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A 33-year-old Toronto man is facing a series of charges in Nova Scotia after RCMP say he played cat and mouse with a police cruiser responding to an emergency. Mikhail Dorofeev has been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and flight from police, as well as several charges under...

Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A roadside bomb explosion ripped through a car in eastern Mosul Sunday, wounding an Iraqi defense minister candidate and his driver, police said. Khalid al-Obaidi was heading home when the blast struck. He was transferred immediately to an area hospital and is in stable...

SEATTLE, -- A truck carrying $400,000 worth of Russian king crab from Los Angeles to Seattle has disappeared, apparently the work of an organized crime ring, police said. The trucker's documents and those of his trucking company appear to have been forged, The Seattle Times reported...

A man is dead and a police officer is injured after two separate collisions at the same London, Ont., intersection. A 74-year-old man from St. Thomas, Ont., was killed late Friday after his car was struck by a drunk driver at Colonel Talbot Road and Decker Drive, police said. They said the...

(CNN) -- In an apparent response to days of protests, Chinese authorities have declared martial law in parts of the northeast's inner Mongolia autonomous region, according to Amnesty International. The region has long been the scene of ethnic tension between Mongolians, who have lived in...

Belgrade, Serbia (CNN) -- After more than 15 years in hiding, onetime Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic was in a Belgrade jail Friday to face charges that he presided over Europe's worst massacre since World War II. Mladic was the highest-ranking fugitive to remain at large after the...

Baghdad (CNN) -- The clock is ticking for Iraq to ask U.S. troops to stay beyond an end of the year deadline to withdraw from the country. It's a question that sparked a massive protest Thursday on the streets of Baghdad when tens of thousands dressed in the colors of the Iraqi flag marched in...

Consumers may know that their bad driving record will raise their car insurance, but just how much will a single moving violation cost them? Plenty, according to a new analysis from Insurance.com. The website looked at 32,000 of its auto insurance policies sold in 2010 and found that those with...

A trial is under way for a Quebec man charged with killing a federal corrections employee in Oct. 2009. Claude Larouche, 49, is charged with first-degree murder in the case of 37-year-old Natasha Cournoyer. A Quebec man charged with the rape and murder of a federal corrections employee was...

It must have been a driver's worst nightmare - cruising down the highway and suddenly running smack into millions of angry swarming bees. The bees were on the loose in California after a truck in which they were being transported flipped on its side on the highway. The California Highway...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- An Arizona Department of Safety Officer pulled over a pick-up truck owner for a faulty taillight. When the officer approached the driver, the man behind the wheel handed the officer his...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif., -- A dangerous skateboarding stunt left one man in the hospital and one man in jail in Santa Clarita, Calif., authorities say. Edward Culhane, 35, fell off his skateboard while "hot-boarding," a stunt where a skateboard rider holds onto the back end of a moving car. He...

LOS ANGELES, -- Illegal use of disabled parking passes has become a common infraction in California, the state's Department of Motor Vehicles says. Currently in California, 1-in-10 drivers have disabled parking placards and transportation experts say abuse is common, the Los Angeles Times...

Baghdad (CNN) -- Seventeen bombs exploded Sunday within hours of one another in Baghdad, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 80, Iraqi authorities said. The bombings came the same day Britain wrapped up its military mission in Iraq, leaving a predominantly American military...

The driver of a minivan that crashed into a store in Winnipeg's Grant Park neighbourhood on Thursday has died. The 56-year-old man drove through the cinderblock wall of the Long and McQuade music store at Stafford Street and Taylor Avenue, at about 8:30 a.m. on Thursday. The vehicle was almost...

(CNN) -- A 32-year-old Saudi Arabian who has crusaded for women to drive in her country said she was stopped Saturday for driving a car, even though there is no law against it. Manal al Sharif, a mother of a 5-month-old boy, told CNN that authorities released her and then tried to detain her...

A man working at a gas station in Mississauga suffered life-threatening injuries after chasing a driver who allegedly stole gas. The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. Thursday at a Petro Canada station on Southdown Road near the Queen Elizabeth Way. Emergency crews arrived to find the man...

(CNN) -- At least three dozen road workers in southeastern Afghanistan were killed early Thursday when Taliban forces attacked their camp, a local Afghan official said. The incident took place in the Wazai Zadran district of Paktia province. The employees worked for a company doing construction...

An Ottawa man has been found guilty of two charges in connection with the fatal hit and run of a homeless man in front of the Rideau Centre three years ago. A jury found Vlad Precup, 34, guilty of dangerous driving causing death and leaving the scene of an accident. The charges against Precup...

Deaths from impaired driving in B.C. have been cut in half since new drinking-driving regulations took effect last fall, says provincial Attorney General Barry Penner. Penner said 22 people have been killed since the law was changed in September, while the five-year average for that period had...