Many truly strange things happen on the planet but few are sui generis, one of a kind. One hundred years later, the Tunguska Event remains firmly in that league as the what and the why of this cosmic event remain unsolved.

A baby step towards making it ok when nursing moms have to do it in public, Toronto's new breast-feeding friendly program is timely. An overdue boon to local moms, it'll also give an edge in the tourist market to participating venues.

Any other country vying for a piece of the Arctic turf and ts mineral wealth would be embarrassed. Not Canada, where the governmental mindset of 'it could be worse' rules and screw ups are regarded as partial successes.

Even as Zimbabwe's democratic party accept defeat and folded its tents, President Robert Mugabe continues to push his country ever further down a slippery and ruinous slope.

NXNE 2008 brought to town hundreds of acts in every genre and then some. There were acts with two bass players, some with none, dancing keyboard players and stone still singers and yet another wave of Canuck pop divas.

In the Sixties, when the idea of harvesting solar energy first surfaced, it was firmly in the realm of stoner sci-fi. But the current energy hustle has brought the idea back in fashion, thanks to a need to solve chronic electricity shortages.

No halal? Adios Ital? Step off spring rolls? Yep, those and all their ilk won't be appearing on Toronto's streets this summer. The very folk who were behind the idea of varied street food now admit they couldn't get it together.

Leonardo would be proud. Some 500 years after the Florentine visionary sketched one man flying machines the dream is made real In Japan a one man chopper took to the air and a Swiss pilot completed the first flight of a human with jet powered wings.

This year's finalists for the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Award reflect two of global culture's most dynamic engines; the environment and an aging population. The final Four are different enough to make picking a winner a tough call.

Here's a swift slap on the peepee for Smilin' Stevie Harper &The Corruptibles. From the UN, no less. Seems the guys at the controls have been too busy pointing thumbs at other folk to keep up with Canada's CO2 monitoring responsibilities.

Upper echelon sphincters flared wide open this morning when Tim Horton's execs woke up to find headlines like the one above splattered all over the media. By 8.00 am, the Timbit mom was re-hired.

As the body count rises in the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis' hit on Burma, the military junta has taken the rare step of requesting international aid. The world stands ready to respond.

Scientists in Antarctic have recorded the rarest sex assault ever witnessed in the animal kingdom. Opinions are split as to whether it was sexual,a young seal playing with its food or spring fever gone wrong.

Pink Floyd's legendary inflatable pig took exception to Roger Waters version of "Pigs" and escaped Sunday night. This happened as Waters was closing out the Coachella Arts & Music Festival. The porker eventually crashed to earth in La Quinta.

The advertising industry's been telling us for years that what they produce is art. Recent discoveries in Iraq suggest the confusion between art and advertising goes back 5,000 years.

In communities large and small across Canada and the US, a new teen control device is causing a buzz. It's called the Mosquito and it targets teens and young people, Manufactures say that's the point, civil liberties groups call it discrimination

Just when you thought it was safe to go into the swamps. An eight foot Florida gator shows up in a retiree's kitchen and in Burma, a croc delivers the ultimate in rough justice to an illegal logger in crocodile country

This year's spawning of the coral in the Palau sea were predicted to be awesomely large. They didn't disappoint, turning the sea into a sexy pink broth and providing lots of samples for the scientists to get their hands on.

Google has made available to the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) software that'll make it easier to track and catch child predators. The program isn't new but it sure is timely.

The Sochi Institute of Medical Primatology is either on the cutting edge of primate research or PETA's worst nightmare. They've been putting monkeys into space since the 1980s and are planning to start up a Mars monkey program very soon.