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• Water bomber crashes fighting B.C. wildfires
  A water bomber helping to battle more than 300 wildfires burning across B.C. has crashed south of Lytton.
  
  
• U.S. online game company sets up shop in N.L
  Newfoundland and Labrador's government has loaned an Alabama-based video game company $300,000 to help set up shop in the province.
  
  
• Uniform cellphone chargers in EU in 2011
  The European Union will soon bid a fond farewell to a hassle that spares few cellphone users: A dead battery and no suitable power charger.
  
  
• Website offers anonymous child-care reviews
  A new website that allows parents to post anonymous comments about daycare centres and elementary schools is getting a thumbs down from educators and child-care advocates.
  
  
• Asteroid could hit Earth in 172 years
  Astronomers have detected a half-kilometre wide asteroid that appears to be on a collision course with the Earth - in 172 years time.
  
  
• WikiLeaks suspect flown back to U.S.
  The army intelligence specialist charged with leaking U.S. military secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been moved from Kuwait to a military jail in Virginia.
  
  
• Apple's iPhone 4 leads to long line-ups
  Shoppers in Canada are lining up to buy Apple's iPhone 4, which went on sale Friday.
  
  
• Ancient reptile tracks found in N.B.
  An accidental discovery along the eroding Bay of Fundy shoreline in New Brunswick is giving scientists insight into the evolution of life on earth.
  
  
• Arctic ship graves a 'rewarding' find
  Parks Canada archeologists who found HMS Investigator, a British naval ship that was stranded in the Northwest Passage 155 years ago, are equally pleased to have discovered the graves of three of the ship's crew.
  
  
• Google shares fall on China blocking report
  Google shares fell 1.4 per cent in after-hours trading Thursday after the company said people in mainland China are being blocked from using its internet search engine.
  
  
• Global warming signs unmistakable: report
  A new report by 300 scientists has flagged the past decade as the hottest on record and compiled 10 'unmistakable' indicators the world is getting warmer. But the scientists mostly stayed away from discussions about the cause.
  
  
• DND computers used to change Wikipedia site
  A Defence Department spokesperson confirms computers at the department's research agency were used to alter a Wikipedia site on the Joint Strike Fighter jet.
  
  
• YouTube ups video limit to 15 minutes
  Popular video-sharing website YouTube says it is ready to increase the limit it places on video uploads to 15 minutes, from the current 10 minutes.
  
  
• Fish feminizing in Alberta rivers
  Chemicals are likely to blame for the feminization of fish in two southern Alberta rivers, say researchers at the University of Calgary.
  
  
• A graphic look at the world's changing climate
  Statistical snapshot of a warming planet.