An oil spill at Barneys River may have led to a massive fish kill downstream, Nova Scotia's environment minister says.

Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An overseas Iranian dissident group said on Thursday it had information that Iran is building a new secret underground nuclear site as part of an atomic weapons program, but U.S. officials and independent analysts reacted cautiously.

Reuters - GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that an obscure Christian pastor's plan to burn the Koran could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings, as foreign leaders urged Washington to intervene.

Reuters - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni cleric Thursday and cut his head off before setting him alight in an attack that bore the hallmark of insurgents, a police spokesman said.

Taking sleeping pills or medication for anxiety is linked to an increased risk of death, according to a study by a University of Laval researcher.

The man at the centre of a controversy involving nude pictures of a lawyer who later became a Manitoba judge cries when he's ordered to surrender his home computer.

Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he had agreed with Rwanda's president, who threatened to pull troops out of Sudan, on the importance of Rwanda continuing in peacekeeping operations.

A bail hearing for a London, Ont., doctor and former contestant on Canadian Idol charged in connection with an alleged terrorism plot has been set for the end of September.

Reuters - VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed himself and 16 other people in a huge blast near a busy market in Russia's North Caucasus on Thursday in a new blow to Kremlin efforts to rein in a growing Islamic insurgency.

See the latest video recorded by the RMS Titanic Inc. crew working near the ocean floor.

The president and past federal candidate of a British Columbia Liberal riding association has compared the Conservative government's plans to target human smuggling to collaboration with the Nazis.

An archive in the Netherlands has uncovered what it says is the oldest known share of stock in a company.

Reuters - TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will release on Saturday one of three detained American citizens accused of espionage, an official told Reuters on Thursday.

Reuters - GAINESVILLE, Florida (Reuters) - President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that an obscure U.S. Christian pastor's plan to burn the Koran could provoke al Qaeda suicide bombings, as international pressure mounted on Washington to step in.

Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Arab states backed by Iran are poised to target Israel over its assumed atomic arsenal at U.N. nuclear watchdog meetings this month, despite U.S. warnings this may hamper broader steps to ban such weapons in the Middle East.

Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court granted on Thursday an Obama administration request for a temporary stay that lifts a judge's ban on federal funding of research involving human embryonic stem cells.

Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nine years after the September 11 attacks, visible progress is finally being made toward rebuilding the World Trade Center site known as Ground Zero.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is expected to publish within days new rules aimed at reducing pilot fatigue, more than 18 months after a deadly airplane crash in western New York state.

The percentage of women with a university degree married to men with a similar level of education dropped slightly in 2006 from 25 years earlier, a newly released study from Statistics Canada finds.

Northern aboriginal people aren't eating as much ptarmigan stomach, caribou guts or bear liver as their grandparents did, and that might not be a good thing, a new study says.