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NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. -- A legal aid lawyer for a Saskatchewan man charged in a case that sparked an Amber Alert earlier this month says he doesn't believe the accused would deliberately abduct a child. Source

CAIRO -- The United Nations and individual donors are rushing food to a desperate corner of northern Yemen where starving villagers were found to be living off leaves. Aid officials are searching for ways to ensure aid reaches those in need amid alarm that the country's hunger crisis is worsening beyond the relief effort's already strained capabilities. Source

ALBANY, N.Y. -- A 41-year old Canadian man has been sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for conspiring to smuggle thousands of pounds of marijuana into the United States through the Akwesasne Mohawk Indian Reservation in northern New York. Source

NEW YORK -- A 52-year-old caregiver was charged in the knife attack on five people, including three newborn babies, at a home that was apparently being used as an unlicensed nursery for new mothers and their children. Source

Some Canadians are hoping the federal government will follow the lead of U.S. lawmakers who want to require a minimum amount of legroom on airplanes. A bill currently working its way through Congress would give the U.S. Source

NEW YORK -- The New York Review of Books is acknowledging its "failures in the presentation and editing" of a much-maligned essay by disgraced former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi. A statement released by the esteemed literary outlet says Ghomeshi's piece, "Reflections from a Hashtag," was shown to only one male editor and that most members of the staff were excluded from the editorial process. Source

Environment Canada has confirmed that a third tornado touched down in Calabogie, Ont., on Friday, the same day that two other twisters tore through Ottawa-Gatineau. The tornado touched down shortly after 4:15 p.m. and tracked roughly 15 kilometres east to White Lake, the weather agency said. Source

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh declared in a televised interview Monday that he never sexually assaulted anyone in high school or at any other time in his life. Kavanaugh and his wife, Ashley, sat down for an interview with Fox News Channel's "The Story with Martha MacCallum" after a second woman accused him of sexual misconduct. Source

Talented carpenters, arborists, cooks, drivers, therapists and babysitters are offering their services and supplies to those affected by the tornadoes that struck the Ottawa-Gatineau region on Sept. 21. Eli El-Chantiry, the city councillor for the Dunrobin area, said it was a pleasant surprise Monday morning when about 70 volunteers showed up at the West Carleton Secondary School to help out. Source

A woman who was nearly killed by an Ontario nurse who murdered eight people gave an emotional statement at a public inquiry Monday in St. Thomas, Ont. Beverly Bertram, who survived one of Elizabeth Wettlaufer's attacks in August 2016, said that more attention needs to be paid not only to those in care, but also to people like Wettlaufer. Source