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All French combat troops will pull out of Afghanistan by the end of the year, France's new president said in Kabul Friday, but some trainers will remain to help Afghanistan's nascent security forces.
A coroner's jury has made sweeping recommendations after an inquest into a devastating Ontario retirement home fire that killed four people in 2009.
The raging forest fire near Timmins, Ont., has jumped Highway 144 southwest of the northern city. The city declared a state of emergency earlier Friday.
Police in Gatineau, Que., have charged a 28-year-old man with three counts of first-degree murder on Friday, following the deaths of his estranged partner and her parents in a home the four shared together.
When a kidney patient is in need of a transplant, they often turn to their family members first, but many can't donate because their blood types don't match. But now, doctors in Toronto hope a new device they hope can fix the blood compatibility problem.
Student groups in Quebec are asking the courts to suspend the law adopted last week that places restrictions on demonstrations, although the students say they are still willing to meet with the government.
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate and a veteran of ousted leader Hosni Mubarak's regime each won spots in the country's runoff election Friday, setting up a divisive showdown that could threaten the country's democratic progress.
Barack Obama inhaled. Frequently, happily and allegedly quite greedily. Various websites published excerpts on Friday from an upcoming book on the U.S. president containing fresh details about his enthusiasm for marijuana as a young man.
Thirty-three years to the day after 6-year-old Etan Patz vanished while walking to catch a school bus, a man accused of strangling him was arraigned on a murder charge Friday in a locked hospital ward where he was being held as a suicide risk.
A 24-year-old Canadian man is in U.S. federal custody for rushing toward the front of an American Airlines flight from Jamaica after the plane landed in Miami.
Helene Campbell, the 21-year-old double-lung transplant recipient who captured the world's attention as she waited for a donor, appeared on Ellen DeGeneres' TV talk show on Friday, making good on a promise to dance on the popular program after she had recovered from surgery.
Former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin was awarded the Governor General's highest honour Friday, as he and 43 other Canadians were invested with the Order of Canada.
The federal government is raising the monetary threshold for a review of a foreign takeover of a Canadian company to $1 billion from $330 million over a four-year period.
Plans to transform the Greater Toronto Area's Rouge Valley into the first national urban park in Canada moved a step closer to reality Friday after the Federal government pledged more than $140 million.
A new poll suggests Canadians are roughly split over NDP Leader Tom Mulcair's contention that the Alberta oilsands have given the country a case of Dutch Disease as he prepares to visit the province next week.
Space station astronauts have captured the Dragon. The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Friday, making history as the first commercial delivery ship in orbit.
With hundreds of Canadians dying every year while waiting for new organs, some say the solution is to bring in a system where everyone is automatically considered a would-be donor unless they explicitly say they don't want to be.
The maker of Tide Pods will create a new double-latch lid to deter children from accessing and eating the brightly colored detergent packets, a company spokesman said Friday.
Canadian environmentalist Paul Watson is confident he can win a court case in Costa Rica if he's deported from Germany to face charges of endangering a fishing crew a decade ago.
An Alberta-based oil and gas company has crews working around the clock at a remote area of the province to clean up oil that leaked from a pipeline.
The board of Bankia, the large Spanish bank that was taken over by the government, met Friday to discuss a restructuring plan that will include a request for more state aid, bolstering calls for a co-ordinated relief blueprint for Europe's fragile financial sector.
Consumer confidence is surging across the country, according to the latest survey by the Conference Board of Canada.
A Senate panel expressed its outrage over Pakistan's conviction of a doctor who helped the United States track down Osama bin Laden, voting to cut aid to Islamabad by US$33 million - $1 million for every year of the physician's 33-year sentence for high treason.
Calgary scientists say they have revolutionized stem cell production and have found a way to create the super cells without the risk of cancer.
Fears about the presence of an infectious virus have forced the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to quarantine a third B.C. salmon farm in two weeks.
Two people have died in a small plane crash in the northern Ontario town of Cochrane Friday, CP24 reported.
Fire officials say a storm that swept through Ottawa on Friday evening caused some damage and at least one injury.
The pension offer being made to the union representing some 4,800 striking Canadian Pacific Railway employees is better than the industry standard, the company said Friday as contract negotiations continued ahead of looming back-to-work legislation.
