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The Canadian dollar and Canada's benchmark stock index both rebounded from heavy losses Tuesday to post modest gains on Wednesday. More...

AP - Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte paid a heavy price for sheltering him in the final battle of Libya's civil war. More...

Heavy explosions were heard in the Libyan capital Tripoli early on Tuesday and a government spokesman said NATO airstrikes had killed three people and wounded 150. Spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said the strikes had targeted a compound of the Popular Guards, a tribally-based military detachment. The...

<div>Lu Hao from China is only three years old yet he weighs a staggering 132 pounds. Nearly five times the normal size of a child his age, he eats three bowls of rice at dinner time. When he was born, Lu Hao only weighed 5lb 8oz, but from the age of three months he started to gain weight very...

-- As floodwaters receded in some parts of the state of Rio de Janeiro, the devastation from flooding in Brazil continued to climb Wednesday, and the death toll nationwide reached at least 765. Much of the damage occurred in that state, where heavy rains have liquefied hills into tombs of mud...

- As much as 8 feet of snow has fallen in parts of Japan since Sunday, slowing train travel and forcing automaker Toyota to close down 12 factories. The heavy snow disrupted the bullet train, or Shinkansen, system in central Japan on Sunday and Monday, affecting 67,000 passengers, according to...

Colombo, Sri Lanka -- More than 200,000 people have been affected by flooding resulting from heavy rains in Sri Lanka, a disaster management official said Monday. Heavy rains lasted from noon Sunday to about noon on Monday, said A.R. Jayarathne, assistant director of the country's Disaster...

Heavy rains and strong winds lashed parts of the Middle East on Sunday, rocking ships in the eastern Mediterranean Sea and damaging dozens of buildings in Egypt, government officials and state-run media reported. The low-pressure system left a wake of destruction as it moved across the region...

A girl crosses a flooded street in Bogota on Thursday during flooding that has affected 1.2 million people in Colombia. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has declared a state of emergency in 28 of the nation's 32 departments because of heavy rains and flooding that have affected some 1.2...