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The search for a Canadian man, 25, missing in Australia's Snowy Mountains for more than a week goes into a third day today.

The public suicide in Paris of Dominique Venner, a 78-year-old right-wing French historian and essayist, has stirred a strong political reaction in the country.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is meeting with business leaders and Peruvian politicians this morning as part of a four-day trip to South America that will focus on trade and bilateral relations, but is expected to be asked about the growing Senate expense scandal.

Emotionless prison guards watch Ai Weiwei eat, sleep, pace, shower and even sit on the toilet in the Chinese artist's new obscenity-filled, metaphor-rich music video mocking state power.

Iran is moving ahead to update a program the West fears could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats say, despite high-level diplomacy aimed at stopping it from doing so.

Former U.S. congressman Anthony Weiner, whose political life imploded two years ago in a series of raunchy tweets, has announced in a YouTube video that he's running for mayor of New York.

A tornado that generated winds as strong as 320 km/h and killed more than 20 people in Moore, Okla., on Monday fell in a geographical area of the U.S. generally known as 'Tornado Alley.' Here's a closer look at this storm-plagued region — and its counterparts in Canada.

Emergency workers neared the end of their search Tuesday afternoon for survivors in Moore, Okla., following a deadly tornado that weather officials said was now classified among the most powerful type of twister.

The world's most valuable company, Apple Inc., employs a group of affiliate companies located in Ireland to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found — and its CEO will be questioned Tuesday.

It’s a nightmare many people in Oklahoma are still living, including former Prince Albert Raider Todd Nelson.

On Monday, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was devastated after a tornado struck the area, killing 24 people and injuring hundreds more.

Nelson, now the head coach of Oklahoma City Barons, said the last couple of days have been “very explosive with tornados.”

Jodi Arias asked jurors Tuesday to give her life in prison, arguing she "lacked perspective" when she told a local reporter in an interview after she was convicted of murder that she preferred execution to spending the rest of her days in jail.

The gruesome trial and murder conviction of Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell is unlikely to change American abortion law, Keith Boag writes. But it has U.S. journalists questioning their priorities and how they cover such a sensitive issue.