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GENEVA (AFP) - The number of internally displaced Iraqis could top one million by the end of 2007 as the security situation continues to deteriorate, the International Office for Migration has said. In the last three weeks alone, almost 18,000 people have been displaced in the 15 central and...

CBC News More than 80 per cent of Canada's roughly 700,000 Muslims are broadly satisfied with their lives here and only a very small percentage — 17 per cent — feel that many or most Canadians are hostile toward their religion. According to a new Environics poll conducted in...

Legislative Action Required: House Committee Votes for Protecting Chickens Instead of Protecting Young Girls In schools across America, a child can’t go on a school field trip or even get an aspirin from the school nurse without her parent’s permission. But she can be shuttled across...

By Jordan Robertson SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - For the third time in nearly three decades, iPod maker Apple Inc. has resolved a bitter trademark dispute with The Beatles' guardian Apple Corps Ltd. over use of the iconic apple logo and name. But while the truce announced Monday appeared to...

Mon Jan 22, 10:03 AM LONDON (AFP) - The 1995 interview of Britain's princess Diana was voted the most memorable of all time, topping the 1977 post-Watergate talk with Richard Nixon, a survey of television viewers has found. Diana, princess of Wales, told Martin Bashir for...

By Ross Marowits MONTREAL (CP) - For the second time in three years, the ability of the CIBC (TSX:CM) to protect confidential data has come under scrutiny after a computer file containing information on up to 470,000 Talvest Mutual Funds clients was lost in transit between offices. In 2004...

Wed Jan 17, 3:05 PM By Anthony Boadle HAVANA (Reuters) - Whether or not Cuban leader Fidel Castro is terminally ill, the provisional government he designated under his brother Raul has kept Cuba on a stable track in his absence, Cuba watchers said on Wednesday. Even U.S...

Woman was jailed for 9 months during World War II as threat to Britain Reuters LONDON - The granddaughter of Britain’s last convicted witch has launched a fresh campaign to gain a posthumous pardon for Helen Duncan, jailed at the height of World War Two as a threat to the nation. “I will carry...

By ARTHUR MAX, Associated Press Within weeks of Hitler's 1933 rise to power, the iron gates slammed shut on inmates of the first Nazi concentration camps. It was the start of an unparalleled experiment in persecution and genocide that expanded over the next 12 years into a...

BEIJING (AFP) - Doctors and nurses at a hospital in southern China have donned combat gear after an incident in which angry relatives of a patient attacked hospital workers, state media reported. The Shanxia Hospital in the boomtown of Shenzhen operated on a patient who suffered from bone...