The Mounties are closing three of their six forensic labs and consolidating services in the remaining three. The RCMP says the labs in Regina, Winnipeg and Halifax will close and their work will be handled by labs in Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa.
Ottawa's books took an unexpectedly large $9-billion hit in March but the $23.5-billion deficit it expects for the just-ended budget year appears to be below the Harper government's previous estimates.
New Brunswick's public utility is investigating a spill of 300 litres of radioactive heavy water.
A Nova Scotia-based manufacturer of parking meters has been given a $500,000 federal loan.
Canadian forecasters say the early arrival of a tropical storm off the U.S. east coast does not mean Eastern Canada should brace for a particularly active hurricane season.
The president of the Nova Scotia Native Women's Association say the report into the death of Victoria Rose Paul is disturbing to the aboriginal community where the woman grew up.
Genetic tests confirm that a large canine shot on Newfoundland's Bonavista Peninsula in March was a wolf that probably made it to the island on ice, provincial officials said Friday.
The oldest woman to climb Mount Everest said she finally felt she had gotten old when she scaled the world's highest peak last weekend.
A gunman looking for someone he believed owed him money shot himself inside an Indiana real estate office, where he'd held hostages for several hours earlier, and was taken to a hospital, police said Friday.
President Bashar Assad's forces killed at least 50 civilians, including 13 children, in central Syria on Friday, activists said, in one of the highest death tolls in one specific area since an internationally-brokered cease-fire went into effect last month.
The judge in the trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards abruptly closed the courtroom Friday to talk to attorneys about an issue with a juror and sent the panel home after six days of deliberations with a stern warning not to talk about the case.
The commander in charge of the raid to kill Osama bin Laden is defending his proposal that would give him more authority to send special operations forces overseas to address problems like terrorists or sudden Arab Spring-style unrest.
Opposition lawmakers on Friday blocked the Ukrainian Parliament a day after a brawl in the chamber sent one legislator to the hospital.
The United Nations human rights chief said Friday that Western sanctions against Zimbabwe's president and his loyalists should be suspended, at least until elections, saying the measures have hurt the country's poorest and most vulnerable people.
China on Friday rejected a U.S. State Department report that criticized China's human rights record, saying Washington's critique was inaccurate and irresponsible.
Diplomats say the UN nuclear agency has found traces of uranium at Iran's underground atomic site enriched to higher than previous levels and closer to what is needed for nuclear weapons.
The trial of Anders Behring Breivik, the confessed gunman who killed 77 people last year in a bomb and shooting rampage, is entering a new phase after the court heard testimony from one of the only people Breivik spared.
Scores of climbers were headed for the summit of Mount Everest on Friday in what is expected to another busy weekend on the top of the world.
Thousands of Thais lined roads in Bangkok and near the historic capital Ayutthaya on Friday to see the country's 84-year-old monarch on his first trip outside the capital in almost three years.
A new report warns that mixing alcohol with caffeine-rich energy beverages is a trend that is continuing to rise in Canada, despite repeated warnings that the combination is unsafe.
An old drug once routinely used as a treatment for schizophrenia appears to have a hidden talent, Canadian researchers have discovered: neutralizing cancer stem cells while leaving healthy cells intact.
Medical screening tests like Pap smears, cholesterol tests, and mammograms have been credited with saving countless lives. But the author of a new book says many of these tests are being overused by well-meaning doctors and a medical industry that's preying on patient fears.
A new report says the rate of premature deaths in Canada has plummeted over the past 30 years, a result of social policies like seat belt laws and improvements in disease prevention and treatment.
After years of Canadians hearing that they need to take in more calcium, a new study suggests calcium supplements might increase their risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
There are smoke-free bars, smoke-free parks, even smoke-free college campuses. But a smoke-free country?
Partners in the effort to finally rid the world of polio are taking another step today, launching an emergency action plan strategists hope will propel the long overdue program across the finish line.
For the first time scientists have succeeded in taking skin cells from heart failure patients and transforming them into healthy, beating heart tissue.
Comedian Mike MacDonald has never been one to ask for help. But after being diagnosed with hepatitis C and seeing his condition worsen in just a few months, he's taken his search for a living liver donor public.
