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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Some children in Canada are so well-off and so keen on current affairs that they donate thousands of dollars to politicians -- at least, that's what one contender for the leadership of the opposition Liberal Party seems to believe. Former Immigration Minister Joe Volpe hit the spotlight this week after it emerged that a pair of 11-year-old twins and their 14-year-old brother had each donated C$5,400 ($4,900) to his leadership campaign. The parents of the children -- who also donated C$5,400 to Volpe's campaign -- are related to the chairman of generic drug maker Apotex Inc. In...

A suspect, wearing a bulletproof vest with his head hidden under a jacket, is transferred from the Pau courthouse, Monday, Jan. 31, 2005 in Pau, southwestern France. Police have arrested a man believed to be a top suspect in the Dec. 18, 2004 grisly murders of two caregivers at a psychiatric hospital in southwestern France, authorities said Monday, Jan. 31, 2005. The man was not immediately identified. (AP Photo/Bob Edme) PAU, France -- Police have arrested a former psychiatric patient suspected in the deaths of two caregivers - one decapitated and the other with her throat slit - at a...