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NEWARK, N.J. - The mayor and police director of New Jersey's largest city said Wednesday the New York Police Department misled their city and never told them it was conducting a widespread spying operation on Newark's Muslim neighbourhoods. Had they known, they said, they never would have allowed it.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Yamana Gold reported on Wednesday an 8 percent increase in fourth-quarter adjusted profit on higher precious metal prices and a boost in concentrate sales volume. The Toronto-based gold miner also announced an 11 percent boost in its overall reserves and said it would increase its annual dividend by …

Yamana Gold Inc. said Wednesday it will increase its quarterly dividend by 10 per cent as the mid-tier gold producer reported lower profits after investment writedowns.

LONDON - Unheralded Swiss side FC Basel added Bayern Munich to its list of Champions League conquests Wednesday, beating the four-time European champions 1-0.

(Reuters) - Rising New York Knicks star Jeremy Lin has not only sparked NBA basketball interest in Taiwan, he may also inspire fans to learn English, according to people at the website "English, baby!" With 1.6 million registered members and about a million hits a month, the educational website (www.englishbaby.com) has …

CALGARY - Talisman Energy Inc. and Mitsubishi are looking at exporting liquefied natural gas from Papua New Guinea under a joint venture deal announced Wednesday — the Japanese company's second move in a week to secure gas assets from a Canadian producer.

As anyone familiar with the trajectory of global economic growth knows, the coming decades seem destined to belong to the so-called "emerging markets." Over the course of our six-part invetment series, The Mark will take the viewer to the powerhouses of China, India, and Brazil as well as to less traditional spaces such …

Eric Mueller's vacation started when his plane filled with smoke. Soon, people slid down an emergency chute, inflated life vests and climbed into a raft.

ZURICH - A FIFA expert panel wants players to exchange more handshakes on the field to improve the game's image and sportsmanship.

TORONTO - Canada's largest thermal coal producer, Sherritt International Corp. (TSX:S), says fourth-quarter earnings fell by a third as it took a hit from an early debt redemption.

(Reuters) - Diversified miner Sherritt International Corp reported a 34 percent fall in fourth-quarter profit, hurt by a premium payment and price declines in nickel and cobalt. For the October-December quarter, net profit fell to C$28.1 million, or 9 Canadian cents a share, from C$42.7 million, or 14 Canadian cents a share. …

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez has raised serious doubts about whether he'll have the stamina for a successful re-election bid, revealing that he needs to return to Cuba to have a lesion removed that is probably malignant.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Michael Jackson's doctor was properly sentenced to four years behind bars in the star's death and should not be released on bail, prosecutors argued Tuesday in a response to his bid for release while his case is appealed.

RCMP and CP Rail are investigating after a man was hit by a train in Banff on Tuesday night.

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Raul Castro's full-court press on corruption has gone the local equivalent of viral, as videos with bribery confessions by foreign and Cuban businessmen make the rounds of the communist-run island's state companies. The videos shown to senior staff and party members are the latest addition …

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. - Archer Daniels Midland Co. said Tuesday that it is firing 175 people at its headquarters in Illinois as part of a plan to cut what it now says will be 1,200 mostly salaried jobs across the company.

VANCOUVER - European Goldfields Ltd. (TSX:EGU) and Eldorado Gold Corp. (TSX:ELD) say a majority of shareholders of both companies have approved Eldorado's takeover offer.

OTTAWA - A lawyer for Mohamed Harkat says the security certificate process being used to deport the Algerian refugee is unconstitutional.

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EL ALTO, Bolivia - The little buses looked like any others as they rattled down the dirt streets of El Alto, collecting people headed to work in the pre-dawn chill.

A man from Sudbury is in Chile testing a $3 million mining robot he helped design and build.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s chief executive will step down in May for personal reasons.

AMSTERDAM - TNT Express NV sidestepped questions Monday about a hostile UPS takeover bid, announcing instead an abrupt switch in strategy to focus on its European operations after posting a large fourth-quarter loss partly due to problems at its Brazilian arm.