Canada
#1 — CNews | 5 products that cost way more in Canada
With the Canadian dollar flirting with parity with the U.S. dollar yet again, Canadians can't help but consider shopping stateside to score some great discounts. (Use coupons strategically to score big savings on everyday purchases.
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#2 — CNews | Man charged in B.C. teen's death
B.C. police have charged a 20-year-old man in the death of a teen girl.
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#3 — CNews | Cop faces rape charges against three women
SUDBURY, Ont. – A Greater Sudbury Police officer raped a woman while his German shepherd sat next to them in the man's bedroom in November 1992, court heard Monday.
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#4 — Globe | Parole hearing a ‘soapbox’ for Clifford Olson
Twenty-nine years after serial killer Clifford Olson was led away to serve a life sentence for a rampage that left 11 young people dead, he will try to persuade parole authorities that he is safe for release.
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#5 — LFP | Royal Canadian Navy an 'elegant' name: Prof.
OTTAWA — Changing the name of Maritime Command to the Canadian Navy — or CN — would cause confusion between it and the national railway, according to the dean of law at the University of Western Ontario.
Also, the Royal Canadian Navy has an “elegance” to it.
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#6 — NP | Mayor Ford’s first stop: Hit brakes on Transit City
Rob Ford has called a meeting at City Hall on Wednesday morning at which he is expected, in his first move as mayor, to tell the head of the TTC to stop building the Transit City light-rail network.
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#7 — NP | Murder trial of aboriginal activist to begin after 35 years
Thirty-five years after Canadian aboriginal activist Anna Mae Pictou-Aquash was gunned down in an execution-style murder in the South Dakota badlands, Vancouver resident John Graham, 55, is scheduled to go on trial this week for her murder.
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#8 — OC | New MPs enter Parliament with little idea of their job: study
OTTAWA — Canada’s members of Parliament have disparate and often conflicting ideas about what constitutes their job and don’t get much training on how to be an MP, a new study reveals.
The result, according to the group Samara, is “confusion, partisanship and a relentless focus on the short-term, and in particular, on the next election.”
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#9 — MG | Hockey world bids farewell to Pat Burns
MONTREAL- A who's who of the world of hockey attended a two-hour funeral for former Canadiens coach Pat Burns Monday afternoon at Montreal's Mary Queen of the World Cathedral.
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World
#10 — BBC | Travel disruption as snow spreads across UK
Fresh snow has been falling across many parts of the UK, bringing disruption to some areas not previously affected.
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DM | Commuters warned to head home early as London's rail network is crippled by snow
#11 — BBC | Students cause chaos around Italy in cuts protest
Italian student protesters have been causing major disruption in the capital, Rome, and other cities as MPs debate a bill on education reform.
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#12 — BBC | Commonwealth Games officials' homes raided in India
Indian police have raided 11 locations in connection with alleged financial malpractices at the Commonwealth Games.
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#13 — CNN | Senate approves long-delayed food safety bill
Washington (CNN) — The Senate passed a food safety bill Tuesday to give more power to the Food and Drug Administration, more than a year after the House of Representatives passed a similar measure.
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#14 — CNN | Female police chief killed in Mexico
(CNN) — One of a small number of women who have filled a void by becoming police chiefs in violence-torn Mexico was gunned down Monday, authorities said.
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#15 — CNN | TRENDING: Palin must be stopped, says Scarborough
(CNN) – Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC host and former conservative congressman from Florida, says its time for members of his party to get off the sidelines and express their true feelings about Sarah Palin.
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#16 — CNN | Last unemployment check is in the mail
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Although the deadline to file for extended unemployment insurance is officially Nov. 30, many jobless have already filed their last claim for benefits.
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#17 — Fox | Volcano flows force hundreds in Indonesia to flee
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia – Hundreds of people in Indonesia have fled their homes to escape fast-moving mudflows streaming down the slopes of the country's most volatile volcano.
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#18 — DM | WikiLeaks website brought down in U.S. and Europe by 'powerful' cyber attack 'from China'
The WikiLeaks website today said that it was under a forceful internet-based attack with the site inaccessible to users in U.S. and Europe.
The site, which just distributed a trove of U.S. diplomatic documents, said in a Twitter message on that it is under a 'distributed denial of service attack,' a method commonly used by hackers to slow down or bring down sites.
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Scientists have discovered how a rare metal is able to absorb sunlight and store it as pure heat until it is needed.
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#20 — Independent | Figures show large rise in number of hate crimes
More than 50,000 hate crimes were reported across England, Wales and Northern Ireland last year, figures showed today.
These included more than 43,000 race-related crimes and almost 5,000 incidents motivated by whether a person was straight, gay or bisexual, the police service figures showed.
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#21 — Telegraph | Gaddafi demands £4 billion from EU or Europe will turn 'black'
Muammar Gaddafi has demanded that the European Union give him more than £4 billion to fight illegal immigration or else Europe will turn "black" and be swamped by Muslims.
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A new arms race will erupt if Russia cannot agree with the West about a joint European missile defence program, according to Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian President.
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