| He did laps at 110 km/h to prove turban held tight
BRAMPTON, Ont. A devout Sikh all his life, Baljinder Badesha never imagined that his religious devotion would compel him to race a motorcycle around an Ontario speedway to test whether turbans unravel at high speeds. The bizarre image of Mr. Badesha's experiment last year - conducted under the auspices of the Ontario Human Rights Commission - was evoked during a constitutional challenge to a law that forces motorcycle riders to wear a helmet. .
Our opinion: A very little goes a long way
At this very minute, little children are wearing T-shirts claiming that the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl. The shirts celebrate a perfect 19-0 season that came oh-so close to fruition. It's not a case of presumption or wishful thinking. “It will be a parallel universe, where the Patriots had a perfect season," Karen Kartes, a spokeswoman for a charity that delivered the items, told the New York Post. The children aren't mistaken in their proclamation, either. The children live in Nicaragua and, chances are, couldn't care less about professional football. And perhaps they're unaware of the inaccuracy. The shirts, even with an incorrect message, are a welcome gift to someone who might otherwise go without. Through World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization, hundreds of T-shirts and caps incorrectly announcing the Patriots as Super Bowl champs landed in the hands of poor Nicaraguan children.
Archbishop faces calls to quit over Sharia row
It has come as the Synod prepares to meet at Westminster on Monday; on the agenda will be the crisis over homosexuality and the pending schism between liberals and conservatives. Insiders are wondering if Dr Williams’s moral authority has now been damaged beyond repair. .
Hillary seeks Rx for campaign
In the last few debates I always seem to get the first question and I don't mind," Clinton said. "If anybody saw 'Saturday Night Live,' maybe we should ask Barack if he's comfortable and if he needs another pillow." Obama said 95 percent of his health care plan was similar to Clinton's. The difference is that Clinton's plan mandates everyone get coverage, but Obama's only requires that parents provide coverage for their children. Obama said his plan makes health care affordable for anyone who wants it. "I have endured repeated negative mail from Sen. Clinton suggesting that I want to leave 15 million people out," Obama said. "We haven't whined about it because I understand that's the nature of these campaigns." Clinton said her experience positions her better than Obama to debate Republican Sen.
Fury that lorry caused ‘standstill’
It caused mayhem for commuters during the morning rush hour with many major cross-Forth routes brought to a virtual standstill. Traffic heading south across the bridge was also reduced to single file as the lorry had tipped over far enough to impede the opposite carriageway. Some motorists took more than four hours to reach their destinations as tens of thousands of drivers were diverted via Kincardine and Stirling. Helen Eadie, who represents Dunfermline East, has called on Scottish Government ministers to carry out an urgent inquiry into what went wrong. The Labour MSP got caught up in the chaos as she headed for the Scottish Parliament and said east central Scotland had been brought to a standstill. I left the house this morning just after 7.30 am and arrived at the Parliament shortly before 11.45 am, she told The Courier.
VIDEO: MIT's bicycle-powered laptop
For the multitasking business person or someone who just wants to burn a few extra calories, MIT's got a solution. As part of a class project, a group of students at the university combined computing and exercising and resulted with a pedal-powered laptop. .
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