A Gatineau court sentenced a man with a long record of impaired driving to five years in prison for the death of 17-year-old Marie-Hélène Primeau, who died while riding her bicycle on the Lady Aberdeen Bridge in Gatineau.

Data revealing the death rates of patients undergoing major surgery at NHS hospitals in England is to be published online from this summer, it was reported last night.

The foreign minister of Myanmar's strict military junta said Monday that the death toll from Saturday's cyclone strike could continue to skyrocket. "According to the latest information, more than 10,000 people were killed," Nyan Win told Agence France

The US Supreme Court narrowly ruled Wednesday that a man convicted of raping a child cannot be sentenced to death, saying capital punishment must be reserved for murder cases.

A Jude condemned the prevalence of drunken street violence yesterday as he gave life sentences to two feral youths for kicking a gap- year student to death because she was dressed as a Goth.