The United States will unveil new border surveillance measures Friday in a move that has one New Democratic MP decrying what he sees as the "weaponization" of the Canada-U.S. frontier.

The first two of what may be a number of Calgary protests against China's human rights record were held peacefully Thursday outside the city's Chinese consulate.

Canadian border guards are under orders to prevent members of a fundamentalist American church from crossing into Canada to protest at the Saturday funeral for a Winnipeg man brutally killed on a Greyhound bus last week.

A charter bus carrying Vietnamese worshippers on a pilgrimage slammed onto its side and off a highway north of Dallas early today, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 40, authorities said.

Tropical Storm Hernan is upgraded to a hurricane after reaching wind speeds of up to 120km/h off Mexico.

The single occupant of a minivan that was wedged under a propane tanker truck since Thursday afternoon near Joliette, Que., was pronounced dead at the scene late Friday morning.

SHERMAN, Texas -- A charter bus carrying Vietnamese worshippers on a pilgrimage slammed onto its side and off a highway north of Dallas early Friday, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than 40, authorities said.

DETROIT -- Moments after a judge ruled that Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could be released from jail if he pays a $50,000 bond, Michigan's attorney general announced he was charging the mayor with two felony assault charges stemming from a confrontation between Kilpatrick and a sheriff's detective.

At least 13 people are killed in the US state of Texas after a bus carrying Vietnamese Catholics crashes off a bridge.

Workers at shelters in Ottawa have been talking to the teenage girls who stay there about the case of three girls allegedly lured from near an Ottawa shelter and forced into prostitution in Gatineau. And they are maintaining high security as usual while the case unfolds, says the acting director of an Ottawa shelter for young women.

A major Cape Breton farm co-operative could lose up to $500,000 in produce if the heavy rain that has been falling for the past week doesn't stop soon, one of its members says.

US mortgage finance company Fannie Mae plunges $2.3bn into the red as a result of housing market woes.

Despite an earlier indication to the contrary, the word "anthrax" was indeed in a threatening note sent to a northern Saskatchewan gold mine earlier this week, the RCMP said Thursday.

A Montreal woman who's been fighting for the return of her kidnapped infant son in India finally won her battle Friday morning when a court ordered the boy returned to her.

Inclement weather is creating delays for Canadian defence scientists trying to test surveillance devices in the High Arctic this week.

Abortion provider Dr. Henry Morgentaler has the legal right to challenge the New Brunswick government's policy on abortion funding, a judge has ruled.

Fridges devoted to the energy drink Red Bull are being pulled by some P.E.I. retailers as they try to deal with rising electricity costs.

NEW YORK -- Harvard scientists say they have created stems cells for 10 genetic disorders, which will allow researchers to watch the diseases develop in a lab dish.

An underpass leading to Summerside from P.E.I.'s Confederation Bridge has been partly reopened after it was closed much of Thursday.

BERLIN, Conn. -- The investigation into the identity of a mysterious man accused of kidnapping his daughter in Boston and wanted for questioning in the 1985 disappearance of a California couple has gone international.