K - Negotiations over mackerel fishing quotas have fallen apart, Iceland said Thursday, extending a dispute dubbed "the mackerel war" that has been a thorny issue in the country's EU membership bid.The European Union, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Norway ...

We should be thankful — thank God if you like — that the grotesque bill the Arizona legislature passed was vetoed today by Gov. Jan Brewer (R). She chastised her own party in doing so and saved the citizens of her state, all of them, from chaos.

K - Thousands of protesters thronged the streets of the Icelandic capital Reykjavik Monday to demand a referendum after the government said it was dropping its EU membership bid without a popular vote.Police said around 3,500 protestors gathered outside th...

If you didn't like all the jokes in Will Ferrell's "Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues" then perhaps you will like all of them in "Anchorman2: The Legend Continues: Super-Sized R-Rated Version."

K - Iceland will drop its EU membership bid without holding a referendum that was earlier promised by the two ruling Euro-sceptic parties, the government said Friday.The centrist Progress Party and the right-wing Independence Party agreed on a draft bill a...

Media, motivated by their ethical standards, recently used words like "tragedy" to describe the killing of South African model Reeva Steenkamp. It is being revisited now because her life was taken a year ago and her killer has now broken his silence.

On the night of the Costa Concordia tragedy, it was first mate Roberto Bosio who gave the order to abandon ship. As Bosio told the court in the trial of the Captain Francesco Schettino, Schettino refused to.

Uruguay's president, José “Pepe” Mujica, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by the Dutch activist organization, the Drugs Peace Institute. Thanks to Mujica, in April, his country will be the first to completely legalize marijuana.

Ilulissat - One of Greenland’s largest glaciers is moving at speeds never before recorded. In the process it’s moving ice from the Greenland ice sheet into the ocean at record rates.

A new online poll of heart attack and stroke victims conducted by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation has found that over half of the respondents are not making the changes needed to ensure their health. The reason? Poor motivation.

Thirty-two people died on Jan. 13, 2012 in the Costa Concordia disaster when the Italian cruise liner went down. On Saturday a 33rd victim was taken when a diver from Spain cut his leg underwater. Brought to surface, he later died.

After Canadian singer Justin Bieber's recent shenanigans, arguably his most serious, a petition to deport him appeared on the 'We the People' page of the White House's website. If successful, such a petition can force the government into a response.

Justin Bieber and his entourage, for this trip including his mentor, Usher and manager Scooter Braun, have decamped to Panama. While the Grammys were on — he was not nominated this year — Bieber and co. were on a Panamanian beach.

Biologists and wildlife officials have taken samples from the bodies of 25 pilot whales who beached near Kice Island in southwest Florida. There has been an increase in the deaths of whales in Florida but it's not known why this is happening.

Superstar pop singer Elton John has struck out at Russia's anti-gay laws. On his website Wednesday the openly gay singer called the laws "vicious homophobia" that have "given extremists the cover to abuse people’s basic human rights.”

As parts of the U.S. deal with freezing temperatures they might take solace in the thought that the cold is helping them lose weight. That's what cold can do for you, according to a study from the Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands.

With us having just entered a New Year this is a good time to suggest an idea I've had for some time: bring back the peace sign. Yes, the 60s V for Victory sign that turns the palm out, index and middle fingers spread as the remaining fingers clench.

This time Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber may have gone too far. Bieber's neighbor called police to report him throwing eggs at their house. It all happened last night but today, seeking evidence, police raided the Biebs' mansion.

Memo to the U.S. Republican Party: when you lose an election you don't do everything you can to make the Democrats look bad or have a hard time governing. You pull up your socks and pitch in, you work with the winners, you help your country move forward.

Dr. Prabhat Jha, a director at the Center for Global Health Research of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto, says 200 million lives could be saved by tripling cigarette taxes worldwide. He made the claim in a press release today.