December 12, 2018

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — More than 1,000 people across New Zealand joined candlelight vigils on Wednesday to commemorate British tourist Grace Millane, who police say was ...

December 12, 2018

BAGHDAD — Iraqi activist Nadia Murad met her country's president in Baghdad on Wednesday after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy on behalf of victims of ...

December 12, 2018

Dozens of North and South Korean soldiers crossed over the world's most heavily armed border Wednesday as they inspected the sites of their rival's front-line guard posts to ...

December 12, 2018

LA PAZ, Bolivia — What gets flushed down in Bolivia's capital city is used to irrigate the green, leafy fields that supply its produce markets.For farmer Richard Mamani it's ...

December 12, 2018

WASHINGTON — Andre Pittman and Gregory Cornes are on a mission to rid Washington of opportunistic vermin.But their target isn't corrupt officials or shady political fixers; ...

December 12, 2018

SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. — Before descending the Cascade Mountains on its final stretch to Seattle, Interstate 90 cuts through a mountain pass of old growth forests and ...

December 12, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO — Insurance claims and cleanup costs associated with California wildfires last month are expected to exceed the record-breaking amounts paid out last year after...

December 12, 2018

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A judge has rejected a deputy's claim that he had no duty to confront the gunman during the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.Refusing to dismiss a...

December 12, 2018

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn are asking a judge to spare him prison time, saying he had devoted his career...

December 12, 2018

KATOWICE, Poland — The United Nations secretary-general called on countries to make compromises and sacrifices in talks over tackling global warming, as some observers warned...

December 12, 2018

KATOWICE, Poland — A growing fleet of satellites is monitoring man-made greenhouse gas emissions from space, spurred by the need to track down major sources of climate ...

December 12, 2018

STRASBOURG, France — A massive manhunt involving hundreds of police and soldiers was underway Wednesday for a suspected extremist who yelled "God is great!" in Arabic during ...

December 12, 2018

MYVATN, Iceland — The people of northern Iceland have had their travel plans disrupted with a record high snowfall this December. Roads have been shut, flights cancelled and ...

December 12, 2018

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey will launch a new military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters in Syria "within a few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday,...

December 12, 2018

DECATUR, Tenn. — An earthquake that struck eastern Tennessee early Wednesday could be felt as far away as Atlanta, the U.S. Geological Survey said.The light earthquake ...

December 12, 2018

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 12———OMBUDSMAN ASKED TO PROBE HIRING OF OPP COMMISSIONERThe interim commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police is asking the ...

December 12, 2018

VANCOUVER — A tempting bright-red advertisement for a new condo development in a Vancouver suburb circulated online this fall, sparking excitement from first-time homebuyers ...

December 12, 2018

WASHINGTON — North of the border, Canada's hard-won free-trade deal with the United States and Mexico is considered a matter of existential importance, heavy with ...

December 12, 2018

WINNIPEG — Like many millennials, Sarah Rogalsky doesn't go out of her way to buy lottery tickets.The 32-year-old is part of an office pool and chips in $2 a week at her ...

December 12, 2018

WASHINGTON — North of the border, Canada's hard-won free-trade deal with the United States and Mexico is considered a matter of existential importance, heavy with ...

December 12, 2018

WINNIPEG — Like many millennials, Sarah Rogalsky doesn't go out of her way to buy lottery tickets.The 32-year-old is part of an office pool and chips in $2 a week at her ...

December 12, 2018

WINNIPEG — The lawyer for a Winnipeg woman convicted of hiding the remains of six babies in a rented storage locker says she was keeping them so she could possibly visit ...

December 12, 2018

VANCOUVER — A tempting bright-red advertisement for a new condo development in a Vancouver suburb circulated online this fall, sparking excitement from first-time ...

December 12, 2018

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reaffirmed Canada's commitment to the rule of law following Donald Trump's declaration that he might intervene in charges against a...

