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The Shafia trial resumed Tuesday after a delay due to illness. It's been an emotional trial so far.

Mohammed Shafia, his wife Tooba Mohammed Yahya and their son Hamed are charged with four counts of first degree murder. Their three teenage daughters and another relative were drowned in the Rideau Canal in Kingston in 2009.

A relative of the mother's came from Sweden to testify. He claimed Mohammed Shafia asked him to invite the Shafia daughters to Sweden. Shafia allegedly told the relative he thought it would be easier to drown them there.

The Pentagon is increasing efforts to build an arsenal of cyber weapons for use against enemy targets by the U.S. military.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, held a symposium discussing the increasing threat to systems controlled by computers.The goal is to secure U.S. infrastructure and assure the military’s ability to use these systems in future conflicts. A recent DARPA assessment found that the U.S. is limited in dealing with fast-evolving threats from malicious software code.

DARPA played a role in creating Arpanet, a forerunner to the Internet.

Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister of Italy has denied rumours he would be imminently resigning.

Steven Spielberg’s “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn” will premiere in North America on December 9 in Quebec.

The movie stars Jamie Bell as Tintin and Daniel Craig as Red Rackham.

Tintin’s world premiere was in Belgium on October 22, and the movie has also been released all throughout Europe. South America and Asia are next, with the movie coming out on Thursday.

The Occupy protest in Vancouver is being ordered to shut down on Tuesday. Police will monitor the site of tents and other structures if the injunction is approved. Police will then have the power to take authoritative action.

Criminal lawyer Gilles Doré was assaulted outside his Montreal home Friday afternoon.

The victim was in the coma after his attack, but later regained consciousness and now rests in the hospital with serious injuries. 

Doré represented several presumed Hells Angels Bikers that were arrested during operation SharQc in 2002.