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Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said. Peter Kent said the protocol “does not represent a way forward for Canada” and the country would face crippling fines for failing to meet its targets. The move, which is legal and was expected, makes it the [...]

Home improvement retailer Lowe’s is facing criticism after removing advertising from a reality TV show showcasing American Muslims. The company pulled ads from All-American Muslim after complaints from the Florida Family Association. The cable TV show portrays the lives of five families in Dearborn, Michigan, a city known for its Muslim and Arab population. Lowe’s [...]

The gunman who shot a Virginia Tech police officer and then turned the gun on himself was a 22-year-old from a nearby university, police say. Police and Virginia Tech named Deriek Crouse’s killer as Ross Truett Ashley, a Radford University student. Officials said Ashley had stolen a car on Wednesday from a real estate office [...]

Pakistan may continue its blocking of Nato convoys into Afghanistan for weeks, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has toldthe press. Pakistan stopped the convoys in protest at US air strikes which killed 24 of its troops at two checkpoints on the Afghan border last month. Mr Gilani refused to rule out closing Pakistan’s airspace to [...]

The code behind the mobile operating system, WebOS, is being released to open source software developers by Hewlett Packard. The tech company acquired the software when it bought the smartphone maker Palm for $1.2bn (£767m) last year. HP used the code to power its short-lived range Touchpad tablet computers before it abandoned the product line. [...]

Thousands of people have attended the biggest anti-government rally in the Russian capital Moscow since the fall of the Soviet Union. As many as 50,000 people gathered on an island near the Kremlin to condemn alleged ballot-rigging in parliamentary elections and demand a re-run. Other, smaller rallies took place in St Petersburg and other cities. [...]

Skywatchers have been enjoying the last total lunar eclipse until 2014. The spectacle, which occurs when the Earth casts its shadow over the Moon, has been watched from Australia, Asia and North America. At some points, indirect sunlight still illuminated the Moon, turning it a dramatic shade of red. The shadow started to fall at [...]