22,000 jobs vanish in a month

UNEMPLOYMENT rate hits a six-year high, but economists had expected the news to be worse.

Swedish model's ex-lover not guilty

CHARLOTTE Lindstrom's former fiancee didn't conspire to murder two Crown witnesses, jury finds.

Explosion Kills 7 Russians in South Ossetia

MOSCOW - A car bomb in the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali killed seven Russian peacekeepers and two others on Friday, raising tensions in the separatist enclave days before a scheduled pullback of Russian troops from Georgian territory.

Confronting Taliban, Pakistan Finds Itself at War

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - War has come to Pakistan, not just as terrorist bombings, but as full-scale battles, leaving Pakistanis angry and dismayed as the dead, wounded and displaced turn up right on their doorstep.