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Mitt Romney, heavily favoured to win Nevada's presidential caucuses Saturday, focused on the state's unemployment rate — which is well above the national average — rather than campaigning against chief Republican rival Newt Gingrich.

An Army officer has ordered a court martial for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

Iran's supreme leader pledged Friday to aid any nation or group that challenges Israel and said any military strikes over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program would damage U.S. interests in the Middle East "10 times over."

After three days of controversy, a renowned breast cancer charity in the U.S. said Friday it is reversing its decision to cut breast-screening grants to the country's most well-known reproductive health organization.

At least 175 people have died as a result of a cold snap that has been battering Europe, as temperatures in some areas plunge to -38 C.

Hackers have taken over the websites of several law enforcement agencies worldwide in attacks attributed to the collective called Anonymous, including in Boston and in Salt Lake City, where police say personal information of confidential informants and tipsters was accessed.

The United Nations says Somalia's famine is over, but warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back.

Police in Cairo set off salvos of tear gas and fired birdshot at protesters angry over a deadly soccer riot, as a second day of clashes leave at least 4 people dead and 1,500 injured.

Mexican prosecutors say that Cyndy Vanier — a Canadian accused of leading a plot to smuggle members of slain Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's family to Mexico — was caught Nov. 10 with forged Mexican identification.

Deadly clashes kill at least 20 people across Syria as the UN Security Council continues work on a resolution condemning the violence.

Just days after the posters went up around Paris, a suggestive ad campaign for the French comedy Les Infideles is being withdrawn amid complaints that the imagery degrades women.

One of the people accused in an alleged plot to smuggle members of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's family to Mexico was with an SNC-Lavalin executive when police took her into custody, CBC News has learned.

A Fifth Estate report pieces together the details of the Costa Concordia disaster, with exclusive footage of passengers' chaotic evacuation and a reconstruction of the captain's risky manoeuvre, which took the cruise ship off course and ran it aground off the coast of Italy.

More than 110 people were stilly missing after a ferry sank off Papua New Guinea's east coast, and rescuers feared many had been trapped inside.

While the New York Giants and the New England Patriots battle for the Vince Lombardi Trophy in Indianapolis, Ind., dozens of advertisers will duke it out for the attention of viewers worldwide.

Chris Huhne is alleged to have persuaded his now ex-wife to accept a speeding penalty on his behalf in 2003, to escape a driving ban.

No nation on Earth locks up more people than the U.S., Brian Stewart writes, adding it is one of the great scandals of our times.

The Khmer Rouge tribunal's Supreme Court orders the regime's chief jailer to serve out the rest of his life in prison for his "shocking and heinous" crimes against the Cambodian people.

Police shoot and kill two protesters in Suez, Egypt, a health official says. The fatalities are the first in clashes that erupted after a riot at a soccer stadium killed 74, as sports violence spirals into a new political crisis for Egypt.

At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia's mountains, authorities announced Thursday, as the death toll from Eastern Europe's weeklong deep freeze rose to 123.