UK's seasonal starling flocks may disappear (Guardian Unlimited)

The sight of tens of thousands of starlings pirouetting and wheeling together in an ever-changing cloud of rushing wings is one of the UK's great wildlife spectacles. But as this year's annual season of the murmuration reaches its peak, bird experts are warning that the extraordinary scenes mask a serious decline in the species which is now listed as one of the most at-risk birds in ...

West Indies to replace Sri Lanka (The Hindu)

LONDON: West Indies will tour England next year to replace Sri Lanka, which decided not to send a full-strength side because of the demands of the Indian Premier League. The England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed on Wednesday that ...

Video: Brazil pledges to cut Amazon destruction in half (Guardian Unlimited)

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has announced a 10 year plan to slow the rate of rainforest destruction

Europe's big stimulus plans don't quite add up (International Herald Tribune)

Behind the headlines, the numbers are wispy, at best. But analysts say that the goal is often just to reassure the public.

Financials lead the way to TSX gain following earnings;N.Y. flat following data (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market maintained a solid advance late Thursday morning in a broad-based upturn led by the financial sector as investors took in earnings reports from three of the big Canadian banks.