Britney Spears has been on the job just two days and she's already proving to be a popular judge on "The X Factor." The pop queen is also growing into her role as critic on the singing contest show.
Beyonce Knowles is nervous about going back to work since having a baby. The 'Halo' singer gave birth to her and husband Jay-Z's first child, daughter Blue Ivy, in January, and is worried about returning to the stage.
The 36-year-old actress - who has two children with former husband Ryan Phillippe - is expecting a baby with Jim Toth but didn't let it stop her flying to the Cannes Film Festival.
Israelis are gearing up to get down at Madonna's show as the pop diva landed in the holy land ahead of her world tour which kicks off here next week.
Coming in second on "American Idol" may still be a path to superstardom, but it no longer offers guaranteed paychecks worthy of the next pop idol or rock star.
Sympatico.ca Video: Alec Baldwin apologizes to Harvey Weinstein after reportedly berating the movie mogul in public at the Cannes Film Festival.
Sympatico.ca Video: Bill Clinton is taking heat from guests for his reportedly stinky, crowded, and unsatisfying 'A Night Out With the Millennium Network' fundraiser in Waterloo.
Sympatico.ca Video: An 80-year-old woman had the scare of her life during her first skydive experience in California.
Lady Gaga went to see Thailand's famous "ladyboys" perform on Friday. The 'Born This Way' singer is currently on her Born This Way Ball world tour.
Fifteen years since the zippy original, we now have a third "Men in Black" movie which no one seems to have been clamoring for except maybe Barry Sonnenfeld, the director of all three.
Like the inventors of the vibrator it depicts, "Hysteria" really aims to please. And like an inattentive lover displaced by the sexual aid, the film never quite satisfies.
Members of the chart-topping boy band One Direction were using a New York gym when Liam Payne came face-to-face with an admirer while he was stripping down.
Sympatico.ca Video: Take a look at the $30 million home Celine Dion is selling.
Gisele Bundchen is expecting her second child with husband Tom Brady according to reports.
Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds, who married in 2008 but split at the end of 2010, have put their marital home on the market.
Alyssa Milano has denied dating Justin Theroux before he was in a relationship with Jennifer Aniston.
The 'Angels' singer is "very excited" about the impending arrival but admitted his spouse Ayda Field had asked him to keep quiet about the gender of their unborn baby.
Sympatico.ca Video: An insane stuntman jumps 2000 feet wearing just a wingsuit and aims for a stack of cardboard boxes to help break his landing.
Sir Elton John has been hospitalized with a "serious respiratory infection."
Phillip Phillips is the toast of the world today as the new winner of "American Idol." But he will have to work hard to top the accomplishments of previous "Idol" champs.
Hollywood's sexiest not only showed off hot looks but also radiated beautiful bronzed skin. CTVNews.ca takes a look at 50 of the hottest looks on the red carpet this week.
Lady Gaga wants to go shopping in Bangkok -- for a fake Rolex. The singer made the comment to her 24 million Twitter followers, sparking an online uproar Thursday in Thailand where some fans called it offensive, insulting and bad for the country's image.
Tim McGraw will be saluting veterans in a big way while on tour this summer. The country music superstar is giving away 25 mortgage-free houses -- one for each stop on his upcoming "Brothers of the Sun" tour with Kenny Chesney.
A nearly two-metre-tall totem that tells a tale about cultural acceptance is going on display at Vancouver International Airport.
We all have nagging worries -- did I turn off the stove? Did I lock the door? But for Canadians with obsessive-compulsive disorders, these thoughts get stuck, playing over and over in the mind like a broken record.
When it comes to shopping for a second-hand vehicle most buyers are wary of smooth-talking used salespeople who may try to sell you a lemon. So what can you do to ensure that you and your hard earned money aren't being taken for a ride?
Buying a used vehicle? Have it inspected first, and make it clear to the dealer that no pre-purchase inspection means no sale.
For this year's investigation, the APA mystery shoppers visited 20 used car sellers in the Greater Toronto Area. The shoppers were accompanied by an expert mechanic and all visits were recorded on W5's cameras.
Resident-to-resident abuse in long-term care is far more common than you might think. Through access to information, W5 obtained the number of resident-to-resident assaults in Ontario nursing homes. There were 1,788 incidents in 2010.
