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Canadian trucker caused bridge collapse

Photo: The Canadian Press - The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. A portion of the Interstate-5 bridge is submerged after it collapsed into the Skagit river dumping vehicles and people into the water in Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday, May 23, 2013 according to the Washington State Patrol....

TGI Fridays caught cheating drinks

At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water — and apparently not even clean water at that. State officials provided those new details Thursday on raids they conducted a day earlier...

2 men arrested after flight from Pakistan

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. British Royal Air Force Tornado figher bombers are seen in this undated photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Royal Air Force Two men have been arrested on suspicion of endangerment of an aircraft after an incident on a plane flying from...

Climbers missing on 3rd highest peak

Photo: Contributed - Steven Powers/The Wildlife Collection A Nepalese official says five climbers are missing and feared dead on the world's third highest mountain. The five disappeared Monday on Mount Kanchenjunga, and bad weather was preventing a rescue helicopter from reaching...

Emergency landing at London airport

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Emergency services attend a British Airways passenger plane after it had to make an emergency landing at Heathrow airport. early Friday May 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Steve Parsons, PA) An emergency landing by a British Airways jet has briefly...

Bridge collapse survivor: 'You hold on'

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. A truck is seen in the water after a portion of the Interstate 5 bridge collapsed into the Skagit River in Mount Vernon, Wash., Thursday, May 23, 2013. (AP Photo/Everett Daily Herald, Jennifer Buchanan) Dan Sligh and his wife were in...

Suicide bomber strikes Afghan capital

Photo: Contributed - www.afghan-network.net file photo A suicide bomber struck in the heart of the Afghan capital on Friday, sending a plume of smoke billowing over Kabul in the second major attack in the city in little over a week, police said. There were no immediate reports of...

Retired cop murdered in Mexico

Photo: Contributed - CTV The victim as 60-year-old Lynn Earle A retired BC policewoman has been found murdered at her home in one of Mexico’s most popular tourist destinations, according to local newspapers. Her body was discovered Wednesday morning in an area known as...

Earthquake shakes Northern California

 An earthquake has struck Northern California's Plumas County with a preliminary magnitude of 5.7. Rafael Abreau, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Earthquake Center, says the temblor struck at 8:47 p.m. and was centred 10 kilometres west northwest of...

Skagit River bridge collapses

Photo: Contributed - @Gina_SVH twitter Update: 10 p.m. (The Canadian Press):  The Washington State Patrol said there were no deaths, and three people were rescued and taken to hospitals. Update (The Canadian Press) : An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle...

Hero becomes the face of the storm

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. LaTisha Garcia carries her eight-year-old daughter, Jazmin Rodriguez near Plaza Towers Elementary School after a massive tornado carved its way through Moore, Okla., leaving little of the school and neighborhood. This picture, published on...

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...