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NEW DELHI - About 200 suspected Maoist rebels set off a land mine and opened fire on a convoy of cars carrying local leaders and supporters of India's ruling Congress party in eastern India, killing at least 17 people and wounding 24 others, police said.

If you were in downtown Edmonton today, you may have noticed more people were out and about than is usual for a grey, rainy Saturday.

Residents in a North Vancouver neighbourhood had a surprise visitor on Saturday, when a black bear broke into a backyard chicken coop.

Police are investigating after a man's body was found inside a burning van in East Vancouver Saturday morning.

About two hundred people came out on Saturday for the first ever Fraser Valley Pride parade in Abbotsford, B.C., a city with deep religious roots.

SEATTLE - The chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday the bridge collapse in Washington state is a wake-up call for the nation.

TORONTO - The man who has staunchly defended the mayor of Canada's largest city through a storm of crack cocaine use allegations spent Saturday angrily lashing out at a claim that he himself once sold hashish for several years in Toronto.

VIENNA - Cross-dressers, half-naked revelers, a famed fashion designer, entertainment icons and a former U.S. president shared the spotlight in the Austrian capital for the Life Ball, a night of hedonistic revelry for a good cause — the funding of AIDS research.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a fatal motor vehicle crash along Highway 8 and Range Road 34, just west of Calgary.

LONDON - With minutes left to play and the biggest game in club football once again in his hands, Arjen Robben made sure he didn't miss this time.

Police are investigating after a man's body was found inside a burning van in East Vancouver Saturday morning.

Residents in a North Vancouver neighbourhood had a surprise visitor on Saturday, when a black bear broke into a backyard chicken coop.

Traffic was flowing smoothly at the Canada-U.S. border Saturday, after a bridge collapsed along a major transportation route between Vancouver and Seattle Thursday night.

LONDON - Police, politicians and activists in Britain are warning of rising anti-Muslim sentiment following the slaughter of an off-duty British soldier in a London street, an apparent act of Islamic extremism that has horrified the nation.