Statistic provided under W5's access request by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term care show that there were 1,788 reported incidents of resident-to-resident abuse in 2010.
Are you looking for a nursing home or other long-term care facility for a loved one? Follow these important tips before making a decision.
Even casual news viewers will recognize CTV's chief political correspondent when he appears this week on W5. Craig Oliver's commentaries out of Ottawa bring novel insights and crackle with enthusiasm and good humour. He's a man who takes his work seriously, but never himself.
A lot has happened since Sue Rodriguez, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, took her fight to legalize assisted suicide all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1993. Now, the debate has been re-ignited in British Columbia.
At an age when many might think the richness of their lives was found in collected experience and savoured memories, William Shatner disagrees.
For a fee, travel clubs offer discounts on everything from hotels and flights to meals and car rentals. But a W5 hidden camera investigation has found the only thing some of them may really be selling is broken promises.
The baffling disappearance of Mariam Makhniashvili sparked an unprecedented police search and left many lingering questions about her family. We may never know exactly how long the remains of the 17-year- old lay undiscovered in a ravine beneath a Toronto highway overpass.
W5 investigates cases where brand-new HVAC systems aren't working properly, with some homeowners finding that their homes are freezing on one floor and feeling tropical on another.
W5 takes on the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) with a special investigation. Victor Malarek exposes questions about how effective the Ontario agency really is in 'Above the Law.'
They are disturbing images: police officers kicking, hog-tying, maiming suspects and, sometimes, innocent citizens. Captured on surveillance videos and by cellphone cameras. CTV's W5 looks at cases in Victoria, where it seems no matter how damning the evidence, the officers involved get off with few penalties.
If Trevor Greene and Debbie Lepore had never met, you wonder if he would have had the will to recover from a devastating injury to his brain.in 2006.
When you hear about human trafficking in the sex trade, most people have an image of women being smuggled into Canada from abroad and forced to work in seamy brothels. But there's a thriving trafficking trade right here at home.
W5 reveals shocking tax horror stories faced by hard-working, ordinary Canadians who came up against the Canada Revenue Agency.
This Saturday on W5, Into Thin Air: What happened to Mariam Makhniashvili?
Newfoundland and Labrador being a small province, I'd heard of Zita Cobb, and knew she was doing some extraordinary things in her birthplace of Fogo Island. I didn't realise just how extraordinary until I arrived there with W5.
Lloyd Robertson on the twists and turns of a real-life drama on Saturday's W5: the story of a Saskatchewan man who took up arms to protect his daughter from a drug dealer.
Hassan Rasouli, an electrical engineer, brought his family to Toronto from Iran, in the spring of 2010. Five months later, what was supposed to be routine surgery for a benign brain tumor, left Hassan unconscious. Bacterial meningitis had infected his brain.
The killing of the ocean's most graceful creatures -- dolphins, whales and seals -- motivates many animal lovers to object but few are willing to go to the lengths of Canadian environmentalist Paul Watson.
W5 goes undercover to investigate risky laser treatments and exposes misleading sales pitches and questionable training. As these high-tech treatments have become more prevalent, so have patients' horror stories.
Stare into the eyes of a chimpanzee, meet the intelligent gaze that stares back at you and you will recognize a link with human beings that stretches back millions of years. Now that link has become the centre of a heated and often emotional debate.
In Pictures: W5 investigates the hidden dangers of cosmetic laser treatments.
On W5: A Calgary man, defrauded of millions, goes to extreme measures in his quest for justice after the law fails to help him.
W5 tells a harrowing ordeal that residents of a quaint family-filled neighbourhood in Toronto's west end had to endure, at the hands of a neighbour who decided to make their lives a living hell.
It's too easy to think of this famine - one of the worst in our history - as being too big, too foreign, too obscure for us to grasp. But seen through K'naan's eyes, it became very real and very human.
In "Murder Most Forgotten," W5 investigates the murder of Leah Souza 20 years ago. Her mother, Lora, saw her daughter's killer but can't remember a thing.
W5 investigates the Navy's floundering submarine program. Nearly $1 billion was paid for the boats, and Canadians can expect to spend even more in the future for a program that still isn't fully operational, 15 years after the purchase.
