Unpublished Newswire

Are we now so casual about the dangers of nuclear weapons that we do not realize what we have escaped from with the decision by India and Pakistan to cease fire on May 10? The events that led to the intervention of the United States in South Asia remain murky, but what did happen for sure is that India and Pakistan were brought down from a nuclear-weapon escalatory ladder. This is not the first time that the South Asian neighbours have come to the edge of a precipice. We will have to wait for historians and declassified records to give us a true picture of past events. But the diaries...

A rare black iceberg photographed off the coast of Labrador has been making the rounds of social media on this planet, but its unusual colour could be the result of it carrying material from another world. The picture first surfaced last month after a fish harvester from Carbonear, N.L., took a photo of it while fishing for shrimp last month. Hallur Antoniussen, 64, was working aboard the Saputi, a factory freezer trawler operated by the...