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By Eden Naby and Jamsheed K. ChoksySyria has long had a diverse population that managed to live together in relative harmony. And the struggle to end Baathist rule drew together citizens from across class, economic, religious and ethnic lines.

TORONTO 聴 All passengers and a driver on a Toronto Transit Commission bus in west Toronto escaped without injury after live power lines crashed onto the vehicle Monday.A crane came tumbling down around 1:45 p.m.

DIEPPE, France 聴 A handful of 91原创 veterans were treated to a heroes聮 welcome Sunday when they returned to the French coastal town of Dieppe to mark the 70th anniversary of one of the bloodiest and most disastrous raids of the Second World War.

NEW DELHI 聴 The Indian home secretary has accused websites in Pakistan of spreading false rumours that caused thousands of people from India聮s remote northeast to panic and flee from southern and western India.

Some members of the B.C. Government and Service Employees' Union will once again walk off the job for a day.Staff at Ministry of Forests offices in Prince George, Dawson Creek, Burns Lake, Cranbrook and Nelson will walk out during office hours today.

HEFEI, China 聴 The wife of a disgraced Chinese politician was given a suspended death sentence Monday after confessing to killing a British businessman by poisoning him with cyanide in a case that rocked the country聮s top political leadership.

A man and woman awakened about 3 a.m. Monday by the sound of their pickup truck being started got a quick response after calling Saanich police. The two heard the truck聮s engine in the driveway and immediately called 911.

As her teammates focused on the finish line during their dragon boat race Saturday in the Inner Harbour, Pam Pospisil was feeling for how the boat moved through the water.

China's Yu Wenxia has been crowned the 2012 Miss World. It is the second time Miss China has been awarded the title. The first was in 2007, when Zhang Zilin took the honour.

SAN FRANCISCO 聴 Sara Kruzan was 17 when she was sentenced to die in prison for killing and robbing her pimp at a motel in Riverside, California.