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United Nations officials called the refusal by Burma's isolationist junta to give visas to relief workers looking to help victims in the cyclone-ravaged country "unprecedented" in the history of humanitarian work.

An elderly man in Kamloops, B.C., was zapped three times on the torso by a police Taser while lying on his hospital bed, CBC News has learned.

The Austrian accused of locking his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathering children with her is to appear before a judge.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi forces have detained a man suspected of being the head of al Qaeda in iraq after a captured associate led them to him sleeping in a house in the northern city of Mosul, several Iraqi officials said on Friday.

After snubbing a U.S. aid offer, Myanmar indicated Friday that it wants foreign relief to help recover from a devastating cyclone but not foreign workers.

A reported tornado killed one person, injured three others and damaged numerous buildings in central North Carolina late Thursday night, authorities said.

A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 19-year-old Japanese woman last year was found guilty Thursday of "committing wrongful sexual contact and indecent acts," the U.S. military said, but he was acquitted of rape.

Ehud Olmert on prospects for peace and his political future.

Says that even if she becomes first lady, her tax returns are private.

Abu Ayyub al-Masri, the head of al Qaeda in iraq, has not been captured, a senior U.S. military official told CNN on Friday.