The economy may have weathered the recent economic storm, but a scant few Canadians are enjoying the benefits. In fact, the average worker is falling further behind, according to a study that found the average "Elite 100" CEO will have earned more than the average Canadian's annual income by noon on January 3.

GET used to the term "atrocitology" from the word atrocity, expanded to mean simply "man's inhumanity to man". Throughout history humans have inflicted immense atrocities upon others.

In an exclusive extract from You Can't Read This Book, the Observer columnist Nick Cohen presents a damning indictment of how the English legal system helps the wealthy and powerful suppress inconvenient truths At their best, journalists expose the crimes of the powerful and there were plenty of powerful people worthy of examination in the Britain of the early 2000s. London was awash with money ...

Twitter’s announcement that it would agree to block certain messages in countries where they were deemed illegal prompted outcry, argument and even calls for a boycott.

This is not an article about Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy trial. But in case anyone is interested to hear my two-cents worth on the trial, I have two questions. How many people do we know who have actually been charged with sodomy?

Pat Dodson, billed by the unquestioning as the “father of reconciliation”, worries what North Korea thinks of…

The company may have found a new and better way to deal with authoritarian countries

A UW-Madison scientist's altered bird flu virus could mutate in dangerous ways if unleashed in nature, according to a statement Tuesday from the head of a government advisory board that earlier said sensitive details of the study shouldn't be published.

IRAN is quietly seeking to expand its ties with Latin America in what US officials and regional experts say is an effort to circumvent economic sanctions and gain access to much-needed markets and raw materials.

SAN FRANCISCO -- It started five years ago after a young engineer in San Francisco sketched out a quirky little Web tool for telling your friends what you were up to. It became a bullhorn for millions of people worldwide, especially vital in nations that tend to muzzle their own people.