The anguished renovator who alerted police to a dazed man clad in a hospital gown lurking in the backyard of an east-end house last Friday says police did not need to kill him. 9 February ⁽⁶⁾

Mystery surrounds the death of a 19-year-old aspiring model and actress as investigators continue to piece together why she left a car on the Gardiner Expressway. 7 February

OTTAWA - The black-market gun trade includes not just menacing gang members but the firearms enthusiast next door, says a federal study. 10 February

CLEVELAND - Milwaukee Bucks coach Scott Skiles has been ejected in the third quarter against Cleveland after picking up two technical fouls within seconds. 10 February

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Throughout the 16 minutes that followed him glowingly introducing former Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley as his new offensive co-ordinator, Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin stood proudly in the corner of the second-floor media room at the team's facility. 9 February

CHONGQING, China - Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up his trip to China with his hands on a national treasure but avoided a public handshake with a controversial politician. 11 February

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A newspaper employee and his family travelling to Vancouver to fulfil a lifelong dream to see an international tennis match were killed in a blazing crash with a semi-trailer, says a colleague of the man. 10 February

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A newspaper employee and his family travelling to Vancouver to fulfil a lifelong dream to see an international tennis match were killed in a blazing crash with a semi-trailer, says a colleague of the man. 10 February

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Shaking off a poor morning practice session, world champion Patrick Chan nailed his men's free skate program on Friday to win the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships. 11 February

CHONGQING, China - For the last four days in China, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has had his eye on trade. 11 February

HALIFAX - The president of the faculty association at Dalhousie University says professors will take a strike vote on Monday. 10 February

CAIRO - The United States' top general discussed an Egyptian crackdown on Western-funded pro-democracy groups with the head of the country's ruling military council on Saturday, as another two foreigners were arrested on charges of fomenting discontent on the first anniversary of Hosni Mubarak's ouster. 11 February 15:30

TORONTO - Some of the most active companies traded Friday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: 10 February

WINNIPEG - An investigation is underway to determine what caused a fire that police say killed four people in a trailer home north of Winnipeg. 11 February 15:55

REDWATER, Alta. - Investigators say road conditions were not a factor in a terrifying bus rollover in northern Alberta. 11 February 15:53

BAGHDAD - A group of political dissidents created a new Iraqi opposition party Saturday, vowing to act as a check on the government as the prime minister warned that a push for regional autonomy could tear the country apart. 11 February 15:47

BEIRUT - Gunmen assassinated an army general in Damascus Saturday in the first killing of a high ranking military officer in the Syrian capital since the uprising against President Bashar Assad's regime began in March, the country's state-run news agency said. 11 February 15:32

CAIRO - The United States' top general discussed an Egyptian crackdown on Western-funded pro-democracy groups with the head of the country's ruling military council on Saturday, as another two foreigners were arrested on charges of fomenting discontent on the first anniversary of Hosni Mubarak's ouster. 11 February 15:30

MONCTON, - A fatal crash has left the closure of a major highway in New Brunswick. 11 February 14:27

An avalanche hit a village in Kosovo's mountainous south Saturday, killing a married couple and their 17-year-old son and leaving nine others missing, police said, as heavy snow continued to blanket the Balkans. 11 February 14:22

ATTAWAPISKAT, Ont. - Two modular homes are on their way to the remote northern Ontario reserve of Attawapiskat, but federal officials say the housing project already faces major setbacks. 11 February 14:00

ST-ROMAIN, Que. - A 35-year-old Quebec man was taken into custody after an elderly woman and two girls were found dead in a home in a rural area east of Montreal. 11 February 13:30

PORTLAND, Maine - Mitt Romney is looking to overcome his struggle to win his party's skeptical conservative wing and avoid a fourth consecutive defeat at the polls on the path to the Republican presidential nomination Saturday in Maine. 11 February 13:18

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Drummer Terri Lyne Carrington couldn't have imagined producing an all-female jazz album like her Grammy-nominated "The Mosaic Project" when she launched her career three decades ago. Back then, she got used to being the only woman on the bandstand. 11 February 13:07

WARSAW, Poland - Protesters took to the freezing cold streets of Berlin, Helsinki and many other European cities Saturday to voice anger at an international copyright treaty they fear will lead to censorship and a loss of privacy on the Internet. 11 February 12:40

LONDON - A hacker claims to have compromised the personal information of more than 350,000 users after breaking into a disused website operated by pornography provider Brazzers. 11 February 12:34