U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday proposed a $24-billion US increase in military spending from Congress as part of a $2.9-trillion budget plan for the 2008 fiscal year.

U.S. authorities have laid criminal misdemeanour charges against both the captain and the cruise line owner of a tour boat that capsized in upstate New York in 2005, killing 20 elderly tourists.

Britain pushed ahead Monday to finish off its cull of nearly 160,000 turkeys, gassing and shipping out truckloads of poultry following the baffling discovery of the H5N1 virus among birds in a sealed shed.

A fire swept through a small hotel in Chile early Saturday morning, killing a Canadian woman vacationing in the southern city of Punta Arenas.

A man arrested twice in connection with the 2006 bombing that killed a Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan says he's innocent and blames police for his detention.

Two Ontarians wounded in a drive-by shooting outside their hotel in the resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, say they feel fine and will stay in the country for the rest of their vacation.

A letter bomb sent to an insurance company in London exploded, injuring a female employee on Monday.

At least 25 people have been killed and 340,000 forced from their homes in the Indonesian capital Jakarta because of flooding caused by torrential rain.

U.S. Gen. Dan McNeill took over command of NATO-led troops, including about 2,000 Canadians, in Afghanistan in a ceremony on Sunday.

Mortar bombs exploded near offices of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza Sunday morning as fighters from rival factions exchanged fire for a fourth day.

A senior NATO official said Saturday that NATO troops are preparing to launch an operation to recapture a southern Afghan town seized by Taliban militants this week.

Authorities in Saudi Arabia have arrested 10 people for allegedly fundraising and smuggling money for extremists, a spokesman for the country's Interior Ministry said Saturday.

Authorities confirmed Saturday the H5N1 bird flu virus has been detected for the first time on a British poultry farm after 2,000 turkeys died.

Palestinian factions in Gaza may have negotiated a truce on Friday, but it still hasn't taken hold.

At least 102 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in a market bombing in central Baghdad, police and hospital officials said Saturday.

Federal aid is on the way for thousands of people who are recovering after violent storms swept through central Florida, killing at least 20 people and flattening hundreds of homes.

The U.S. military filed a murder charge Friday against Omar Khadr, who is the only Canadian in the Guantanamo Bay prison and has been there for 4½ years.

A police officer was killed Friday as fans rioted at an Italian soccer game between Catania and Palermo, leading to the cancellation of all soccer matches in Italy's top two divisions this weekend.

The British government will send a copy of Al Gore's film about global warming, An Inconvenient Truth, to every secondary school in the country, the U.K. environment minister announced Friday.

Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said he will ask Jordan to explain its role in Maher Arar's deportation from New York to Syria via Jordan.