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Florida Qur'an-burning cancelled

Dove World Outreach Center church pastor Terry Jones is pursued by the media as he leaves a news conference after announcing the burning of the korans will continues as planned in Gainesville, Florida September 8, 2010.

Terry Jones, the American pastor who proposed to burn copies of the Qur'an this Saturday in a protest against Muslims, announced Thursday he has cancelled the event.

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A cleanup worker places absorbent booms in the Kalamazoo river in Battle Creek after an oil pipeline, owned by Enbridge Energy Partners, leaked an estimated 820,000 gallons of oil into the river in Western Michigan near Marshall July 31, 2010.

Enbridge shuts major Canada-US line due to leak

Enbridge Inc. shut down the largest of its three major pipelines delivering oil from the biggest U.S. supplier to Midwest refiners...

Trapped miners are seen underground in a copper and gold mine at Copiapo, some 725 km (450 miles) north of Santiago, in this frame grab taken August 29, 2010.

Canadian drill rig could speed rescue of trapped miners

Trucks bearing a Canadian drilling machine that could speed the rescue of 33 trapped miners began arriving at Chile's San Jose mine...

Israeli air strikes target Hamas sites in Gaza

Israel carried out air strikes against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Islamist group and Palestinian witnesses said...

Dennis Rodman.

Dennis Rodman takes live microphone into hotel orgy

Dennis Rodman got caught with his microphone on and his pants down recently — in a hotel room with six women.

Police commandos surround a bus with tourists being held hostage at Quirino Grandstand in Manila August 23, 2010. Philippine investigators admitted for the first time Thursday that police may have shot some of the tourists in a bungled operation that left eight Hong Kong residents dead on a bus in Manila.

Philippines says police might have shot hostages

Philippine investigators admitted for the first time Thursday that police may have shot some of the tourists in a bungled operation...

Perrin Beatty is president and chief executive officer of the Canadian chamber of commerce.

Harper government pressed to stop planned hike in Employment Insurance premiums

A wall of labour, business and political opposition is forming in a bid to force the federal cabinet to use its veto power to kill...

Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq (L) meets with her Chinese counterpart Chen Zhu (R) in Shanghai Thursday in advance of the second round of the Canada-China Policy Dialogue on Health. Canada and China agreed to make health issues a priority in bilateral relations when Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with President Hu Jintao last year.

Canada, China face many similar health challenges

For all their differences, Canada and China appear to be facing the same health challenges: obesity, smoking and an aging population...

Laura Fattal (R) kisses her son Josh after a news conference in Tehran May 20, 2010. The mothers of the three Americans, of whom Josh Fattal is one, jailed in Iran since last July were allowed to see them on Thursday and called on the government to set them free.

Iran says to free U.S. detainee Shourd

Iran will soon release Sarah Shourd, one of three detained American citizens accused of espionage, an Iranian official at the United...

The Jamaican four-man bobsleigh team at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.

The fantasy past of a top military scientist

New Zealand's leading military scientist has resigned after he was accused of lying on his CV by claiming he worked for MI5 and MI6...

A print ad for the World Wildlife Fund in Brazil featuring dozens of airplanes converging on lower Manhattan with the line "The 2004 Tsunami killed 100 times more people than 9/11."

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Failing the taste test

The French ad depicting images of the 9/11 attacks isn’t the first to be deemed insensitive. Global News takes a look at others.

NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle Endeavour mission specialist Robert Behnken works outside the International Space Station.

Timeline

Canadians in space

With the announcement of the first Canadian commander of the ISS, we take a look at some milestones of the Canadian Space Agency.

Dmitri Ford of Charleston, SC joins protestors January 21, 2002 at the steps of the statehouse in Columbia, SC to call for the removal of the confederate flag from the grounds of the capitol. The confederate flag remains a controversy after it was removed July 1, 2000 from the dome of the statehouse and moved to the Confederate Memorial on the capitol grounds.

Controversy

Rights and sensibility

The uproar over building a mosque at Ground Zero in New York has sparked a broader debate about balancing rights and sensitivities.

Tamil Tigers

Conflict

A long, bloody battle

The 26-year conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the separatist Tamil Tigers was the longest war in modern Asian history.

Bow of the Titanic, photographed in June 2004 by the ROV Hercules during an expedition returning to the shipwreck of the Titanic.

Retrospective

Back to Titanic

With scientists creating 3D maps of the Titanic wreck, we look back at an historic marine discovery.

Rwanda Genocide

Retrospective

Revisiting Rwanda

Paul Kagame, newly elected president of Rwanda, is credited for helping rebuild the country after the 1994 genocide. Here's a look at that catastrophe.

Court sketch of Abdullah Khadr

Profile

The Khadr clan

Abdullah Khadr's release adds another chapter to the saga of the controversial Canadian family.

An Afghan Army soldier fires a rocket propelled grenade at suspected Taliban militants at Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar July 22, 2010.

Overview

Turmoil in Pakistan

Amid accusations that Pakistan's spy agency is supporting Taliban militants, we look at the country and its turbulent past.

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