Quebec Premier Jean Charest says the province will cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020.

A soldier who shot his close friend dead in Afghanistan has applied to be released from prison pending his appeal before the Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says diplomat Richard Colvin had a right to make his explosive allegations about Afghan prisoners.

The federal government's senior adviser on Afghanistan says he encouraged diplomatic officials to report their insights and observations "freely and honestly," as long as they were accurate and objective.

A French aid group says two of its French staff members have been abducted in the Central African Republic.

Japan's Embassy in Yemen says a Japanese engineer who was kidnapped a week ago by tribesmen there has been released.

Some residents of southern New Brunswick were shaken by an earthquake Sunday evening.

Engaging, not isolating Iran is the way to push for peace and stability in the Middle East, said Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva as he headed into private talks Monday with his increasingly alienated Iranian counterpart.

Former British leader Margaret Thatcher returned to London's Downing Street Monday as she unveiled her own portrait, which has been installed in the official residence of Britain's prime minister.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is urging the world to stay engaged in the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan.

Conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated in a marathon surgery last week left intensive care on Monday and were adjusting well, hospital officials said.

A toddler who died after falling some 15 metres over a railing at Pearson International Airport wiggled out of his mother's arms as she turned her attention to her other child, police said Monday.

A B.C. New Democrat MLA is getting some first-hand experience of the province's emergency preparedness, after his Vancouver Island home was flooded on the weekend.

A man who has been in prison for two decades is asking a Manitoba court to release him on bail while his murder conviction is reviewed.

Relatives of four sealers killed when their boat capsized during a coast guard towing operation have filed a $2.7 million lawsuit.

A research project that takes homeless people with mental illness off the streets in five cities and provides them with a safe place to live was officially launched Monday, the first such effort by the new Mental Health Commission of Canada.

Four men have been acquitted in the Boxing Day 2005 shooting death of 15-year-old Jane Creba in downtown Toronto.

An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal calls for changes to ensure more kids in the child welfare system find permanent homes.

The Opposition walked out of the Ontario legislature en masse today to protest the government's refusal to hold public hearings on its bill to create a 13 per cent sales tax that would go into effect in July.