Report on Business

Germany approves bailout terms, sets salary cap5

Bank managers must also forgo bonuses and dividend payments as part of $645-billion plan 6:50 AM 5

ING investors cheer Dutch government cash2

Banking group's shares jump 23 per cent after it also sells Taiwan life insurance unit to Fubon Financial 7:05 AM 2

Big plans, earnest promises, few details2

U.S. President George W. Bush to host emergency summit of world leaders 19/10/08 11:58 PM 2

A heartbreaking family secret11

Norma Jacques always believed her father, a wealthy politician, left her nothing when he died. Several years ago, a chance discovery revealed that she was wrong 19/10/08 11:43 PM 11

National

World financial crisis eclipses concerns of poor20

Billions spent on banks, not food, some African leaders say 19/10/08 10:01 PM 20

Medical journal blasts Ottawa for promoting asbestos abroad20

Editorial calls Canada's stance ‘shameful and wrong' 19/10/08 8:48 PM 20

Ben Weider, 854

Montrealer was founding father of bodybuilding, changed way society thought of fitness, discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger and became Napoleonic scholar 19/10/08 9:32 PM 4

World

Taliban kill dozens in brazen bus hijacking20

Officials in Kandahar say nearly 30 civilians slaughtered; Taliban defends killings, saying passengers were soldiers 19/10/08 11:06 PM 20

Pakistani offensive creates refugee crisis5

Tens of thousands fleeing fighting against Taliban could be trapped for years in squalid, makeshift camps 19/10/08 11:13 PM 5

Israeli leaders consider old Saudi peace plan

Ehud Barak says leadership is considering six-year-old plan that offers peace between Israel and Arab world in exchange for lands captured during 1967 war 19/10/08 1:15 PM

Life

It's sink or swim time: Golf must push forward31

Faced with a Tiger-free future, eco-guilt and purses squeezed by the economic crisis, we cannot afford to be complacent 17/10/08 9:54 AM 31

Health

Nature may ease ADHD symptoms36

Walk among the trees good not only for restorative effects, it may help children too 17/10/08 9:53 AM 36

Science

Arctic fall temperatures at record five degrees above normal3

Scientific report card shows that sensitive area reflects changes fast and dramatically 18/10/08 7:45 AM 3

Technology

Video game sales tumble in September13

Numbers were skewed by the year-earlier release of Halo 3 17/10/08 3:00 PM 13

Music download offer hits sour note19

Lottery website's offer of free music downloads angers critics 16/10/08 9:40 PM 19

Sports

Quenneville wins first with Hawks7

Patrick Sharp has two goals and an assist and Chicago beats the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 12:13 AM 7

Roughriders keep pace in West9

Luca Congi's field goal with 47 seconds left lifts Saskatchewan to 30-29 win over Hamilton Tiger-Cats 19/10/08 6:26 PM 9

Bills power past Chargers1

After power outage delays game, Edwards goes 25-of-30 for 261 yards and a touchdown 19/10/08 4:16 PM 1

Arts

Toronto's other festival gets down to business5

With a new focus on high-level schmoozing, Toronto's 29th International Festival of Authors is promising its flashiest gathering ever 18/10/08 12:47 AM 5

Stratford Festival to export dramatic ‘dream'1

Ambitious program will help establish a major new centre for theatre and the arts in Central America 17/10/08 9:04 PM 1

Crash hits the small screen

But Haggis series too hot for prime time as episodic drama holds nothing back 17/10/08 8:56 PM

Levi Stubbs, 727

Was frontman for Motown group that sold millions of records and performed for more than four decades with no change in personnel 17/10/08 4:43 PM 7