RBC Code of Conduct a welcome step: Steelworkers
The United Steelworkers, Canada's largest union, congratulated the Royal Bank of Canada for promising not to hire foreign workers to replace Canadians and not to outsource jobs. Full Story

	Unions threaten to pull billions out of RBC
	RBC apologizes for outsourcing

Syrian opposition resumes tough talks on unity for peace push
Syria’s opposition resumed talks on Saturday aimed at closing their fractious ranks, crucial to launching an international peace conference, and government forces pressed an onslaught on a rebel-held town to try to gain the upper hand in civil war. Full Story

	Syria's warring parties film themselves committing atrocities
	Wounded Syrians show signs of chemical attack, Turkey says

Two freight trains collide in Missouri, 7 injured
Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in southeastern Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when several rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said. Full Story

British police arrest man after spy claim in soldier case
British counter-terrorism police arrested a man at the BBC's headquarters after an interviewee said that security services tried to recruit one of the two suspects in the murder of a soldier in London. Full Story

	Bloody hell in London
	Exiled cleric who taught accused in U.K. hacking death praises 'courage'
	British security services in spotlight after soldier murder

Suicide car bombing in Russia's Dagestan injures 11
A suicide bomber blew herself up in car near a police building in Russia's Dagestan region on Saturday, injuring 11 policemen and passers-by, Russian media reported. Full Story

Canada revokes passport of doc accused in US medicare fraud
The Canadian government has quietly revoked the passport of a Quebec doctor accused of defrauding the U.S. Medicare system of $375 million — before he's even had a trial. Full Story

Pakistan school bus explosion kills 17 children
Seventeen Pakistani children burnt to death on Saturday when a gas cylinder on the bus taking them to school exploded, media said. Full Story

Dog found hanging from homemade trap on B.C. trail
Police in Vancouver have issued a public warning after a dog was hooked in a vicious animal trap on a hiking trail. Full Story

		Roaches evolving to evade traps, scientists say A strain of cockroaches in Europe has evolved to outsmart the sugar traps used to kill them, researchers have discovered. Full Story

Dog severs Oshawa man's nose
It hasn’t been a great start to the summer for a young Oshawa man, having had his nose chewed off by a vicious dog while protecting his girlfriend, and then thrown out of his apartment. Full Story

Dog attack leaves man with no nose

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio racially profiled Latinos, judge rules
Arizona lawman Joe Arpaio violated the constitutional rights of Latino drivers in his crackdown on illegal immigration, a federal judge found on Friday, and ordered him to stop using race as a factor in law enforcement decisions. Full Story

Riots spread outside Swedish capital
Community patrols and a beefed-up police presence helped to calm violence around Stockholm overnight on Saturday but 20 to 30 cars were still torched in poor immigrant suburbs and serious incidents were reported outside the capital for the first time. Full Story

		Conspiracy theorists blame Okla. tornado on U.S. gov't First came the tornado. Daily Feature