The Dalai Lama brushed off Chinese protests and travelled Sunday to a remote Himalayan town near the Tibetan border to lead five days of prayers and teaching sessions for Buddhist pilgrims.

Twenty years ago Monday, they danced atop the Berlin Wall, feet thudding on the cold concrete, arms raised in victory, hands clasped in friendship and giddy hope.

A suicide bomber apparently targeting an anti-Taliban mayor struck a crowded market Sunday in northwest Pakistan, killing the mayor and 11 other people and injuring dozens, police said.

The Sudanese government and rebel groups in Darfur refuse to abandon the military option and are increasingly violating a U.N. arms embargo with the help of dual-use vehicles and aircraft, a U.N. panel said in a new report.

A member of a team sent to Honduras to monitor implementation of a U.S.-brokered deal says interim leaders violated the accord by forming a unity government without the ousted president's input.

Students and university officials started getting emails last year in which a prominent Judaic studies scholar seemed to make a startling confession: He had committed plagiarism.

How to stimulate Ontario's economy while protecting the environment at the same time was the focus of the Good Green Jobs for All conference in Toronto on Saturday.

A U.S. Army spokesman says the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood has been taken off a ventilator but still remains in intensive care at a military hospital.

A child's rendition of O Canada in Cree and a spirited torch handoff by 20 exuberant runners highlighted day nine of the cross-Canada torch relay.

The Mexican army said Saturday it has seized a shipment of almost a quarter-ton of opium in the country's northern mountains, one of the largest such seizures made in Mexico.

Thousands of devout Buddhists poured into this remote Indian mountain town, arriving in packed trucks or on foot after trekking for miles along narrow paths for a rare chance to glimpse the Dalai Lama.

With an average age of 86 and a fatality rate of 500 per week, Second World War veterans, a valuable and dwindling resource, are being urged to share their stories of valour and sacrifice with a new generation before it's too late.

A brother of the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood says the Army psychiatrist is a peaceful person - and hopes he will be treated fairly by the legal system.

The USS New York, built with steel from the rubble of the World Trade Center, was put into service Saturday both as a symbol of healing and strength.

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has dismissed the idea of imposing tax on financial transactions to guard against another crisis in the banking sector.

With the words "Let's roll" - the command issued by United Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer to lead the passenger revolt against the Sept. 11 hijackers - U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and 39 victims' relatives and dignitaries turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for a permanent national memorial.

Prince Charles set pomp aside and had Vancouver hearts glowing Saturday, putting people at ease by hamming it up with dancing Olympic mascots and trying on fuzzy Maple Leaf-adorned mittens with his wife Camilla.

A Minnesota teen who fled the state to avoid chemotherapy has finished his cancer treatment.

A man is facing charges including theft of a police vehicle and assaulting an officer after an arrest gone wrong in Labrador.