Crews have begun removing pieces of the Boeing 747 cargo jet that overshot a Halifax runway last week, as gawkers marvelled at the huge wreck and how close the plane came to breaching the airport's fence and overrunning a public road.

An unusual contest has uncovered dozens of bizarre lobsters found in the waters of Canada's East Coast including blue ones, three-clawed ones, and even one as big as a beagle.

A 51-year-old Halifax man has been handed an eight-month conditional sentence for repeatedly groping and making sexual comments to a woman under his supervision.