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Oscars: the best and worst

Read full coverage of Sunday's Oscar ceremonies to learn the winners and losers, the highlight and not-so-highlights, with a photo spread of the fashions, without having to sit through hours of TV, in Monday's Vancouver Sun.

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Gadhafi forces fire on protesters in Tripoli

Government paramilitary forces opened fire Friday on protesters who swarmed the streets of Tripoli in what opponents hoped would be a final push to topple Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Witnesses described multiple casualties from the fiercest violence yet in the Libyan capital.

Libya

Canadian plane leaves Libya empty, NATO to help

NATO on Friday offered to help in what has become a worldwide scramble to evacuate foreign nationals from escalating violence in the African nation.

Quake toll rises as central Christchurch faces ruin

The grim search for survivors in Christchurch continued to yield only bodies Saturday, as engineers said a third of the earthquake-stricken city centre faced demolition.

Nervous about unrest, Chinese authorities block websites

Chinese authorities continued to tighten controls on Internet use Friday in the face of murky calls for "jasmine rallies" to emulate the anti-government protests in the Middle East.

Egyptians march to protect their victory as Mideast protests continue

One month after their uprising began, tens of thousands of Egyptians gathered Friday in the square where their unexpected journey originated, taking stock of what they have accomplished and affirming what they want next.

Special section: Mideast and Arab World Unrest

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MERCY KILLING

Ontario baby's tough life sparks debate over who should choose how terminally ill die.

SOFTWARE LAWSUIT

Lawsuit offers glimpse into cutthroat competition in software management industry.

NHLER'S BFF

All of the dogs that St. Louis Blues defenceman Barret Jackman helps save are neglected.

ALL THE RAGE

You can see it in your neighbour's face and in the driver behind you.

RESEARCHERS ID FALLEN SOLDIER

An Irish immigrant, who fought for Canada during the First World War and died, has finally been identified.

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FISH DEBATE

Canadian scientist's work front and centre in GE fish debate.

LAST ANGLOS

Rural anglophones a vanishing breed in Quebec.

BACTERIA SHEDS LIGHT ON HISTORY

A researcher is studying bacteria from the stomach of a man who died hundreds of years ago.

PRISON PEN PALS

In April 1999, convicted murderer Justin Wiley Dickens was sitting on Texas' death row.

ALBERTA'S 'LAST BLACK COWBOY'

Leon Clarence Jamerson decided to drop out of school in Grade 3.

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Protesters chant anti-government slogans in Benghazi city, Libya, February 23, 2011. Thousands of Libyans celebrated the liberation of the eastern city of Benghazi from the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who was reported to have sent a plane to bomb them on Wednesday as he clung to power. The crew bailed out of the aircraft after it took off from the capital Tripoli. It then came down south-west of Benghazi, Libya's Quryna newspaper cited a military source as saying, averting a fresh bloodshed in almo

Fear stalks Tripoli, celebrations in Libya's east

BENGHAZI, Libya, Feb 23 - Libyans celebrated the liberation of the east of the country from the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who has vowed to crush the revolt and on Wednesday was trying to assert his grip on the capital Tripoli, in the west.

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With a wingspan of 6.5 inches, the Nano Hummingbird weighs 19 grams, or less than a AA battery. The drone's guts consist of motors, communications systems and a video camera. It is slightly larger than the average hummingbird. (AeroVironment via Los Angeles Times/MCT)

Pocket-sized 'hummingbird' drone aims to flutter into enemy territory

LOS ANGELES - A pocket-size drone dubbed the Nano Hummingbird for the way it flaps its tiny robotic wings has been developed for the Pentagon by a Monrovia, Calif., company as a mini-spy plane capable of maneuvering on the battlefield and in urban areas.

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U.S. seniors share homes for income and company

BOUND BROOK, New Jersey, Feb 7 - Joyce Kane lives with two women who pay rent, don't smoke and like her cats.

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A detail of a native corn plant or mazorca is shown by Aldo Gonzalez in his town of Guelato, Oaxaca, Mexico, January 16, 2010. (Heriberto Rodriguez/MCT)

Mexico, cradle of corn, finds its noble grain under assault

GUELATAO, Mexico - Yank the husks off ears of corn grown in the mountains of southern Mexico, and you may find kernels that are red, yellow, white, blue, black or even variegated.

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Jody Buell of Burnsville, Minnesota, was the victim of a scam by a man she was matched with on eHarmony in 2008. She sent $10,000 in electronic equipment to Ghana before realizing she had been duped. Buell now works with a Yahoo group that helps others who have been victimized by romance scams online. (Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)

E-romance scams common and costly, but victims find little help

MINNEAPOLIS - Jody Buell thought she was falling in love, but she fell for someone who didn't exist.

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A view of the front of the Chelsea Hotel in New York, January 10, 2011. The Chelsea Hotel, a haven for struggling artists for over 50 years, is for sale since October 2010. The 12-floor, 250-room landmark hotel, was built in 1883 and hosted celebrities such as Andy Warhol, Arthur Miller and his wife Marylin Monroe, musicians Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and punk rocker Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols who killed his girlfriend Nancy Spungen there in 1978 in a drug-induced stupor. AFP

NY's storied Chelsea Hotel hits market

NEW YORK, Feb 3, 2011 - New York's storied Chelsea Hotel, the classic haunt of artists and hell-raising performers, is for sale and, perhaps, so is its soul.

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TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SONIA LOGRE-GREZZI

Immigrants and foreigners show identification at the entrance of the Di Cambio-Angelico middle school in Florence before an Italian language exam to obtain their resident card in Florence on January 19, 2011. Such compulsory tests for immigrants have caused controversy in some European countries, particularly in France, where they were introduced in 2008. But in Italy they have been embraced by many as a first step on the path to integration. AFP PHO

Italy- language tests now a must for would-be citizens

FLORENCE, Italy, Feb 2, 2011 - Mario slips into his seat in the Florence schoolroom just as the exam begins: five years after arriving in Italy from Honduras he may finally be able to clinch that longed-for permit to stay, thanks to the country's new language tests.

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