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A Texas produce distributor has recalled nearly 7,000 cases of cilantro and curly parsley after samples in Quebec, Canada, and Michigan tested positive for salmonella, the company said Monday.

An elderly couple who won $11 million from a lottery ticket in Canada have given the money away to good causes and family, according to media reports.

A border official says actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, remain in a Canadian jail despite being granted a release from custody last week after they were arrested on outstanding warrants in California.

Voting for two UN Security Council seats began Tuesday in New York. (Eric Thayer/Reuters) Canada has dropped its bid for a seat on the United Nations Security Council after coming behind Portugal in second ballot voting Tuesday in New York.

The recalls, which cover the United States and Canada, involve seven million tricycles and more than a million high chairs as well as other products.

Workers clean up after Hurricane Igor battered Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador province causing flooding and power outages.

Hurricane Igor raced northeastward on Tuesday on a track that will pass energy operations in eastern Canada, while Tropical Storm Lisa formed in the far eastern Atlantic as the 12th named storm of the busy 2010 Atlantic season.

Hurricane Earl made landfall in Canada on Saturday and fizzled after a series of scares along the U.S. East Coast, flooding roads, felling trees and cutting power to tens of thousands in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia.

With the last credible sighting on Aug. 6 of the Arizona prison inmate and a woman who helped him escape, police continue to search for the two murder suspects, focusing on western Montana and the northwestern U.S. and Canada.

The pilot of a Canadian fighter plane has made a miraculous escape from his jet, seconds before it smashed into the ground.