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FILE - In this Dec. 16;2011 file photo;Colton Harris-Moore;also known as the "Barefoot Bandit," glances at the courtroom gallery as he walks to the defense table;in Island County Superior Court;in Coupeville;Wash. Harris-Moore is scheduled to be sentenced Friday;Jan. 27;2012;in a U.S. federal court for his two-year international crime spree of break-ins and boat and plane thefts.

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RCMP assistant commissioner Craig Callens issues a formal apology to the families of serial killer Robert Pickton's victims during a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Friday January 27, 2012. Decades after women started to go missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the RCMP has apologized for not doing more to find the killer. Callens says he would like to express to victims' family members how very sorry he is for their loss. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

RCMP in B.C. apologize for not catching serial killer Pickton sooner

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Parents of Canadian jailed in Gadhafi plot visit her, urge Ottawa to help

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As opposition builds, PMO seeks to blunt charges it is going after seniors

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File photograph of So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Alex Da Silva; handed 10-year prison sentence for raping a female student and assaulting another.

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FILE - In this May, 26, 2010 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about the social network site's new privacy settings in Palo Alto, Calif. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 that Facebook is preparing to file initial paperwork for an offering that could raise as much as $10 billion and value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Expected Facebook IPO could value it at up to $100 billion, on par with top public companies

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - When Facebook makes its long-expected debut as a public company this spring, t...

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Mohammad Shafia, second right, Tooba Yahya, centre, and their son Hamed Shafia, left, are escorted during a lunch break at the Frontenac County courthouse in Kingston, Ont.

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The lawyer for a young man accused of murdering his three sisters and one of his father's two wives says the Crown's theory that it was a so-called honour killing is "preposterous."

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The judge at the Shafia family murder trial says the jury can find the accused guilty of first-degree murder, guilty of second-degree murder or not guilty.

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