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AP - It was in this hardscrabble town in Tunisia's arid interior that exactly one year ago the death knell sounded for the decades-old system of dictatorships across the Arab world. More...

An Afghan man living in Pembroke, Ont., says allegations he was a terrorist threat kept him in jail for close to a year before he was finally acquitted of all charges. More...

It's really great to be in New York right now. This is a terrific city. But it does not hold a candle to Amsterdam. I went to Amsterdam last year... I was like Templeton the Rat in 'Charlotte's Web,' just running around, 'Oh, hookers and pot!'

Winnipeg has broken its record for the number of homicides in a year, as the death of a homeless man has brought the total to 35 More...

Another veterans' advocate has discovered his medical files accessed by staff at Veterans Affairs Canada, a year after Sean Bruyea settled his privacy complaint. More...

Halloween seems to be getting bigger every year. I noticed a pattern this year with girls' costumes. Girls will take a typically altruistic career -- such as librarian, nurse, maybe nun -- and turn her into a whore.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) puts thousands of Americans at risk of identity theft each year by accidentally leaking their Social Security Numbers, names and dates of birth, according to an investigative report by the Scripps Howard New Service. What are your thoughts? Click here to...

A year after it pulled the plug on silent updates in Firefox 4, Mozilla said it will debut most of the behind-the-scenes feature by early next year. More...

When 3,300 information-technology professionals were asked about cybersecurity, they said malicious code attacks accounted for the main type of cyberattack their organizations suffered during the past year, although "internal unintentional actions" by well-meaning insiders also wreaked havoc...

Google's Chrome blocked four times more malicious sites and malware than a year ago, but Firefox 4 was much less effective at warning users of danger than Mozilla's browser last year, according to a report from NSS Labs. More...

Logging in from a Smyrna, Georgia, McDonald's restaurant, a former employee of a U.S. pharmaceutical company was able to wipe out most of the company's computer infrastructure earlier this year. More...

Facebook will reach likely reach one billion users this year or next. More...

WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - A few, rare fields of Canada's canola crop are blooming into the critical flowering stage when yields are made or lost, but widely ranging plant growth makes forecasting the harvest tough this year. In a normal year, canola flowers for a few weeks in late June and...

As the floodwaters continue to recede, businesses affected by flooding in the Richelieu Valley are getting back on their feet and beginning to rebuild. But aside from repairing buildings, many businesses face the added challenge of rebuilding their client-bases, especially those who rely on...

Public school board trustees have raised the monthly fee for busing students and dropped the family maximum that limited what Calgary parents had to pay. The $40-a-month maximum has been eliminated for the next school year, which means parents will soon pay the full monthly amount for each...

Cairo (CNN) -- The International Monetary Fund has tentatively agreed to lend $3 billion to Egypt to support the country's economy for the next year, the IMF announced Sunday. The five-year, 1.5% interest loan must be approved by the IMF board in July. But the agency praised the draft budget...

Arlington, Virginia (CNN) -- Eleven-year-old Anthony Balmer is excited to be back at camp this Memorial Day weekend. It's a place for him to play games, talk to his mentor, and visit some historical sites around Washington. But, he says, he feels a mix of emotions: "Mostly here you get happiness...

(CNN) -- Workers involved in the tourism industry along the U.S. Gulf Coast hope this Memorial Day weekend is one of their best in a long time. The threat of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill kept many tourists away from beach communities last year. Since the oil spill, BP has provided money...

LOS ANGELES, -- Ashton Kutcher has only signed on as the co-star of the U.S. sitcom "Two and a Half Men" for a year, sources told The Wall Street Journal. Former "Men" star Charlie Sheen was fired earlier this year, halfway through Season 8, because of his drug use and erratic behavior. The...

ATLANTA – The first national estimates of swimmer's ear say it causes about 2.4 million trips to doctors and hospitals in a year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also said swimmer's ear cases amounted to about $500 million in annual medical costs — or roughly $200 per visit...