A French woman, with rare facial tumor and whose petition for euthanasia was earlier rejected by the court was found dead in her home on Wednesday. No details have been released on the cause of death of Chantal Sebire, diagnosed eight years ago with the rare disease of esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB).

According to the International Herald Tribune, a government official said in anonymity that Sebire died in her home at Plombieres-les-Dijon

With Nova Scotia as well as the rest of Canada's population turning gray, there is an urgent need to revise the province's outdated laws on incapacitated residents, said Nova Scotia Health Minister Chris d'Entremont. He is pushing for a legislation that would permit residents to appoint another person to make vital decisions concerning personal care if he becomes incapacitated.

Other Canadian provinces had gone ahead and made one. Alberta had a personal care directives law since 1997, British Columbia enacted one in 2000 and New Brunswick passed the Infirm Persons Act recently

While several Canadian provinces had recently passed legislation to prohibit smoking inside cars with children, the federal government had surreptitiously instructed the Canada Border Services Agency to permit Canadian children to bring imported cigarettes and other tobacco products into the country.

The Sun Media quoted a portion of the CBSA memorandum released in late 2007 that, "According to a legal opinion recently obtained by headquarters, federal and provincial laws on tobacco have no provisions to prevent the importation of tobacco products

Deaths in the United States caused by heart stroke has declined from 1999-2005 by at least 25 percent, according to American Heart Association.

The study shows that in 2005, there were 160,000 fewer deaths, the latest year which the CDC has compiled detailed mortality data. The AHA calculates that the 2008 data will show a 36 percent drop in heart disease deaths and a 34 percent drop in stroke deaths compared with 1999

After 19 years, the Scottish government is bent on asking the United States to overturn its ban on Scotland's traditional and national dish called 'haggis' as it cited a lucrative market for the product out there.

"The market is massive because there are so many expat Scots there and once Americans try a good quality haggis, they can't get enough of it," a Scottish government spokesperson said in a report of BBC News