“Russia is reportedly slaughtering stray dogs in the run up to the Winter Olympics,” the Huffington Post UK reports. “The city of Sochi is said to have hired a private company to kill as many of the neglected creatures as possible, it has been claimed. Describing the animals as “biological...

Today, Queen Elizabeth II welcomed her fourth great grandchild. Zara Phillips, the only royal to be a godparent of Prince George, and her husband, former England rugby star Mike Tindall gave birth to their baby daughter Friday. (Zara and Mike married in July 2011, Source: Mirror UK) Congrats to the Royal Family...

Have you been following the comments made between Neil Young, the Canadian government and oil industry? (Image: Mark Blinch/Canadian Press) From what I gather Neil Young is trying to stand up for the environment and rights of the First Nations with his tour Honour the Treaties. He has toured one of 50 oil sands...

The WSJ reports, “North Korean women often risk their lives to defect to the South, crossing the heavily guarded Chinese border on foot before beginning a lengthy resettlement process. Then comes the loneliness. When Na Soo-yeon arrived in Seoul in 2008 after fleeing North Korea, she found herself alone in an unfamiliar...

NPR reports, “The Super Bowl sure didn’t live up to expectations. Pigskin prognosticators told us it would be a close game between the NFL’s two best teams. Instead, Seattle won a 43-8 laugher. Denver was never really in it. The other big story of every Super Bowl, though, turned out...

Our home-grown athletic apparel retailer stumbles into 2014 with changes and promises as it leaves behind an image tarnishing 2013. The company has lowered it’s fourth-quarter projections and now predicts store sales to slip in the “low to mid-single digits” compared with a previous no-growth estimate. Profit-per-share and revenue are  also predicted...

CBC News reports, “Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson is off the hit A&E reality series indefinitely after disparaging gays as sinners akin to adulterers and swindlers, the network said. A&E announced Wednesday what it called a “hiatus” for Robertson, 67, after he disparaged gays in the January edition of GQ...

From Fox News, “One Reddit user got a shock when she found out the “Bill” assigned to her via the website’s Secret Santa was actually Bill Gates. “I thought Bill sounded like a friendly fellow,” Rachel said on Reddit. “In fact, I had this whole image of this poor guy...

CBC News reports, “The phones of Prince William’s wife Kate Middleton and Prince Harry, Queen Elizabeth’s grandson, were hacked by staff working for Rupert Murdoch’s defunct News of the World tabloid, it was revealed in a London court on Thursday. (Ben Stansall/Reuters) Prosecutor Andrew Edis told London’s Old Bailey criminal court that...

The Huffington Post reports, “Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree banning demonstrations and rallies for two and a half months in Sochi around the 2014 Winter Olympics. (A demonstrator holds a poster depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin with make-up as he protests against homophobia and repression against gays...