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Michelle and David Huck know well the promise and peril of adopting from Africa.The Calgary couple’s first attempt began smoothly: A Canadian adoption agency newly licensed to work in Sierra Leone matched them with orphaned siblings - Amie, 3, and her one-year-old brother, Sorie. For a year, the Hucks filled out paperwork, prepared a bedroom [...]

By Simon Denyer NEW DELHI, March 18 (Reuters) - In honour of the crouching, naked blonde painted on its nose, its pilot had named his bomber the %26quot;Hot as Hell%26quot;. [...]

It’s hard to put a handle on Debra House, she has done so many things not only for herself, but for the community, whether it be Stirling or Belleville.
But there is one constant - the 55-year-old successful businesswoman has always worked at jobs where she was in control. It has characterized her life, except for [...]

Even though Room 157 has closed its doors, the impact it left on Ryan Norman’s life has been remarkable.
You wouldn’t know it looking at the 19-year-old Trenton native now, but his life was once heavily dominated by drugs, alcohol and gang violence.
“My life was rough. I was always getting turned away and my family didn’t [...]

By Jennifer Coogan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As the earnings-reporting season for the first quarter kicks off next week, stock investors will be keenly assessing to what extent the slowing economy is taking a toll on Corporate America
First-quarter U.S. earnings estimates have fallen sharply since the period began as expectations for a [...]

By Peter Graff
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The fighters came across the stinking creek and within hours they had overrun three Iraqi army checkpoints. U.S. forces rushed to help Iraqi troops regroup.
The battle of Creek Road in Baghdad formed just a small part of the fight that raged for days across Iraq last [...]

By Peter Graff BAGHDAD, April 3 (Reuters) - The fighters came across the stinking creek and within hours they had overrun three Iraqi army checkpoints. U.S. forces rushed to help them regroup. The battle of Creek Road in Baghdad formed just a small part of the fight that raged for [...]

(Repeats story first issued at 0000 GMT) By Simon Denyer HONGTSHO, Bhutan, April 1 (Reuters) - In a remote corner of the [...]

By Loucoumane Coulibaly ABIDJAN, April 1 (Reuters) - Ivory Coast slashed taxes on key food imports on Tuesday, bowing to protests by housewives and youths in which residents said one young man was killed. Protesters blocked roads with barricades and burning tyres for a second day as violent demonstrations over [...]

By Marc Frank
HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro’s government will close more than half of Cuba’s family doctor offices and boost staffing at the rest in a major reform of its vaunted free health care system, medical sources said.
The overhaul of one of the pillars of the health system came in [...]