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Powerful car bomb hits Syria city

Middle East - 25 min 8 sec ago
At least seven people are killed and dozens injured after a powerful car bomb explodes in eastern Syria, officials say.

SpaceX rocket launch aborted at last second

CBC News - 41 min 6 sec ago

The countdown reached all the way to practically zero Saturday morning for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, but there was an automatic shutdown by on-board computers, a NASA spokesman said.

Aborted lift-off for spaceship

Environment - 58 min 56 sec ago
The US firm SpaceX aborts the lift-off of its Falcon rocket and Dragon ship to the International Space Station.

Barack Obama welcomes G8 leaders

Business News - 59 min 6 sec ago
US President Obama hosts an opening dinner for G8 leaders, discussing North Korea, Syria and Iran, with the eurozone crisis likely to top Saturday's agenda.

'Debt deterring would-be doctors'

Health - 1 hour 1 min ago
The prospect of high student debt and increased pension contributions could discourage young people from entering medicine, a senior doctor warns.

Activist Chen 'to leave China'

US & Canada - 2 hours 39 min ago
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose stay at the US embassy sparked a diplomatic crisis, says he is at Beijing airport expecting to go to the US.

Montreal protest deemed illegal after Molotov cocktails thrown

CBC News - 7 hours 1 min ago

Authorities cracked down on thousands of protesters, many of them students, flooding downtown Montreal near the Berri-UQÀM metro station Friday night after Molotov cocktails were thrown.

OPP errors haunt family of missing girl

CBC News - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 23:55

The family of Christine Harron, an Ontario teenager who vanished 19 years ago today, recently learned of a string of police errors that allowed the proceedings against a man who confessed to assaulting and killing the teenage girl to be permanently stayed.

US baby boomers in Hep C warning

US & Canada - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 23:02
US baby boomers are advised to get tested for the liver-destroying virus hepatitis C, in a move health officials say could save 120,000 lives.

Concussion risk for rugby players

Health - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 22:04
Do repeated concussions lead to brain damage?

Private spaceship set for launch

US & Canada - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 21:44
California's SpaceX company is preparing to launch to the space station - the first resupply mission to the orbiting outpost by a private company.

Al-Qaeda's hidden war in Yemen

Middle East - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 21:38
Yemeni forces strike at al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

Huge economic challenge awaits Egypt's next leader

Middle East - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 21:26
Egypt's economic crisis sets major task for country's next leader

Huge economic challenge awaits Egypt's next leader

Business News - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 21:26
Egypt's economic crisis sets major task for country's next leader

Euro row brews on G8 summit's eve

US & Canada - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 21:09
Claims that Germany's chancellor suggested debt-stricken Greece should reconsider its place in the eurozone spark a row as the US hosts G8 leaders.

Fishermen rescued after 10 days on B.C. island

CBC News - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 20:31

Three fishermen stranded on a B.C. island for 10 days after their boat sank have been rescued.

Pawnbrokers attracting new custom

Business News - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 20:01
Offering shoes and handbags as security for a loan

Argentine gas exports cancelled

Business News - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 19:41
Spanish energy giant Repsol cancels a contract to provide gas to Argentina, in a continuing row after Buenos Aries nationalised one of its subsidiaries.

PM warns Hollande over tax plan

Politics - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 19:18
UK PM David Cameron warns French President Francois Hollande that Britain will not accept a Europe-wide financial transaction tax, saying it is not a "sensible measure".

Maryland allows same-sex divorce

US & Canada - Fri, 05/18/2012 - 18:10
The highest court in Maryland allows gay couples to divorce, even though same-sex marriage is not yet allowed in that US state.