Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s president, ordered the border with Brazil to be closed and said he was considering doing the same with Colombia as US aid stacked up on both frontiers on Thursday night. Mr Maduro dismissed efforts to deliver basic food and medicine as a "provocation" as opposition groups were heading to the border to…

It’s an inevitable consequence of the passage of time: a new season starts, and with it comes more bad advice about vaginas. Barely a week into fall, the British newspaper The Mirror, which bills itself as “the intelligent tabloid (#madeuthink)” published an article titled “Cold weather causes ‘winter vagina’, midwife warns — and it could…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) joins the worldwide chorus of support following the successful reception and endorsement of key Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms at the extraordinary IOC session in Monaco today, particularly regarding the adoption of a more flexible Olympic sports program.   On behalf of the worldwide baseball and softball…

Isil bride Shamima Begum has accused the British government of “making an example" of her by stripping her of UK citizenship, but admits she now regrets speaking out about her situation. Speaking to The Telegraph in the al-Hol camp in Syria, the 19-year-old from east London said she might have been able to keep her UK…

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s health minister says he believes there is timely access to abortion services in the province despite calls from advocates to improve access. Randy Delorey said Thursday the province has taken steps to improve access to abortion services, including funding the abortion pill in November 2017 and giving Nova Scotians the option…

TORONTO — When discount store Oomomo flung open the doors to its first Toronto location in early December, customers lined up well in advance to scoop up everything from low-cost origami paper and shrimp-flavoured chips to vegetable peelers and toothbrushes. Oomomo’s president Andy Cheng expects the scene will repeat dozens of times as the Vancouver-based…

Family Guy is known for its iconic cutaway gags, but after sixteen seasons of insanity, you’ve got to wonder just how many jokes ended up on the cutting room floor, either for timing, common decency, or because the episode already had too many detours. Sure, they’re probably not all hilarious, but judging by our exclusive…

The US has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017, with public health officials blaming "misinformation" for the growing epidemic. Six outbreaks of the disease have been reported across the country since January 1, totaling 159 cases, in the states of Washington, Colorado and New…

Sweden’s security services have arrested a man working for a technology company on suspicion of spying for Russia, in a move likely to worsen growing tension between the countries.  The man was arrested at a meeting with a Russian diplomat in central Stockholm on Tuesday evening by agents of the country’s Säpo security service supported…