BROMONT, Quebec — A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression said she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photographs of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.

Nathalie Blanchard has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, for the last year.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported Saturday she was diagnosed with major depression and was receiving monthly sick-leave benefits from insurance giant Manulife.

But the payments dried up this fall, and when Blanchard called Manulife, she said she was told she was available to work because of Facebook.

She said her insurance agent described several pictures Blanchard posted on Facebook, including ones showing her having a good time at a Chippendales bar show, at her birthday party and on a sun holiday.

Blanchard said Manulife told her it is evidence she is no longer depressed. She is fighting to get her benefits reinstated and said her lawyer is exploring what the next step should be.

Blanchard told the CBC that on her doctor's advice, she tried to have fun, including nights out at her local bar with friends and short getaways to sun destinations, as a way to forget her problems.

Manulife wouldn't comment on Blanchard's case, but did say they would not deny or terminate a claim solely based on information published on Web sites such as Facebook.

MOSCOW — Russian spaceship designer Konstantin Feoktistov, the only non-Communist space traveler in the history of the Soviet space program, died at the age of 83.The Russian Space Agency said in a statement Sunday Feoktistov died of unspecified causes late Saturday in Moscow.In 1964, he traveled aboard the Voskhod spaceship as part of the first group space flight in history.Feoktistov played key role in the development of the Voskhod.Approval of his flight met resistance from the Politburo since Feoktistov was not a Communist Party member at the time.Until 1990, Feoktistov helped design Soviet space ships and stations such as Soyuz, Progress and Mir.He criticized the idea of manned space flights to other planets as a "stupid" waste of money.

MELBOURNE, Australia — An Australian man was in stable condition Monday after being slashed across the abdomen and face by a kangaroo that was holding his dog underwater.Chris Rickard, 49, said he was walking his blue heeler, Rocky, Sunday morning when they surprised a sleeping kangaroo in Arthur's Creek northeast of Melbourne. The dog chased the animal into a pond, but it then turned and pinned the pet underwater.When Rickard tried to pull his dog free, the kangaroo turned on him, attacking with its hind legs and tearing a deep gash into his abdomen and across his face."I thought I might take a hit or two dragging the dog out from under his grip, but I didn't expect him to actually attack me," Rickard said. "It was a shock at the start because it was a kangaroo, about 5 feet high, they don't go around killing people."Kangaroos rarely attack humans but will fight if they feel threatened.Dogs often chase kangaroos, which have been known to lead the pets into water and then pin them underwater as a means of defense.Rickard said he ended the attack by elbowing the kangaroo in the throat, adding Rocky was "half-drowned" when he pulled him from the water.

LONDON — An auction house said it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.Christie's auction house said Sunday the book — one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859 — had been on a toilet bookshelf at a family's home in Oxford.The book will be auctioned on Tuesday, the 150th anniversary of the publication of the famous work. Christie's said the book is likely to sell for about $99,000.Darwin's "The Origin of Species" outlined his theory of natural selection, the foundation for the modern understanding of evolution.