Vancouver Island is a large island in British Columbia, Canada, off Canada's Pacific coast. It is 460 km (285 miles) long and up to 80 km (50 miles) wide. The largest island on the western side of North America at 32,134 km² (12,407 sq mi), it is the world's 43rd largest island, Canada's 11th largest island and Canada's second most populous island after the Island of Montreal, which has 1.3 million more people. The island is named in honour of George Vancouver, the British Royal Navy officer who explored the Pacific coast of North America between 1791 and 1794.The 2001 census population was 656,312. British Columbia statistics in 2004 estimated the population at 734,860. Slightly fewer than half of these (331,491) live in Greater Victoria. Other major cities on Vancouver Island include Nanaimo, Port Alberni, Parksville, Comox, Courtenay, and Campbell River.

Tokyo is about to lose one its most popular tourist sites as the Tsukiji Fish Market adopts new rules in April that urge visitor to “refrain from coming” voluntarily.

Most European countries have effectively banned new genetically modified food, yet in America, 70 to 75 percent of processed foods contain Genetically modified ingredients. How dangerous are they? It sounds innocent enough: Inserting a fish gene into a tomato to help it withstand frost, or arming corn with a bacteria gene that makes it resistant

Among the animals are 49 rabbits, 42 chickens, 32 birds, 15 guinea pigs, 13 quail, 12 pigeons, 11 mice, 10 gerbils, eight iguanas, six dogs, six cats, five hamsters, three pigs, three fish, three tortoises, three tree squirrels, two turtles, two ducks, two geese and a turkey(wtf?!?), peacock, pheasant, ferret and chinchilla

Live fish are preparing to be hurled into outer space as part of research into the causes of seasickness. Having been placed in aquarium-like containers, the fish will be strapped into an eight-metre long Texus rocket and blasted up to a height of 168 miles before they plummet back to Earth.

It looks like the big fish has rolled over in the Penland land scam. Neil O’Rourke, ringleader of the 100 million dollar land scam has plead guilty in US District Court on the condition that he will testify against others charged in the probe.