The Day of the Dead celebration began on Saturday as hundreds of Mexican-Canadians roamed around the Harborfront Center to enjoy "grave" festivities.

Chelsea's Ivorian striker Didier Drogba scored a brace on Tuesday night in his first game back after a three-match ban incurred during a fractious Champions League semi-final clash with FC Barcelona on May 6.

World renowned anthropologist and intellectual Claude Levi-Strauss has died at the age of 100, his publisher in Paris has announced.

It is looking increasingly certain that a lack of support amongst both center-right and center-left politicians across Europe will put paid to Tony Blair's chances of becoming the first President of Europe.

Pakistani forces fighting the Taliban for control of South Waziristan, an area in Northwestern Pakistan, have discovered a passport in the name of a man suspected of involvement in the attacks in the U.S. on September 11 2001.

A newly published book by Juanita Castro, younger sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, has revealed that back in the 1960s she cooperated with the CIA whilst still living on the Caribbean island.

Animal activists struck at least four different fur farms in Spain and France earlier in October, releasing approximately 20,000 of the animals. Some mink were recaptured.

Between 100,000 to 150,000 temporary workers lost their jobs in Germany during the economic downturn in 2008 but the trend was duplicated in the U.S., France, Spain and Japan.

In Portugal on Monday, Nobel Prize for Literature winner Jose Saramago stated that society would be better off if there was no Bible because it's a "handbook of bad morals."

South Africa has marked its 10-year anniversary of peacekeeping missions. At a military parade in the central city of Bloemfontein, President Jacob Zuma said the missions brought hope to the African continent.