Windsor can no longer claim the dubious distinction of having the highest jobless rate in the country.

Investor Warren Buffett has made his annual gift of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, turning over about $1.5 US billion worth of stock.

The U.S. added a tiny 18,000 jobs in June, far below the 120,000 that some economists had been hoping for, the U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics reported Friday.

Police say Andy Coulson, the former News of the World editor who also served as British Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman, has been arrested in the U.K. tabloid phone-hacking scandal.

Employment rose for the third consecutive month in June, Statistics Canada reported Friday, with 28,000 jobs created, but the unemployment rate remained unchanged at 7.4 per cent as more people joined the job market.