China’s decision to restrict candidate nominations for Hong Kong’s election for chief executive has sparked massive protests, with area residents and police engaged in a tense standoff dubbed the “umbrella revolution.”
Monday, September 29, 2014
Suspect in Virginia student abduction tied to another student's death
A forensic clue uncovered in the investigation of a missing student has led investigators to believe they have “a significant break” in the unsolved death of another young woman who had vanished from the University of Virginia campus five years ago, police said Monday.
White house fence-jumper reportedly made it farther inside than Secret Service admitted
The intruder who climbed a fence made it farther inside the White House than the U.S. Secret Service has publicly acknowledged, the Washington Post and New York Times newspapers reported Monday.
Global warming linked to several extreme weather events
Scientists looking at 16 cases of wild weather around the world last year see the fingerprints of man-made global warming on more than half of them.
Landslide early warning system uses fibre-optic sensors
Researchers in Italy are expanding the reach of optical fibre sensors by embedding them within earthen slopes to monitor for early signs of landslides.
'Rocks fell like hailstones': Survivors recall Mount Ontake eruption
Survivors of Saturday’s eruption of Japan’s Mount Ontake describe loud blasts, a towering cloud of ash, falling rocks and minutes of total darkness.
'I'm pretty hard to kill': Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tells CBC
Julian Assange speaks to CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi about his health, vilification and, as he sees it, Google’s close relationship with the U.S. government
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