Teenagers today no longer write notes about who likes "Johnny." The current trend for classroom teens is actually snapping nude photos of themselves and sending those explicit shots to their boyfriends via cellphones.

Parental rights are one thing, with every parent unique in their style. But one Texas judge felt differently, allegedly ordering spankings as punishment in his courtroom. The parents of one child who was on the receiving end filed a lawsuit.

The Australian dollar hit a 24 year high against the US dollar last month, passing 96 cents. Economists predict it will reach parity by the end of the year.

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.

Truly grim reading, the global food crisis is now generating some statistics. One of those stats is that the poor countries of the world can look forward to a 40 per cent increase in food costs. There are plenty of ideas, and they all focus on trade.

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.

Susan Jacoby is a lady with an obvious mission in life: To try to reclaim the concept of American intelligence from wherever it’s gone. She has an op-ed in the New York Times, which led me to her book, The Age of American Unreason.

A controversial additive that has been linked to damage to DNA and also to hyperactivity in children is being phased out by Coke except in Australia. Coca-Cola in Australia does not have any plans to phase out the additive.

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.

TIME was the first to start hitting the sacred cash cow known as the Church of Scientology in 1991. Its expose remains as a current article, a primer about the issues. Scientology continues to make headlines, the story is as relevant as ever.

Straight from the you-can’t-be-serious files: A young man was recently arrested for allegedly "assaulting" a police officer with M&M's. Let's hope the officer has a full and speedy recovery.

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.

By the end of May, if British legislators have their way, a series of new EU-inspired consumer protection regulations will be in place to safeguard against fraudulent activity in a widening range of commercial activity.

Hillary Clinton won the Indiana primary by approximately two percentage points last night and almost immediately, Barack Obama's campaign sent out an email titled, "The Limbaugh Effect in Indiana = 7 percent", assigning blame to Limbaugh for Obama's loss.

Have you been bad? I mean really bad, bad enough that perhaps you've been told you're a candidate for Hades? Are the Moral Right on your back? Are your toes getting a bit singed from the brimstone? If so I have a line on a get out of Hell free card.

A driver struck and killed a dog in Minnesota and is now suing the dog’s owners for vehicle damages. The dog owners are counter-suing him for the loss of their pet.

The nation has been crushed by the cyclone. 46 years of military rule have turned Burma into an obsolete nation. The infrastructure has been utterly smashed. Croplands are under water, and Rangoon itself is devastated.

The EU’s biofuel policy is likely to cause large-scale environmental harm across the world, according to a new report published today by BirdLife International