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HANOI (AFP) - Police in the Vietnamese capital have been told not to wear sunglasses, smoke, swear or keep their hands in their pockets while they are on duty, in an effort to improve their public image. The order issued by Hanoi's police chief Nguyen Duc Nhanh this weeks follows complaints in...

By Alexander Panetta OTTAWA (CP) - A prime minister who now promises to fight climate change once ridiculed the Kyoto accord as a money-sucking socialist scheme and said he would battle to defeat it. Stephen Harper derided the global treaty and questioned the science of climate change in a...

By Victoria Ahearn TORONTO (CP) - Grammy nominee Michael Buble says he wants nothing to do with next week's awards ceremony. The Vancouver-based crooner is angry that his category will not be presented during the live TV broadcast. "They give away our best traditional pop award at a dinner...

Disclaimer Many followers of Aboriginal religions, such as the many types of Native American Spirituality, do not regard their spiritual beliefs and practices as a "religion" in the way in which many Christians do. Their beliefs and practices form a integral and seamless part...

MILAN, Jan 30 (Reuters Life!) - Dedicated followers of fashion designer Prada can now add a sleek mobile phone that dispenses with the conventional keypad to give that finishing touch-screen to their wardrobe. The Prada phone, developed with South Korea's LG Electronics Inc, is an elegant...

TORONTO (CP) - A survey of Canadian doctors has given the battle to reduce health-care waiting times a marginal or failing grade, saying it is "ballooning" wait times for services not covered by the federal government's five priority areas. The survey, conducted for the Canadian Medical...

OTTAWA (CP) - The woman charged with monitoring the federal government's environmental efforts has been replaced - fired, sources say, following months of friction with her boss, Auditor General Sheila Fraser. Fraser issued a news release Tuesday saying Environment Commissioner Johanne...

Out of all the former Beatles, Paul McCartney by far had the most successful solo career, maintaining a constant presence in the British and American charts during the '70s and '80s. In America alone, he had nine number one singles and seven number one albums during the first 12 years of his...

As one-half of the most famous pop songwriting team of all time, John Lennon (b. Oct. 9, 1940, Liverpool, England) will go down in history not only for noting with irony that his band the Beatles was "more popular than Jesus," but for having more than one member of the clergy sadly, if quietly...

1 Jimmy Boyd I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus 12 years 11 months 2 Stevie Wonder Fingertips - pt. 2 13 years 1 month 3 Donny Osmond Go Away Little Girl 13 years 7 months 4 Michael Jackson Ben 13 years 11 months 5 Laurie London The Whole World In His Hands 14 years 2 months 6...

Windsor, Ont, Canada's southernmost city, pop 208 402 (2001c), 197 694 (1996c), area 120.63 km2, is located on the DETROIT RIVER in the extreme southwest corner of the province. Lying directly south of Detroit on the rich agricultural peninsula nestled between Lakes ERIE and ST CLAIR, Windsor is...

BTO (Brave Belt 1970-2, Bachman-Turner Overdrive 1972-7). Rock band, formed in 1970 in Winnipeg as a country-rock band, Brave Belt, by the guitarist Randy Bachman and the singer-keyboardist-guitarist Chad Allan (one-time members of the Guess Who) with the drummer Rob Bachman. The band recorded...

Key entrances have been plugged in some of the biggest tunnels used to smuggle people and drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border but the passageways remain largely intact, raising concerns that smugglers might reuse them, according to a published report. Critics say the unfilled tunnels pose an...

Ever since she was little, Susan Smith has felt there is something wrong with her body. Her determination to 'fix' things has twice landed her in hospital The Guardian I was six when I first became aware of my desire to lose my legs. I don't remember what started it - there was no specific...

TAMPA, Fla. -- A 21-year-old woman who told police that a man raped her was jailed for two days after officers helping her found a warrant accusing her of failing to pay restitution for a 2003 theft arrest. A jail worker later refused to give her a second dose of a morning-after pill to prevent...

A man was impaled in the groin area when he fell from a first-floor balcony on to a steel fence in inner Melbourne early today. A Metropolitan Ambulance Service spokeswoman said the man, in his early 20s, fell from the balcony of a terrace house in Rathdowne Street, Carlton, about 3.45am. He...

By TONY BLAIS -- Edmonton Sun A teen accused in the grisly sex-slaying of 13-year-old Nina Courtepatte testified yesterday alleged ring leader Joseph Laboucan said later he wanted to kill again. The 18-year-old girl, who cannot be identified under a publication ban, said a few hours after...

PARIS (AFP) - France, home to a lively tobacco-scented cafe culture, this week moves to enforce a ban on smoking in public places that will extend to embrace bars, restaurants and cafes next year. As of Thursday, smoking will be outlawed in all workplaces, hospitals, schools and shops, marking...

By Helen Branswell TORONTO (CP) - Canadian researchers believe they have come up with a way to predict whether transplants from specific bone marrow donors are likely to trigger rejection - an advance that could help doctors weed out so-called "dangerous donors" and cut back on immune...

In April 1982, as an Ottawa winter turned into spring, Queen Elizabeth II made her eleventh visit to Canada. She had come to make it official: after more than a half-century of trying, Canada would have its own constitution. A Canadian-made constitution was unfinished business from the...