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  • Venus Jupiter and Mercury will dance in spring twilight

    Three planets - Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury will present a spectacular sky show during the last week of May. So, look low in the west-northwest after sunset in late May, and you can watch Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury pirouetting through the tightest gathering of three naked-eye planets that the world will see until 2026. "Here's a beautiful chance to see three planets all together," said Alan ...

  • Vitamin D from sun may treat asthma says study

    Time spent by asthma patients soaking up the sun may help in the treatment of the illness, a research has said. A team of scientists at King's College London said vitamin D, which is made by the body in sunlight, calms an "over-active" part of the immune system in asthma, BBC reported. However, treating patients with vitamin D has not yet been tested. People with asthma find it hard to ...

  • Need more freedom for filmmaking in India Anurag Kashyap

    India's rising star director Anurag Kashyap has complained that filmmakers in in the country still do not enjoy the kind of freedom of space and expression that would allow them to make meaningful films. "Today, we are forced to treat our audience as children of less than five years and hence we have to only make goody-goody films with a huge dose of escapism. I want to have the option making ...

  • Mice and lizard return after a month in space

    A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ...

  • Major Major Tim Peake set for space odyssey

    US tech giant Yahoo has snapped up Tumblr in a major US deal that will reportedly net the blogging site's 26-year-old founder a 250 million US dollar (£164 million) fortune six years after he started ...


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War Horse [Blu-Ray]

War Horse [Blu-Ray]

Set against the backdrop of World War I, Steven Spielbergs War Horse is an ambitious, anthological portrait of both the devastation of war and the potential for human decency seen through the eyes of a horse. It is unabashedly romantic in the way it uses the horse, who is named Joey, a ... ...

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  • Advocates call for fertility treatment coverage in B.C.

    In vitro fertilization, seen above, is the process of fertilizing an egg before placing it back in a mother's womb as treatment for infertility. Some say the government should cover the costs. (SUBMITTED) Fertility awareness advocates are arguing infertility should be treated as a medical condition and covered by B.C. government health care, pointing to a recent online survey showing broad ...

  • Alberta could be in for a summer of storms and hail

    Calgary storm Just after it was revealed Alberta accounted for the majority of severe weather damage in Canada last year, forecasters are calling for one hail of a summer. While the southern and central parts of the province are expected to see hotter-than average temperatures, they’ll also be susceptible to more severe storms, said Jack Boston, a senior meteorologist with ...

  • Wynne most popular provincial leader Poll

    Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in the legislature for this month's provincial budget. (STAN BEHAL, Toronto Sun) Wynne is winning and Hudak’s a dud. Premier Kathleen Wynne and New Democrat’s Andrea Horwath are the most popular leaders in Ontario, leaving the Progressive Conservative’s Tim Hudak in the dust, according to a new Abacus Data poll. "I think Wynne has a ...

  • Harper to make first comments on Senate scandal

    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, May 16, 2013. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton) OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make his first public comments Tuesday morning on the Senate expense scandal that has become one of his most serious political crises since taking office in 2006. Harper is scheduled to jet to Peru Tuesday afternoon ...

  • Hundreds pay respects as Elijah Harper laid to rest

    Former MLA, MP, and aboriginal leader Elijah Harper has died. Elijah Harper - The Man Who Said No, to many Canadians - was remembered as much more by friends and family at funeral events Monday. Harper, a former Manitoba MLA and MP who was a key figure in shutting down the failed Meech Lake Accord, died Friday as a result of heart failure stemming from diabetes ...

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