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By Chinta Puxley TORONTO (CP) - A group of northern Ontario aboriginal communities is hoping actor Leonardo DiCaprio will play a starring role in its fight against a De Beers diamond mine which it says could threaten the province's boreal forest. The Nishnawbe Aski Nation has written to the...

Nude male described as aggressive, combative Jason Brown Officials with the Lafayette Police Department stand by their use of a Taser gun during a Sunday morning altercation with a nude, and allegedly combative, 29-year-old Carencro man, who would...

By Monica MedelTue Dec 19, 1:11 PM ET Julio Cesar Cu wanted to be an oceanographer but instead he swims through foul-smelling sewage in underground tunnels where the occasional dead body bobs beside excrement and car parts. Paid just $400 (203 pounds) a month to de-clog the miles of sewage...

A teenager has admitted trying to kill his 10-year-old sister by "hacking her open" because she annoyed him by waking him up when she went to the toilet. The 17-year-old launched a frenzied knife attack on the girl at their home. Exeter Crown Court heard how the boy said to police: "Come on...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Just two days after being sworn in as new U.S. defense secretary, Robert Gates arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday to meet U.S. commanders and see for himself the war that he says America is neither winning nor losing. The visit by the 63-year-old former CIA director follows a...

By Caren Bohan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraqi insurgents have thwarted U.S. efforts to establish security, President George W. Bush said on Wednesday, and he pledged that any boost in American troops would be tied to a specific mission to curb violence. Bush, who is rethinking his war strategy...

By Keith Leslie TORONTO (CP) - Ontario may need a "Christmas tree placement policy" for the 165 courthouses in the province after a Toronto judge ordered a small tree removed from the lobby of a courthouse, Attorney General Michael Bryant said Thursday. Earlier in the day, Bryant visited...

A man who gave his estranged wife a hamburger full of rat poison and also poured petrol through her letterbox has been jailed for five years. Hardev Singh, 37, of Maidstone Road, Rochester, Kent, had moved out of the home he shared with Sonia Boswell. But after taking their five children to a...

Girls Are Considered a Burden in Sections of Indian Society By PALASH KUMAR Dec. 15, 2006 — Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a "national...

Shortage means 1 for every 15 soldiers due to contract snafu with supplier More than 5,000 Scottish soldiers must share ceremonial kilts because defense chiefs haven't finalized a contract to buy enough of the garments for all, British military officials said Monday. Virginia Mayo LONDON -...

Dion and "dream team" of former Liberal candidates say they're ready for Harper By Mike Oliveira TORONTO (CP) - The men and lone woman who fought for the leadership of the Liberal party are now united as one "dream team" ready to take on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservatives...

Jesus Christ is touching and transforming people worldwide. He has opened and continues to open the window to people’s hearts, and they are moved to respond to God. Some have had an intellectual response. They are motivated to investigate the evidence and the claims of Christ. Is Jesus the...

FLINT, Mich. -- A local prosecutor in Flint, Mich., calls it "just appalling." Authorities said a 22-year-old developmentally disabled woman weighing only 43 pounds was found in a bedroom at her mother's home. The mother has been charged with abusing her. The Flint Journal said the woman was...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - This Christmas the Leising family may keep a closer eye on their statue of baby Jesus. Last year someone plucked the statue from the nativity scene in John and Joan's Leising's front yard. The statue was taken Dec. 23, and a note - promising to return the baby Jesus in...

By James Bisson TORONTO (CP) - For years, (Rowdy) Roddy Piper has insisted that, if not for the support of wrestling fans around the world, he would probably be dead. Now, through a serendipitous twist, Piper's words resonate louder than ever. The Saskatoon-born wrestling legend is fighting...

By: Jack Rodgers LEANING against his small trolley in the large supermarket while waiting for Ana to finish her part of the weekly shopping he wrote a book. A novel. It became an overnight international success. It was awesome – the sense of personal achievement, the artistic satisfaction, the...

Jonathan Watts, Sichuan Viagra, pornography, partner-swapping, artificial tongues and electrified rectal probes. No, they are not the ingredients for a new series of Sex And The City; they are the hard-core husbandry techniques behind a massive boom in the captive giant panda population. The...

By BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press At the height of the flu pandemic in 1918, William H. Sardo Jr. remembers the pine caskets stacked in the living room of his family's house, a funeral home in Washington, D.C. The city had slowed to a near halt. Schools were closed. Church services were...

Woman allegedly had sexual contact with 5th-graders in theaters, class By ROBERT CROWE Copyright 2006 Houston Chronicle A flirtatious Brandy Lynn Gonzales lured five boys from her fifth-grade classes into sexual acts at movie theaters, her apartment and even her classroom, prosecutors said...

Authorities say Ohioan found dead with 13-foot snake around his neck CINCINNATI - A 13-foot boa constrictor wrapped itself around its owner’s neck and killed the man in his home, authorities said. An acquaintance found Ted Dres, 48, inside the snake’s cage Saturday and called police, the...