Plastic bans are increasing around the world, a necessary step to save our environment, writes Sarah King of Greenpeace Canada. Angela Logomasini of the Competitive Enterprise Institute argues that, although well meaning, such bans create more problem than they solve.

The US film industry may have generated revenues somewhere in the region of $40 billion last year, but it seems Hollywood still has plenty of work to do if it wants to compete with that most hallowed of American institutions: the public library.

A British military veteran, who was openly gay when he served in the army, has revealed that Prince Harry once defended him against homophobic abuse from other soldiers. James Wharton served with Harry, also known as the Duke of Sussex, in the British army back in 2008 when they were deployed to Canada. Harry, who was "quite offended" by the anti-gay remarks, was Wharton's tank commander.

More than a dozen Los Angeles police officers with the elite Metro Division are being investigated on suspicion of falsifying information they gathered during stops and wrongly portraying people as gang members or associates, according to multiple sources.

U-Haul announced it will no longer hire nicotine users. The policy will take effect Feb. 1 in 21 states.

Ever since the 2008 release of the Tesla Roadster — the first mass-produced highway-legal electric vehicle (EV) powered by a lithium-ion battery — automakers, from General Motors to Toyota, have been rushing to launch their own electric cars.

Chinese scientists have been working on a system to use artificial intelligence that would make it almost impossible to cheat on taxes, according to researchers involved in the project. Over the last three years, about 300,000 government tax inspectors have been helping to train an AI system that draws on big data to detect behaviour that may be hard for human inspectors to spot.

A former Apple Store Genius is suing Apple for not providing legally obligated adequate facilities to allow him to work with his disability. Robert Shaw says he was promised that the store he worked at would be fitted with automatic doors and a special table to accommodate his wheelchair. However, this did not happen to the degree allegedly promised.

Americans think privacy is dead, and they’re feeling uneasy about it. That’s according to a new Pew Research Center survey that found around 62 percent of Americans think it’s pretty much impossible to live a normal life without having data collected on you on a regular basis.

Homosexuality, feminism and atheism are classed as extremist ideas in Saudi Arabia, according to an official video from the country's Security Agency.

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Many of the thousands of fires burning in Brazil’s Amazon are set by ranchers. A deal inked 10 years ago was meant to stop the problem, but the ecological arson goes on as the Earth warms.

A report blames the loss of habitats, pesticides and climate change for the decline in bees.

The “El País” report indicates that the US pursuit of Assange has included the illegal surveillance of American lawyers and journalists, in violation of the US Constitution.