CAW members at CN Rail have ratified a new four-year collective agreement that includes wages increases.

Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro was euthanized Monday morning after complications from breaking a leg at the Preakness in May.

A former White House press secretary testified Monday that I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby informed him Valerie Plame was a CIA operative days before Libby claims he learned about her identity from a reporter.

Sky Gilbert, the playwright, novelist and drag queen who founded Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto, is creating a new theatre project in Hamilton, Ont.

Consumers should be wary of scam e-mails and phone calls from people purporting to be representatives of Winners and HomeSense, says the company's chairman.

Ontario families should now find it easier to qualify for child-care subsidies, but in Toronto at least, it's unlikely there will be enough day-care spaces to go around, government officials say.

A California man convicted of molesting children for decades in multiple states was sentenced Monday to 150 years in prison for abusing two 12-year-old boys.

Israel may have violated an agreement with Washington by using U.S.-made cluster bombs during last summer's war with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon, said the U.S. State Department.

Former goalie Ken Dryden, a six-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens, will be feted before Monday's game against Ottawa (CBC, 7:30 p.m. local).

Telemarketers should abandon faulty technology that has been unnerving consumers, the head of the Canadian Marketing Association says.

The final documentary by naturalist Steve Irwin is to be broadcast in his native Australia on Monday.

The last flight to leave Terminal 2 at Toronto's Pearson International Airport is scheduled to take off Monday at 9.30 p.m. ET.

A vaccine appears to be safe and effective against the deadliest form of the bird flu virus, say researchers in Taiwan who tested the vaccine in animals.

Emma Faust Tillman, who became the world's oldest known living person last week, died at an East Hartford, Conn., nursing home. She was 114.

A painting stolen from the Hermitage museum six years ago was restored to the famed Russian museum on Monday, the first day of a UNESCO World Heritage conference.

The federal government is urgently seeking a cooling system for Canadian Leopard tanks stationed in Afghanistan to protect troops from the sweltering heat.

Health sciences firm MDS Inc. of Toronto says it has signed a cash deal to buy Molecular Devices Corp. of California for $615 million US.

A 23-year-old woman is in serious condition in hospital with head injuries after a tobogganing accident on Sunday in Toronto.

Delegates at the African Union summit on Monday agreed that Ghana would assume leadership of the organization because of widespread opposition to Sudan's candidacy.

It would cost the world $635 million US to deliver clean water, provide basic health services and help save some of the millions living in "forgotten" Third World emergencies, UNICEF officials say.