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NKorea baits hook for US visit

  Photo: Contributed Kenneth Bae - undated photo A Korean American detained for six months in North Korea has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labour for "hostile acts" against the state, the North's media said Thursday, a move that could...

Obama sees opportunity from Mexico

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this April 30, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama answers questions during his new conference in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. The president aims to assure Latin America that the...

Woman disfigured reveals new face

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. This photo combination shows Carmen Blandin Tarleton, who suffered chemical burns over 80 percent of her body when her estranged husband doused her with lye in June 2007. (AP Photo) A Vermont woman revealed her new...

Riots in Seattle

    Photo: Contributed - KIRO7 Seattle Violence breaks out at May Day party in Seattle   9:06 p.m. update: Police used flash bangs and pepper spray as officers and protesters clashed late Wednesday as a May Day rally turned violent in...

From Calgary to the White house

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas speaks during a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Jan. 31, 2013 file photo. Cruz is apparently mulling over a run for president in 2016 -- news that has...

American colonists were cannibals

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Numerous small knife cuts and punctures in the mandible of "Jane of Jamestown" are seen during a news conference at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, Wednesday, May 1, 2013. . (AP...

New suspects in Boston bombing

  Photo: CTV People react to an explosion at the 2013 Boston Marathon in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013. (The Boston Globe / John Tlumacki) Three additional suspects have been taken into custody in last month's twin bombing at the Boston Marathon that...

Child shoots 2-year-old sister with gun

  Photo: Contributed - Google Maps The incident happened in Burkesville, Kentucky. Authorities say a 5-year-old child in Kentucky shot and killed his 2-year-old sister with a rifle he got as a gift. Local coroner Gary White tells WKYT-TV that the mother...

Commercial space travel on the horizon

After the successful test of a private spaceship designed to take "the rest of us into space," Virgin Galactic says it may begin offering commercial space flights as soon as early next year. On Monday, Virgin's SpaceShipTWO (SS2) performed a landmark test. The rocket-powered...

Bolivian President expels USAID

  Photo: Contributed - CBC Bolivian President Evo Morales has expelled USAID from the country, accusing it of working against him. (Juan Karita/Associated Press) President Evo Morales said Wednesday he is expelling the U.S. Agency for International...

Bomb kills teens in Russia

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Police and forensic experts examine the site of an explosion in downtown Makhachkala, Dagestan on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Russian police say a bomb exploded in a busy shopping area in the capital of the restive republic of...

The smallest movie . . . ever

Scientists have taken the idea of a film short down to new levels. Molecular levels.   Photo: The Canadian Press - The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this undated image taken from video and provided by IBM, carbon monoxide molecules are arranged on...

Mount Fuji to be World Heritage site

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. Mt. Fuji is seen from Yamanashi prefecture, near Tokyo Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Japan's iconic Mt. Fuji will likely win recognition as a World Heritage site. The Agency for Cultural Affairs issued a notice Wednesday saying...

Fatal Montana bear mauling

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2012 file photo provided by David McKay, grizzly bears, Griz, right, and Yosemite are seen at Animals of Montana, a captive animal facility near Bozeman, Mont. (AP Photo/David McKay, File) The...

Fallen building owner's property seized

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. A worker leads a piece of debris into a dump truck at the site of a garment factory building collapse on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 in Savar, near Dhaka, Bangladesh. Emergency workers hauling large concrete slabs from the...

Shocking footage of plane crash

This shocking video is reported to be that of the crash at Bagram Air Field. This is unconfirmed, the time is wrong at the bottom of the video, but other factors give this footage some credibility. A civilian cargo plane owned by an American company crashed at Bagram Air Field,...

Obama: National security review

  Photo: CTV U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media about the violence in Syria in Washington on Tuesday, April 30, 2013. President Barack Obama says a national security review following the Boston Marathon bombings will look at whether there is...

Bombing in central Damascus kills 13

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian security officers, right, speaks with shop owners, at the scene of a powerful explosion that occurred in the central district of Marjeh, in Damascus, Syria,...

China arrests more terrorism suspects

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. FILE - In this April 25, 2013 file photo, houses destroyed in a violent clash are left in Kashgar, in China’s northwestern region of Xinjiang. Police have arrested more suspects in connection with a clash...

Lawyer appointed for bombing suspect

Photo: The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. FILE - This file photo provided Friday, April 19, 2013 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev's legal defense is in the hands of Miriam Conrad, the chief...