A camouflaged gunman was killed and a 6-year-old hostage was shot in the leg during a two-hour standoff with police Tuesday that began when the man snatched the child off a sidewalk and barricaded himself in a restaurant east of

Our guide to British pubs. This week: The Pandora Inn Restronguet Creek Cornwall.

We leave this Dales inn feeling as rosy and syrupy as the closing scenes of Heartbeat.

Brett Sutter's first NHL goal started a run of three straight third-period tallies that powered the Calgary Flames to a 4-3 win over the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday night at the Saddledome.

Several reports due Wednesday are expected to provide more evidence that consumers are cutting back on spending and companies are eliminating jobs in the face of a deepening recession.

Vancouver Canucks gave up three goals in the first period and two in the opening minute of the second on the way to account for a 5-0 loss to the host San Jose Sharks on Tuesday night in California.

A New Westminster, B.C., police officer has been fined $1,000 after pleading guilty to impaired driving.

RCMP in Surrey, B.C., are warning women whose cars are stuck in the snow to be careful when strangers offer to help.

It was a surprise that took a lot of work to pull off, but when Gus Francis e-mailed CBS 2 to help with his wedding proposal - we said yes! The rest is matrimonial history.

The past year has brought several invasive changes to the Intel Linux graphics stack with the introduction of the Graphics Execution Manager for GPU memory management within the kernel, support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure 2, and kernel mode-setting finally

Sudan's military and child welfare authorities have partnered with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to protect children's rights and prevent the recruitment of child soldiers in the war-torn African nation.

THERE will be no fresh peace talks with LRA rebels, chief mediator Dr. Riek Machar said yesterday.

EMBATTLED former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has been dismissed from the Nigeria Police as recommended by the Police Disciplinary Committee and adopted by the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mr Mike Okiro.

FORMER ZBC newscaster Jestina Mukoko and nine MDC-T activists are expected to appear in a Harare court today on charges of recruiting or attempting to recruit people for purposes of undergoing military training to overthrow the Government.

The Security Council, condemning the continuing illicit traffic of weapons in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, decided this morning to extend the arms embargo there and its related sanctions regime, with some modifications, until 30 November 2009.