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The actress was in front of the White House along with other environmental protesters who oppose a planned oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Michael Phelps stole the show again on Sunday, handily winning the 100-meter butterfly at the Canada Cup. He didn't come close to beating his own world record, but he led from wire to wire and won in 51.32 seconds.

The most recent statistics according to the IE6 Countdown shows that the world as a whole is at 10.9% usage on IE6. The United States, Turkey, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Australia, New Zealand and the UK are at the top (bottom) of the list with under 3% of overall browsers running as IE6. Norway leads everyone at 0.4% and their neighbors in Finland are at 0.8%.

What makes people happy? The question, which has been debated by philosophers for centuries, now is being tackled by international bureaucrats and the results are interesting.

Globe and Mail journalists won five National Newspaper Awards for 2010. The Globe was also on the short list of finalists for six other awards. Here are the stories behind the stories: how they went to great lengths to get the facts and visuals for the stories and displays that were recognized for their excellence.

Cosmologists Alan Coley from Canada's Dalhousie University and Bernard Carr from Queen Mary University in London, have published a paper on arXiv, where they suggest that some so-called primordial black holes might have been created in the Big Crunch that came before the Big Bang.

A Canadian man who blogged about his battle with cancer has died, but not without leaving a post-mortem message. "Here it is. I'm dead," read the last internet post of Derek Miller, who died last week after more than four years of blogging about his struggle with colorectal cancer.

The newly wed Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will visit California in July following their first official tour as a married couple in Canada, the royal family announced Thursday.

A bizarre criminal rampage that began in September 2007 with the theft of women’s and girls’ underwear from homes in a rural community in eastern Ontario ended almost 2 ½ years later at the unlikeliest of places — the offices of a senior commander in the Canadian Air Force, a standout officer, a man who had piloted planes carrying the Canadian prime ministers and the queen of England, a devoted husband.

A 10-year-old girl from Canada has discovered a supernova, making her the youngest person ever to find a stellar explosion.