A Canadian military base commander has been charged with the murder of two women and sexually assaulting two other women, according to police.
Colonel Russell Williams was arrested in Ottawa Sunday on suspicion of murder of 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd and 38-year-old corporal Marie Comeau.
Canadian military chief charged with murder
Americans give Obama 'F' for handling economy
US President Barack Obama's approval rating has dropped to the lowest level since his inauguration for the way he has steered the country's trouble-ridden economy through the financial crisis.
Only 36 percent of the Americans approve of the commander-in-chief's economic management and 32 percent approve of his efforts to contain the runaway federal red-ink budget, a Gallup Poll said on Monday reporting on the results of a study conducted by the opinion survey group.
Coupon scam hits Haiti food aid
The World Food Programme (WFP) has temporarily halted food aid to about 10,000 survivors of Haiti's earthquake after some people tried to use fake coupons to secure rations.
The attempted scam was discovered on Monday as the
United Nations said that some hospitals were charging patients for medicines provided for free by the relief effort.
Doctor charged in Michael Jackson's death
US prosecutors have charged Michael Jackson's personal physician with involuntary manslaughter in the pop star's death.
Dr. Conrad Murray, 56, will face trial in Los Angeles for giving Jackson a lethal cocktail of drugs.
'GOP using jet bomb threat as political football'
Reacting to the Republican criticism of the way US President Barack Obama addressed the Christmas Eve jet bomb threat, the White House terrorism czar accuses the the GOP of trying to gain political momentum from the incident.
Appearing on the NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, John Brennan accused the Republicans of using the incident as a "political football" for their own gains.
Chinchilla leads rivals in Costa Rican vote
Preliminary results in Costa Rica's presidential poll hints at a decisive lead secured by Laura Chinchilla Miranda, a female candidate from the leftist ruling National Liberation Party.
The fifty-year-old former vice president garnered 46.8 percent of the vote out of 67.9 percent of the votes counted, paving the way for the Central American nation to embrace its first female president, Xinhua reported.
US soldier water-boards 4-year-old daughter
An American soldier whose unit has served in Iraq and Afghanistan wars admits to using brutal CIA torture techniques on his young daughter because she could not recite the alphabet.
Joshua Tabor has admitted to water-boarding his little girl, whose custody he won just a month ago, because he knew she was horrified of water.
Haitians protest mayor's corruption, hoarding of aid
Survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake have hit the streets in the country's wrecked capital in protest against the mayor's hoarding of aid provided by relief groups.
Hundreds of protesters thronged in a suburb of Port-au-Prince on Sunday as thousands of Haitians remain hungry and homeless one month after the earthquake registering a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale struck the impoverished Caribbean state.
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