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By James Mccarten And Alexander Panetta KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Decked out in protective gear, a helmet under his arm, Stephen Harper gave a thumbs up as he boarded a Black Hawk helicopter Wednesday to become one of the only serving prime ministers to venture perilously close to the front...

WHITEHORSE, Yukon (CP) - Canada's three territorial premiers have jointly released a broad collaborative vision for the North at the Northern Premiers Forum held in Whitehorse. In the document, the governments of Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut outline a future vision of the...

By Bill Graveland CALGARY (CP) - With news of another death on the battlefield still fresh, the words of Prime Minister Stephen Harper struck a sombre note. "The mission there in Afghanistan has been long, hard and difficult," Harper told soldiers and supporters at a fundraiser for the...

By Nazih Siddiq NAHR AL-BARED, Lebanon (Reuters) - The United States sent more ammunition on Saturday to Lebanon, whose army is struggling to defeat a group of heavily armed Islamist militants holed up inside a Palestinian refugee camp. The militant Fatah al-Islam group, which has vowed to...

TheStar.com - News - Self-defence cited in slaying of sister Boiled head, hand found in siblings' unit, court hears...

County officials express dismay at the events surrounding the recent controversial death at King-Harbor hospital. One nurse has resigned. By Charles Ornstein, Times Staff Writer In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a...

Canadian Press Canada's unresolved Arctic boundary disputes with the United States could be heating up with a new American push to join the international treaty on the Law of the Sea, say experts on both sides of the border. Drawn by resource wealth and climate change concerns, the Bush...

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- One of two young women charged with robbing a bank while laughing and wearing sunglasses says she didn't worry about the crime's consequences because "we had an inside man." In an interview aired Friday on ABC-TV's "Good Morning America," Heather Johnston said she didn't...

A six-year-old girl was sexually assaulted by an engine driver on a Thomas the Tank Engine themed day at a steam railway, a court has heard. George Sully, 73, allegedly put his hand up the girl's skirt while playing the part of the engine driver on James the red engine...

Lake Luzerne, N.Y. (AP) -- A young man shot himself without using a gun. Damion M. Mosher, who put bullets in a vise and whacked them with a hammer to empty the brass shell casings, was hit in the abdomen by one of the shots, authorities said. Warren County deputies said they were called to...

Our Lady became the helper of the human race for the first time when her prayers were heard and God send His Son to rescue the world from the empire of sin. She is the great woman predicted in the Proto-evangelium of Genesis, who will crush the head of the devil (Genesis 3:15). She is also...

Man attends local events ZOE FRALEY A Web site that is a virtual how-to for pedophiles and includes places to see young children in Whatcom County is back up after being shut down for more than a month. Jack McClellan, 45, the Snohomish County resident...

Que. school board on defensive By CP MONTREAL — A Montreal-area school board is defending one of its principals who asked four elementary school students to each write a 10-line essay about fellatio after they were taunting a fellow student. Board lawyer Nathalie Marceau...

TheStar.com - News - Caution urged on recruits Increasing number of those interested in joining Canadian Forces show 'socio-dysfunctional' profile, report warns...

'Each person who travels to China for an organ causes the death of another human' Allison HanesNational Post TORONTO - Foreign patients who travel to China for transplants are likely receiving organs culled from political prisoners who are alive when their corneas, kidneys and livers are...

Tom Chorneau, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau PDT West Sacramento, Yolo county -- Wildlife rescuers will give a 45-foot humpback whale and her calf the weekend off after attempts to lure the two out of a river channel 70 miles from the ocean failed again Friday. The two whales have been calmly...

A 33-year-old woman has been jailed on allegations she exposed herself to her 13-year-old neighbor and made him touch her, police said. Michelle Seddon, unemployed and disabled, was booked into the Washoe County Jail on Thursday on suspicion of lewdness with a child, authorities said. According...

By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON (AP) - A woman who had sex with her boyfriend's brother in her darkened room late one night claimed she was raped, saying the man tricked her into the act by impersonating her boyfriend. But Massachusetts' Supreme Judicial Court disagreed...

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Skull separated from her spine in car crash, although she wasn't paralyzed DENVER - Even her surgeon calls her a miracle. Shannon Malloy was critically injured Jan. 25 when a car crash slammed her into the dashboard. Her skull separated from her spine, although her skin, spinal cord and other...