Vancouver - It's arguable journalism is in decline, though it's also arguable it never really had a heyday. It's hard to deliver good journalism, given the owners of the news are subject to greed and those same owners, and their reporters, etc. are subject to bias.

Two print ads featured on the website of clothing manufacturer American Apparel have been censured by the Advertising Standards Council in the U.K.. The ads were deemed by the ASA to be in breach of a code by being too sexy and provocative.

A home in the Spanish town of San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands has locals buzzing. The abandoned home had thousands of wasps swarming out from it and when police investigated they were stung to find a wasp nest of biblical proportions.

Living in a small town is like being in a special club and when in a club it's fun to flaunt your membership over those less fortunate now and again. For us in small towns that means making fun of all you hapless souls living in a big city.

Oregon state legislator, Rep. Mitch Greenlick, a Democrat, has sponsored a bill to make possession of cigarettes illegal. Smokers would need a doctor's prescription to smoke and possessing cigarettes without one could lead to jail time.

The Essex Country Library in Leamington, Ont. is finding books soiled with urine. To date 400 books have had to be destroyed, all from remote areas of the library so the perpetrator would not be spotted. They've been, let's be delicate here, pissed on.

Yesterday's record-breaking Powerball drawing saw two winners who will share in a $579.9 million jackpot. One winner hails from Arizona, the other from Missouri.

So how is 71-year-old music icon Bob Dylan on stage these days? Still playing on 'Like a Rolling Stone'? Still 'Mr. Tambourine Man', a 'Jokerman' whose songs are a lyrical 'Hurricane' and who continues 'Blowin' in the Wind'?

President Barack Obama was re-elected to a second term Tuesday, defeating his Republican Challenger Mitt Romney and ending a bitterly fought campaign. The Obama campaign rolled up victories in key swing states such as Michigan, Ohio, Colorado and Iowa.

President Barack Obama won a historic second term on Tuesday, defying predictions that a sluggish economy and an energized Republican party might overwhelm the supporters who propelled him to the presidency four years ago.

Today, American voters will go to the polls to elect the next president of the United States. Should he win, speculation abounds as to what a second Barack Obama term would look like? What would he pursue for his legacy?

The U.S Labor Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics announced its monthly jobs report Friday and the numbers could help President Barack Obama in his bid for a second term. For the 32nd straight month the economy added jobs, this time 171,000 of them.

To begin, I get that Republicans are not likely to buy this argument but some Democrats might so I'm putting it out there - women are smarter than men and their support of Barack Obama over Mitt Romney cinches it.

Early voting has begun in 30 U.S. states and to date most are mail-in votes, a majority of which are typically Republican. However, with early numbers from 7 states compiled, Barack Obama leads 4 states to 3.

In a cruel twist of fate, the 95-year-old former actress and socialite Zsa Zsa Gabor, bedridden, only discovered one of her legs had been amputated 6 months after the surgery. Her husband told the media about her realization at an L.A. fundraiser.

A St. John Island beach in the U.S. Virgin Islands was overrun with millions of hermit crabs during a mass migration on Tuesday.

A Saturday interview conducted upon Air Force One with U.S. President Barack Obama revealed that he's not one to hold grudges, or at least not against Clint Eastwood. Eastwood spoke at the GOP convention and much of his talk was a mock scolding of Obama.

While some media jumped the gun and erroneously reported Cardinal Timothy Dolan would not be partaking in the Democrats convention next week, Dolan in fact will. He'd been asked by the Democrats to lead the closing prayer and will do so.

Lovers of the 3 films in 'The Lord of the Rings' series will be happy to hear that director Peter Jackson is taking a similar approach to 'The Hobbit'. Jackson revealed on Monday that he will also be telling that story in 3 films.

In a case literally about adding insult to injury, a Florida man was charged Friday with having fed the alligator that bit off his hand. Wallace Weatherholt is an Everglades airboat captain who had his hand bitten clean off last June.