TORONTO - Former teen heartthrob Corey Haim will be laid to rest Tuesday with a private funeral service in Toronto, but a public celebration of the troubled actor's legacy will be held next month in Los Angeles, says famous friend Corey Feldman.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Premier Danny Williams of Newfoundland and Labrador is back at work, almost six weeks after having heart surgery in the United States that created an uproar on both sides of the border.

Aboriginal gangs are proliferating across Canada as criminal organizations exploit the intense poverty and squalid conditions that many First Nations youth live in, says a top officer with the RCMP's aboriginal police division.

OTTAWA - With the loonie once again nearing parity with the U.S. dollar, a new report on the currency is giving hope it may not be the menace to the economy many believe it to be.

REGINA - It turned out to be one wild ride on the streets of Regina.

SAN DIEGO - Investigators with Toyota Motor Corp. and the U.S. government could not replicate the runaway speeding reported by a Prius owner who said his car's accelerator got stuck as he drove on a California freeway, according to a memo for a congressional panel.

BANGKOK, Thailand - As many as 100,000 people demonstrated peacefully against Thailand's government at a party-like rally Sunday, but the capital was being kept on edge by their threat to continue protesting until Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva calls new elections.

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Sunday denied that its celibacy requirement for priests was the root cause of the clerical sex abuse scandal convulsing the church in Europe and again defended the pope's handling of the crisis.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Taliban unleashed a wide swath of destruction across Kandahar City over the weekend in what the militants warned was a demonstration of their resolve to fight for their heartland.

Canadian teen heartthrob Justin Bieber is the most talked about person on Twitter, and nearly the most talked about topic, period.