Twenty-three Canadian women have died and hundreds more were harmed from taking two of the world's most common birth control pills, according to local media.

A PACKED Caribbean Airlines passenger jet skidded off a runway as it landed in Guyana at night on Saturday, then broke in two at the edge of a ravine.

THE idea that the opposition could have negotiated a better interest rate from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the recent bailout is “laughable,” according to Finance Minister Brian Lenihan.

A female Canadian journalist who was freed after four weeks in captivity in Afghanistan said she was held in a small underground cave where she could barely stand up.

A top British musical director and judge on the Canadian version of 'How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?' has been charged with assault in Toronto.

An unheard interview with John Lennon has revealed the late singer believed his group The Beatles were a Christian band.

Oscar Peterson, whose early talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world’s best known jazz pianists, has died, it was reported today. He was 82.

AN AIR FRANCE jetliner carrying 309 people skidded off a runway while landing in a thunderstorm at Toronto's Pearson International Airport last night, sliding into a ravine and bursting into flames.

CANADA’S most notorious female killer, who raped and killed three teenage girls, including her sister, is going to live in Quebec now following her release from prison.

The Liberal Party lost its outright control of Canada’s Parliament early today but easily won the largest share of seats and will now try to lead the North American country’s first minority government in 25 years.

Osama bin Laden likes poetry and volleyball, had squabbles with his children, and bans any American foods such as ice and soft drinks, according to a Canadian TV documentary on a family that had close ties to the al-Qaida leader until 2001.

CANADIAN Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is under fire after his director of communications, Françoise Ducros, was reportedly overheard on Thursday calling President George W Bush a moron at a NATO meeting in Prague.