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Suicide blasts in Pakistan's Lahore kill 45

A woman weeps for her missing son at the site of a suicide bomb attack in Lahore March 12, 2010. Suicide bombers targeting the military killed at least 45 people and wounded nearly 100 in the Pakistani city of Lahore on Friday, officials said, despite government assertions that crackdowns had weakened Taliban insurgents.

Suicide bombers targeting the Pakistani military killed at least 45 people in Lahore on Friday, officials said, in a challenge to government assertions that crackdowns have weakened Taliban insurgents.

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Iraqi workers at the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) headquarters in Baghdad seal and store ballot boxes on March 8, 2010, following Iraq's second general elections since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a modest lead over rival Shi'ites, partial results from Iraq's tight election race showed on Friday, but a secularist challenger remained far ahead among Iraqi Sunnis.

Iraq's election race tight as results delayed again

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a modest lead over rival Shi'ites, partial results from Iraq's tight election race showed on Friday...

More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totaling 657 million dollars for health problems under a deal reached Thursday.

'Ground Zero' workers reach deal on claims

More than 10,000 people who worked in the toxic chaos of New York's Ground Zero after 9/11 could receive compensation totaling 657...

Gerhard Ludwig Mueller, German bishop of the Regensburg, talks to reporters at the end of a religious conference at the Vatican March 11, 2010. A day before a meeting between the head of the German bishops conference and Pope Benedict was due to take place at the Vatican, Mueller from the Regensburg, a diocese at the centre of a child abuse scandal in Germany, said on Thursday the German Church was capable of handling the issue and did not need Benedict's help.

Pope meets German Catholic leader over pedophilia scandals

Pope Benedict XVI met Friday with the head of the German Catholic Church as pedophile priest scandals swept Germany, one coming close...

Dutch nurses' union Care does not include sex

A union representing Dutch nurses will launch a national campaign on Friday against demands for sexual services by patients who claim...

Heath Proden, 35, had been waiting for a train when he was harassed by two teenagers, punched in the face and knocked from his wheelchair.

Canadian recovering after beating in Australia

A Canadian man who was viciously assaulted in Australia has come through surgery and has spoken to his mother from his hospital bed...

Vladimir Putin, shown here on Dec. 28, 2009, in a file photo.

Putin to sign multi-billion dollar arms deals in India

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was to seal a series of multi-billion dollar arms deals Friday during a visit to India aimed...

This handout file photo received from anti-whaling activists Sea Shepherd Conservation Society on February 10, 2010 and taken on February 8, 2010 shows the Sea Shepherd ship "Steve Irwin" (L) exchanging water cannon fire with the Japanese whaling boat Nisshin Maru (R) in Antarctic waters. Australian police boarded and searched the anti-whaling ship Steve Irwin at the request of Japanese authorities on March 5, 2010 after activists cut short their annual harassment campaign and returned to port.

Anti-whaling activist arrested in Japan: Coastguard

An anti-whaling activist from New Zealand was arrested in Japan Friday for trespassing after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic...

Teacher killed by wolves in Alaska: Police

A schoolteacher found dead this week near a remote Alaska village was probably killed by wolves, Alaska State Troopers said Thursday...

Lol kin Castaneda (R) and her partner Judith Vazquez show their wedding dresses, during a interview with AFP in Mexico City, on March 9, 2010. Castaneda and Vazquez will be the first women to contract marriage in Mexico City on March 11. Gay and lesbian couples are readying to tie the knot in Mexico, following last week's breakthrough when Mexico City's Assembly passed a law allowing same-sex marriages. The new legislation also provides for the possibility of adoption.

Mexico's first gay couples wed under landmark law

Five same-sex couples wed in Mexico Thursday as Mexico City became the first Latin American city to defy religious taboos and macho...

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the Export-Import Bank's Annual Conference in Washington March 11, 2010.

Internal friction has White House machine running rough

Obama's West Wing has become embroiled in the kind of backbiting and palace intrigue better suited to a soap opera set than a well...

Police take cover as they clash with protesters on March 11, 2010 in Athens, Greece.

Timeline

A Greek tragedy

We take a look at the key dates in the Greek crisis, as Athens awaits a verdict from the European Commission on its program.

Moroccan rescue and residents remove rubble after the Lalla Khenata mosque minaret collapsed in the old Bab el Bardiyine neighbourhood of Meknes February 19, 2010. The four centuries-old mosque minaret collapsed in Morocco on Friday, killing at least 38 people and injuring more than 70 worshippers, hospital officials and witnesses said. Picture taken on February 19,2010

Africa

Moroccan medinas face uncertain fate

North African country neglects historic cities

Retired General Rick Hillier.

Timeline

The detainee controversy

As a retired judge is hired to resolve the detainees documents dispute, we take a look back at the issue.

Exclusive investigative reports examine Canadian and international food politics and production

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Table Matters

Is the 100-Mile Diet as healthy for the environment as claimed? Christina Stevens investigates in Part III of the series.

Ultra- Orthodox Jewish men stand in front of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City September 14, 2009.

Conflict

Apocalypse now?

Israeli and Palestinian rhetoric over 2-state solution grows extreme

Omar Khadr is seen in this undated portrait.

Timeline

From child soldier to controversial inmate

Eight years after being captured in Afghanistan, Canadian Omar Khadr wants to come home.

A man walks past the statue of Brazilian writer Carlos Drummond on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro February 19, 2010. Brazil, a country long associated with youthful beauty, is entering a period of rapid aging that will change its face. Nowhere is the change more visible than in Rio's Copacabana beach area, whose picture-postcard image of bikini-wearing young women and youths playing beach soccer belies its status as Brazil's elderly capital.

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Youthful Brazil faces challenge of rapid aging

Generous pension system threatens to undermine economic success

This file photo dated August 9, 2000 shows the right rear Firestone Wilderness tire that separated from its casing causing Randall Smithwick III to lose control and crash his 1998 Ford Explorer in Fort Lauderdale, FL.

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Recalls and rebounds

The recent recalls from Toyota are not the first time product recalls have hurt sales. We take a look at ecalls and rebounds.

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