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A state of emergency has been declared for a town in northern Alberta where a large wildfire is raging out of control and threatening homes.

A 53-year-old man in Saanich, B.C., managed to drive to safety after a grizzly bear mauled his head and tossed him to the ground in the woods near Bella Coola, about 700 kilometres north of Vancouver.

Mourners gathered Friday afternoon to remember a Calgary paramedic and reservist killed in Afghanistan last week.

Sean Avery, the colourful and sometimes controversial New York Rangers forward who has expressed a desire to be a fashion magazine editor, has started his internship with the publication this week, according to a report.

A Quebec cabinet minister's aide is believed to have been kidnapped early Friday from her home about 120 kilometres northeast of Quebec City.

Pre-eclampsia, a condition that kills thousands of women and babies every year, may be treatable with a chemical found naturally in the body

It's not just humans who succumb to peer pressure – brown rats too will disregard personal experiences and copy the behaviour of their peers

Homophobia and the stigmatisation of people with HIV and AIDS are hampering efforts to tackle the spread of infection in the countries of the former Soviet Union

The corpses of murder victims can now betray the identity of their killers, thanks to a technique that can capture fingerprints left on a body

Such smoking bans don't just protect diners and staff from other people's smoke, they help stop young people becoming habitual smokers

New York Times editors and researchers have selected a fugitive sex offender as an official resource about polygamists. Anton Hein, a former U.S. resident and registered sex offender with an outstanding warrant issued for his immediate arrest regarding a parole violation, runs a Web site called "Re ...

For some time Oprah Winfrey has been drifting further and further out to the fringes of "New Age" philosophy, which is strewn with "self-help" claims. And her fans have faithfully followed the star without much meaningful critical thinking, somewhat like cult members enamored with a self-styled mess ...

A purported "cult" based near Albany, New York, seems to have moved from primarily targeting business executives to the potential recruitment of college students, attending singing events. NXIVM, a corporation that sells workshops also known as "Executive Success Programs" (ESP), is linked to enter ...

A new book has been released about the business, religious, media and political empire constructed by Rev. Sun Myung Moon, designated "messiah" and leader of the Unification Church. Bad Moon Rising: How Reverend Moon Created the Washington Times, Seduced the Religious Right and Built an American Ki ...

No one knows exactly what salary evangelist Benny Hinn pays himself annually from his ministry's funds, but a decade ago he stated it was more than $500,000. Since then sources say Hinn has apparently quadrupled his take to somewhere around $2 million per annum. No one knows exactly what salary ev ...

BRUSSELS - The European Union will hold an emergency meeting on the humanitarian situation in cyclone-hit Myanmar on Tuesday, the EU commissioner for humanitarian aid has said.

NEW DELHI : Mother's Day, a typically western concept, has caught on with Indians in a big way as everyone wants to do something special for their mothers on this day.

YANGON - The pace of aid deliveries into Myanmar picked up Sunday, but as thousands of starving cyclone survivors turned out on the roads to beg for food and water, experts said far more was needed.

YANGON - The death toll from Myanmar's devastating Cyclone Nargis has risen to 28,458, with 33,416 people still missing, state television announced Sunday.

BANGKOK - A boat carrying Red Cross aid supplies to survivors of Myanmar's cyclone sank Sunday in the disaster zone after hitting a submerged tree trunk, but no one was injured, the organisation said.

Crews frustrated because Burmese government is preventing them from delivering large amounts of relief supplies on board which aid agencies say are desperately needed by millions of survivors of Cyclone Nargis

Nouri al-Maliki is personally overseeing a crackdown on insurgents in region in which more than 1,000 suspected militants have been detained

US will not be part of the delegation delivering plan to Tehran

Second time in four months President Bush has come to Saudi Arabia asking King Abdullah to boost overall oil production to help drive down US gasoline prices

US Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama's comments come one day after president compared those who would negotiate with terrorists and radicals to appeasers of Nazi Germany before World War II