W5's 10-month investigation of Caron Oderbien, a grifter who has left a trail of broken hearts and empty wallets across five provinces and two countries.
Families of loved ones who've gone missing for years tell W5 their stories of hope and suffering, with the federal government unlikely or unwilling to make changes to the DNA database that could bring them closure.
W5 joins an underwater archeology mission to solve a 160-year-old mystery that lies at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
This Saturday on W5, Frozen in Time: The quest to solve a 160-year-old mystery that lies at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.
Gloria Steinem is an American writer, a lecturer, and co-founder of MS magazine. She's one of the leading figures of the women's movement and helped bring feminism into the mainstream consciousness thanks to her good looks and popular writing.
Gloria Steinem is the co-founder of MS magazine, a best-selling author, and a leading figure in the women's movement. Here on W5, she comes face-to-face with the founders of "Slutwalk."
On W5: Canadian soldier Trevor Greene recounts his remarkable journey of recovery since that fateful day in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan in 2006 -- when he was the victim of an axe attack during a meeting with village elders.
From the report: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada (Background Paper, National Library of Canada)
W5 investigates Toronto-based lender, Sandy Hutchens (aka Moishe Alexander), and reveals how he collected millions of dollars in fees from desperate borrowers.
W5 tells the incredible story of two soldiers -- Corporal Andrew Knisley and Master Corporal Jody Mitic -- who refuse to let their horrendous injuries slow them down from taking part in an endurance rally race for a good cause.
When Genie and Helmut Vollmer's accountant introduced them to a new investment opportunity, they had no reason to doubt their financial advisor and friend of 30 years.
It's not often you meet the mayor of a city who is as popular in other cities across Canada as he is on home turf.
W5 tells the amazing story of 48 students, plus 8 teachers and 8 crew members, who survived the sinking of the tall ship Concordia, 500 kilometres off the coast of Brazil February 17, 2010.
The federal Conservatives are under fire for new changes to the employment insurance system that put more pressure on unemployed Canadians to take lower paying jobs, sometimes in unrelated fields of employment.
The federal government would have an obligation to end the Canadian Pacific rail strike if it began hurting the national economy, Labour Minister Lisa Raitt declared on Thursday as companies worked to survive without freight service.
A defeated Liberal MP isn't content to revel in a court ruling that overturned the election results in his Toronto riding on technical, procedural grounds.
Canadians have done an about-face and ranked strengthening the economy as the top priority for government compared to last year when crime and punishment was number one.
Quebec's striking student groups have been warned to respect provincial election laws if they want to make good on their promise to help defeat Jean Charest's Liberal government.
The Muslim Brotherhood said Thursday that its candidate was leading in exit polls from Egypt's landmark presidential election, as official counting began after two days of voting to choose a successor to ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.
A Conservative MP says plenty of government backbenchers share opposition concerns about the wide array of controversial measures crammed into the massive budget implementation bill.
Federal Treasury Board President Tony Clement used a speech in the heart of Canada's oil and gas sector to launch an attack on NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and his dim view of Canada's resource industry.
Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq says that when she tore a strip off a UN right-to-food envoy last week, she never meant to imply there were no hunger problems in the North.
Iran and six world powers exchanged dueling proposals Wednesday in a tug of war over Tehran's nuclear program that pits international concerns about the Islamic Republic's potential to build atomic weapons against enforcing crippling sanctions on its people.
Replay the live chat CanadaAM.CTV.ca hosted on the latest organ transplant research and the ABCs of becoming a donor.
Android und iOS beherrschen die Smartphone - Welt Laut IDC wurden im ersten Quartal 2012 weltweit 152 Millionen Smartphones verkauft. Mehr als die Hälfte davon sind mit Android ausgerüstet, ein knappes Viertel iPhones mit iOS.
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Elton John Sänger Elton John wurde mit einer schweren Atemwegs erkrankung ins Krankenhaus eingeliefert – der Popstar musste sogar einige Konzerte absagen. Er entschuldigte sich bei den Fans.
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SpaceX: Dragon dockt an die ISS an Die Nasa hat das Andocken der privaten Raumfähre Dragon an die ISS erlaubt. Das Manöver hat am frühen Freitag morgen begonnen und soll am Nachmittag abgeschlossen sein.
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Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) zum installieren bereit.