VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Two pontiffs, each wearing white and each called "pope" living a few yards (meters) apart, with the same archbishop serving both. $200 Promo Code on Air New Zealand
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Man who set friend ablaze at Kelowna, B.C., house party gets 18 months in jail
KELOWNA, B.C. – A man who set his sleeping friend on fire during a house party in Kelowna, B.C., has received an 18-month jail sentence.
Mexico says 26,121 missing during drug war
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexico’s new administration says an official count shows at least 26,121 people reported missing during the term of President Felipe Calderon, who launched the country’s offensive against drug cartels.
Cuba says cigar sales $416 million last year
HAVANA (AP) -- Cuban cigar sales rose last year despite the ongoing economic crisis in some of the most important European markets including No. 1 buyer Spain, state-run tobacco company officials said Tuesday.
Appeal court affirms order to Toews to accept prisoner transfer from U.S.
TORONTO – The Federal Appeal Court has upheld an order to Public Safety Minister Vic Toews to accept the transfer to Canada of a prisoner serving his sentence in a U.S. jail for drug possession.
Chavez's return spurs doubts, new speculation
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) -- President Hugo Chavez's continued silence in the week since his return to Venezuela has only deepened the mystery about his health. Lopes-Schliep pregnant with second child; has sights set on 2016 Rio Games
WHITBY, Ont. – Priscilla Lopes-Schliep rebounded from pregnancy to run Canada’s fastest time in the 100-metre hurdles last season.
Canadian Press NewsAlert: Alberta officer shot outside courthouse: mayor
WHITECOURT, Alta. – Mayor of Whitecourt says an Alberta sheriff has been shot outside the town’s courthouse.
Montreal's populist former archbishop says Canadian pope a possibility
MONTREAL – Montreal’s populist former archbishop says Quebecers will be proud if one of their own becomes the new pontiff.
Israelis plan to press Obama to free convicted spy
JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's Nobel-laureate president, backed by thousands of followers, is leading an effort to press President Barack Obama during his upcoming visit to free convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, ending one of the most painful episodes between the two allies. Alberta regulator slams Plains Midstream over massive 2011 oil pipeline spill
CALGARY – Alberta's energy regulator is sharply critical of a company responsible for a massive 2011 oil pipeline spill that fouled land in the northwest part of the province.
As atrocities pile up, Syrians collect evidence
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian activist Yashar hopes the security agents who tormented him dur ing five months of detention will one day be put on trial. In detention, he says, he was locked naked in a tiny box for a week, beaten daily during marathon interrogations and blindfolded for 45 days. Fierce clashes near landmark mosque in Syria
BEIRUT (AP) -- Syrian rebels battled government troops near a landmark 12th century mosque in the northern city of Aleppo on Tuesday, while fierce clashes raged around a police academy west of the city, activists said. A look at the deadliest hot air balloon accidents
Tuesday’s crash of a hot air balloon near Egypt’s ancient city of Luxor, killing 19 tourists, surpasses what ballooning experts believed to have been the deadliest accident in the sport’s 200-year history, a 1989 crash in Australia that left 13 dead. Here is a look at some of the worst accidents involving recreational hot air balloons.
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