Новости за 25.08.2017

British police arrested a man carrying a knife outside Buckingham Palace on Friday night, they said, with two officers suffering minor injuries.

Belgian soldiers fatally shot a man who attacked them with a knife in Brussels on Friday, police say.

A ghostly white fish likely had no idea it was breaking a record when it swam past a camera more than eight kilometres below the surface of the ocean.

Shark fins and manta ray gills for sale in stores and markets in Vancouver and in China just a few years ago belonged mainly to species that are now listed as at-risk and banned for trade, DNA testing shows.

A new short film is using comedy to imagine what it would look like if the roles in Standing Rock, N.D., were reversed. No Reservations tells the story of a First Nations company given approval to run a pipeline through a white, suburban neighbourhood.

U.S. officials warn that tropical storm Harvey is still a dangerous and historic storm and said they expect more than 450,000 disaster victims to file for assistance.

United States President Donald Trump's pick for Ambassador to Canada will start her new job in October, the U.S. embassy has confirmed.

Taylor Swift pitches scheme to target ticket scalpers and favour fans, but scoring a ticket is still not guaranteed.

Edmonton police say charges are pending against the parents of a four-year-old boy who apparently lost track of their son for almost 24 hours.

Oil prices climbed higher on Friday as refineries on the Gulf of Mexico shut down ahead of the biggest storm to hit the United States in more than a decade.

A wildfire in B.C.'s Okanagan region inched closer to homes overnight after forcing more than 1,000 people to flee on Thursday, but officials say cooler weather made a difference in the firefight.

Mobs rampage across a north Indian town, leaving 12 people dead and buildings in flames, after a court declares a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers, according to police and a doctor.

When he wasn't rubbing shoulders with Hollywood stars, Juergen Schau was enjoying a totally different type of night life - searching for stranded puffin chicks.

Six sheep have been munching on the meadows in London's Green Park for the past week, part of a conservation effort to increase biodiversity in the park and attract more bees and butterflies.

Data has surpassed oil as the world's most valuable resource, much of it controlled by just five mega-companies — and jurisdictions are struggling with how to contain, regulate and protect all those ones and zeros.

Ocean temperatures in the Scotian Shelf and the Gulf of St. Lawrence reached record or near-record highs in 2016, according to a federal report on Atlantic Canada's marine ecosystem.

Graphic images depicting bloodied and dismembered fetuses have been appearing on giant placards all over Toronto and on flyers in people’s mailboxes, and now some politicians are taking a stand against them.

Judy Foote’s departure as the only federal cabinet minister from Newfoundland and Labrador leaves Prime Minister Trudeau with a choice between tinkering with his inner circle and reinforcing that his government intends to get results.

The best-case scenario here is that Ontario's system of police oversight is so dysfunctional that an off-duty cop can allegedly severely beat a man and no one is really sure who has jurisdiction.

It is easy to complain about "political correctness" or warn of a slippery slope. It is harder to work through why someone should get a statue in their likeness or their name on a school.

Veterans' groups are outraged by a website they believe is scamming Canadians for profit by exploiting both the country's military symbols and those who have served.

A South Korean court has found Jay Y. Lee guilty of multiple crimes, including bribery, and sentenced him to five years in prison.

A major storm over the Gulf of Mexico rapidly intensified early on Friday, taking aim at the heart of the U.S. coastal states and the nation's oil refining epicentre.

Copenhagen police are moving towards charging Danish inventor Peter Madsen with murder in the death of Swedish reporter Kim Wall. Police are also putting an additional charge of abuse of a corpse to the court.

Calgary Pride week festivities are kicking off with a milestone — the city has its first transgender flag crosswalk.