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.

A design from Douglas Coupland and a Toronto architecture firm has been selected for a national monument in Ottawa to Canadian firefighters who died in the line of duty.

Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - From the bustling streets of Istanbul to the villages of central Anatolia, one question dominates campaigning for Sunday's constitutional referendum. What kind of Turkey awaits the country's burgeoning young generation?

Former Edmonton Oilers owner Peter Pocklington might not spend any time in jail, according to documents filed in a Palm Springs, Calif., courtroom.

Iran's suspension of a stoning sentence against a woman convicted of adultery is not enough: it must be completely overturned, the European Union presidency says.

Reuters - VIENNA (Reuters) - Pakistan is expected to become the next head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's governing body despite being outside a global anti-nuclear arms pact and home to a nuclear smuggler who supplied Iran and North Korea, diplomats say.

A Quebec court has ordered the union for the City of Montreal's blue-collar workers to pay $2 million in damages after an illegal strike during an ice storm that left the city paralyzed in 2004.

Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - U.S. Marines boarded and seized a commercial German vessel in the Gulf of Aden that had been attacked and boarded by pirates a day earlier, the U.S. Fifth Fleet said in a statement on Thursday.

Canadians are a generous lot and rank third in the world when it comes to donating time and money to charity.

Toronto police have been called in to help the FBI and U.S. prosecutors in the perjury and steroid investigation case against major league baseball great Roger Clemens.

Canada's trade deficit with the world widened to $2.7 billion in July from $1.8 billion the previous month, Statistics Canada reports.

Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - A group of exiled Rwandans has warned that the central African nation could descend into conflict unless Tutsi President Paul Kagame shares more power with the majority ethnic Hutu.

Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Myanmar's reclusive leader on Thursday reassured Beijing that China is a vital ally and said an upcoming election and planned power transfer to a civilian government would not affect relations.

The number of detainees transferred to Afghan forces from the Canadian military now exceeds 400, CBC News has learned.

Women are most attracted to male dancers who have big, flamboyant moves similar to John Travolta's trademark style, British scientists say in a new study.

Reuters - VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (Reuters) - A suicide bomber set off a powerful blast near a busy market in Russia's restive North Caucasus on Thursday, killing at least 15 people and wounding dozens, authorities said.