A UN special envoy released on Friday a plan for Kosovo that would give the Serbian province the right to govern itself.

A decision in the long-running case of John Felderhof, the former chief geologist of Bre-X Minerals, will come down on July 31.

Parents of autistic children are appearing in a Toronto court Friday to try force the Ontario government to pay for their children's treatment.

Turner Broadcasting System apologized to Boston-area residents Friday after a marketing campaign for its subsidiary Cartoon Network caused a major security scare.

Microsoft Corp. is playing down reports that it is possible for an attacker to use the speech recognition function of its new Windows Vista operating system to execute commands on a personal computer.

A week before the byelection in the long-time Progressive Conservative stronghold of Burlington, Premier Dalton McGuinty says the Liberal government is transferring green space into the city's hands.

Three suspects on a hunger strike to protest years-long detention without charges in Kingston, Ont., need a public body to advocate on their behalf against conditions that amount to torture, say supporters of the men.

Survivors helped recover bodies out of destroyed buildings after storms swept through Central Florida Friday, as the death toll mounted to at least 19 people by late afternoon.

U.S. authorities say a 29-year-old convicted sex offender was able to pass as a 12-year-old boy in seventh grade for four months at a school in Arizona last year.

Bombardier's rail division said Friday it has been selected to negotiate a $1.88 billion contract to supply electric trains to Deutsche Bahn AG of Germany.

The leaders of the two Palestinian factions battling in Gaza agreed Friday to meet to again try and settle their differences as the day's death toll from gunbattles rose to 17.

The unemployment rate in the United States hit a four-month high of 4.6 per cent in January as employment grew by 111,000, which missed economists' expectations.

Cott Corp. said Friday it lost $29.6 million US in the fourth quarter as its revenue went flat and charges hit the soft drink maker's bottom line.

Four out of four groundhogs polled report that spring will come early this year.

International scientists and officials hailed a UN report Friday that said human activity was "very likely" the cause of global warming and that higher temperatures and rising sea levels would continue for centuries.

OPP confirmed Friday that 30 vehicles were involved in the deadly crash on a stretch of Canada's busiest highway near Cobourg, Ont.

Afghan police clashed with suspected militants in western Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 12 of the fighters, officials said.

Iran appears to be pushing ahead with construction plans to build a site capable of making nuclear warheads, in defiance of Western opposition.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their helicopter went down Friday north of Baghdad - the fourth U.S. helicopter to crash in Iraq in two weeks.

Two U.S. Senators say they met with American justice officials Thursday, but got few answers to their questions about why Syrian-born Canadian Maher Arar was deported from New York to Syria.