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Please remain seated for landing … Pilot Robert Robertson sits in the remains of his plane, waiting for emergency services. Photo: AP Ani Martinez IT WAS like a scene out of a movie. A small cargo plane, flying over a busy highway, began losing steam and doing...

Many of the local schoolchildren had never seen a live giraffe before A giraffe that strayed into a township close to Zimbabwe's capital has been rescued after residents tried to kill it for its meat, local media reported. The animal was put under police guard before...

Chirs Piederson--Reader's Digest Canada Welcome to the age of anywhere, anytime, anybody surveillance. Technologies first conceived by national spy agencies and the military are now being retooled as security products for home and business. Civilian programmers have been creating new breeds of...

LOGAN, W.Va. (AP) - A woman was sexually abused, beaten and humiliated while being held captive in a home for at least a week, sheriff's officials said Monday after making six arrests. Those arrested, including a mother and son and a mother and daughter, are white. The victim, a Charleston...

The tunic believed to have been worn by Saint Francis of Assisi preserved in the Church of Saint Francis in Cortona (Province of Arezzo) dates back to the period in which the saint lived, whereas the tunic preserved in the Church of Santa Croce in Florence was made after his death. Carbon 14...

OULU, Finland (AP) - Contestants from 10 countries were fine-tuning their imaginary Stratocasters Friday for the final showdown in the Air Guitar World Championships. Both professional and amateur performers were taking part in the two-day event in northern Finland, battling it out for the...

SYDNEY, Australia (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he won't be holding a vote in Parliament on Canada's Afghanistan mission unless he can get some other party to support his desire for an extension beyond 2009. Harper, speaking after a summit of pan-Pacific leaders in Sydney...

SYDNEY, Australia (CP) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Elections Canada is subverting the will of Parliament by permitting Muslim women to wear veils and burkas while voting. Harper, speaking Saturday in Sydney, Australia, after an international summit, said he "profoundly disagrees"...

By TRACY MCLAUGHLIN, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA BARRIE, Ont. -- A mother wept in court yesterday as she told a judge how she wakes each day to the horrific reality that her mentally handicapped daughter was tortured to death with a blowtorch. "You have left horrible images in my mind," Deborah...

Gay Activists Assault Ex-Gay, Trash Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays Booth at Fair Activist struck PFOX ex-gay over testimony about leaving homosexual lifestyle By Peter J. Smith ARLINGTON, Virginia, August 28, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Angry homosexual activists harassed and assaulted...

By Alastair Leithead BBC News, Kabul A demonstration has been held in south- east Afghanistan accusing US troops of insulting Islam after they distributed footballs bearing the name of Allah. The balls showed the Saudi Arabian flag which features the Koranic declaration of faith. The US...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. -- Aggravated assault charges have been filed against a church deacon and University of Oklahoma Sooners fan after officials say he grabbed a University of Texas fan between the legs during a scuffle in an Oklahoma bar. A couple of months before the annual Red River...

By Tim Ribar for USA TODAY Visitors to Ave Maria University, brainchild of Domino's founder Tom Monaghan, take the walkway between the Canizaro Library, right, and the cathedral-size oratory. Tom MonaghanBy Tim Ribar for USA TODAY WHAT CAN BE FOUND IN THE NEW TOWN Ave Maria, Fla., sits on...

We ranked the world. Out of 36 cities, Toronto placed third, Montreal 21st. FROM THE EDITORS of READER'S DIGEST CANADA It’s lunchtime in Mexico City and a young man follows a slim girl wearing dark glasses into a restaurant. Without looking behind her, she lets the heavy glass door swing...

People are being careful about their language around an 8-year-old named Peaches who has a habit of learning and repeating the worst she hears. Peaches is a Moluccan cockatoo, and staffers at Black Pine Animal Park say she used to be a pet in a household where she picked up a vocabulary that...

Mr Pratt said the slogan was intended to be humorous A man spotted wearing a T-shirt bearing an "offensive" slogan in a city centre has been warned he risks an £80 fine if he is caught again. Forklift driver David Pratt was told by street wardens in Peterborough he could...

By Denis Sinyakov MALAYA VISHERA, Russia (Reuters) - Russia launched a terrorism investigation on Tuesday after a bomb derailed an express train traveling from Moscow to St Petersburg, overturning carriages and injuring dozens of passengers. "The train accident was caused by a homemade...

Animal Liberation Front saboteurs have threatened to make an example of an Oregon primate researcher, possibly with firebombs, if he doesn't "quit the torture industry and issue an apology" for his work. The underground group, which the FBI characterizes as a domestic terrorist organization...

It was the moment when "wish you were here" became "wish I were anywhere but here". This holidaymaker found herself stranded in her deckchair as the tide came in and started lapping at her feet. The woman, estimated by some onlookers to weigh as much as 20 stone, had been unable to get out of...

A bizarre medical request and a botched surgery lead police on a search to find the missing suspected quacks. By Allie Shah, Star Tribune It doesn't get much stranger than this.A St. Paul man, complaining of chronic pain, wanted to have his testicles removed. When conventional medical staff...