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Canadian and U.S. researchers say they have found the oldest rocks in the world, along the Northern Quebec coast of Hudson’s Bay.

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The Middle East Quartet is “losing its grip” and is making inadequate progress toward improving the lives of Palestinians or improving the prospects for Mideast peace, a group of prominent aid agencies said Thursday.

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O.J. Simpson chatted and shook hands Thursday with one of the memorabilia dealers he’s acccused of robbing when the two met in a courthouse hallway in Las Vegas.

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The dollar was mostly higher Thursday as investors clamped onto increasing optimism that approval of the government’s $700 billion bailout plan was near.

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Stephen Harper and Jack Layton used the battleground of British Columbia to announce their rival consumer protection plans ahead of the Oct. 14 federal election.

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Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion on Thursday compared Stephen Harper’s plan for the Canadian economy to the approach of U.S. President George W. Bush, saying the Conservative leader has “no vision” to deal with increasing global economic uncertainty.

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The rate of close calls on airport runways in the United States is up over last year and the risk of a collision is high, a U.S. government investigator said Thursday.

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An Ontario Superior Court judge has convicted a 20-year-old man of conspiring in a group plot to bomb several Canadian targets, including Parliament Hill, RCMP headquarters and nuclear power plants.

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A Quebec judge must share his million-dollar pension with his former wife, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.

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A former trade unionist was elected South African president on Thursday to replace Thabo Mbeki, who was ousted in a power struggle.

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