance film director decided to say hi.

Next thing he knew, he was encircled, beaten and knifed in the gut right there on a Greenwich Village sidewalk - by seven bloodthirsty young lesbians.

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Superintendent says, “We need to practice under conditions as real as possible”

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Shiites militants arrested in Iraq acknowledged that chlorine-laden weapons had been delivered to them by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, very present within the militia of in the suburbs of Sadr City.

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A MOMENT before the sonic boom hit his trailer, Joerg Arnu’s UHF radio scanner crackled to life. “Cylon 1, got you on radar,” said a voice just barely perceptible through the static. And then — badamm-booom! — the whole trailer shook in a shockwave, and Mr. Arnu jumped, a big plexiglass window reverberating as a jet streaked overhead and through the sky.

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Software that can be taught to refine the information sent from a bionic eye to its wearer is being trialled in Germany.

Retinal implants can restore some vision to blind or partially blind people by taking over the job of turning light into signals transmitted to the brain. So far, about 10 people in Germany and 15 in the US have been fitted with such implants although expanded US trials are planned.

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Norwegian-Somalian Kadra, who became famous in Norway for exposing imam support of female circumcision, was beaten unconscious on Thursday. Kadra was attacked and beaten senseless by seven or eight persons of Somali origin, I was terrified. While I lay on the pavement they kicked me and screamed that I had trampled on the Koran.

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Today, with Imus' career in tatters, the fate of the controversial shock jock is stirring quiet but heartfelt concern in an unlikely quarter: Democratic Politicians.

That's because, over the years, Democrats such as Ford came to count on Imus for the kind of sympathetic treatment that Republicans got from Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.

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Boris Berezovsky attends the launch of the Litvinenko Justice Foundation in London April 3, 2007. Russia is to open a criminal investigation into a call by Berezovsky for the overthrow of President Vladimir Putin, the chief prosecutor said on Friday.

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Basketball great Michael Jordan, singer-songwriter Neil Diamond and Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg top a new Forbes magazine list on Thursday of the 10 most costly divorce settlements of the stars.

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The emergence of a new al-Qaeda-linked organization in Northern Africa is alarming Spain, which is concerned about Islamists' calls for the reconquest of the country they regard as a lost part of the Muslim world.

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Grand Mufti of Australia -- this is the guy who is called the "Rape Sheikh" for blaming rape on how women dress -- seethes with anger at the PM John Howard. Egyptian-born mufti Shaikh Taj Aldin Al Hilali reportedly said he was ‘more Australian’ than the prime minister -- whom he likened to former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

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Planets abound in the galaxy. Over the past decade, scientists have discovered giant planets mostly by radial velocity techniques that detect the spectral shift in a star's light caused by the to and fro tug of an unseen planetary companion.

A U.S. citizen who had been researching remote controlled boats and commercial flight simulators was charged Thursday with joining Al Qaeda and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts where Americans vacation, as well as U.S. government facilities and military bases there.

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Now that radio talk-show host Don Imus has been banished, it's time to clean up the rest of talk radio, says a partisan media watchdog group headed by David Brock.

Next in the crosshairs for alleged expressions of "bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity" are, according to Media Matters for America, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, John Gibson and Michael Smerconish.

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