Reuters - HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

The Toronto Air Show was cancelled Saturday due to the weather, a spokesman for the organization said.

Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead six people and injured 33 in clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan's Darfur region on Saturday, peacekeepers said.

A 1965 painting of The Queen by Prince Philip is part of a series of images in a book, The Royal Portrait: Image and Impact, that's being released.

Reuters - ATHENS (Reuters) - More than half of Greeks want Prime Minister George Papandreou to reshuffle his Socialist cabinet to improve its performance as it struggles to reduce a debt mountain, a poll indicated on Saturday.

Hurricane Earl was downgraded to a tropical storm as it moved over Nova Scotia but brought heavy rain and intense wind, knocking out power to thousands.

Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website in the U.S., two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded that it be shut down.

Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to create a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis.

Reuters - HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Earl has slowed to a tropical storm, with wind speeds of some 60 knots, or just below 70 mph, the Canadian Hurricane Center said on Saturday.

Thousands of people protest in Paris against new government security measures that include a crackdown on undocumented Roma migrants in France.

Reuters - HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Hurricane Earl lashed into the Canadian Maritime provinces on Saturday, picking up wind speed in warm Atlantic waters after a surprisingly tame brush with the U.S. East Coast.

Someone killed Toronto businessman Paul Maasland, whose body was found in Bracebridge, the Ontario Provincial Police say.

Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan peace council to pursue talks with the Taliban has been set up, President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday, the latest step in a gradual move toward reconciliation with the Islamist insurgents.

Antiwar protesters hurled shoes and eggs at former British prime minister Tony Blair on Saturday as he held the first public signing of his fast-selling memoir.

Chimneys and walls crumbled to the ground, roads cracked in half and residents were knocked off their feet as a powerful magnitude-7.1 earthquake rocked New Zealand's South Island early Saturday. The prime minister said it was a miracle no one was killed.

Reuters - HALIFAX, Canada (Reuters) - Tropical storm Earl, a mere shadow of the massive hurricane that frightened the U.S. East Coast this week, lashed Atlantic Canada on Saturday with high winds, waves and driving rain.

The NHL and NHLPA have reached an agreement to revise rules that regulate long-term contracts as part of a global settlement, allowing Ilya Kovalchuk's contract with the New Jersey Devils to pass.

Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Armed men shot dead seven people and injured 20 in clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan's Darfur region on Saturday, peacekeepers said, in a sign of mounting violence in and around the area's displacement centers.

Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pro-Taliban Pakistani militants are trying to create a sectarian rift, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday, as a new wave of violence piled pressure on a government already struggling with a flood crisis.

Reuters - WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Authorities declared an overnight curfew for Saturday after a major earthquake hit New Zealand's second biggest city, Christchurch, bringing down power lines and bridges and wrecking roads and building facades.