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Witnesses said they heard what sounded like an explosion in a weekend incident that has resulted in the closure of Dubai's 160-floor Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower.

U.S. forces, backed up by Afghan army troops and their Canadian trainers, began a preliminary operation Tuesday in advance of an expected offensive to take the largest Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.

An Australian man who was held in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison for years and released without ever being charged is set to relive his experiences in a new play opening Tuesday night.

The Olympic flame left Canada just briefly Tuesday as it crossed into the United States at the Peace Arch border crossing south of Vancouver for a special ceremony.

Chinese consumers bought 1.32 million cars in January, solidifying the country's status as the world's largest auto market.

A buildup of ice in the fuel lines of a Boeing 777 jet caused its crash-landing at London's Heathrow Airport two years ago, a British accident report confirms.

Iran says it would back off plans to enrich its stockpile of uranium if the West provides nuclear fuel needed for its research reactor.

Quebec medical workers returning from a relief mission in Haiti are urging authorities to suspend rules they say are delaying help for the disaster-ridden country.

An Ontario man was among the five people killed in Sunday's explosion at a power plant under construction in Middleton, Conn.

Dr. Conrad Murray, who was caring for Michael Jackson at the time of the pop star's death, has pleaded not guilty after being charged Monday with involuntary manslaughter.

Aid groups planned to launch an emergency vaccination campaign in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday in a bid to ward off measles, diphtheria and tetanus.

Premier Danny Williams was released Friday from the intensive care unit of a hospital in the United States where he underwent heart surgery Thursday, the premier's office says.

The pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych is the apparent winner of Ukraine's presidential run-off election, with a lead of almost three per cent by the latest count, which includes 99 per cent of ballots.

The observation deck of the world's tallest tower in Dubai has unexpectedly shut down, a little more than a month after it opened to international fanfare.

Thousands of residents near the Afghan town of Marja are fleeing their homes in anticipation of an expected NATO offensive against the Taliban stronghold.

Residents and road crews in Washington, D.C., began the long process Saturday night of digging out from one of the biggest snowstorms in history to hit the U.S. capital.

Toyota Motor Corp. said Sunday that it will soon announce plans to deal with braking problems in its prized Prius hybrid amid reports it has decided to issue a recall for the vehicle in Japan.

Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his country's atomic energy agency on Sunday to begin the production of higher-enriched uranium.

A small plane towing a glider collided in flight with another aircraft north of Boulder, Colo., on Saturday, killing at least three people.

A winter storm that threatened to dump 75 centimetres of snow on Washington, D.C., sent people flocking to stores Friday to buy shovels and groceries in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region.

Haitian officials are developing a new urban plan in part to regulate the use of construction materials following the widespread collapse of hundreds of buildings in the recent earthquake.

A suicide bomber set off two explosions in a crowd of Shia pilgrims heading to a holy city south of Baghdad, killing at least 32 and wounding 154 people, Iraqi officials said.

Three British members of the House of Commons and one member of the House of Lords will face criminal charges in connection with the expenses scandal that has rocked that country's political system.

Police and justice powers in Northern Ireland will be transferred from London to Belfast by April 12 under a breakthrough agreement unveiled Friday.

A lifeguard who tried to save the life of a man attacked by a shark while kite-boarding off south Florida's Atlantic Coast said it brought back memories of his own attack almost 25 years ago.

Danish special forces stormed an Antigua and Barbuda-flagged cargo ship after reports it had been seized by Somali pirates early Friday and freed the 25 crew members.

Michael Jackson's doctor has agreed to surrender to authorities Friday to face a criminal case stemming from the singer's death, his lawyer said Thursday.

Canadian companies will get access to funding from U.S. economic stimulus projects in 37 U.S. states under a deal to circumvent the protectionist "Buy American" clause, CBC News has learned.