EDMONTON - There are some bleary eyes in the legislature today after politicians stayed up until almost dawn debating amendments to legislation. Politicians worked until after 4 a.m. discussing, among other issues, the proposed Children First Act. The bill makes clear that police, social workers, educators and foster parents can share information on youngsters in need. But the privacy commissioner and some opponents say the proposed law would need more safeguards to ensure private information didn't fall into the wrong hands.

Jamie Oliver has opened an American-style pop-up diner in London that will serve gourmet hot dogs, milkshakes, sliders and pancakes for the next three years in the heart of the city’s Theatre District. Announced in a blog post this month, Jamie’s Diner is strategically positioned on Shaftesbury Avenue in an area of high foot traffic and will cater both to daytime crowds and peckish after-theater-goers as it will be open late into the night.

CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela's biggest food company on Monday hit back at President Nicolas Maduro's claims that it's to blame for the country's persistent food shortages. The chief executive of Empresas Polar, Lorenzo Mendoza, rejected accusations by the president that the company has reduced production and is hoarding products to create scarcity. "The accusations that we are producing less than last year are false," Mendoza told reporters. "I presume that President Nicolas Maduro is not well informed about the situation and about what's happening."

With a pumpkin for a drum, carrots for flutes and turnips for trumpets, musicians from Vienna transformed the fresh goods in a Madrid market into honking, whistling instruments on Monday. Visiting members of the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra marked the centenary of the San Miguel market in the centre of the Spanish capital by taking saws and drills to its vegetables, coring and boring holes in them to make wind instruments. "The vegetables have to be fresh, and we basically work with all kinds of vegetables," said Ulrich Troyer, one of the group's 10 or so members.