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NEW YORK -- The Buffalo Bills will play the Miami Dolphins on Dec. 7 in Toronto as part of an effort to expand their market to Canada. This marks the first time the Bills will play during the regular season in Toronto, about a 1 1/2 -hour drive from Buffalo. The game was one of the highlights of the NFL schedule released Tuesday. The season opens Sept. 4 with Washington at the Super Bowl champion New York Giants. Also on the opening weekend: Chicago at Indianapolis on Sunday night, Sept.

Hundreds of thousands of commuters in Toronto, Canada's largest city, were forced to find alternative ways to work as a labor dispute shut down subways, buses and streetcars. About 800,000 people use Toronto's mass transit system daily. Only seven buses were operating during morning rush hour, instead of the usual 1,300. Subway and streetcar service was also crippled. Ontario's Labor Relations Board declared the strike illegal. The Amalgamated Transit Union said workers would return today.

She is perhaps 12 now, her hair still light blond, but she doesn't smile anymore. Over the last three years, she has appeared in 200 explicit photos that have become highly coveted collectibles for pedophiles trolling the Internet. They have watched her grow up online -- the hair getting longer, the look in her eyes growing more distant. "She's a collector's item," says Det. Sgt. Paul Gillespie of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit. "I know somebody out there could lead us to her.

An Air France jetliner carrying 309 passengers and crew members skidded off a runway and plunged into a ravine during a heavy thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon, but everyone aboard escaped before the plane was consumed by flames.

Jews and Muslims in Ontario pledged Wednesday to fight for faith-based tribunals to settle family disputes after the provincial premier announced that he would ban all religious arbitration there. Canada's largest province had appeared well on its way to becoming the first Western jurisdiction to allow the use of Sharia -- a code drawn largely from the Islamic holy book, the Koran -- to settle some Muslim family and civil disputes.

Major League Soccer today is expected to add Toronto as its 13th team and first Canadian franchise. The club, which will begin play in 2007, will be owned and operated by Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, which also owns the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs, the NBA's Toronto Raptors and the Air Canada Centre.

Gunfire erupted on a Toronto street filled with shoppers, killing a young woman and wounding six people, police said. They said two suspects were arrested and at least one gun was seized near the Eaton Center downtown. Police said they were investigating whether the violence was gang related.

Architect Frank Gehry unveiled plans Wednesday for a glass and titanium renovation of this city's premier art gallery, promising to transform the existing "austere" structure into a more open and welcoming building. The $150-million project, to be completed by the fall of 2007, will boost the Art Gallery of Ontario's space for art by about 40%.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday that it will begin issuing health warnings to everyone who enters the U.S. from Toronto because severe acute respiratory syndrome has killed 14 people in Canada, infected 324 others and forced more than 7,000 into quarantine. Travelers will be given yellow cards advising them that they "have been somewhere where SARS is a problem. If you get sick, see your primary physician," said CDC Director Julie Gerberding.

Struggling to stop the spread of the SARS virus, the World Health Organization issued a warning Wednesday urging travelers to avoid unnecessary visits to Toronto. The Canadian city is the first outside Asia where WHO has advised against unnecessary travel. The world agency added Toronto, Beijing and Shanxi province in China Wednesday to a list that had previously included Hong Kong and Guangdong province, where the outbreak is thought to have originated.