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A seven-year-old boy is being hailed as a hero for saving his grandfather with a 911 call after the man keeled over in a minivan at the side of the road in Chilliwack.

It's not a trick - and for would-be masked rioters, it's no treat, either.

New York City and the sodden U.S. Northeast began an arduous journey back to normal Wednesday after mammoth storm Sandy killed at least 64 Americans in a rampage that swamped coastal cities and cut power to millions.

The iconic images on Canada's new passports, unveiled with fanfare last week, short-change women and multicultural communities, says a report ordered by Passport Canada.

Iran has drawn back from its ambitions to build a nuclear weapon, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barack was quoted as telling Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper Tuesday, while warning that his country may still have to decide next year whether to lau

Quebec provincial police have arrested 16 people in a series of raids connected to an alleged multimillion-dollar fraud scheme in the construction industry.

Italian lawmakers have approved a confidence vote brought by the government to speed up passage of an anti-corruption bill.

The federal government lost $1.9 million last year in pilfered property, including vehicles, laptops, smart phones, cameras, furniture and even several dozen military weapons. Another $8.

Two youths appeared in a Saskatchewan courtroom Tuesday, charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two people. RCMP say the bodies of a man and woman were found Monday in a rural home near the community of Rapid View, west of Meadow Lake.

An Ohio jury found 17-year-old Brogan Rafferty guilty of murder on Tuesday in the deaths of three men, two of whom were lured to Ohio by a Craigslist ad promising work on a farm.