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Mexican man arrested in beating of Canadian woman: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/23/hi-sheila-nabb-3-solo-6col.jpg"> A Mexican man has been arrested and will likely face an attempted homicide charge in the brutal beating of a Canadian woman at a five-star resort in Mazatlan.
Canada condemns Libya amid reports of prisoner abuse: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/bairdjaliloct-852-6col.jpg"> Canada is delivering a diplomatic scolding to Libya over reports of deaths and systemic torture in Libyan prisons.
Syrian violence escalates, death toll rises: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-syria-violence-852-6col.jpg"> Two days of bloody turmoil in Syria killed at least 74 people as forces loyal to President Bashar Assad shelled residential buildings, fired on crowds and left bleeding corpses in the streets in a dramatic escalation of violence, activists said Friday.
Rio rescuers dig through rubble of collapsed buildings: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-brazil-building-collapse-6col.jpg"> Rescue workers in Rio de Janeiro feverishly dug through the wreckage of three downtown buildings Friday, hunting for survivors of a collapse that killed at least 12 people and left 17 more missing.
Fitch downgrades 5 eurozone countries: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-fitch852-getty137244975-6col.jpg"> Ratings agency Fitch downgraded the credit ratings of five eurozone nations Friday, including economic heavyweights Italy and Spain.
Cairo 'Friday of Rage' anniversary marred by clashes: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-tahrir-852px-137786755-6col.jpg"> Muslim Brotherhood supporters and secular protesters hurled bottles and rocks at each other and got into fistfights in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Friday as their political differences boiled over at a rally by tens of thousands marking an anniversary in the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
'Barefoot Bandit' sentenced to 6½ years: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-852-barefoot-bandit-cp-0-6col.jpg"> A federal judge in Seattle has sentenced "Barefoot Bandit" Colton Harris-Moore to 6½ years in prison for his infamous two-year, international crime spree of break-ins and boat and plane thefts that ended in 2010.
Cruise ship survivors offered $14,454 compensation: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-cruiseship-friday-852-6col.jpg"> The company that owns the Costa Concordia — the cruise ship that capsized off Tuscany — is offering uninjured passengers €11,000 ($14,454 Cdn) each to compensate them for lost baggage and psychological trauma.
NASA's Kepler mission finds 26 new planets: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/26/hi-852-planets-618708main_k-6col.jpg"> NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets – nearly doubling the number of verified planets and tripling the number of stars known to have more than one planet that passes in front of it.
More large quakes could hit Haiti, Dominican Republic: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-852-haitiquake-cp-005317-6col.jpg"> Haiti and the neighboring Dominican Republic could be in for a period of periodic powerful earthquakes, according to a scientific study released Thursday.
Online economy expected to double by 2016: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-korea-internet-6col.jpg"> The size and value of the business conducted online is forecast to almost double by 2016, a report from a major consultancy says.
U.S. economy growing at fastest pace in a year: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/03/31/hl-gdp-852-7209513-6col.jpg"> The U.S. economy grew at a 2.8 per cent annual rate in the final three months of last year, the fastest growth in 2011.
Swine flu cases rise in Mexico: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2011/03/10/hi-h1n1-shot-852-cp8158983-6col.jpg"> Three years after swine flu closed Mexico City and caused an international scare, the Mexican government and local media are at odds over the severity of this season's flu virus.
UNICEF issues appeal to aid starving kids: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/topstories/2012/01/27/hi-852-unicefchild-cp-01024-6col.jpg"> The head of UNICEF's Canadian branch is urging his country to do more to help starving children in Africa.
Google touts improved images in Earth 6.2: <img width="460" height="259" src="http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2012/01/27/hi-grandcanyon-6col.jpg"> Google has launched Google Earth 6.2, which it says shows a more seamless globe than the previous version and includes a new search interface.

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