"It was a real "James Bond moment," witness Francis Emond tells CNN.
And just like in the movies, the bad guys have been tracked down and brought to justice.
Sunday around 2:20 p.m. ET a helicopter, which may have been highjacked, swooped down over a prison about a half-hour northwest of Montreal. Two convicts, 36-year-old Benjamin Hudon-Barbeau and 33-year-old Danny Provencal, climbed up ropes and into the chopper, as the CBC reports." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"BEIRUT - Syria's main opposition group is launching its most serious attempt yet to form a rival government to President Bashar Assad's regime, convening in Turkey on Monday to choose an interim prime minister for areas the rebels control.
Twelve candidates are running, including economists, businessmen and a former Syrian Cabinet minister.
Some warn setting up such a government could close the door to negotiating an end to Syria's civil war and instead harden the battle lines even more." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"Police in India say they have arrested a group of farmers in their 20s who have confessed to gang raping a Swiss tourist who was camping with her husband in an Indian forest. "We have detained five men and they have confessed to gang-raping the woman and attacking her husband," police official MS Dhodee told AFP. Police were searching for a sixth man, who was also involved in the crime, AFP reported. All the accused will go before a magistrate on Monday, Dilip Arya, deputy inspector general of police, told Reuters. Police have also recovered the couple's valuables." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"Police in India say they have arrested a group of farmers in their 20s who have confessed to gang raping a Swiss tourist who was camping with her husband in an Indian forest.
"We have detained five men and they have confessed to gang-raping the woman and attacking her husband," police official MS Dhodee told AFP.
Police were searching for a sixth man, who was also involved in the crime, AFP reported.
All the accused will go before a magistrate on Monday, Dilip Arya, deputy inspector general of police, told Reuters. Police have also recovered the couple's valuables." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"PARIS — A French star lawyer whose clients ranged from Panama's ex-dictator Manuel Noriega to former prime minister Dominique de Villepin was Sunday found dead near his private island in Brittany, sources and officials said.
Sources told AFP that the body of Olivier Metzner was found floating in the Gulf of Morbihan, a natural harbour on France's western coast, on Sunday morning. A suicide letter was also found in his house on the nearby Boedic island, they said." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com
"THE Duchess of Cambridge has revealed she would like her baby to be a boy as she attended a St Patrick's Day parade at a military barracks.
Kate, who is five months pregnant, said the Duke, who attended the event with her, would prefer a girl.
The Duchess showed patriotic spirit wearing the same green Emilia Wickstead dress coat and shamrock brooch she wore to the event at Mons Barracks in Aldershot, Hampshire last year.
The wet weather held off as the couple watched around 200 soldiers from the 1st Battalion Irish Guards parade through the puddle-strewn square, bringing a splash of colour to the occasion in their full ceremonial uniform of scarlet tunics and bearskins." info@als-alexander.orgor interalex1@yahoo.com