With his voice breaking with emotion, Roy Lemaire remembered his baby brother Monday as an outgoing, friendly man who would strike up a conversation with anyone and never hesitate to offer a helping hand.

Wall Street recorded its biggest rally since the 1930s Monday as governments around the globe pledged trillions of dollars to bail out the teetering financial system.

As she prepares to cast her vote on Tuesday, Lena Smirnova is dismayed that homelessness has remained a largely invisible issue in this federal election campaign.

It will be all Halloween treats for retailers and customers at the Bayshore Shopping Centre this year.

Chris Hesson kicks open the warped door leading from the garage to the kitchen of his former home and looks into a chaotic scene.

A wind-driven brush fire, Southern California’s first big conflagration of the season, roared out the foothills and canyons of the Angeles National Forest on Monday, threatening hundreds of homes on the northern fringe of Los Angeles.

After polls close Tuesday night Canadians will wait to see who wins but historians, academics and political observers will also keep an eye on another result - the number of Canadians that exercised their democratic right to vote.

International passenger traffic slowed to a five-year low in July and sagged further in August, but the International Air Transport Association and its 230 member-airlines feel compelled to push ahead with their Green Vision.

Quebecers will prevent Prime Minister Stephen Harper from forming a majority government when Canadians go to the polls, Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe predicted Monday.

Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes champion Big Brown has been retired after suffering an injury during a workout, his handlers said on Monday.

Lance Armstrong will race in next year's Giro d'Italia for the first time as part of his cycling comeback, the seven-times Tour de France winner said on Monday.

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The revolving door on the Jason Spezza-Dany Heatley line is spinning again. Following stints by Jesse Winchester, Daniel Alfredsson, and Jarkko Ruutu as the third man, Nick Foligno will now get a chance to play with the dynamic duo.

Coast guard, military, police and immigration officials are searching the waters of English Bay this morning for three Bangladeshi crew members who disappeared from a freighter during the night, say Coast Guard search and rescue officials.

A braking system for cars that has widely been hailed as the most important safety innovation since the seatbelt, could save almost 1,000 Canadian lives a year.

NDP Leader Jack Layton is staying grounded for the final day of the campaign, choosing a bus tour of Toronto-area targeted ridings, instead of the cross-country marathons of past elections.

Stock markets rejoiced after governments worldwide launched multibillion-dollar bailouts on Monday to shore up banks, and Britain called for a new Bretton Woods agreement to reshape the world financial system.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Stephan Dion began a coast-to-coast race Monday for one last chance to get their message out to voters who choose the next Canadian government on Tuesday.

U.S. economist Paul Krugman, a well-known critic of the Bush administration for policies that he argues led to the current financial crisis, won the 2008 Nobel prize for economics on Monday.