A family from Guinea that fears its daughters will be forced into marriages and possibly subjected to genital mutilation is to be deported Sunday after losing a last-minute court challenge.

Fifteen mutilated cats have been found in the Metro Vancouver suburb of Maple Ridge over the past year, and police and SPCA are asking for the public's help cracking the case.

Forty-nine mutilated bodies have been found dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appears to be the latest blow in an escalating war of intimidation among drug gangs.