Torontostar Canada Newswatch

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama named former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state today.

Leslie Kelly gave her life to save her husband in the bloodbath that erupted at her son's birthday party, a relative says.

Airlines were flying dozens of empty planes out of Bangkok's international airport today as authorities struggled to clear it of protesters to reopen international links and move 100,000 stranded travellers, the airport said.

Dozens of Canadians stranded in Thailand by throngs of unruly protesters are expected to leave the country tomorrow in a deal worked out by the Canadian Embassy.

Peel police are investigating the region's 26th murder of 2008 after a woman who was brutally sexually assaulted in Brampton died after being taken to hospital.