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The U.S. housing crash has lured some marijuana growers to move their operations south of the border, according to an internal RCMP report.

A bus with some 50 Canadian scouts on their way home from the World Scouting Jamboree aboard crashed with a lorry in Sweden Sunday, sending three scouts and both drivers to the hospital, police said.

Most coats of arms don't feature a panda.

Waterton Lakes National Park on the Alberta-Montana border ain't exactly the wild west.

The Group of Seven nations is committed to taking co-ordinated action to ensure liquidity and to support financial market functioning, G7 finance ministers and central bank governors said in a statement.

World stocks racked up more losses on Monday on jitters about the U.S. ratings cut, but signs the European Central Bank was buying Italian and Spanish debt gave some respite to battered markets.

Lobsang Sangay, a 43-year-old Harvard scholar, took office Monday as head of the Tibetan government in exile, vowing to free his homeland from Chinese "colonialism."

British police arrested more than 100 people overnight in London after shops were looted and officers attacked in a second night of violence that followed some of the worst disorder seen in the capital for years.

Saudi Arabia recalled its envoy to Damascus and the Arab League condemned violence in Syria, leaving President Bashar al-Assad further isolated.

Hong Kong and China shares crumbled on Monday morning, pressured by an acceleration of derisking from equity investments following Standard & Poor's downgrade of the long-term credit rating of the United States late on Friday. The Hang Seng Index was down 4.04 per cent at 20,100.2 by the midday trading break, its lowest level in a year, and the Shanghai Composite Index dropped 3.68 per cent.