Staff Editor

TORONTO,  (Reuters) – Toronto’s divisive mayor, Rob Ford, won an appeal today against a ruling that was set to remove him from office, defusing a showdown that has transfixed Canada’s biggest city and allowing him to see out his four-year term.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Visitors to London have marked its hotels as the worst in a list of 100 cities due to overpriced minibars, lousy breakfasts and slow service, according to a survey released today.

SYDNEY, Australia,, CMC-Australian selectors have recalled middle order batsman Aaron Finch for the first two games of the five match One Day International series against West Indies.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates,  CMC-Reigning ICC World Twenty20 champions West Indies could jump to the number one spot on the Reliance T20 Championship Table without actually playing a game.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Barack Obama plans to launch his second-term push for a U.S.

(Reuters) – A federal appeals court ruled today that President Barack Obama violated the U.S.

Guyana’s new envoy to Brazil, Merlin Udho was formally accredited at a ceremony on Wednesday in Brasilia, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less than a week after Khan’s Gold Designs, Frederick Street, Port-of-Spain, was robbed of more than TT$1 million worth of jewellery during a mid-afternoon robbery, two men appeared in court for the crime. Uriah

The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment will host a strategic review of the Bauxite Sector in Linden tomorrow in the backdrop of higher output last year.

SEOUL,  (Reuters) – North Korea threatened to attack rival South Korea if Seoul joined a new round of tightened U.N.

MELBOURNE,  (Reuters) – Andy Murray set up an enthralling Australian Open final against world number one Novak Djokovic after a high-quality victory against Roger Federer today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s newest carrier Fly Jamaica will not take to the skies on its inaugural flight today, January 25, as was announced seven days ago.

A man from Enterprise Gardens on the East Coast of Demerara was shot last night by bandits who invaded his premises and made off with jewellery and other valuables.

A man from Enterprise Gardens on the East Coast of Demerara was shot last night by bandits who invaded his premises and made off with jewellery and other valuables.

(Trinidad Express) The man accused of biting off chunks of flesh from the face and leg of his five-day-old daughter was yesterday granted bail by a Port of Spain magistrate after spending more than a month at the St Ann’s Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) Former minister in the Ministry of National Security, Collin Partap, yesterday pleaded not guilty to a charge of failing to submit himself to a breathalyser test.

KINGSTON, Jamaica,  CMC-Recently appointed Chief Executive Officer of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Michael Muirhead has declared an end to the once turbulent relationship between WICB and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA).

The Guyana Trades Union Congress and the Guyana Public Service Union today announced that they will be holding a joint press conference tomorrow The press conference will be held at the GPSU’s Headquarters, 160 Regent & Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Bourda at 12:00 hrs.

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today announced that it has tentatively scheduled one of the West Indies v Pakistan Test matches for the Providence stadium in light of progress towards the “normalization” of the cricket situation here.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – After years of gains against destruction of the Amazon rainforest, Brazil appears to be suffering from an increase in deforestation as farmers, loggers, miners and builders move into previously untouched woodland, according to data compiled by the government and independent researchers.