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SALT LAKE CITY;UT - JANUARY 21: Christine Nesbitt of Canada competes in the 1000 meter during the Essent ISU World Cup Speed Sakting at the Utah Olympic Oval on January 21;2012 in Salt Lake City;Utah. Nesbitt won the 1000 meter event.

Speedskater Christine Nesbitt breaks 1,000-metre world record

Canadian Christine Nesbitt breaks world record for long-track speedskating CALGARY - Canadian long-t...

Mohammad Shafia;Tooba Mohammad Yahya and their son Hamed Shafia walk to the holding cell at the Frontenac county courthouse in Kingston;Ont.;on Monday Nov. 21;2011. The three are charged with first degree murder of Zainab;19;Sahar;17;and Geeti;13 and Mohammed's first wife Rona Amir Mohammad. Their bodies were found inside the family Nissan Sentra in Kingston Mills Locks on June 30;2009.

Shafia murder trial jury begins deliberations

KINGSTON, Ont. - A jury in eastern Ontario starts its first full day of deliberations today to decid...

Inquest into Canadian man's death in Grenada begins; 16 to testify

ST. GEORGES, Grenada - A preliminary inquest into the death of a Canadian citizen in Grenada and the...

London Ontario;Canada - January 6;2012. Paul Dewar;NDP - MP for Ottawa Centre addresses the media on Friday after speaking to locked Electro Motive workers on the picket line. Electro Motive workers were locked out by the parent company - Caterpillar- on January 1;2012 after the union rejected the companies last offer that would have seen wages being cut by more than 50%;the elimination of the company pension plan and cuts to benefits.

Don't expect a 'shootout' at NDP leadership debates in Halifax, observer says

HALIFAX - A professor of political science says the lack of fireworks at NDP leadership debates thus...

GIGLIO PORTO;ITALY - JANUARY 24: Rotterdam based SMIT and Livorno based NERI salvage workers start their work of diesel recovery on a pontoon from the the cruise ship Costa Concordia that lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio on January 24;2012 in Giglio Porto;Italy. More than four thousand people were on board when the ship hit a rock off the Tuscan coast. The official death toll is now 16;with a further 24 people still missing. The diesel recovery operation will start tomorrow;while the rescue operation will continue.

17th body found in Costa Concordia

GIGLIO, Italy - Rough seas off Italy's Tuscan coast forced a delay in the planned Saturday start of ...

Anti-Syrian regime protesters raise their hands and chant slogans during a demonstration against Syrian President Bashar Assad in the Deir Baghlaba area in Homs province, central Syria, on Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. Armed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine-gun fire, killing at least 30 people, including a family of women and children during a day of sectarian killings and kidnappings in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, activists said Friday. (AP Photo)

Arab League halts observer mission in Syria due to rising violence

BEIRUT - The Arab League halted its observer mission to Syria on Saturday, sharply criticizing the r...

A firefighter stands in the rubble of a building that collapsed in downtown Rio de Janeiro;Brazil;Friday Jan. 27;2012. The building collapsed on Wednesday;killing at least 9 people and at least 16 are still missing.

Death toll reaches 17 in Brazil buildings collapse

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Firefighters have raised the death toll from the collapse of three buildings in ...

Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, right, shakes hands with Maria Sharapova of Russia at the net after Azarenka won the women's singles final at the Australian Open tennis championship, in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Andrew Brownbill)

Azarenka beats Sharapova to win Australian Open title

MELBOURNE, Australia - Victoria Azarenka had produced one of the most lopsided Australian Open final...

The blaze killed 9 year old Fayza Sadiq;her four year old sister Alysa;their 33 year old mother Zebunesa Sadiq and a grandmother who was visiting from Pakistan;60 year old Shemeen Akhtar.

Baby injured in Winnipeg house fire taken off life support

The 6 month old baby that survived a house fire Tuesday night is on life support. ...

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