Washington  - Seventeen people were missing after a helicopter crashed into the Atlantic Ocean Thursday while taking workers to an oil platform off Canada's coast, authorities said.

The helicopter departed from Saint John's, the capital of Newfoundland and Labrador on its way to the Hibernia oil platform when in crashed in the cold waters, said Jeri Grychowski, spokeswoman for the Joint Rescue and Coordination Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Ottawa, Mar 12 : An Ottawa man, convicted of building bomb components will become today the first person to be sentenced under Canada''s post-9/11 terrorism laws. The landmark case of Mohammed Momin Khawaja would be resolved today in a downtown Ottawa courtroom.

Khawaja could be sentenced to life imprisonment after being convicted last fall on five counts of financing and facilitating terrorism as well as two lesser Criminal Code offences.

Whistler, Canada  - Jay Vincent of France swept to a surprise win Wednesday in the men's 20-kilometre individual biathlon in Whistler, host venue for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

He skied to victory in 49 minutes 53.9 seconds and got off four perfect shots on the marksman range.

Germany's Daniel Boehm (50 min 12.9 seconds) and Jeremy Teela of the US (50 min 17.2 seconds) followed in second and third place.

Whistler, Canada  - Germany's Simone Hauswald won the second biathlon World Cup event of her career Wednesday when she claimed victory in the women's 15-kilometre individual race at Whistler, host venue for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The 29-year-old, who came second in this year's world championships, was perfect in the shooting range as she skied to victory in a time of 42 minutes 44.6 seconds.

New York  - The Chinese immigrant who brutally stabbed, beheaded and then ate the flesh of his seatmate on a Greyhound Canada bus last July, was found not criminally responsible for the crime on Thursday.

Vincent Li, 40, had pled not guilty in the gruesome killing of carnival worker Tim McLean, 22.

As they say, "it's all in the mind". Probably this is what led some Canadian university researchers to study the brains of people who are religious and those who aren't to find out the truth behind this saying.

"This is the first set of studies connecting individual differences in religious conviction to basic (brain) processes," say authors Michael Inzlicht and Ian McGregor, psychology professors at the University of Toronto and York University, respectively.