The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists will hold an award ceremony on Nov. 24, at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.

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.

Hollywood superstar and debt-ridden actor Nicolas Cage visited a Kenyan prison to talk to the Somali pirates to hear their stories and understand their motivation for their crimes.

New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden and Switzerland are among the top five least corrupt nations, according to a new survey released by Transparency International. Canada is in the top ten. Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Sudan are the most corrupt.

Beth Israel Synagogue in Edmonton is the scene of a murder mystery. On Thursday, staff at the synagogue called police to report a body they found on the grounds of the synagogue. Police said on the weekend the victim was shot. He is from Toronto.

With the end of the monsoon season in October, Somali pirates are stepping up their attacks on shipping. They succeeded in seizing one ship today, Wednesday, while two days earlier pirates made their longest range attack off the Somali coast ever.

If anyone had been on site with a camera during the event, the formation of a giant crack in the north of Ethiopia in 2005 could have been a scene for the upcoming apocalypse movie 2012.

Paul and Rachel Chandler, the British couple that was kidnapped by Somali pirates over a week ago when sailing from the Seychelles to Tanzania, have been moved further inland by their hostage takers.

A Somali man, 100, married a 17-year-old girl in front of hundreds of guests on Tuesday. The man's family supports the marriage.

It is feared that the British couple that disappeared while sailing their yacht in the Seychelles last week has been taken hostage by Somali pirates.