Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to steer his electric car company’s battery technology into homes and businesses as part of an elaborate plan to reshape the power grid with millions of small power plants made of solar panels on roofs and batteries in garages.
The bodies lay where they fell, sprawled on steps or wedged between rows of seats, surrounded by spent ammunition, scattered popcorn and shoes left behind in the panic to escape.
Aid is arriving in Nepal, but for many affected by the earthquake — including a group of men who walked to the city from a damaged village — access to food and other supplies is still a challenge. CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault reports on the challenge of getting help to those who need it most.
Advance members of Canada’s Disaster Assistance Response Team began heading to Nepalese villages outside the capital Kathmandu on Thursday to see how the team can help the earthquake-torn country.
The fall of Saigon in April 1975 would be the final chapter of the United States’ involvement in Vietnam. And it was also a dangerous story to cover for the news teams of CBC and CTV.
The likelihood of survivors being pulled from the rubble in earthquake-ravaged Nepal dwindles with each hour, even as successful rescues have brought cheers to a country shocked by death and destruction.
Loblaw and Joe Fresh say a $2-billion class action lawsuit that a Toronto law firm is attempting to bring against them over the 2013 collapse of a Bangladeshi garment factory that killed more than 1000 people is without merit.
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The U.S. Air Force is keeping close tabs on Russia’s tumbling, out-of-control space capsule as it comes closer to re-entering Earth’s atmosphere.
The Church of England said on Thursday it has decided to blacklist coal and oilsands investments over climate change concerns, the Financial Times reported.
A local ABC affiliate in Baltimore is reporting that a preliminary medical examiner’s report on the death of Freddie Gray suggests his spinal injury was caused when his head slammed into a bolt at the back of the police van transporting him.
It’s not often you hear about women being criticized for wearing skirts that are too long. But that’s exactly what happened to one French teen, who was barred from attending class because her ankle-length maxi-skirt was deemed a “provocation.”
The New Hampshire Supreme Court says a Michigan man must pay for the cost of his rescue from the White Mountain National Forest.
NASA’s Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft has spotted surface features on the icy world, including a possible polar cap.
NASA’s Messenger spacecraft is making its final few orbits before saying goodbye and smashing into the surface of the planet Mercury this afternoon.
A public prosecutor says a Pakistani court has sentenced 10 militants to life in prison for their involvement in the 2012 attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai.
A Chinese construction company is claiming to be the world’s fastest builder after erecting a 57-storey skyscraper in 19 working days in central China.
In today’s Saigon, Patrick Brown writes, the gap between rich and poor would make Marx and Engels choke on their Big Macs. The Communist utopia Ho Chi Minh was fighting for proved as illusory as the Communist menace the U.S. fought against.
The ex-fiance of actress Sofia Vergara, one of the stars of the hit ABC comedy Modern Family, has defended his lawsuit seeking to take two frozen embryos the couple created before separating.
Climbing will reopen on Mount Everest next week after damage to routes caused by avalanches that were set off by a huge earthquake, one of which killed 18 climbers at base camp, senior officials said on Thursday.
Crowds cheered Thursday as a teenage boy was pulled, dazed and dusty, from the wreckage of a seven-story Kathmandu building that collapsed around him five days ago when an enormous earthquake shook Nepal.
A shark killed a 65-year-old woman in an attack off the shore of Maui on Wednesday, officials said.
A 15-year campaign has stopped the spread of endemic rubella in the countries of the Americas, the Pan-American Health Organization announced Wednesday.
Jean Nidetch died Wednesday at 91, her son David said. Her brainchild, Weight Watchers, made her a multimillionaire.
Loaded with supplies from Canada, a Quebec woman trained as a paramedic has made the journey back to a familiar village in Nepal to try to help. CBC’s Adrienne Arsenault travelled with Ginette Traversy as she surveyed the damage and reunited with friends, including one who lost a nine-year-old daughter.
Noting slowing economic growth during the winter months, the U.S. Federal Reserve has left its key benchmark interest rate unchanged..
Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao appeared at a final pre-fight press conference on Wednesday with nothing bad to say about each other, and couldn’t even bring themselves to scowl for pictures.
Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said Wednesday he will run for president as a Democrat, promising to fight what he deems “obscene levels” of income disparity and a campaign finance system that is a “real disgrace.”
The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital fell to Viet Cong troops from the north. Here’s a look at the days leading up to the fall of Saigon and the evacuations as American forces airlifted personnel and civilians out of the country.
Hundreds of people were marching Wednesday night in Baltimore as the city prepared for a second night under curfew, imposed after riots broke out Monday following the funeral of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man fatally injured in police custody.
The historic drought has forced the city of Santa Barbara to reactivate a desalination plant that has been mothballed since the late-1990s. About a dozen new desalination plants, expensive options, are also being proposed across the state.
Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge are marking their fourth wedding anniversary while waiting for the birth of their second child. The former Kate Middleton is expected to give birth in the coming day any day now. Palace officials have said she is due in late April. In the meantime, we take a look at some royal births of the past.
Has a real-life dragon been discovered? A tiny dinosaur that appears to have flown with membranous wings has been found in China.
Pope Francis added his voice Wednesday to the feminist anthem of equal pay for equal work, saying it’s “pure scandal” that women earn less than men for doing the same job.
The Cantonese language could disappear within a couple of generations because of social pressures and the actions of the Chinese government, according to a UBC linguistics researcher.
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While U.S. Supreme Court Justices consider the shifting attitudes in America around same-sex marriage, they might also reflect on Lewis Powell, the Justice who once believed he’d never met a gay person, writes Keith Boag.
American Airlines grounded more than 50 flights across the U.S. on Tuesday and Wednesday after the iPad tablets that pilots use to get their flight plans stopped working because of a third-party software problem.
Canadian pop superstar Justin Bieber appears set to take on Derek Zoolander in the highly anticipated Zoolander 2, according to social media posts from Bieber and Zoolander star Ben Stiller.
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A Russian space cargo ship that went into an uncontrollable spin after launch is expected to fall and burn up in the atmosphere after being declared a total loss Wednesday.
NASA’s Mercury-orbiting spacecraft, Messenger, is going out with a bang this week, adding a hefty crater to the little planet closest to the sun.
A Canadian military plane carrying personnel and supplies has landed in Kathmandu to help earthquake-ravaged Nepal.
The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that EU governments may ban gay men from ever donating blood, but only under strict conditions.
Twitter shares sold off almost 20 per cent on Tuesday after the company apparently released its quarterly earnings early, and the numbers were much lower than analysts had been expecting.
Nigeria’s military says it is moving 200 girls and 93 women from a northeastern forest where they were rescued from Boko Haram extremists.
Today, even the conservative voices that have long defended police are wavering, Neil Macdonald writes. The growing number of questionable civilian deaths and smartphone videos that document them are too real to be ignored.
