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Gov. Gen. wraps up Haiti visit
Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean ended her two-day tour of Haiti with a visit to Jacmel on Tuesday, bringing a message of hope to the shattered city.
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NAFTA pullout bill fails to scare Ottawa
Fresh off a recent skirmish over "Buy American," some Canadian cabinet ministers are expressing confidence that a new protectionist push from some U.S. politicians won't succeed.
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Alleged plot to kill Muhammad cartoonist foiled
Police in Ireland have arrested seven people over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog.
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Biden condemns new Israeli settlements
Israel's approval of 1,600 new settlement houses in disputed East Jerusalem undermines the peace process that the United States is trying to revive, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden said Tuesday.
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India's women's quota passes upper house
India's upper house of parliament voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a historic bill that would reserve one-third of legislative seats for women, despite a boycott by socialist lawmakers.
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Stolen remains of former Cyprus leader found
Three months after it was stolen, the corpse of Cyprus's former president has been found reburied in another grave. The country's justice minister says the remains of Tassos Papadopoulos had been held for ransom.
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Centuries-old Baltic shipwrecks found
A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany, Swedish experts say.
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Nigeria urged to probe death of hundreds
International officials called on Nigeria on Tuesday to investigate the deaths of hundreds of unarmed civilians over the weekend in the latest incident of sectarian violence in the region.
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3 Bali bombing suspects killed by police
Indonesian anti-terror police hunting a mastermind of the country's worst terrorist attack say they've killed three suspects in the capital city of Jakarta.
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Ohio campus shooting leaves 2 dead
Two people are dead and one other is injured following a shooting on the Ohio State University campus, the nation's largest, authorities say.
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China car sales soar
China's passenger car sales in February climbed 55 per cent from a year earlier, despite a long national holiday, on strong demand for smaller cars and sport utility vehicles, an industry group reportes.
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Police help halt runaway Prius
A California Highway Patrol officer helped bring a runaway Toyota Prius travelling 151 kilometres an hour to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway.
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Same-sex weddings begin in Washington, D.C.
Tuesday is the first day same-sex couples can pick up marriage licences and tie the knot in the U.S. capital and about 15 licences were picked up in the first hour the marriage bureau was open.
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Another U.S. missionary released in Haiti
One of two Baptist missionaries still held on kidnapping charges in Haiti was released and flew to Miami on Monday, but the U.S. group's leader remained in custody.
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Palin ridiculed for Canadian health care use
Sarah Palin's weekend admission that her family once travelled to Canada to receive treatment under the public health-care system she's so often demonized prompted skepticism and ridicule Monday among her critics in the U.S.