The sensitive testimony of survivors of Canada’s notorious residential school system should be sealed for decades rather than destroyed, because destruction would damage the historical record, an Ontario court heard Tuesday.
Category: News/Aboriginal
The “buckyball” – an iconic soccer-ball shaped molecule made exclusively of carbon atoms – is not quite as special anymore. Chemists have discovered a similar hollow cage-like molecule made only of boron atoms.
Category: News/Technology & Science
A court has cleared the Netherlands of liability in the deaths of the vast majority of the 8,000 Bosnian Muslims slain in the Srebrenica massacre 19 years ago, but says it has to compensate the families of more than 300 men turned over to Bosnian Serb forces and later killed.
Category: News/World
Iraqi forces have withdrawn from the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Tikrit after a new push to retake the city met heavy resistance, a soldier who fought in the battle said on Wednesday.
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Pitcher Brady Aiken, the No. 1 overall draft pick in June, appeared to have agreed to a $6.5 million US bonus with Houston. Now, the Astros are trying to sign him to much less money, suggesting he has an elbow ligament injury. Is there an injury or is Houston trying to save money?
Category: Sports/Baseball/MLB
A Hamas website says Israel has fired missiles at the homes of four of its senior leaders as it resumed bombardment of Gaza, following a failed Egyptian cease-fire effort.
Category: News/World