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Necklace heist at Cannes stuff of films

Photo: The Canadian Press - The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Jury members actress Nicole Kidman, left, and director Ang Lee arrive for the screening of Nebraska at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Thursday. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) Thieves...

Anthony Weiner launches mayoral bid

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. File-This June 16, 2011 file photo shows Anthony Weiner speaking to the media during a news conference in New York. The ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday that he's in the New York City mayoral race. (AP...

No more Bronx 'ghetto' tours

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Folklorist Elena Martinez of City Lore, and her partner Bobby Sanabria, talk about their tours of The Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) A company that promised sightseer tours to the Bronx that...

Suicide bomber takes cadets hostage

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. This undated file photo provided by French nuclear manufacturer Areva shows part of the uranium mine of Arlit, in northern Niger. Attackers in Niger detonated two car bombs at dawn on Thursday, May 23, 2013, one in the city of Agadez where a...

Face transplant saves man's life (photo)

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this picture provided by the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice, Poland, a 33-year-old Polish man whose face was torn off by stone-cutting machinery is shown after undergoing a total face transplant. Doctors...

80-year-old stands on top of the world

  Photo: Contributed - AP Photo / Miura Dolphins 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, right, is greeted by his friend climber Kenji Kondo while resting at his camp at 6,500 meters during his attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest on...

Tiger gets hairball surgery

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this photo provided by BluePearl Veterinary Partners, Vernon Yates, founder of Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, lays his hands on Ty, a 400-pound tiger, as staff prepare to surgically extract a 4-pound hairball from the...

Stockholm riots continue

Photo: YouTube More than 100 autos were set afire by Swedish rioters Rioters have lit fires and stoned emergency services in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden for the third night in a row after a man was shot dead by police and rioters have been reacting to "police...

UK attack could be terrorists

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Artillery Place road is closed in Woolwich southeast London near the scene where British officials said one person has died and at least two people have been wounded in an attack on Wednesday. British official says a...

Captors release 7

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. This image made from video broadcast on Egyptian State Television shows members of the Egyptian security forces after their release by kidnappers, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Six Egyptian policemen and a border...

FBI kill man in Orlando

  Photo: Contributed - WKMG WKMG reports the victim may be linked to Boston bombing suspects A man was fatally shot when a team of FBI agents swarmed an apartment complex near Universal Studios in Orlando. The shooting happened early Wednesday. The...

Trial set for Costa Concordia captain

  Photo: Contributed The Costa Concordia cruise ship leans on its side of the Tuscan Island Isola del Giglio, Italy, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013. A judge in Italy has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia to stand trial in the shipwreck of the cruise...

Climbers aged 80 & 81 race up Everest

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this Saturday, May 18, 2013 photo distributed by Miura Dolphins, 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, right, is greeted by his friend climber Kenji Kondo while resting at his camp at 6,500 meters (21,325 feet)...

Search for tornado survivors nears end

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. This Tuesday, May 21, 2013 photo shows aerial photo shows destruction left behind by Monday's tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) Rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the...

Race on to find tornado survivors

Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. Authorities lowered the death toll to 24, down from 51, but warned those numbers were expected to climb back...

Suicide in Notre Dame Cathedral

  Photo: Google Street View Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, France. Paris police say Notre Dame Cathedral has been evacuated after a man committed suicide in the 850-year-old monument and tourist site. A police official says officers closed the cathedral...

14 Afghan police killed in day of attacks

A co-ordinated Taliban assault on checkpoints in southern Afghanistan killed four police before a counterattack drove the insurgents back, Afghan officials said Tuesday. Also, at least 10 other police died in two attacks in the country's west.   Photo: Google...

Tornado death toll now at 24

6:30 a.m. update: Medical examiner's office revises death toll from Oklahoma tornado to at least 24.   Photo: The Canadian Press - The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.  This photo provided by KFOR-TV shows homes flattened outside Moore, Okla.,...

Did cheese fight lead to poisoning?

  Photo: Contributed - http://sarahmosko.wordpress.com A North Carolina woman is charged with trying to poison five family members after one of them refused to share some cheese with her. A statement from the Nash County Sheriff's Office said 24-year-old...

Photographer describes kids' rescue

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Rescue workers dig through the rubble of a collapsed wall at the Plaza Tower Elementary School to free trapped students in Moore, Okla., following a tornado Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo Sue Ogrocki) As soon as I saw...