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Graphic: The Boston Marathon Bomber’s Trail of Violence
Yesterday at 5:10 p.m. the FBI released the first images of the two suspects in the Boston bombings. Overnight the situation developed suddenly when the suspects killed a police officer, before leading Massachusetts police on a chase that left one suspect dead, and the other missing in a residential area of Watertown. Check back for regular updates.
Superstorm Sandy: NYC neighbourhood burns to the ground, three New Jersey towns under water as death toll rises to 33
While the full extent of Hurricane Sandy’s damage remains unclear, millions of Americans awoke to a crippled East Coast Tuesday with flooded and damaged homes, a Manhattan shrouded in darkness while a New York neighbourhood burned to the ground and “unthinkable” damage to the Jersey Shore. (Map: Andrew Bar, Richard Johnson/National Post)
Canada Census 2011 Graphic: Where do the oldest and youngest Canadians live?
The 2011 Census showed Canada as a country rapidly greying. However, the nation’s aging population is not spread evenly. The National Post‘s graphics department takes a look at the demographics of the country highlighting the areas that are the oldest and youngest.
Strong earthquake hits northeastern Japan, causes tsunami
A tsunami hit Japan’s northeastern coastline on Wednesday, officials said, after a strong earthquake rocked the region almost exactly a year on from the country’s worst post-war natural disaster.
A 6.9-magtinude quake struck 26.6 kilometres below the seabed off the northern island of Hokkaido in the Pacific at 6:08 pm local time, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Calgary woman Sheila Nabb emerges from coma after horrific Mexico hotel beating
A 37-year-old Alberta woman severely beaten over the weekend at an upscale Mexican resort has emerged from her medically-induced coma, according to her family.
The brutal attack against Sheila Nabb is the latest in a growing list of Canadian injuries and deaths in the country over the last five years. Nabb’s attack, and the spate of other deaths and injuries, have started to cast doubt on Mexico’s safety as a tourist destination.
Ms. Nabb was found lying unconscious in an elevator, with many of the bones in her face broken.
Six Canadians were murdered in Mexico in 2011, according to Foreign Affairs Canada. Fifty were the victims of assault.
Pakistan threatens lack of cooperation after deadly, ‘unprovoked’ NATO strike
Pakistan ratcheted up pressure on NATO on Monday over a cross-border attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers at the weekend, threatening to drastically reduce cooperation on peace efforts in Afghanistan.
The incident has hurt Washington’s efforts both to ease a crisis in relations with Islamabad and stabilize the region as it tries to wind down the war in Afghanistan.
“This could have serious consequences in the level and extent of our cooperation,” military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told Reuters.
Fifty dead bodies discovered in two days in western Mexico drug vendetta
Fifty dead bodies have been discovered over the past two days in western Mexico, victims of a fierce war waged between the government and the nation’s powerful drug cartels.
The bodies of 26 young men were dumped in three vehicles near a busy intersection in Guadalajara. It bore the signs of a drug vendetta and a chilling message of more to come in Mexico’s second city, set to host an international book fair this weekend.
The gruesome find came the day after 24 bodies were discovered in the city of Culiacan, in northwestern Sinaloa state.
A message found with the latest bodies said the peace enjoyed by the states of Jalisco and Sinaloa, allegedly as a result of agreements between local authorities and the Sinaloa cartel, was over.
Dead bunny hopping: The world’s various bunny plagues
The story’s usually the same: an anonymous pet owner releases a pair of rabbits into an urban area — say, a city park in Kelowna, B.C., or the campus of the University of Victoria. Rabbits being rabbits, the two rabbits become more rabbits, and continue multiplying until they are recast as menacing pests that ultimately receive a death sentence from the powers that be. The National Post’s graphics team takes a look.
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Canmore’s feral bunny turf war draws to a close
U.S. to seek new Keystone route, delaying approval
The United States will study a new route for the Keystone XL Canada-to-Texas oil pipeline, U.S. officials said on Thursday, delaying any final approval beyond the U.S. 2012 election and sparing U.S. President Barack Obama a politically risky decision for now.
The delay was a victory for environmentalists who say oil sands crude development emits large amounts of greenhouse gases. It would deal a blow to companies developing Alberta’s oil sands and to TransCanada Corp, which planned to build and operate the conduit.
Analysts have said a long delay could kill the $7-billion project because it would cause shippers and refiners to look for alternative routes to get Canadian oil sands crude.
Graphic: What would a Palestinian state look like?
As the Palestinian Authority’s at the UN moves forward, the Post looks at what a Palestinian state would look like. For a large version of this graphic, download the PDF here
Search in a ‘floating feet’ case leads to troubled young man from Surrey, B.C.
As Talib rounds a corner on Surrey, B.C.’s Annacis Highway, his destination comes into view on the edge of the horizon. Although they stretch up to 150 metres from the Fraser River, from this distance the two towers of the Alex Fraser Bridge look like nothing more than tuning forks.
When Talib (not his real name) left his parents’ suburban Surrey home at 5 that New Year’s Day morning in 2004, he told them he was going to the local Sikh temple. Dressed in a blue tracksuit and a pair of Nikes, the 21-year-old also wears the marks of his religion: a turban on his head, a bangle on his wrist and a kirpan.
Driving up the bridge’s ramp, he brings his car to a stop on the roadway between the two large towers. After clicking on the hazard lights, Talib steps out of the car, locks the doors and walks to the bridge railing. It is not known whether he hesitates before jumping.
On Tuesday of this week, Vancouverites awoke to news of an event that is starting to become eerily commonplace: a disembodied foot discovered bobbing in the waters of the Pacific Northwest.
Graphic: Another foot washes ashore in B.C.
Another foot has washed ashore in Vancouver, police said Tuesday, marking the eighth foot to be found on the B.C. coast since August 2007. Three more have washed up in nearby Washington.
Vancouver police Const. Jana McGuinness said that a person reported finding “the remains of what appear to be a human foot and leg bones in a running shoe” on Tuesday afternoon.
“There is no indication at this early stage in the investigation how the remains came to be there,” McGuinness said.
Live coverage: Speakers honour Layton at Toronto City Hall
It was a sombre homecoming filled with tears and light applause as Jack Layton arrived home to Toronto for the last time Thursday night.
An estimated crowd of 300 lined up for hours behind metal barricades outside Toronto City Hall to catch a glimpse of Layton’s casket arriving back in his hometown of more than 40 years.
The crowd — which was full of grandparents, children, and families — watched as uniformed pallbearers with the Toronto Police Service carried the flag-draped casket into the front doors of City Hall, where Layton worked as a popular councillor for many years before being elected as an MP.
Liveblog: Earthquake felt along eastern seaboard
A minor earthquake rattled the eastern seaboard Tuesday afternoon, the effects of which are being reported in Toronto, New York, Washington, D.C., and North Carolina.
The U.S. Geological Survey website is reporting the earthquake measured 5.9 in magnitude and originated at Mineral, Va., approximately 150 kilometres south of Washington, D.C.
Powerful Hurricane Irene poised to hit southeast U.S.
A strengthening Hurricane Irene churned on a northwest track toward the Southeast United States on Tuesday, threatening the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas with battering winds and rain and dangerous surf.
While the U.S. National Hurricane Center’s five-day forecast now sees a possible landfall in North Carolina this weekend, forecasters have been cautioning that such projections can have a margin of error of as much as 400 kilometres.
