The man accused of first-degree murder in the death of 16-year-old Hilary Bonnell appeared in Miramichi provincial court Monday via videolink from the Moncton Detention Centre on unrelated charges of sexual assault.

A New Brunswick woman who told police she'd been abducted at gunpoint and forced to drive a man to Toronto has received a conditional discharge after pleading guilty to mischief.

Edmundston has lifted a boil water order to residents in the Saint-Jacques and Verret areas of the northwestern New Brunswick city.

U.S. airlines will be forced to let passengers leave airplanes stranded on the tarmac for more than three hours, under new regulations that come into effect in mid-2010.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon defended the accord reached at the end of the Copenhagen climate change talks despite criticism from world leaders that the process was flawed.

Crews are out cleaning up after the large storm that battered the U.S. Eastern Seaboard passed through parts of Nova Scotia overnight.

British Columbia was the only province in the country to report an increase in greenhouse gas emissions from major industries in 2008, according to figures released by Environment Canada.

The chief of Peguis First Nation in Manitoba says the controversy about the salaries of elected leaders in the community is overblown.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered the head of the the country's train authority to get Channel Tunnel passenger traffic moving again by Tuesday.

A worker at the Calgary airport has died after falling out of a cherry picker while de-icing an aircraft.

Polish police said Monday the five men arrested on Sunday in connection with the theft of the infamous entrance sign from the former Auschwitz death camp appear to have been common criminals.

Ottawa Senators forward Mike Fisher and country music star Carrie Underwood are engaged.

Landmark health-care legislation backed by U.S. President Barack Obama passed its sternest Senate test in Monday's pre-dawn hours, overcoming Republican delaying tactics on a 60-40 vote that all but assures its passage this week.

Tens of thousands of Iranian mourners joined the funeral procession of the country's most senior dissident cleric, who repeatedly described the government's crackdowns on protests as the work of power-hungry despots.

Five weeks after being surgically separated in Australia, Bangladeshi-born twins Trishna and Krishna have been released from a Melbourne hospital just in time for their third birthday.

Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name became Britain's 2009 Christmas No. 1 on the weekend, after being pushed to the top of the charts by a Facebook campaign.

Maple Leafs head coach Ron Wilson was hoping Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller, who has won all three of his games against Toronto this season, gets Monday night off when the Sabres visit Toronto.

Barcelona president Joan Laporta has ruled out any move for Manchester City striker Robinho during the January transfer window.

After opening their longest road trip of the season with a resounding victory on Long Island, the Montreal Canadiens hope to bring the momentum south as they face the Atlanta Thrashers on Monday night.

Austria's Reinfried Herbst made it two wins in two slalom races this season with a victory Monday on the Gran Risa course in Italy.