Canada
#1 — CNews | Cop forced to pay up for groin attack
CALGARY – Calling a city cop's conduct "reprehensible," a judge has awarded more than $200,000 in damages to a former Calgary resident who was kneed by the officer in the groin.
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#2 — CNews | Ontario's Highway 402 reopens
SARNIA, Ont. – After three long days, storm-battered Highway 402 between Sarnia and London, Ont., is open in both directions.
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#3 — CNews | Maritime storm, flooding lets up
The power is being restored in Nova Scotia and water levels are going down in New Brunswick after heavy rainstorms blasted both provinces this week.
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#4 — Globe | Mentally ill youth needing treatment get it through criminal justice system
At 17, he was out of school, living on his own and occasionally stealing cough syrup from drug stores in Halifax.
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#5 — Globe | Flaherty pitches private-sector retirement plan
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty wants to encourage Canadians to save more for retirement – particularly self-employed workers and those who do not currently have a company pension plan.
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#6 — LFP | Fontana advances 2012 tax
The mayor who rode into city hall vowing to freeze taxes is now doing the unexpected — mulling a new tax on Londoners in 2012.
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#7 — NP | Conservatives have either 39% support, or 31%. Or maybe it’s 33%.
Ipsos Reid says the Conservatives have 39% support from decided voters, the Liberals have 29% and the NDP 12%. Greens have 9%.
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#8 — OC | Feds warn against legal hallucinogen
VANCOUVER — Health Canada is warning people to avoid using the hallucinogenic Mexican herb Salvia divinorum — made famous in a Internet video showing pop star Miley Cyrus smoking the stuff — until its effects are better understood.
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#9 — MG | System didn't protect children: lawyer
MONTREAL – "The system failed in many ways," says the lawyer of a Montreal woman whose children were shot, allegedly by their father, Monday in Texas.
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#10 — Star | Ontario cabinet minister to seek federal seat
Labour Minister Peter Fonseca, a rising star in Premier Dalton McGuinty’s provincial government, is pinning his political future on federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
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World
#11 — BBC | Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is granted bail
The founder of whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been granted conditional bail by a judge.
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#12 — BBC | Ivory Coast troops fire on Alassane Ouattara supporters
Three protesters have been killed in Ivory Coast after soldiers fired on crowds trying to take over state TV.
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#13 — CNN | 22 dead in Nepal plane crash
Kathmandu, Nepal (CNN) — A DeHavilland DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft that went missing en route from Lamidanda to Kathmandu in eastern Nepal crashed in a mountainous area east of the capital, killing all 22 people aboard, an airport spokesman said Thursday.
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#14 — Fox | Danish police ordered to pay over summit arrests
COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Police in Denmark's capital were ordered Thursday to pay financial compensation to protesters at last year's climate summit in Copenhagen because many were held for hours with little access to water or toilets.
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The daughter of a leading British nuclear health physicist faces a mandatory death sentence in Malaysia for drugs trafficking after a police raid on a holiday resort.
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Irish pro-life campaigners reacted furiously today after the European Union ruled that a law banning abortion should be lifted.
In a landmark judgment, the European Court of Human Rights harshly criticised Ireland's inaction on the issue, stating that the current situation violated the rights of pregnant women.
The decision is also likely to spark fury among many Irish Catholics who maintain that abortion should be illegal.
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#17 — DM | Britain's ugliest dog finally finds a loving home
With his bug eyes, wildly crooked teeth and sparsely-whiskered chin, scrawny Ug sat for months, unclaimed and overlooked at an animal sanctuary.
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#18 — Independent | David Cameron: Country's electricity supply clapped out
David Cameron said today that the country's electricity supply is "clapped out" as the Government unveiled plans to encourage low-carbon energy.
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#19 — Telegraph | Stockholm bomber: police fear accomplice is on the loose
Police in Sweden are increasingly convinced the Stockholm bomber had an accomplice after fresh analysis of his suicide tape revealed the presence of a second person by his side.
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#20 — Telegraph | Brazil's politicians vote to give themselves 62 per cent pay rise
Brazilian politicians have voted to give themselves a 62 per cent pay rise, increasing their salaries to more than 50 times the minimum wage.
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