On what is more akin to a sunny winter's stroll, U.S. troops proudly tread on a newly asphalted road, past a refurbished mosque and a crowded market overflowing with produce. Children dance around the soldiers' boots and bearded men stop them for a casual chat.

The majority of the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has voted to censure Iran for its nuclear defiance.

Japan and China have agreed to conduct joint exercises and expand their military exchanges, the defence ministers from the two countries said Friday.

Namibia's longtime ruling party may see its grip on this desert nation weakened in elections that began Friday, with a challenge from a new breakaway party hoping to attract voters dissatisfied with corruption and leadership scandals.

An Afghan-Canadian academic who returned to Afghanistan to serve as governor of the volatile Kandahar province survived an assassination attempt today.

An approaching global climate summit has raised the temperature at a typically low-key meeting of leaders from Britain's former colonial empire.

The medical student who died in a Utah cave was the third spelunker in recent years to get stuck in the same tiny crevice but the only one die - an outcome that devastated the dozens of rescuers who worked for more than a day to save him.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will join other leaders today at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth summit in Trinidad and Tobago.

Canadian journalist who was imprisoned by Iran in June is going to thank Canada in person today for its efforts in fighting for his release.

China promised to slow its carbon emissions, saying it would nearly halve the ratio of pollution to GDP over the next decade - a major move by the world's largest emitter, whose cooperation is crucial to any deal as a global climate summit approaches.

A politician whose wife and relatives were among 57 people massacred in the southern Philippines in an apparent bid to stop him from running for governor filed his candidacy Friday for the election.

An oil sketch by Group of Seven member Lawren Harris sold at auction Thursday night for $3.5 million, the second-highest price ever paid for a painting in Canada.

The couple who crashed a White House state dinner were being filmed that day by a camera crew connected with a reality television program, although none of the filming took place on White House grounds, a spokeswoman for the program's network said Thursday.

Toyota Canada Inc. said Thursday that an investigation into potential problems with its floor mats that forced a recall of four million vehicles in the United States, does not affect its Canadian vehicles.

Dissident Anglicans across Canada can part company with their church, but they may have to reconsider plans to take their buildings with them after a ruling by the B.C. Supreme Court.

The fall sitting of the Alberta legislature has ended after weeks of acrimonious debate on swine flu, power lines and Premier Ed Stelmach's leadership.

A Vancouver Island First Nation says members will occupy a former residential school in an effort to "claim back" the property from a Catholic missionary order.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has arrived in Trinidad and Tobago for a meeting of Commonwealth leaders.

The president, chief veterinarian and three other staff members of the Toronto Humane Society were arrested and charged with criminal offences Thursday.