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(AP / Anjum Naveed) While US authorities are standing firm on their decision not to release photos of Osama bin Laden's lifeless body, they say the world may get a chance to see home videos of the notorious terrorist's everyday life. ...

A proposed ban on the use of fracturing technology in France could halt the development of Vermilion Energy Inc.'s Lias shale oil play east of Paris, the company warned at its annual general meeting Friday. ...

PARIS — France's football federation has denied that national coach Laurent Blanc offered to resign following a scandal about alleged discussions on quotas restricting young players with dual nationality in training academies. ...

Leaked conversations published by UK newspapers portrayed Liberal Democrat ministers reportedly questioning Cameron's sincerity and urging staff not to trust him. Both Cameron and Clegg have repeatedly downplayed any differences and tensions within the ...

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The pipeline leak that spilled 4.5 million litres of crude oil in and around a wetland area northeast of Peace River was, by Alberta standards, a rare, if horribly regrettable, event.

Canada's dollar fell the most since July against the greenback as crude oil, the nation's biggest export, tumbled on concern the global recovery is stalling.

Sony announced it will push back the restoration of its PlayStation Network to conduct additional testing. "Our utmost priorities are the security of the network and ensuring your data is safe," says Sony spokesperson Patrick ...

The special court of Justice OP Saini on Saturday reserved order in the bail application of Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, daughter of DMK president and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi, accused in the 2G spectrum scam. Senior counsel Shunmugasundaram ...

CHENNAI: Tamil superstar Rajinikanth's condition is stable, but he has been advised two more days in the ICU, hospital sources said here Saturday. The 60-year-old, who is suffering from allergic bronchitis and fever due to exhaustion, was admitted to ...

NDP Leader Jack Layton used to preside over just a side show; now that he's presiding over Her Majesty's loyal Opposition, he's the backup act and the spotlight will be on him and his MPs more than ever before, ...

In the flesh, the Toronto Zoo's elephants are grey, but a new report paints them white. The paper, written by zoo staff for a board meeting next week, backs the controversial idea of shipping the zoo's three elderly elephants - Iringa, Toka and Thika ...

VANCOUVER - The four Mounties who confronted Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver's airport and repeatedly stunned him with a Taser, later telling a public inquiry they were afraid the Polish immigrant was about to attack them with a stapler, ...

(Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external links.) Federal Natural Resources Minister Christian Paradis has promised federal support for flood victims while touring the Richelieu River valley, hours after the province ...

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka's interim coach Stuart Law on Friday said cricket administrators should schedule a window for Indian Premier League fixtures to stop players choosing club over country. Law, who has stepped in to fill the job left by outgoing coach ...

Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya said that the controversial Darusman Report ruins and tarnishes the image of Sri Lanka since it is biased and incorrect. The Army Commander was addressing Army personnel at the Welikanda Security ...

Australia has accepted as Sri Lanka's High Commissioner former Navy commander Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe, according to some press reports. Admiral Samarasinghe was commander of the Navy during the final phase of Sri Lanka's war, including the final ...

Cricket hospitality guests may have heard that the men charged with ensuring the impending matches between England and Sri Lanka run smoothly have been named. The England and Wales Cricket Board (EBC) yesterday (May 4th 2011) revealed the three umpires ...

Sony is working on an identity theft protection plan for its European customers similar to the one announced for the US but says the process is taking longer because of all the individual countries involved. PlayStation Network users in the US got some ...

LONDON (Reuters) - European shares rallied on Friday after better-than-expected April US nonfarm payroll data improved investor confidence about the recovery and fund managers tipped equities for further progress. ...

New moves to prevent the huge burden of Greek debt from overwhelming the country's economy were discussed Friday during an unannounced meeting of a small group of European finance ministers, including those from ...

Leading European telecoms companies provided a batch of disappointing results on Friday, underlining how they are getting hurt by economic, competitive and regulatory pressures. Deutsche Telekom and Telecom Italia both ...

WASHINGTON - Pakistani officials say the Obama administration has demanded the identities of some of their top intelligence operatives as the United States tries to determine whether any of them had contact with Osama ...

Credit: Reuters IS UNABLE TO INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THE CONTENT OF THE VIDEO FROM WHICH THIS STILL IMAGE WAS TAKEN. Protesters march through the streets in Homs May 6, 2011 in this still image taken from video uploaded on a social media website.

PARIS - No European government has condemned or criticized the killing of Osama bin Laden by American commandos, but the questions raised about the changing details of his death sharpened considerably after the White House revealed ...

JAKARTA - Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meet in Indonesia on Saturday under the cloud of conflict on the Thai-Cambodia border and ongoing rights abuses in Myanmar.

SANAA, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Protest rallies demanding Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh's immediate ouster continued on Friday amid a growing fuel crisis that rocked the fragile impoverished country.

Kanimozhi, who is DMK chief and Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi's daughter, has been charged with corruption and accepting a bribe in the 2G scam case. She has applied for bail and a special court will continue hearing her bail plea tomorrow. ...

Besides Kanimozhi, daughter of Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi and a stakeholder in Kalaignar TV, the court will also take decision Saturday on the bail pleas of the other accused, Kalaignar TV chief Sharad Kumar, Asif Balwa and Rajiv B. ...

But for Professor John Whitehall, the University of Western Sydney's foundation chair of paediatrics and child health, ''collaborating'' with Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers is nothing to hide from. ''People called them terrorists,'' Whitehall says. ...

France announced plans to expel 14 Libyan diplomats on Friday, a day after Britain ordered two Libyan officials to leave. The French foreign ministry says the diplomats, who back Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, have been declared "persona non grata. ...

PARIS — France's sports minister said Friday that national soccer coach Laurent Blanc is not a racist and that she does not, for now, think he should resign over allegations he discussed with other coaches whether to limit training for young players ...

France's Small Business and Tourism Junior Minister Frederic Lefebvre (L) poses with Didier Le Calvez (R), director of Hotel Le Bristol, as they hold a plaque ''Palace'' at the Hotel Le Bristol in Paris May 5, 2011. By Astrid Wendlandt and Elisabeth ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, talks to British Foreign Secretary William Hague, right, with French Foreign Minister Alain Marie Juppé, left, during a diplomatic meeting on how to support rebels fighting the ...

By Robin Bairner Perhaps more than any country in western Europe, France is infused with a remarkable melting pot of culture. The nation's colonial history has invited citizens from every corner of the globe into the republic, and though this has been ...

Seth Wenig/AP By CHRISTINE HAUSER The United States economy added far more jobs than expected in April as the recovery continued to pick up steam.

By QMI AGENCY Ford's St. Thomas Assembly Plant -- slated to close this fall -- has gone up for sale for $22.75 million and already there's "solid interest" in the area's largest piece of commercial real estate to ever hit the market.

Nova Scotia Power is proposing a plan that spreads out increases in power bills over a few years, instead of imposing a steep increase next year.

It's the end of an era at GMP Securities, as perhaps the street's most famous trader leaves the role of running the GMP desk.

The strongest economic growth this year will be seen in western Canadian cities, the Conference Board of Canada said Thursday, although Vancouver doesn't make the top five.

Today in technology: Jeff Bezos puts millions of dollars behind a BC company developing nuclear fusion power, Sony is reportedly at risk of yet another cyber attack and the Wall Street Journal launches a whistle blowing website to rival WikiLeaks.

Eugene Melnyk's long-running legal problems with the Ontario Securities Commission came to an end Thursday when the Biovail Corp.

Shifts in the climate over the past three decades have been linked to a 5.5% decline in global wheat production, a study has suggested.