Новости за 20.01.2016

Scurvy is best known as an affliction of 18th-century pirates and explorers, but people still get diagnosed with it. It is caused by a diet deficient in vitamin C

The discovery was reported by scientists at Cambridge. A paper released by the journal Nature said it's the clearest case of violence between prehistoric hunter-gatherers

The move comes after Star Wars: The Force Awakens broke records, despite coming out in December

The man was deemed inadmissible to Canada on the grounds he had been a senior member of a government that engaged in rights violations and crimes against humanity

As military helicopters ferry search and rescue teams over the Pacific Northwest, below them are scenes of devastation from a giant earthquake that could strike the region at any time.

Fewer than 150 cases were seen in the country in all of 2014. Health officials say they’re convinced the jump is linked to a sudden outbreak of the Zika virus

A strange prank has left Moncton residents scratching their heads and peeling drywall tape off their cars

'Until we actually see it for real, it will always be questionable as to whether it exists'

The rat gamblers were fine until University of B.C. researchers added flashing lights and music to the experiment. Then the problems started. Instead of gambling responsibly for sugary treats at their “rat casino,” the rats made riskier decisions.

A customer service representative told a Victoria, B.C. widow that she would need a court order to retrieve her late husband's Apple ID password. And even a letter to Apple's CEO didn't help

The pink mansion was seized in 1987 and changed hands many times before the new owners bought it in 2014. They hired treasure hunters to search for traces of the famous drug lord before demolition

The Bank of Canada decided to keep its key interest rate unchanged at 0.5 per cent Wednesday

The Russian military has said it's targeting ISIL and other extremists and has angrily dismissed Western accusations of hitting moderate rebels fighting President Assad

'I got a sonar image of what looked like a long object with a hump lying at the bottom. It wasn't there when I scanned the loch bed later'

TORONTO - The Toronto Stock Exchange fell sharply Wednesday morning, joining other markets around the world, but the loonie got a mild boost from the Bank of Canada's decision to keep a key short-term lending rate at 0.5 per cent.

Although 2015 is now the hottest on record, it was the fourth time in 11 years that Earth broke annual marks for high temperature

Wednesday's attack began shortly after the Bacha Khan University opened for classes in the town of Charsadda, some 35 kilometres outside Peshawar

Chris Rock, who famously called Hollywood 'a white industry,' will host this year's ceremony. Some on Tuesday put pressure on Rock to join the boycott

Dr. RJ Cusimano is a world-renowned fixer of leaky valves and blown arteries, a transplant specialist and remover of heart tumours. ‘If this guy can’t help you — nobody can’

Harper 'wanted you to know Canada for its resources. I want you to know Canadians for our resourcefulness,' Trudeau said in a speech at the World Economic Forum

'Even the obscene casualty figures fail to accurately reflect exactly how terribly civilians are suffering in Iraq' the UN high commissioner on human right says

Richard Masterson says the strangulation was not an intentional murder. His execution would be the first this year in the nation’s busiest death penalty state

The acknowledgment appeared in a magazine the group publishes online, two months after U.S. officials announced that he had likely been killed in a drone strike

St. Elijah’s has joined a growing list of more than 100 demolished religious and historic sites, including mosques, tombs, shrines and churches in Syria and Iraq

In the past year, China’s government has aggressively cracked down on the country’s legal rights groups, framing their advocacy as a destabilizing force to state security