World News

Two suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 45 people in Lahore, Pakistan, police say. CBC.ca

A $650-million U.S. tentative deal has been reached between lawyers for the City of New York and thousands of emergency workers claiming cleanup from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks made them sick. CBC.ca

Calm has returned to the streets of Athens after strikes and protests against the government's new austerity measures wracked the capital of Greece on Thursday. CBC.ca

Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector are appealing his 2009 murder conviction in California on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct. CBC.ca

Health authorities in the U.S. have for the first time used department store credit cards to help trace the source of a recent salmonella outbreak that left hundreds of Americans ill. CBC.ca

Washington's efforts to engage the military junta of Burma in dialogue aren't working, a senior U.S. official says, citing the regime's decision to bar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from upcoming elections. CBC.ca

China's top internet regulator insists Google must obey its laws or "pay the consequences," giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking. CBC.ca

Eleven rare Siberian tigers have died at a cash-strapped zoo in China, heightening concerns about conditions at wildlife facilities in the country. CBC.ca

An 18-year-old lesbian student who wanted to take her girlfriend to her senior prom is asking a federal judge to force her Mississippi school district to reinstate the dance it cancelled rather than let the couple attend. CBC.ca

Anti-government protesters massed around Thailand on Friday ahead of a march they hope will paralyze the capital and force Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to call new elections. CBC.ca

Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Thursday that he is seeking U.S. government permission to import cheaper drugs from Canada for use in state insurance programs. CBC.ca

The United Nations World Food Program said it is conducting an internal review following a report that as much as half of the food aid it distributes in Somalia ends up in the hands of corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local UN staffers. CBC.ca

Canada has ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the eve of the Paralympic Games in Vancouver. CBC.ca

Canada has voiced muted criticism over the planned expansion of 1,600 new Israeli settlements in disputed East Jerusalem. CBC.ca

The Canadian public health-care system enjoyed by Yukoners has been used frequently over the years by neighbouring Alaskans such as former governor Sarah Palin's family. CBC.ca

NATO allies lobbied Afghan's president for a separate legal framework to handle prisoners captured around Kandahar in late 2006 but those efforts went "nowhere," say internal Canadian government memos. CBC.ca

Protesters clashed with riot police as more than 30,000 people marched through central Athens on Thursday during a nationwide general strike against the government's harsh new austerity measures. CBC.ca

Ontario police say they have smashed a sophisticated organized crime group that was smuggling illegal weapons and drugs into the province from the U.S. CBC.ca