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Sexually explicit photos of some of China's most famous female stars spread like a virus over the Internet, and now the man who took them says he wants to protect the innocence of those women - even if it means refusing to testify in court. Chinese film star Edison Chen told a Vancouver judge Monday he will not reveal anything of an intimate nature regarding any of the women in the photos.

How US promoted corruption while locking out true democracy.The outpouring of Western anger and shock earlier this month over a new Afghan law that legalizes marital rape and confines women to their homes demonstrates how out of touch Western countries are with the monster they have created in that benighted country.

Big telecoms are trying to ruin Net democracy. Tell the feds to stop them.
In just over 10 days, nearly 4,500 Canadians have written the CRTC demanding that they put a stop to discriminatory Internet throttling by big ISPs. Canadians made it known that they will stand for nothing less than full and open access to all the Internet has to offer, free from ISP control.

In Surrey, a first, blood-spattered taste of extreme wrestling.
But when Scotty Mac, the reigning heavyweight champion of Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling, told me that it would be something to see, well, I believed him. For it might be fake, but there would be blood.

Sayed Pervez Kambaksh, the student journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy in Afghanistan, has been told he will spend the next 20 years in jail after the country's highest court ruled against him – without even hearing his defence.

A helicopter has ditched in Atlantic waters off Canada's easternmost province of Newfoundland, reports say.

A local rescue co-ordinator told news agencies that 18 people were on board at the time of the incident.

Jeri Grychowski said one survivor had been lifted from the freezing water, but the fate of the other 17 remains unknown at present.

The supervising RCMP officer on duty the night Robert Dziekanski died at Vancouver's airport told a public inquiry Monday that he gave the order to shock the man with a Taser, and repeated the command as many as two more times.

The mighty online auction house only needs to look in the mirror to figure out why sales are slipping, customers are leaving and listings are shrinking. Solution providers that once called eBay "friend" are rejecting its hostile policies. Here’s why.

Health Canada detected massive amounts of radioactive material from Fukushima in Canadian air in March and April at monitoring stations across the country.