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VANOC has no power to include female ski jumpers: Court

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Vancouver Olympic organizers have no power to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Olympics, says British Columbia's highest court. 20 November 16:22

No new spending

TORONTO - Emphasizing that government stimulus spending is a temporary measure, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the Conservative government doesn't plan to undertake major new spending initiatives in next year's budget. 20 November 16:12

Canada in talks with U.S. to take over security for diplomats: MacKay

HALIFAX, N.S. - Canadian troops can return home in 2011 assured that U.S. forces will be able to handle security for Canada's continuing diplomatic and development mission in Kandahar, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Friday. 20 November 14:57

Court orders refugee board to reconsider case of lesbian U.S. soldier who deserted

OTTAWA - A lesbian who deserted from the U.S. army and fled to Canada must have another chance to plead her case for refugee status, the Federal Court ruled Friday. 20 November 15:53

'Rompuy-pumpy' and Cathy Who?: Critics underwhelmed by EU's new hires

LONDON - Catherine Ashton: International woman of mystery. 20 November 14:32

Bankruptcies jump in September

OTTAWA - After hunkering down throughout most of the recession, Canadian businesses began lining up with consumers at the bankruptcy office in September, according to government data released Friday. 20 November 14:06

Galileo's tooth and two fingers found, to go on display

ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday. 20 November 16:12

Stranger in a strange land's novel approach for a birthday party

New Vancouverite Fabiola Carletti has got making friends down to a science. Her formula? A novel birthday party idea and Facebook. 20 November

H1N1 vaccine now available to all

The largest mass vaccination in the province’s history expanded Friday to include everyone who wants an H1N1 flu shot, said Dr. Perry Kendall, the province’s chief medical health officer. 20 November

Torture whistleblower groomed in hotspots around the world

OTTAWA - The man who is now the target of so much Conservative scorn was thought suitably intrepid to be assigned by his government masters to some of the hottest counter-insurgencies over the past 15 years. 19 November

GENEVA - Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery - essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West. 19 November

BRUSSELS - The EU says it has solved an old problem for Washington. 19 November

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament are scrambling to climb aboard the Twitter bandwagon - and getting elbowed by controversial, satirical and even phoney postings. 19 November ⁽⁰⁾

KITCHENER, Ont. - Canada's Joannie Rochette won the ladies short program at HomeSense Skate Canada International in dazzling fashion Friday, scoring a personal best less than three months away from the Vancouver Olympics. 20 November 15:26

LONDON - Ireland's hopes for a rematch of its World Cup qualifier against France ended Friday after FIFA and the French Football Federation both rejected requests for the game to be replayed. 20 November 16:26

MONTREAL - Arts groups need to diversify their sources of funding to ensure they remain financially viable, Heritage Minister James Moore said Friday. 20 November 16:33

ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday. 20 November 16:12

TORONTO - Emphasizing that government stimulus spending is a temporary measure, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says the Conservative government doesn't plan to undertake major new spending initiatives in next year's budget. 20 November 16:12

JELAWAR, Afghanistan - There's a breed of Canadian troops who are in a league of their own - adrenaline junkies who feed off the energy they get from embracing the world's most perilous jobs. 20 November 16:05

TORONTO - Ontario should extend film tax credits to live shows such as dance, theatre and the opera to create more jobs and boost the live performance industry, just as New Orleans did in the wake of hurricane Katrina, artists and New Democrats said Friday. 20 November 16:05

The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Friday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people, including two small children and himself, in a rampage that ended at a World War II historical site. 20 November 15:59

LONDON - A British couple being held hostage by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday that they fear they will be killed or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom is not paid soon. 20 November 15:57

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