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Debris from doomed sealing vessel found

HALIFAX - Several survival suits and a life-raft found laying on a Cape Breton beach came from a sealing vessel that sank last March while being towed by a coast guard icebreaker, says a Fisheries official.

Crew aboard a fishing boat made the grim find as they pulled in lobster traps early Thursday, marking the first time debris from the ill-fated fishing boat has surfaced since it went down in icy waters on March 29, killing four of its six crew.

"The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre was able to confirm that the debris was from the fishing vessel L'Acadien II," coast guard spokesman Stephen Bornais said in an interview.

"It will be turned over to the Transportation Safety Board as part of their investigation."

Quebec mom faces murder charge after baby found in trash

QUEBEC - A young Quebec mother whose baby was found dead in a trash can behind her apartment this week has been charged with second-degree murder.

Marie-Eve Bastille, 22, made a court appearance Thursday in Quebec City.

She's also charged with one count of concealing the newborn's body in addition to a charge of negligence to obtain assistance in child-birth that was laid Wednesday.

Battered missionaries to return home soon

VANCOUVER - A missionary couple from Vernon, B.C. who were brutally beaten in Kenya will head home next week, despite wanting to continue their work in the country.

John Bergen, 70, and his wife Eloise, 65, were beaten with clubs and slashed with machetes, and Eloise was repeatedly raped, during a night attack last week that put them in a Nairobi hospital in serious condition.

Ralph Bromley, president of Kelowna-based Hope for the Nations, the group the couple volunteered for, said the pair is returning to Canada at the urging of their families.

He said the Bergens's hearts wanted to stay in Kenya, but when family members flew to visit them in hospital, the couple changed their minds.

The pair are expected to return back to B.C. at the end of next week.

Eloise has been released from hospital, while John's condition is said to be improving every day.

Woman finds snake in washing machine

GORHAM, Maine - Mara Ranger will be a little paranoid doing laundry now.

When she was removing clothes from the washing machine at her Maine farmhouse Wednesday, the clothes moved.

She quickly shut the lid and called for help.

Maine animal damage control operator Richard Burton reached into the machine and pulled and pulled - all 2432 centimetres of a reticulated python.

Burton guesses the snake got into Ranger's washing machine through water pipes.

Ranger is going to start looking into every corner of her washing machine.

She says: "I'm going to be looking in the tub first - before and after, maybe even during, the rinse cycle."

Sources: The Canadian Press, The Associated Press