The design of 2010 Olympic medals unveiled Thursday feature contemporary aboriginal artworks and are undulating rather than flat — both firsts in Games history. The medals, produced by the Royal Canadian Mint, are based on tw...

Michael Vick's return to the NFL was ordinary at best. The moments before it happened though, lifted his heart and made his day. For the record, Vick carried once for 7 yards, threw two incompletions and either handed off or was a decoy on eight other...

University of Florida quarterback Tim Tebow, poised to make a splash in next year’s National Football League draft, left hospital Sunday a day after suffering a concussion in a game. Tebow, who will certainly be a top c...

Just as news spread of an Indonesian woman giving birth to a 19.2-pound (8.7-kilo) baby boy , the heaviest newborn ever recorded in the country, another story of a rare birth has surfaced in the headlines: A pregnant Arkansas woman went in for an ult...

Could the international furore over South African runner Caster Semenya's true gender have any more twists and turns? First, she wins the gold medal at the world championship 800-metre race in Berlin. Then, questions about her gender begin swirli...

Jodie Shupac, National Post Uganda's proposed bill to further criminalize those who practice and "condone" homosexuality may see some changes, in an effort to appease donors from the West, Reuters reported . The draft bill would have introduced the...

The audience shift at the Munk Debate followed a global trend By Terence Corcoran O  n Tuesday night about 1,100 people participated in a sold-out global warming debate that, in the end, turned downtown Toronto’s new concert hall at...

The audience shift at the Munk Debate followed a global trend By Terence Corcoran O  n Tuesday night about 1,100 people participated in a sold-out global warming debate that, in the end, turned downtown Toronto’s new concert hall at the...

On Tuesday, the Munk Debates took on climate change. The Green Party’s Elizabeth May and The Guardian’s George Monbiot argued that “Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis and demands a commensurate response.” Author Bjorn Lomborg and the...

The Munk Debate on climate change Nobody doubts that George and Elizabeth and everybody else here have their hearts in the right place. That’s not the question. The question is whether George, in his experience of the people who are suffering in...