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Canadian country superstars including Michelle Wright and Terri Clark came together during Country Music Week in September to record a song for Canadian troops released in time for Remembrance Day. Standing Strong and True (For […] […]

A Chinese asylum seeker who boarded a flight from Hong Kong to Canada disguised as an elderly white man will remain in custody as officials try to confirm his identity. A lawyer representing the Canadian […] […]

LONDON – British police released new details yesterday about their discovery of a mail bomb bound from Yemen for the United States, suggesting they might have disarmed the bomb accidentally rather than by design. Police […] […]

LONDON—Two Kurdish men have been jailed for life by a London court for murdering a relative because her family disapproved of her boyfriend. Mohammed Ali and Omar Hussain were found guilty of murdering 20-year-old Banaz […] […]

Iran lost its bid for a seat on the board of the new UN agency to promote equality for women to East Timor after strong opposition from the United States and human rights groups to […] […]

THREE retired US marines are suspected of selling illegal assault weapons to a notorious Los Angeles street gang. The suspected ringleader, Adam Gitschlag, who served in Iraq and was once based at Camp Pendleton, was […] […]

UNIVERSITY students protesting against the British Government’s plans to triple tuition fees forced their way into the headquarters of Prime Minister David Cameron’s party. In chaotic scenes, around 20 students got into the lobby of […] […]

The U.S. Defence Department said Tuesday it was trying to determine if a missile was launched Monday off the coast of Southern California and, if so, who might have fired it. Video shot Monday evening […] […]

SEATTLE – The soldiers who reported to Staff Sergeant Calvin Gibbs paint a monstrous picture: he killed Afghan civilians for sport, they say, and encouraged others to do the same. He collected fingers of the […] […]

Michelle Obama played hopscotch, danced and sang with 33 disadvantaged children from the Indian charity Make a Difference Saturday at the University of Mumbai. Almost immediately after arriving at the university’s library, she kicked off […] […]