A Toronto firm is suing the federal Liberal party for more than $8 million and demanding it cease using the firm's name "Green Shift" for its carbon-tax plan.

Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty says he will lead a trade mission to China in the fall with an emphasis on environmental technologies.

Despite its name, this year's Group of Eight summit had a cast of more than two dozen - and the G8 leaders said they would keep inviting heads of state from all over the world to give a global spin to their annual meetings.

Premier Dalton McGuinty says he's rethinking a promise to ensure gasoline sold in the province contains 10 per cent ethanol fuel by 2010.

Nova Scotia's Natural Resources Department has imposed a ban on open fires in all areas of the province.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has lashed out at the United States over its plans for a nuclear missile shield in Europe.

Sudan's official news agency says five peacekeepers from an African Union-United Nations force have been killed and 17 others are missing after they were ambushed in Darfur.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was collecting Bulgaria's highest honor on Wednesday for her help in securing Libya's release of six medics nearly a year ago.

fired nine long-and medium-range missiles Wednesday during war games that officials say are in response to U.S. and Israeli threats, state television reported.

A 14,500-year-old woolly mammoth skeleton dug up in 1994 has been unveiled at the Milwaukee Public Museum, giving locals a glimpse of perhaps the most intact specimen discovered in North America.

Armed men attacked a police guardpost outside the U.S. consulate in Istanbul on Wednesday, and the ensuing clash killed three officers and three of the assailants, officials said.

An Israel-Hamas truce has boiled down to a simple trade-off: For a day of calm, Israel adds five truckloads of cows and more than 200 tonnes of cement to the barest basics it ships to Gaza, but rocket fire from the territory reseals the border for a day.

A U.S. Marines commander said Wednesday his troops have killed 400 insurgents in southern Afghanistan since late April.

The deputy mayor of Nablus says israeli troops raided Nablus city hall on Wednesday in what appears to be part of an ongoing crackdown on institutions the army believes are linked to Hamas in the West Bank.

A German shipping company says pirates off the coast of Somalia have released one of its cargo ships after holding the vessel and crew for 41 days.

There's a rite of passage that's as common as parades, flapjack breakfasts and bronco bustin' at the Calgary Stampede each year - it's the annual stampede of politicians taking in the event.

Police say a man is scaling the side of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters in Manhattan.

Emerging economies are objecting to a roadmap laid out by the Group of Eight industrialized nations that would see the world's greenhouse gases halved by 2050.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired nine long-and medium-range missiles Wednesday in war games officials say are in response to U.S. and Israeli threats, state television reported.