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• Body of 10-year-old found, three others still...
  The body of a 10-year-old boy was recovered from the waters off the northeast coast of Newfoundland early Sunday morning, and search and rescue ...
• How does your garden grow?
  When it comes to garden tools, there are shears, spreaders, shovels and spades - and that's just gadgets that start with 'S.' Walk into the ...
• Large fracture from glacier likely to reach Canada's...
  The Greenland glacier believed to have given birth to the iceberg which sank the Titanic nearly a century ago has calved another massive chunk of ...
• Spain prevails in final filled with tension, yellow...
  JOHANNESBURG - If it is a Spanish masterpiece you were after, try Las Meninas by Velazquez at the Prado art gallery in Madrid. Because far from ...
• Flexibility, perks draw and retain employees
  Calgary - When Tara Murray was looking for a job, a flexible employer was essential to balancing the care of her three-year-old twins. So when ...
• Solving the mystery of celiac disease
  Five-year-old Alex McCallum recently found out she's a celiac. It's a club she didn't want to join. None of the one in 133 North Americans who ...
• The Heat is on for Bosh
  TORONTO - Chris Bosh is leaving the Toronto Raptors. That much was expected. However, it is the manner in which Bosh bolted Canada's only ...
• Probert loses 'the fight of his life'
  Windsor, Ont. - He was a legendary on-ice brawler who fought personal battles with booze, drugs and the law - then found redemption in good deeds ...
• Tennis anyone?
  Tennis, anyone? How about: tennis, everyone? That's the new rallying cry for this portable sport that has been courting a growing number of ...
• Keep your eyes on the road
  Toronto - Accident victims injured by distracted drivers in Ontario may soon be looking to an unexpected source for compensation: that driver's ...
• Flames apparently don't believe they can be twice...
  No doubt, the Flames caused a frenzy on free agent day. It wasn't the kind Calgary fans were counting on. While the biggest prize remained on ...
• Finally, World Cup vitriol runneth over
  Nothing like some translated trash talk to get the juices flowing. There's so much spittin' going on, you'd think Cristiano Ronaldo had gone and ...
• Blown call adds to English misery
  The anger and indignation is destined to rage long and loud. Brace yourself: The irrefutable video evidence will be replayed more often than the ...
• Two Canadian medics killed in Afghanistan
  Two Canadian medics were killed Saturday morning, including the third Canadian woman to die in combat, when the armoured vehicle they were ...
• More than 300 G20 protesters charged by early Sunday...
  The number of protesters arrested has climbed to more than 300 and officers expect more arrests will be made following a riot early Sunday ...
• Italy left to pick up pieces from dismal effort
  There hasn't been this degree of caterwhauling and overwrought histrionics for ages. Or at least not since the curtain raised on the last ...
• The age of flatulence
  One of the jokes in the lazy comedy Grown Ups is that a sexy buff guy at a swimming pool approaches some admiring women and speaks to them in a ...
• Habs' GM feels optimistic
  LOS ANGELES - Montreal Canadiens general manager Pierre Gauthier was feeling good about his team heading into the NHL entry draft and the ...
• Update: One Michigan kayaker missing, one found
  A Michigan kayaker missing off Newfoundland clung to his companion's craft for nearly two hours before succumbing to exhaustion, his daughter ...
• We'll get medals for shame'
  Johannesburg - One of the perks of the job of Italian national soccer player is that despite the million-euro pay packets you still get free duds ...
• The write stuff
  Tyler Seguin can add another accolade to his already bulky resume: Ultimate team guy. On this afternoon, just a couple of weeks before he's ...
• Duck and weave
  If you read a late May story by the Canwest News Service on heart attack rates in Canada - and this province's spot at the top of the risk list - ...
• Wounded insurgent was alive before soldier shot him,...
  An Afghan interpreter known only as "Max" told a court martial Saturday that he praised Capt. Robert Semrau when the Canadian infantry officer ...
• $50 M jackpot goes unclaimed for 3rd week in a row
  Thirty Canadians became millionaires overnight, but no one had the winning ticket to the whopping $50 million bounty, part of the largest prize ...
• Swiss don't miss out on chance of huge upset
  DURBAN, South Africa - That indefinable but unmistakable roar, the emotionally charged fission which signifies the slaying of a giant, ...
• Brazil not great, but good enough in opener
  JOHANNESBURG - There's something about those canary yellow and blue uniforms. Gets you every time. The insidious beat of Brazilian drums joined ...
• Hunting for the ancestoral Home
  Like many who are interested in genealogy, part of the search for my family's history has included research into details on where my ancestors ...
• Chevron confident in drilling safety
  Chevron Canada is confident it can safely drill its deepwater well off the northeast coast of Newfoundland - and avoid a massive oil spill like ...
• More than a game
  From the stunning scenery unfolding beneath you as the cable-car slides up the jagged outline of Cape Town's justly-fabled Table Mountain to the ...
• Plenty of storylines to keep soccer fans engaged
  It's bigger than Dancing with the Stars; bigger than Justin Bieber and the Blackhawks in Chicago. Yes, it's the FIFA World Cup, and like a good ...