The elderly couple killed when their car was struck by a train in Langley on Sunday morning were married for 70 years. Family members have identified the couple as Christian Wantke, 90, and Irmgard Wantke, 88. According to the couple’s son, the pair were on their way to the doctor’s office when the accident happened. It […]

Particularly high levels of seasonal sickness this winter have strained Britain’s National Health Service capacity after years of doctors complaining that successive governments were starving the agency of funding. Britain’s hospitals are taking drastic measures to cope with the winter demand. National Health Service officials are warning non-urgent procedures will be put off for weeks. […]

Once described as the ‘greatest living Canadian’, Wilder Penfield would have been 127 years on January 26. Once described as the “greatest living Canadian”, neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield would have been 127 years old on January 26.  Penfield is recognised for his advances in mapping the brain and for the groundbreaking epilepsy treatment known as the Montreal Procedure.  Today, […]

A sheer blanket of ice coated roadways around southern Alberta on the last day of 2018. “The conditions out there are terrible,” said Staff Sgt. Glenn Henry with the RCMP. “We’ve had some snow the last couple of nights [and] before the snow we had some freezing rain, so we’ve got some ice built up under the […]

As uncertainty gripped Cyprus in 1974, scores of boys and girls embarked on a journey that changed their lives forever. Nicosia, Cyprus – Nine-year-old Mihalis Mihail had never seen a ship before, let alone been on board one. Yet there he stood, anxious and confused on the deck of The Patra, about to embark on […]

As 3G reaches the occupied West Bank after Israel ended its ban, entrepreneurs see a future for tech startups. Palestinian mobile providers began offering 3G plans in the occupied territories this week after an Israeli ban was lifted. Now, Palestinian startups in the occupied West Bank are looking to future opportunities. The two main Palestinian […]

From Italy to the US, the far right throws support behind the Syrian government as it is accused of war crimes. Rome, Italy – Six and a half years into the ongoing bloodshed in Syria, General Issam Zahreddine, infamous for breaking the suffocating three-year siege of Deir Az Zor, was killed by a landmine. He died […]

US defence chief outlines the US’s new security strategy, warns of diminished capability ‘in every domain of warfare’. United States Defence Secretary James Mattis has said that “great power competition, not terrorism” will now be the main focus of national security policy. Mattis, unveiling the US’s first new defence strategy in a decade on Friday, said […]

Hugh Masekela, widely known as the father of South African jazz, passes away after battle with prostate cancer. South African jazz legend and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Masekela has died, aged 78. Masekela “passed peacefully” in the country’s commercial capital, Johannesburg “after a protracted and courageous battle with prostate cancer,” his family said in a statement […]

Bus en route to Russia bursts into flames in Kazakhstan’s Aktobe region, killing 52 Uzbek citizens. Fifty-two Uzbek citizens have been killed in a bus fire in Kazakhstan. The bus, carrying 55 passengers and two drivers, was travelling along a remote road in the northwestern Aktobe region when it burst into flames on Thursday morning. […]