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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.

Sony can't seem to catch a break these days when it comes to hack attacks. Sony is still recovering from the recent network breach that shut down its PlayStation Network and Qriocity service and ...

A couple of episodes ago on BYTE Wireless Radio (www.byte.com), we pronounced the RIM Playbook not ready for primetime in the enterprise.

A prototype of a thinfilm flexible computer, dubbed a "paper computer" developed by researchers at Queen's University.

OSLO (Reuters) - Quickening climate change in the Arctic including a thaw of Greenland's ice could raise world sea levels by up to 1.6 meters by 2100, an international report showed on Tuesday.

Kelowna buses are sporting a bit less atheism and a touch more mystery this week. For the better part of the last four weeks, advertisements spanning the broad side of two buses proclaimed: “There's probably no ...

The Australian government may consider expediting significant reforms to the Privacy Act as a result of the Sony data breaches. The Australian Privacy Commissioner, Timothy Pilgrim has already opened an ...

Ever since the first Tamil movie was made, there have been a number of firsts, long before KB — as he's known — knew he wanted to make movies. But those films, today, are curios. They don't walk like us. They don't talk like us. ...

Is it because you were busy with Tamil films that such a gap happened? Yes, since I was busy with Tamil films, I didn't commit to anything in Telugu. I wanted to do something I believed in. I had signed two projects with Geetha Arts after Happy Days. ...

So I am really happy that I have achieved something in Tamil films. Do you feel you are trapped in the lover boy image? Would you like to do different roles? I am too young to be trapped in any image. I am at an age where a lover boy image suits you. ...

Hansikaa Motwani has recently made her entry into Tamil films, with the Dhanush-starrer Mappillai, the remake of the Rajinikanth film of the same name. The actress now has some big films in her kitty. While Hansikaa is currently shooting for the ...

By T'Cha Dunlevy, GAZETTE FILM CRITIC May 6, 2011 8:53 AM MONTREAL - Watch the trailer to The Bang Bang Club, and you get the impression it's a slick rock 'n' roll buddy movie about four photographers covering the violent last days of apartheid.

"If he were alive today, who would Jesus have as a corporate sponsor?" It's a question Morgan Spurlock hadn't heard before; nothing the gonzo documentary filmmaker had even pondered.