Investigating U.S. child poverty rates. A British TV station hires facially disfigured anchors to read the news. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 becomes the hottest video game of the year. These are the top stories making headlines around the world.
The Mississippi White Knights of the KKK plan to hold a protest rally before the LSU-Ole MIss football game. The protest concerns the Chancellor's decision to bar the band from playing a song that causes some to shout "The South shall rise again."
The war in Afghanistan is in its eighth year and has costed hundreds of billions of dollars but now Democratic lawmakers want a new surtax to pay for the war.
900 residents live a tranquil life on Hornby Island. But they are in shock over the death of Tempest Gale, found in 20 feet of water on Wednesday. RCMP say she was murdered. It is the first time anyone has been killed by another on this Island paradise.
Kristen, Robert & Taylor are back in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, the 1st sequel of the romantic supernatural epic. The trio discuss working in Canada, Taylor's muscles, preview the 3rd film Eclipse and how the Twilight phenomenon has changed their lives.
The early talks about a possible Pacquiao-Mayweather boxing match penciled for May next year have triggered frenzied search for new and bigger fight venues to accommodate thousands of boxing fans who will watch the mega fight of the year.
The FBI is hunting an elderly man who is said to have robbed five banks in California in the last three months. The man has been nicknamed the Geezer Bandit because police estimate him to be in his seventies.
Canada will play host to the world's most powerful military figures this weekend in Halifax, Nova Scotia. They will discuss global security, nuclear weapons and foreign policy.