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TORONTO - It was sunny side up for some restaurant workers in Durham Region east of Toronto as they picked up a $21.4-million lottery prize.

CALGARY - A man found guilty of the gruesome murders of his young girlfriend's family in southern Alberta six years ago quietly abandoned plans to appeal his conviction on Tuesday.

QUÉBEC - Il est trop tôt pour voir se profiler une sortie de crise mais les leaders étudiants sont sortis encouragés de leur rencontre avec la ministre de l'Éducation, Michelle Courchesne, mardi à soir à Québec.

OSLO - Un homme a tenté de s'immoler par le feu mardi devant le palais de justice d'Oslo, où l'extrémiste Anders Behring Breivik est jugé depuis la mi-avril pour l'attentat perpétré dans la capitale norvégienne et pour le massacre de l'île d'Utoya en juillet dernier.

Le juge Thomas Heeney a condamné Michael Rafferty à la prison à vie sans possibilité de libération conditionnelle avant 25 ans pour le meurtre prémédité de Victoria Stafford.

PORT ST. JOHN, Fla. - More than a month before a Florida mother fatally shot her four children and then herself, authorities were called to the woman's home because of fights and allegations of inadequate supervision.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn a déposé plainte pour fausses déclarations, diffamation et procédure abusive contre la femme de chambre guinéenne Nafissatou Diallo qui l'avait accusé d'agression sexuelle au Sofitel de New York il y a un an.

WINNIPEG - A transport official says a mid-air collision that killed five people in Saskatchewan occurred when the left wings of the two small planes came into contact.

MONTRÉAL - Ciblée par des protestataires mardi, la famille Desmarais a cherché à minimiser l'importance de son influence politique.

PARIS - Francois Hollande walked up the steps of the Elysee Palace in Paris and walked out Tuesday as France's first Socialist president since 1995, taking the helm of a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to make it a fairer place.

Un homme a été grièvement blessé tard mardi soir, au centre-ville de Montréal, lorsqu'un mur d'un immeuble s'est effondré sur lui alors qu'il marchait sur le trottoir.

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Minister Steven Blaney has ordered a ban on international travel for members of an arm's-length agency that reviews the claims of veterans.

DJAKARTA, Indonésie - Lady Gaga va devoir annuler son concert du 3 juin à Djakarta. Les autorités indonésiennes ont cédé à la pression d'islamistes radicaux et de députés conservateurs qui l'accusent de corrompre la jeunesse avec ses tenues et danses suggestives.

OSLO - An unidentified man was seriously injured in a self-immolation Tuesday outside the courthouse where right-wing extremist Anders Breivik is being tried on terror charges for a bombing and shooting massacre that killed 77 people on July 22.

TORONTO - A security geek once portrayed by police as a budding terrorist flashed victory signs Tuesday after his acquittal on charges of possessing explosives ahead of the G20 summit marred by violence and mass arrests.

Palestinians on Tuesday marked their mass displacement that followed Israel's creation with a blend of sadness and hope, stopping in their tracks for a mournful siren but also flashing victory signs and carrying banners proclaiming their right of return.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Some of the most persistent Occupy protesters in North America tore down a small cluster of tents Tuesday — one was still standing — after the mayor of St. John's, N.L., asked them to leave a seaside park.

OTTAWA - Delays in regulating greenhouse gas emissions mean Canada is quickly locking in old-fashioned infrastructure that will fill the air with carbon for decades to come, new research shows.

TORONTO - Within months, Canadian shoppers could have the option of paying for purchases with cash, credit or by BlackBerry.

WASHINGTON - Le président américain Barack Obama et sa femme Michelle possèdent des actifs dont la valeur se situe entre 2,6 et 8,3 millions $ US, selon les rapports financiers publiés mardi par la Maison-Blanche.

OTTAWA - The man who approved a $10,000 South Pacific trip for the president of the Old Port of Montreal says he's uneasy about the expenses, and is waiting for more information to see whether they were justified.

NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark Liberty Airport security supervisor pleaded not guilty to identity theft Tuesday as new details emerged about his alleged 20-year odyssey of deception, including that he may have assumed the identity of a New York man weeks before the man was murdered.

Une autre manifestation nocturne a eu lieu mardi dans les rues de Montréal pour protester contre la hausse des droits de scolarité décidée par le gouvernement Charest.

Half of Americans think Facebook is a passing fad, according to the results of a new Associated Press-CNBC poll. And, in the run-up to the social network's initial public offering of stock, half of Americans also say the social network's expected asking price is too high.

Le procès de Ratko Mladic, ancien chef militaire des Serbes de Bosnie s'est ouvert mercredi devant le Tribunal pénal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie (TPIY). Il est accusé de génocides, crimes contre l'humanité et crimes de guerre lors de la guerre de Bosnie (1992-1995).

Les autorités iraniennes ont appelé mercredi à des manifestations vendredi dans tout le pays contre le projet d'union envisagé entre l'Arabie saoudite et Bahreïn, qualifiant les régimes de ces deux pays de "laquais" des Etats-Unis.

Le député de Lac-Saint-Jean, Alexandre Cloutier, croit que les négociations à l'aluminerie de Rio Tinto Alcan à Alma pourraient reprendre bientôt.

JOHANNESBURG - South Africa's main opposition party called a march Tuesday to make a point about economic policy, but ended up facing rock-throwing counter-protesters in scenes that illustrated that democracy and traditions of political tolerance are still young 18 years after apartheid was toppled.