KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - They are supposed to be our exit strategy.

TORONTO - An Air Canada pilot may have said he had nothing to lose but did not threaten to ditch his plane in the Atlantic during a dispute with the chief flight steward, the airline said Thursday.

FREDERICTON - The premier of New Brunswick is blaming the media for what he says is unfair coverage of his government.

WINNIPEG - People in Manitoba's Red River Valley should be able to breathe more easier this spring than the thousands who have been trying to hold back rising waters upstream in North Dakota.

TORONTO - The Canadian-Somali community is reeling following reports that a Toronto teenager said to have been recruited by a terrorist organization was killed.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Leaders of Thailand's anti-government protesters, who have hurled their own blood at the offices and home of the prime minister, said Wednesday they will remain camped out in capital indefinitely, though in smaller numbers.

PARIS - A state-run TV channel is stirring controversy with a documentary about a fake game show in which credulous participants obey orders to deliver increasingly powerful electric shocks to a man, who is really an actor, until he appears to die.

Brazil's president placed a wreath on the tomb of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Wednesday and sharply criticized Israeli policies, leading Israeli officials to suggested he was not being evenhanded.

SEOUL, South Korea - Having a third child wasn't in Mrs. Kim's plans. She and her husband are already struggling to get by.

REGINA - The Saskatchewan NDP wants the federal government to fully disclose decades-old intelligence gathered on socialist icon and former premier Tommy Douglas.