Of all the recent controversies involving Canada’s wireless carriers – and there have been many – the fight over the 15-cent charge for the receipt of text messages must rank as the most puzzling.

Wind-powered vehicles on land are nothing new. Think of the so-called land yacht races in the Mojave Desert.

"Nation shall speak peace unto nation."

Online, Tim McLean still smiles defiantly from his MySpace page, boasting about his tattoos and rock-hard body, more than a week after the 22-year-old was brutally murdered and beheaded on a Greyhound bus to Winnipeg.

There’s a mystery going on in the north. Three years ago, the Buchanan group of forestry companies had 10 mills operating, and was Ontario’s largest lumber-producing organization. Now, due to the downturn in lumber markets, it has one mill operating at only half capacity, and it is supplying that mill from old-growth trees in the 10,876-square-kilometre Ogoki Forest, 250 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay.

Miners in Romania have unearthed the skeleton of a 2.5 million-year-old mastodon, believed to be one of the best preserved in Europe, a local official said today.

The mystery in Kincardine deepens.

Scientists will conduct DNA tests on two tiny mummified bodies found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they were the young pharaoh’s offspring, Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities said Wednesday.

Wildlife researchers said Tuesday that they’ve discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas deep in the forests of the Republic of Congo, calling it a major increase in the animal’s estimated population.