The Harper government is waiting with "anticipation" to learn how many more troops U.S. President Barack Obama will send to Afghanistan, in part to replace the withdrawal of Canadian soldiers scheduled for 2011, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Friday.

We've discussed how using Facebook and other social networking sites can get you fired, or even keep you from getting a job. In this case, a Canadian woman lost her disability insurance payment because of Facebook photos.

A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.

Afghan soldiers secure a street in Kabul on Thursday. KABUL - A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle killed 13 people, including a police officer, and wounded 30 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan .

Nov 19 - Militants have struck again in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, close to the Afghan border.

Top Canadian officials discussed in 2006 whether the then-governor of Kandahar was involved in the torture of prisoners and dismissed the concern, The Canadian Press has learned.

European Union leaders named Belgian Prime Minister Herman Van Rompuy as the bloc's first president on Thursday and appointed Briton Catherine Ashton as its foreign affairs chief.

A woman quietly left $40,000 worth of rare U.S. coins near a Catholic shrine for safekeeping so the Virgin Mary could watch over her life savings while she was out of town, and apparently it worked: The money was returned

As Karzai promised to make the country safer, an explosion in violent southern Afghanistan killed two U.S. service members, NATO said.

FLOODS which followed torrential rain of "biblical proportions" in north-west England have claimed the life of a police officer.

KNOWN for her blog and love of forks, South Korean supermodel Daul Kim has been found dead.

MORE than one in 10 British people don't realise that a woman can still get pregnant if she has sex standing up, according to a poll.

A MAN who strangled his wife during a nightmare in which he dreamed he was attacking an intruder has been freed after prosecutors withdrew the case against him in a Welsh court.

SUSPECT your significant other might be cheating on you? In Mexico, numerous laboratories are now offering a way to find out for sure - DNA tests.

AN art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th Century.

GRUESOME details have emerged about how killers hung human bodies up in hot rooms to drain their fat.

ONLINE auctioneers eBay have pulled the plug on a sale of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and parts of his brain.

THE world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, has restarted.

AMERICAN student Amanda Knox "coveted hatred" for the British roommate she is accused of murdering and "killed her to take revenge", a prosecutor has told an Italian court.