CANADA
#1 — CNews | Pet wallaby on the loose in Edmonton area
EDMONTON — Edmonton’s resident “marsupial on the loose” may still be at large just west of this city.
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#2 — Globe | MPs blind to government spending because of arcane rules: report
A new report says wonky rules are keeping MPs in the dark about the billions in government spending they should be scrutinizing.
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#3 — LFP | Old school needs new users
City hall is looking for partners and a new use for the 112-year-old former London Normal School in the heart of South London.
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The diminutive Filipina woman speaks little English but managed to say her wish was “to look Hollywood.” Her cosmetic surgeon figured she wanted to look like “a porn star” and went to work on her.
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#5 — OC | No place for Mohamed
OTTAWA — A few weeks ago, late on a Friday afternoon, Mohamed Ahmed made a break for it. The 25-year-old slipped away from the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital — his home of five months — and hopped on a Greyhound bus.
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WORLD
#6 — BBC | Saudi religious police accused over fatal accident
A family in Saudi Arabia has accused religious police of being responsible for a fatal car accident.
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#7 — CNN | Board: No plans to change Paterno’s contract
(CNN) – The day after an internal review blasted Penn State for its handling of a child sex abuse scandal that implicated top administrators, including the school’s iconic head football coach, the board of trustees made it clear that a lucrative deal the university made with Joe Paterno that now benefits his estate will still stand.
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#8 — Fox | Sen. Paul eyes floor vote on stripping Pakistan aid unless jailed doctor released
The case of Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor imprisoned after helping the CIA track Usama bin Laden, hasn’t fallen by the wayside just yet.
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#9 — DM | Cameron ‘forced Lords vote to save Clegg from mutiny’, claim Tory insiders
David Cameron launched his ‘disastrous’ bid to drive through House of Lords reform to save Nick Clegg from a Liberal Democrat party putsch, it was claimed last night.
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DM | Hitchens: We’ll get a House of Toadies – however this fake fight ends
Telegraph | ‘Secret No 10 computer’ reopens cash-for-honours row for Blair
#10 — Telegraph | Child rapist’s deportation stopped by immigration court
The UK Border Agency has reacted angrily to a court ruling allowing Sani Adil Ali, a Sudanese asylum seeker who raped a 12-year-old girl, to remain in Britain.
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