A bicyclist takes a break on the beach to watch as the outer bands of hurricane Earl approaches Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Sep. 3, 2010.

Hurricane Earl has been downgraded to a Category 1, but emergency officials in Atlantic Canada are still issuing stark warnings about the threat posed by the storm, expected to strike the coasts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on Saturday.

Quake of 7.0 hits New Zealand near Christchurch

A major earthquake of 7.0 magnitude hit New Zealand, 30 km (20 miles) west of Christchurch early on Saturday morning, causing no immediate...

Dustin Ward Paxton, 30, was wanted on Canada-wide warrants arising from a four-month investigation that spanned three provinces.

Psychiatric evaluation order for torture case suspect

Judge orders a 30-day psychiatric assessment for alleged torturer Dustin Ward Paxton

Street on Soulanges St. in Repentigny, north of Montreal, where a resident received a package Friday that exploded in his hands. He was taken to a hospital but his injuries were not life-threatening. the incident occurred on the same day that a bomb-like object was "neutralized" by the porvincial police bomb squad in Brossard, south of Montreal Island. That turned out to be a fake bomb.

Package explodes in Quebec man's hands

A man in Repentigny received a package at home Friday that exploded in his hands. Police said the man, whose age was not immediately...

Awso Peshdary appeared in court on Saturday, Aug. 28, 2010. Ottawa police charged him with assault and uttering a threat. Minutes after he was granted bail by a justice of the peace, police arrested him and laid a new threat charge against him.

Man arrested in Ottawa terror probe freed on unrelated assault charges

A man arrested but never charged in connection with an Ottawa terror investigation has been released on consent of the Crown.

Marilyn Boughner's son, Rick, drowned in an oilsands tailings pond near Fort McMurray.

Charges laid in oilsands drowning death

Two years after an oilpatch worker drowned in a waste-water pond near Fort McMurray, Alta., one of Canada's largest petroleum producers...

UPS cargo plane crashes in Dubai, 2 killed

A Boeing 747-400 cargo plane operated by United Parcel Service Inc crashed shortly after takeoff into a military compound near Dubai...

A victim of a deadly bombing in Quetta, Pakistan. The suicide attack killed at least 44 people.

Suicide bomb kills at least 43 in Pakistan

A suicide bomber struck a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 44 people in the second major attack this...

This August 23, 2010 NASA Earth Observatory image taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite captured this natural-colour image on August 16, 2010 which shows the ice island that calved off the Petermann Glacier in northwestern Greenland on August 5, 2010, continuing its slow migration down the fjord 11 days later.

European Space Agency captures images of huge ice island

The European Space Agency has released dramatic satellite images of the colossal iceberg that broke away from a Greenland glacier ...

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro speaks during a meeting with students at Havana's University, Sep. 3, 2010.

Castro warns of nuclear war in first public speech in years

About 10,000 people, mostly students, filled the University of Havana steps and nearby streets to listen to the man who led Cuba for...

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With the announcement of the first Canadian commander of the ISS, we take a look at some milestones of the Canadian Space Agency.

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A man videotapes the storm surge created by Hurricane Bill in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia, August 23, 2009.

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Should it hit the east coast, Earl will not be the first hurricane to ever strike Canada. We take a look at Canada’s most destructive hurricanes.

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The four arrests stemming from an alleged homegrown terrorist plot are only the latest in a series of arrests in Canada.

The body of William Holland who went missing after falling on a climb on Snowdome Mountain in the Columbia Icefields in Jasper National Park on April 3, 1989.

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Frozen find

After 21 years buried under ice and snow in Alberta, the body of an American climber is found.

B.C. wood carver shot dead by Seattle police
News that a talented aboriginal Vancouver Island wood carver was shot dead by police in Seattle has shocked the man's friends and family.

Psychiatric evaluation order for torture case suspect
JJudge orders a 30-day psychiatric assessment for alleged torturer Dustin Ward Paxton

Police concerned about OxyContin theft
A warrant has been issued for a suspect after a large quantity of OxyContin tablets were allegedly stolen from a local business.

Regina community garden harvests for the hungry
The Carmichael Outreach community garden was harvested Friday and the produce is going to a good cause.

Missing woman found alive
Searchers locate 66-year-old woman lost in the Belair Provincial Forest

Police seek missing Orangeville woman’s bedding
The mysterious disappearance of an Orangeville woman led to a grim police appeal on Friday, asking residents to look for her missing, blood-soaked bedsheets.

Earl downgraded to Category 1, heads to East Coast
Hurricane Earl has been downgraded to a Category 1, but emergency officials in Atlantic Canada are still issuing stark warnings about the threat posed by the storm, expected to strike the coasts of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia on Saturday.

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