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A division of Canadian engineering giant SNC-Lavalin has for years used a secret internal accounting code that former employees say was for bribes on projects across Africa and Asia, a joint investigation by CBC News and the Globe and Mail has found. More...

The U.S., Britain and Australia have announced what could be the biggest ever international investigation into tax cheats

Two former Canadian Food Inspection Agency researchers have been charged with breach of trust after an RCMP investigation into their alleged attempts to commercialize CFIA property. More...

A supervisor caught in the U.S. Secret Service prostitute scandal has agreed to retire, officials said Wednesday. Another agent has said he will resign, The Washington Post reported. A total of 11 agents, two of them supervisors, are under investigation for allegedly partying with prostitutes...

AP - American drone strikes inside Pakistan are killing far fewer civilians than many in the country are led to believe, according to a rare on-the-ground investigation by The Associated Press of 10 of the deadliest attacks in the past 18 months. More...

The first RCMP officer to launch an investigation focusing on Robert Pickton says he just couldn't gather enough firm evidence required to launch a full-scale investigation of the suspected killer. More...

A Quebec coroner's report into Montreal boxer Arturo Gatti's 2009 death, obtained by CBC News, questions the quality of the Brazilian investigation but ultimately is unable to determine whether the former world champion killed himself or was slain. More...

]WASHINGTON, -- The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is moving forward with an antitrust investigation of Internet giant Google, sources told The Wall Street Journal. The regulator has been making inquiries about Google's business behavior in recent months, but is now issuing subpoenas to...

Vancouver police are combing through more than one million photos and 1,000 hours of video submitted as evidence following the Stanley Cup riot in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday. Hundreds of people tore through downtown streets breaking windows, looting stores and setting cars on fire...

<div>Two women, aged 23 and 24, are facing prostitution charges following a six-month investigation of a suspected bawdy house. Police began looking into the home at 97th Avenue and 106st Street in December 2010. Police said they later seized $1,700 in cash and large amounts of paraphernalia...

A teenager is dead after all-terrain vehicle accident in western Newfoundland late Tuesday afternoon. The RCMP in St. George's said the teen,15, fell from his ATV while making turn near the community's Rec Plex. Police said emergency services told them the boy died from injuries in the fall...

<div>PHOENIX -- The U.S. military has opened an investigation into the dumping of Agent Orange, after an exclusive CBS 5 investigation exposed a toxic secret. Veterans are breaking rank to tell how they were ordered to bury dangerous chemicals on a U.S. Army base. "My whole life, this is what...

-- Egyptian prosecutors have jailed a former ruling party official and three ministers from deposed strongman Hosni Mubarak's government, including its onetime interior minister, as part of a corruption investigation, state news outlets reported Thursday. All four have been ordered held for 15...

-- A 2-year-old boy and his mother have been found dead inside a Massachusetts trash bin, leaving authorities Monday to track down whomever killed the two and put them there. Police discovered Maria Avelina Palaguachi-Cela, 25, and her toddler son Brian Palaguachi dead in the large metal bin...

Ottawa police closed an investigation Tuesday into an alleged daytime sexual assault on a 16-year-old girl in Barrhaven earlier this month. Police said details of the Jan. 18 attack could not be substantiated, and as a result the case had been dropped. Ottawa police said they were told the...

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/01/21/bc-mountie-accused-again.html Another man claims he was assaulted by the same Kelowna, B.C., RCMP officer who allegedly kicked a suspect in the face on Jan. 7. Jeremy Packer, 30, said he was left with scrapes, bruises and a black eye...

-- A former commanding officer of the USS Enterprise has had his scheduled retirement delayed pending the Navy investigation into inappropriate videos made on board the ship in 2006 and 2007, a Navy spokesman said Thursday. "This is a prudent and necessary step as the investigation continues,"...

About 75,000 cartons of cigarettes suspected to be contraband were seized Wednesday in central Alberta. The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission and the RCMP said they found the 14 million cigarettes after executing a search warrant at a Quonset hut near Ponoka. Federal customs officials are...

-- Federal authorities are investigating the events surrounding the death of a teenager during an altercation between Border Patrol agents trying to arrest alleged drug smugglers and rock-throwing bystanders, an FBI spokesman said Wednesday. Agent Manuel Johnson said the incident took place...

Four people have been charged with breach of trust and fraud following a police investigation into cleaning contracts at Ontario government buildings in downtown Toronto. Provincial police on Monday charged two workers at the Ministry of Transportation and one at the Ministry of Economic...