OTTAWA, June 16 (UPI) -- Canada's chief of the defense staff, Gen. Rick Hillier, announced Monday the appointment of a new vice chief of defense staff.

OTTAWA, April 15 (UPI) -- The chief of Canada's military defense staff, Gen. Rick Hillier, announced his resignation in Ottawa Tuesday after three years in the post.

OTTAWA, Feb. 2 (UPI) -- Canada's top military officer has criticized a proposal to end all of his country's combat efforts in Afghanistan by February 2009.

PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 23 (UPI) -- James Hillier, designer of the first practical electron microscope, has died in Princeton, N.J., at the age of 91.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Gen. Rick Hillier, Canada's top-ranked soldier, was spending Christmas Eve with 2,000 Canadian troops in Afghanistan.

LONDON, March 1 (UPI) -- The daughter of ex-Beatle Paul McCartney, British fashion designer Stella McCartney, has given birth to her first child, a boy.

LONDON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Three British brothers whose lives were saved by laser surgery while they were still in the womb celebrated their second birthday this week.

LONDON, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Press attacks on Stella McCartney's dramatic losses for her Gucci-owned Stella label have prompted an investigation by Gucci's PR firm.

ROTHSAY, Scotland, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Fashion designer Stella McCartney is believed to have wed her beau, publisher Alasdhair Willis, amid tight security on Bute Saturday.

EAST HANOVER, N.J., Feb. 5 (UPI) --