
MONTREAL - Liberal Leader Stephane Dion says the Liberals are ready if the Tories call a general election next week.

INUVIK, N.W.T. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper summoned up the jowly ghost of one of his Conservative predecessors Thursday, announcing that John Diefenbaker would be both the name of Canada's new anywhere, anytime icebreaker and the inspiration for his vision of Arctic development.

HEBRON, West Bank (Reuters) - A charity in the West Bank offered shelter on Wednesday to a mentally handicapped Palestinian woman whose father had made her live for most of the past 20 years in a room under his house.
CALAIS, France (AFP) - A Canadian journalism student was raped in an isolated forest in the north of France as she reported on a makeshift camp housing illegal immigrants trying to get to Britain, officials said.

A drinking contest went horribly wrong when a young man died of what police believe was alcohol poisoning on the weekend, RCMP in Burnaby, B.C., said Wednesday.
MONTREAL - Airplanes operated by Zoom Airlines have been grounded in Calgary and Glasgow after the airline failed to pay several bills to government, airport, suppliers and the plane's owners.

LOS ANGELES - David Duchovny has entered a rehabilitation facility for sex addiction.

SYDNEY (AFP) - A Zimbabwean man faces up to 25 years in jail in Australia after allegedly attempting to smuggle heroin into the country, Customs said Friday.
A truck slammed into a crowded sushi restaurant on the Lougheed Highway at 203rd Street in Maple Ridge, B.C., on Thursday afternoon.

KATHMANDU (AFP) - Nepal's former rebel Maoists, who now lead the country's government, should immediately release children from their remaining guerrilla army, the United Nations said in a statement Tuesday.
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