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By James Mccarten SPERWAN GHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Like any Canadian teenager, Mitcheal Small longs for an apartment of his own, a couch in front of a big-screen TV and his first car, despite the fact he doesn't yet have his driver's licence. Unlike others his age, however, Small's big...

By Jonathan Petre, Religion Correspondent The Pope's plans to bring back the traditional Latin Mass have alarmed Christians and Jews concerned that they could damage relations between the faiths. The Pope is expected to issue a decree within weeks allowing the widespread use of the...

LONDON (AFP) - Manchester United midfielder Park Ji-sung will be sidelined until August after undergoing knee surgery in the United States. South Korean winger Park faces a race to be fit in time for the start of next season after being operated on by knee specialist Dr Richard Steadman, who...

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush pledged on Friday to veto -- and go on vetoing -- legislation that includes a timetable for pulling U.S. troops from Iraq but Democrats urged him to sign it. Defying the veto threat, the Democratic-controlled Congress this week...

By Les Perreaux MONTREAL (CP) - Jean Lafleur, a fraudster with the taste for the sunny high life, admitted in court Friday that he duped the federal government out of $1.5 million in the sponsorship program. The Montreal advertising executive who spent recent years in warm Caribbean...

By Murray Brewster OTTAWA (CP) - The embattled Conservative government is pushing a new line about claims of prisoner abuse in Afghanistan - it didn't happen. But the assurance by Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day on Friday came despite the fact that no full investigation has been...

By Jessica Mintz SEATTLE (AP) - Shares of Microsoft Corp. soared nearly four per cent Friday, after the company posted a 65 per cent jump in third-quarter profit, boosted by sales of its new Windows Vista operating system and Office 2007, and by upgrade coupons issued over the holidays. The...

By Michael Oliveira TORONTO (CP) - A consumer show for so-called green living proved hostile territory Friday for Environment Minister John Baird as he and his plan for combating greenhouse gases came under fire from environmentalists and an old political foe. It was a smiling Baird who...

We know that Our Lord established a Church before He ascended into Heaven. He made St Peter the head of that Church. But does that Church still exist? There are so many Churches that call themselves Christian ... are they all the true Church? Is only one of them? Which one? Most true Christians...

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The marijuana being sold across the United States is stronger than ever, which could explain a growing number of medical emergencies that involve the drug, government drug experts on Wednesday. Analysis of seized samples of...

By JANET FRANKSTON LORIN Associated Press Writer JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A father who raped his teenage daughter over several years and ordered her to throw two newborns he had fathered with her down an air shaft was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The 45-year-old West New York man pleaded...

On December 25, 1943, the acrid smell of cordite hung over the rubble barricades of Ortona, Italy, where Canadians and Germans were engaged in grim hand-to-hand combat. Even amid the thunder of collapsing walls and the blinding dust and smoke darkening the alleys, the men of The Seaforth...

Le 25 décembre 1943, l’odeur âcre de la cordite plane sur les barricades de gravats à Ortona, en Italie, où Canadiens et Allemands sont engagés dans un sinistre combat corps à corps. Même dans le vacarme des murs qui s’effondrent, dans la poussière et la fumée qui obscurcissent les ruelles, les...

(CBS) CARY, Ill. An 18-year-old high school student from the northwest suburbs has been arrested and is facing criminal charges for what officals called an alarming essay that made reference to a school shooting. Allen W. Lee, a student at Cary-Grove High School in Cary, was charged with...

Fr. C. G. Vaillancourt Jesus said "I am the way, the truth and the life" [John 14:6]. If He is the Life, then we must come to Him to find everlasting life. Eternal life is to know God and to know Jesus Christ whom He has sent [John 17:3].He offered us eternal life when He gave us the food for...

Chris Sweezy I am a victim of abortion. Never in my wildest dreams, would I have thought that something like this would have affected me so much as it has. Day after day, it tears my heart apart. Children no longer look the same to me. They look even more precious than ever before. When I...

Thousands of Japanese have been swindled in a scam in which they were sold Australian and British sheep and told they were poodles. Flocks of sheep were imported to Japan and then sold by a company called Poodles as Pets, marketed as fashionable accessories, available at $1,600 each. That is a...

On the dull, cool evening of February 3, 1916 there was barely a quorum of members in Ottawa’s House of Commons. The honourable member for Northumberland, W.S. Loggie, was droning on about the question of improving the transportation of fish. Suddenly there was a commotion at the main door of...

The English race gets continually into the most unheard of scrapes all over the world by reason of its insular prejudices and superiority to advice; but somehow they muddle through and when they do they are on the ground to hold it. Manitoba Free Press, December 1903 City and town dwellers in...

By Sally Peck An Indian court issued an arrest warrant for Richard Gere today, accusing the Hollywood actor of kissing Shilpa Shetty, the Bollywood actress, in a manner that "transgressed all limits of vulgarity". Indian court orders Gere's arrest over 'obscene' kiss Gere and Shetty...