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Top court rules Crown must prove convicted youth deserve adult punishment The Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday that a provision in Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act is unconstitutional for forcing young offenders to prove why they should not be punished to the same extent as adults for serious crimes. Dramatic rescues in China but quake toll hits 21,000 Rescuers freed a student who had been trapped for 80 hours in the rubble in central China, one of the rare rescues as searchers recover thousands of dead. 2 Canadians injured in suicide bombing in Afghanistan Two Canadian soldiers were slightly wounded Friday in a suicide bomb attack in southern Afghanistan, while two Afghan soldiers were also injured. Double-amputee sprinter can pursue Olympic dream: ruling In a unanimous ruling, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced Friday that double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius will have a chance to represent South Africa at the Beijing Olympics this summer. 2 weeks later, diplomats to get first look at Burma's suffering A U.S. diplomat says Burma's secretive military government has agreed to take foreign diplomats on a tour of the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy Delta. Purported bin Laden tape decries Israel's anniversary Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden has vowed the militant group will continue its campaign against Israel and its Western allies until Palestinians are freed from their "occupiers," according to a report. Ontario to resume coverage of sex-change operations The Ontario government will soon pay for sex-change operations again, Health Minister George Smitherman has confirmed. I owe my life to strangers, injured pastor says A Pentecostal minister says he is lucky to be alive after a motorcycle accident in western Newfoundland that left him unconscious and his face underwater. Zimbabwe run-off election date set: report A run-off election between Zimbabwe's embattled president and his opponent has been scheduled for next month, according to a notice in a government gazette. PM to officially apologize for native school abuse next month Prime Minister Stephen Harper set to officially apologize on June 11 on behalf of the government for abuses suffered by former residents of native residential schools.