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NEW YORK, N.Y. – The Video Music Awards are taking a road trip to Brooklyn.
BARRINGTON, Ill. – Pop star Rihanna has dropped in on high school students in a northwestern Chicago suburb.
WASHINGTON – Nobody’s going to win an Emmy for a parody of the TV show “Star Trek” filmed by Internal Revenue Service employees at an agency studio in Maryland.
VANCOUVER – Vancouver police have released video of a van and a composite drawing of a suspect in an attack on a sex trade worker in which the victim was dragged behind the vehicle.
BEIRUT – Several United Nations peacekeepers from the Philippines who were abducted by Syrian rebels said in videos posted online Thursday that they are safe and sound, even as activists reported clashes and shelling in the area where U.N. troops are being held.
DUNEDIN, Fla. – Outfielder Moises Sierra sits motionless, his Blue Jays uniform top covered by a bib.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is encouraging celebrities to tweet during the Oscars.

By Shannon Quesnel A Penticton poet's video of a poem about bullying has been viewed more than two million times. Shane Koyczan posted his animated video, To This Day, on YouTube on Feb. 19 and it has 2.5 million views as of today. The video tells the story of his own experience being bullied in...
MIDLAND, Mich. – With her escape-artist antics now caught on video, a horse in Michigan is being dubbed the “Houdini Horse” thanks to her knack for opening stall doors.

SAN FRANCISCO – Netflix won’t miss Saturday mail delivery, even though the weekend service helped keep its DVD-by-mail subscribers happy.

MONTREAL – The baby-snatching fake eagle is helping a deserving student take flight.

SAN FRANCISCO – Netflix’s Internet video service has added 2 million U.S. subscribers during the final three months of the year to produce an unexpected profit for the company.

TORONTO – A lengthy videotaped standoff screened for inquest jurors Wednesday highlighted the difficulties front-line prison staff had coping with a deeply disturbed teenager who later strangled herself.

TORONTO – A prison guard talked today about the shock he felt at being arrested in the death of a teenaged inmate.

NEW YORK, N.Y. – Is Justin Timberlake bringing his music career back?
TOKYO – After years of searching, scientists and broadcasters say they have captured video images of a giant squid in its natural habitat deep in the ocean for the first time.

TORONTO – A Vancouver-based company hopes to have two cameras hooked up to the International Space Station sometime this year that will offer Internet users a new twist on the aerial imagery offered by Google and other companies.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – TV makers are trotting out sets with “Ultra HD” resolution at the International CES electronics trade show in Las Vegas this week.
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Police in New York City on Friday released surveillance video of the woman suspected of pushing a man to his death in front of a subway train, the second such crime in the city this month.
BERLIN – A German aid worker abducted in Pakistan 11 months ago was seen alive in a video broadcast Saturday urging authorities to fully meet his captors’ demands, warning that otherwise they could kill him within days.

TORONTO – The founders of an Ontario frozen yogurt company are meeting today with Galen Weston Jr., the head of Canada’s largest supermarket chain after an emotional video about their business dealings with the grocery giant went viral.

Family and friends continue to honour the memory of a CJ Fowler who was found murdered at Guerin Creek in Kamloops. Most recently, her cousin, Anne Hyzims, posted a YouTube video on Dec. 12 of photos and music, entitled, "In Memory of C.J. Fowler." Matilda Fowler, CJ's mother, added the video to her Facebook page....

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – U.S. retail sales of new video-game hardware, software and accessories fell 11 per cent in November.

TORONTO – An Ontario-based photography firm that gained an Internet following two years ago with its video of a festive flash mob has found a new viral way to ring in the holiday season.