Canadian court ended hearings this Wednesday of what observers see as a case that pits freedom of expression with safeguarding children. For refusing to carry what it deems to be sexually explicit pamphlets, Canada Post was sued by the Sex Party, the country's only accredited sex-related political party.

A judge on Monday ruled that the businessman who admired Margaret Thatcher so much leaving his millions to her Conservative Party was not of sound mind when he made the bequest. According to High Court judge Launcelot Henderson Branislav Kostic was mentally ill when he left the party more than USD16. 3 million, considered as one of the largest individual political donations in British history.

For the fourth consecutive year, all the dogs in Ramapo, New York are invited to an exclusive pool party at Spook Rock Pool. The fourth annual Dog Days of Summer K-9 Pool Party will take place from noon to 3 p. m. on Sept. 9. The event helps to raise funds for animal care and education about dogs.

We arrived in the town of Sta. Ana in Cagayan Valley, the northernmost tip town in the Philippines at 3 a. m. in the morning. The first thing we noticed was the eerie sound of the place, or better yet, the lack of any sound of life. There were no lamp post and all we saw was darkness. The only light available was emanating from the vehicle we were using. We drove for another half an hour and still all we saw was darkness, we didn't see any houses or any other living soul. For someone who has lived in the city all his life, the environment in Sta. Ana was a strange one to me. I came from the capital where the city never sleeps and that has been the case even in some provinces I have visited, this is the only town I have been to where all I heard was the sound of silence even at that hour of the morning.

The favorite dish of Britain's late Queen Mother has returned to the menu of one of her best-loved restaurants. The Queen Mother would often order Eggs Drumbiko - a dish made from chopped eggs, seafood, tomatoes and mayonnaise in a sherry-flavored jelly - when she dined at London's Goring Hotel restaurant. The royal was said to be such a fan of the treat she would even serve it at picnics at her Scottish home, Castle of Mey, in Caithness.