OTTAWA - The Tory government has laid out a few more details of its Afghanistan exit strategy just days before an expected federal election call.
WENDOVER, Utah - A 47-year-old record-setting motorcycle racer from Montana has died in a crash on the Bonneville Salt Flats.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Premier Danny Williams denies he's threatened Conservatives in Newfoundland and Labrador who work for Prime Minister Stephen Harper during a federal election campaign.

BEIJING (AFP) - Authorities in China's Muslim-populated far northwest are seeking to prevent mass prayers and the distribution of religious material as part of a security crackdown for Ramadan, government notices said.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has nominated Nova Scotia appeal judge Thomas Cromwell to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.

ST PAUL, Minnesota (AFP) - Nine million Hispanic voters scattered across battleground states pose a dilemma for Republican White House hopeful John McCain: how to win their support without angering his party's base.

ST PAUL, Minnesota (AFP) - Barack Obama said the US troop surge in Iraq had succeeded beyond anybody's "wildest dreams" prompting Republicans to say he showed poor judgment by at first opposing the operation.
PARIS (AFP) - A 59-year-old Frenchwoman is due to give birth to triplets after receiving an egg donation in Vietnam, the Paris hospital treating her said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON - At the National Governors Association conference where she first met John McCain, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had other business: making her case to U.S. Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne against classifying the polar bear as a threatened species.
Two youths are in hospital after the rollover of an all-terrain vehicle Thursday evening just outside Grand Cache, 435 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.
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