
MONTREAL - The outspoken wife of former Liberal leader Stephane Dion has some scathing criticism for the party and current leader Michael Ignatieff.

PARIS (AFP) - Two years before she was killed in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment, Anna Politkovskaya mused about life as the Kremlin's number one enemy and pronounced it a "miracle" that she was still alive.
ROME - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe used the U.N. summit on world hunger Tuesday to lash out at the West and defend land reforms blamed for plunging his people into starvation.

LONDON (AFP) - Rescuers were working on Friday to evacuate about 200 people by helicopter from a town after storms triggered flooding across parts of the country, police said.
CALGARY - Residents of about 25 apartment units in northeast Calgary had to leave their homes after two explosive devices detonated in a parking lot between two buildings.
Two men died in Calgary after a garage caught fire in the city's northeast.

MUMBAI (AFP) - An Indian woman successfully divorced her husband after he refused to allow her to watch television soap operas, a report said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Runny nose, fever, cough, even pneumonia -- the symptoms sound like swine flu but children hospitalized at one U.S. hospital in fact had a rhinovirus, better known as a common cold virus, doctors said on Tuesday.
NEW YORK - A Republican congressman who believes it's a security risk to prosecute suspected Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists in Manhattan apologized Tuesday for suggesting New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's family could be in danger with such a high-profile case in town.
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Marines treated at Camp Lejeune for post-traumatic stress had to undergo therapy for months in temporary trailers where they could hear bomb blasts, machine-gun fire and war cries through the thin walls, according to servicemen and their former psychiatrist.
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