In Day 1 of a five-part series, David Staples looks at how Alberta firefighters took on Fire 9 and saved Fort McMurray. Fort McMurray — The plume of smoke rose high across the Clearwater River, a wisp ...

The heart just doesn't like smoking, no matter who's doing it. That's the take-home message of a review of research about secondhand smoke's cardiac toll. The report — published in Circulation — ...

Smoke from underground fires dissipated to a rancid haze yesterday as hopes dwindled that rescuers would find anyone alive under the World Trade Center rubble. The work at the epicenter has become a ...

Aerial footage shows emergency services at work in the dense Glenbervie Forest near Whangarei, after a helicopter crashed killing the two occupants. Video: Dean Whitehead A "gentle wisp of smoke" ...

Having been an “addict” for almost two decades, Jeet Thayil decided to kick the habit and write a novel. Narcopolis, he says, is “a kind of memorial” to the people he knew in Bombay’s opium dens, “a ...

Mumbai: Churchill once described Russia as an enigma wrapped in a riddle. China is many times more complex and enigmatic. At the best of times its politics are opaque and the observer has to spot and ...

Once, a long time ago, my sister was married to a man and she lived in Corbin Kentucky. Her husband was out of work so she could not have Christmas for her seven children. Like a miracle, a local ...

Think I might have told you – a few months ago we got some new neighbours. Not next door neighbours but over the road neighbours. In other words, their passage and bathroom windows overlook our garden ...