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Girl, 15, hid baby's body in bin then flew out of country

31.08.11
A teenage girl hid a newborn baby in a waste bin before flying home to Canada after secretly giving birth on a school trip to London, an inquest heard... more

Cowgirl Kate is bigger than the Beatles

08.07.11
Canada's Prime Minister has put the frenzy sparked by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's visit on a par with the Fab Four's tour in '64... more

Chinese officials flee with £76bn

17.06.11
Thousands of corrupt Chinese officials have stolen more than 800 billion yuan (£76 billion) and fled overseas, mainly to America, since the mid-Nineties, according to China's central bank... more

Canada's deficit miracle could be a tough act for Osborne to follow

31.05.11
Can the UK do a Canada? The man who wrote the book on the nation's deficit-busting miracle of the 1990s has been in town to offer some pointers and on the latest evidence of our public finances, it can't come soon enough... more

New royal deals put Pinnacle at the top

26.04.11
The Royal Wedding gives another boost to Pinnacle Telecom as three international broadcasters sign up to use its systems on the big day... more

Hiral's heroics against Aussies

16.03.11
Australia have not lost a World Cup match since 1999 but that didn't stop young Canada opener Hiral Patel putting them to the sword in Bangalore... more

Dog survives two lethal injections

03.03.11
Hundreds of people from the US and Canada have offered to adopt a puppy that survived a euthanasia attempt... more

Whistler dog killing 'must be investigated'

01.02.11
A hundred sled dogs were slaughtered in Whistler, Canada, after bookings at an adventure company failed to materialise... more

BHP Billiton pulls out of $39bn Potash bid as banks count cost

15.11.10
BHP Billiton drops its $39 billion hostile takeover bid for Canada's Potash Corp, meaning six investment banks could miss out on $170m in fees... more

Canada denies backing bid for Potash by BHP Billiton

02.11.10
The Canadian government is bounced into an official denial that it had approved BHP Billiton’s £24 billion bid for fertiliser maker Potash Corp... more

Tomkins investors back Pinafore Acquisitions bid

01.09.10
Investors in engineering and manufacturing company Tomkins vote for a takeover by Canada’s Pinafore Acquisitions... more

Mounties get their marijuana... and black bears

19.08.10
Police who raided two marijuana fields in British Columbia near the US-Canada border found 13 black bears wandering among the crops... more

Canada checks Tamil refugee ship over terror fears

13.08.10
Canadian security officials board a cargo ship off Vancouver carrying hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka... more

G8 must be more than talking shop says David Cameron

25.06.10
David Cameron launches an attack on international summits for being “just grand talking shops"... more

Five restaurants to watch The World Cup

10.06.10
Arrive early to get a seat in front of the 40in TV as no bookings are taken at Plateau.... more

City Spy: All eyes on Treasury Select Committee hot seat

01.06.10
Revenge is best served cold, as Terry Smith hopes to demonstrate the when former Collins Stewart and Tullett Prebon director Michael Fallon is elected chairman of the Treasury Select Committee... more

Canadian family killed by landslide as they watch ice hockey

12.05.10
Video: A family of four watching ice hockey on television in Canada are killed when their house is swallowed by a “sinkhole... more

Boris Johnson's green bikes to come from Canada

05.05.10
Boris Johnson's Paris-style bicycle hire scheme came under fire after it emerged that the 6,000 bikes would be built in Canada... more

Sinopec pays £3bn for stake in Canadian oil producer Syncrude

13.04.10
Chinese oil group Sinopec pays $4.65 billion for a 9% stake in Syncrude, Canada’s largest oil sands producer ... more

Dirty Oil is deeply depressing

19.03.10
Canada now provides 80 per cent of America’s oil and has so far made $70 billion out of the deal. Dirty Oil reveals more.... more

Canada's women are Havana good time

26.02.10
Winter Olympics: The ice hockey team strike gold but their bosses are left red-faced by the team’s celebrations... more

Coach Marina Zoueva hopes to be Russia's ice queen

23.02.10
Winter Olympics: Marina Zoueva has double reason to celebrate after coaching Canadians to ice dance gold and Americans to silver... more

British touts strike gold at Vancouver Winter Olympics

22.02.10
British touts have been charging a mark-up of up to 1,000 per cent for top events at the Games... more

Vancouver rising: how Canada's third largest city has changed

17.02.10
York Membery takes a step back in time with a century-old guide to see how Canada's third largest city, currently hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics, has changed... more

Laura Robson still on a high after defeat

29.06.09
Laura Robson is set to begin the defence of her Wimbledon girls' title and insists a debut defeat in the senior women's singles has not dented her confidence... more

£14m library will help turn Canada Water on its head

08.04.09
A library in the shape of an inverted pyramid is to be built in Docklands... more

Canada pension funds eye UK airports

26.03.09
Canada's top pension funds are looking to invest in British airports after the breakup of Britain's BAA Plc, the world's biggest airport operator... more

Australia is in the second division, says G20 memo

13.03.09
The Foreign Office faced embarrassment after a secret memo suggested that Russia, Australia and Canada were all “second division” countries at the G20 summit... more

Scam tricks elderly victims out of £350,000

27.10.08
Council chiefs issued a warning over fraudsters who have tricked elderly and vulnerable people out of more than £350,000 with a bogus prize draw... more

City turmoil over bail-out

08.10.08
Interest rates were slashed by half a point as world leaders launched a historic economic rescue mission... more


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