British Columbia will not issue new licenses and tenures for finfishaquaculture, including salmon farms, on the central coast while itexamines a new approach to managing the controversial industry.Salmon farms have been blamed for destruction of wild salmon stocks andhave drawn

An Atlantic County woman hoping to collect more than $100,000 in tax refunds will get two years in federal prison instead.CandyL. Atohi, 37, of Buena Vista Township, was sentenced yesterday forfiling 30 fraudulent claims for federal tax refunds, all but

Nicholas Sarkozy did most of the talking, but it was his wife who made the headlines.Onhis first state visit to Britain, the French president discussedmatters of international importance, sealed a string of big bilateraldeals and hailed a new era of

A 2007 Toyota Scion xD costs about $1,104 per year to insure, while a Chevy Corvette costs $2,039 to insure, according to an Automobile Club of Southern California survey released today.Sticker prices are only one factor in determining insurance costs,according

If you tried to guess the web domain for FIFA without knowing theexact address, chances are, you would get to an Internet page that hasnothing to do with the International Football Federation.Casesof so-called cybersquatting -- or abusive registration of trademarks

With Iranian backing, Hezbollah guerrillas have dramaticallyincreased their rocket range and can now threaten most of Israel,say senior Israeli defense officials. The Lebanese group has acquired new Iranian rockets with a range ofabout 300 kilometers, said the officials. That means

Flight cancellations caused headaches for people taking flights onDelta Air Lines from Atlanta on Thursday because of the company'svoluntary re-inspection of wiring on its MD-88 airplanes.Delta began the inspections Wednesday night, causing flights to be canceled and unsuspecting passengers to

South Korea on Thursday said that it was â deeply regrettableâ that North Korea had ordered South Korea officials to leave its territory, but that South Korea was undaunted by the move. The predawn expulsion on Thursday followed an announcement

A staggering 29,000 Canadian hospital patients acquired the superbugMRSA in a one-year period, including an estimated 2,300 whose deathswere partly attributed to the pernicious bacteria, federal figuresreleased today show.The increase in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureustranslates into 12,000 new infections plus 17,000

Thousands of supporters of the powerful Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia took to the streets of Baghdad on Thursday to protest the IraqiArmyâ ™s assault on the southern port city of Basra, as intense fightingcontinued there

Intellpuke: This article was reported by New York Times writers C. J. Chivers, Eric Schmitt and Nicholas Wood and written by Mr. Chivers. Since 2006, when the insurgency in Afghanistan sharplyintensified, the Afghan government has been dependent on Americanlogistics and

Senator Barack Obama called Thursday for tighter regulation of mortgage lenders, banks andother financial institutions, even as he spoke of pumping $30 billioninto the economy to shield homeowners and local governments from theworst effects of the collapse of the housing

Manufacturers that have relocated to China may soon be coming homeif the Western world imposes a â carbon tariffâ on countries that spewgreenhouse gas emissions, according to Jeff Rubin, chief strategist andeconomist at CIBC World Markets.Rubin, in a report issued

VIDEO games will be forced to carry cinema-style age classifications to improve children’s safety, under a new strategy unveiled yesterday.

NEARLY half of Britons know little or nothing about the constitutional arrangements by which the country is governed.

ALONG with Bovril, Scotch pies and rousing songs, it is one of the great traditions of Scottish football: anyone from the world of politics foolish enough to grace the cent

CHILDREN in Scotland are eating almost twice as much sugar as was recommended in a target to limit consumption set a decade ago, a report revealed yesterday.

BRITAIN'S relationship with France can become an "entente formidable", Gordon Brown said yesterday, as the two countries pledged to work together on immigration, d

THE government last night admitted breaching the human rights of a hotel worker beaten to death by a British soldier in Iraq.

WENDY Alexander has experienced a torrid first six months as Scottish Labour leader.