Jennifer Stahn

TORONTO – Comedy star Ricky Gervais has donated a signed guitar to an Ontario primate sanctuary that houses the Ikea monkey.

BET says it will air a miniseries about Nelson Mandela next year, with actor Laurence Fishburne portraying the late South African leader.

MONTREAL – Canadian Pacific Railway has welcomed a court ruling limiting its liability from lawsuits triggered by the transporting of dangerous goods, which could help the company in legal action related to the deadly Lac-Megantic disaster.

SEOUL, South Korea – Soon after the ground shook around its nuclear testing facility, North Korea trumpeted its first hydrogen bomb test — a powerful, self-proclaimed "H-bomb of justice" that would mark a major and unanticipated advance for its still-limited nuclear arsenal.

VANCOUVER – The Law Society of British Columbia is appealing a court ruling in favour of a Christian university that would ban sex outside of heterosexual marriage at its proposed law school.

PRINCE GEORGE – Imperial Metals Corp. is laying off more than one-third of the workforce at its Huckleberry mine in northwestern British Columbia because of low copper prices.

WASHINGTON – Tears streaking his cheeks, President Barack Obama launched a final-year push Tuesday to tighten sales of firearms in the U.S., using his presidential powers in the absence of tougher gun restrictions that Congress has refused to pass.

STONY BROOK, N.Y. – Dunia Sibomana was considered the lucky one two years ago when a group of chimpanzees jumped from the trees and attacked him and two other boys as they played near a preserve in their native Democratic Republic of the Congo.

OTTAWA – For what's believed to be the first time, the federal government has estimated how many of Canada's homeless are former soldiers — but the department that compiled the report warns the data is far from complete.

HALIFAX – The commander of the Royal Canadian Navy on the Atlantic coast says an alleged security breach at one of the navy's most sensitive security operations was the result of imprudence not malice.

ZURICH – Sepp Blatter's former right-hand man is facing a nine-year ban from soccer.

VICTORIA – Wet, cold and windy nights adjusting tarps and pounding pegs into the soggy ground are about to come to an end for John Bertrim and dozens of others who have slept in tents on the Victoria Law Courts' lawn for months.