Halifax Regional Municipality

When you think of vacationing in Canada, chances are the country's three most-visited cities come to mind: Montreal, Vancouver and Toronto.

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia - British Prime Minister David Cameron steps into a potential hornets' nest of trans-Atlantic conflict when he makes his global debut this week at the G-20 summit in Canada - with tensions over Afghanistan, Europe's debt crisis and the BP oil spill gaining in intensity.

LONDON - U.K. house prices rose 1 percent in December, ending the year 1.1 percent higher than at the end of 2008, the country's biggest mortgage lender said Thursday.

A look at economic developments and activity in major stock markets around the world Monday: BRUSSELS - The surging economies of the East should be granted more power in the traditionally Western-dominated global financial institutions, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said at the opening of the Euro-Asian summit.