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NEW YORK—Thousands of fans roared as N.Y. Giants’ quarterback Eli Manning hoisted the team’s Super Bowl trophy from a glittering blue-and-white float today as the victory parade made its way down the “Canyon of Heroes,” where the city has honoured stars for almost a century.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — Ottawa could have prevented the loss of hundreds of jobs at an Ontario locomotive plant if it had acted to modernize Canada’s “outdated” foreign investment laws, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Monday.

HAMPSTEAD, Ont.—Emergency officials in rural southwestern Ontario describe the scene of a devastating crash that killed 10 migrant workers and a truck driver as utter “carnage,” with people trapped inside twisted wreckage, dying shortly after first responders arrived.

NEW YORK — Facebook, the social network that changed “friend” from a noun to a verb, is expected to file as early as Wednesday to sell stock on the open market. Its debut is likely to be the most talked-about initial public offering since Google in 2004.

CHICAGO — Good news for budget-minded travellers: There’s no proof that flying economy-class increases your chances of dangerous blood clots, according to new guidelines from medical specialists.
Travellers’ blood clots have been nicknamed “economy class syndrome” but the new advice suggests this is a misnomer.

ATLANTA — Georgia’s top court on Monday struck down a state law designed to discourage assisted suicides after four members of a group that helped a cancer-stricken man die said the law also violated free speech rights.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Scientists working in the dense jungles of Indonesia have “rediscovered” a large, grey monkey so rare it was believed by many to be extinct.
They were all the more baffled to find the Miller’s Grizzled Langur — its black face framed by a fluffy, Dracula-esque white collar — in an area well outside its previously recorded home range.

LONDON — Prince Charles led ceremonies Tuesday to mark the 200th birthday of novelist Charles Dickens — a writer as popular today as he was during his lifetime.
The heir to the British throne laid a wreath on the writer’s grave in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner, in front of an audience containing dozens of Dickens’ descendants.

TORONTO — Online dating is clicking in a big way with singles, with Internet love connections outpacing all forms of matchmaking in the U.S. besides meeting through friends, according to a research analysis.