December 12, 2018

LONDON — British Conservative lawmakers forced a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Theresa May for Wednesday, throwing U.K. politics deeper into crisis and Brexit further ...

December 11, 2018

TORONTO — The interim commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police is asking the province's ombudsman to investigate the appointment of Premier Doug Ford's family friend to ...

December 11, 2018

BAGHDAD — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry arrived in Baghdad on a trade mission Tuesday urging Iraq to reduce its energy dependence on Iran and open its own energy sector to...

December 11, 2018

SASKATOON — An early release from prison has been revoked for a drunk driver who was behind the wheel of a stolen truck when she killed two Saskatoon teenagers and seriously ...

December 11, 2018

After struggling to express empathy in the past, a young woman who pressured her boyfriend into killing his teenage ex more than a decade ago appeared to show genuine remorse...

December 11, 2018

CALGARY — Former NHL player and abuse survivor Sheldon Kennedy is removing his name from a child advocacy centre he founded.Kennedy pitched the idea to Calgary's police chief...

December 11, 2018

MONTREAL — Anastasia Marcelin, originally from Haiti, says she became an activist after witnessing how city police treated her three younger brothers in their Montreal North ...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — The crew of a Canadian warship in the Pacific had front-row seats to potential violations of UN sanctions against North Korea during a recent patrol in the East ...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — Former New Democrat stalwart Svend Robinson says he is strongly considering a return to federal politics, noting his former party is facing challenging times. ...

December 11, 2018

A scene-stealer from "Crazy Rich Asians." A teen actress who brought aching realism to a movie about adolescence. A boundary-breaking country star. And a comedian who used ...

December 11, 2018

NEW YORK — A study organized by Time's Up, the organization formed to promote gender equality, has found that female-led films consistently outperform male-led movies at the ...

December 11, 2018

App Store Official Charts for the week ending December 9, 2018:Top Paid iPhone Apps:1. Minecraft, Mojang2. Heads Up!, Warner Bros.3. Rebel Inc., Ndemic Creations4. Facetune, ...

December 11, 2018

iTunes Movies U.S. charts for week ending December 9, 2018:iTunes Movies US Charts:1. Mission: Impossible - Fallout2. Crazy Rich Asians3. Smallfoot4. Elf (2003)5. I Feel ...

December 11, 2018

NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam told a group of protesters demanding clemency for a Tennessee woman serving life in prison that he's reviewing her case.Cyntoia Brown was 16 when...

December 11, 2018

ATLANTA — Singer and rapper Ty Dolla $ign faces drug charges in Atlanta.Court records show a Fulton County grand jury indicted the 36-year-old musician on Nov. 30 on charges ...

December 11, 2018

LOS ANGELES — CBS says it has sold Television City, its Los Angeles headquarters and production facility, to a real estate developer for $750 million.Shows on Television City...

December 11, 2018

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A woman who wrote a memoir about having a married Roman Catholic priest for a father has won the country's top humour writing prize.Patricia Lockwood, author...

December 11, 2018

iBook charts for week ending December 9, 2018: (Rank, Book Title by Author Name, ISBN, Publisher :iBooks US Bestseller List - Paid Books1. Becoming by Michelle Obama - ...

December 11, 2018

Audible.com bestsellers for week ending December 7:Fiction1. Christmas Eve, 1914 by Charles Olivier, narrated by Cameron Daddo, Xander Berkeley, Cody Fern, Damon Herriman, ...

December 11, 2018

NEW YORK — Aaron Sorkin is a huge fan of courtroom dramas, both as a reader and as a watcher. His first Broadway play was the swashbuckling military justice story, "A Few ...

December 11, 2018

STRASBOURG, France — A man who had been flagged as a possible extremist sprayed gunfire near the famous Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg on Tuesday, killing ...

December 11, 2018

EDMONTON — Alberta is looking for someone to build a new oil refinery, but Premier Rachel Notley says any deal needs to work for both industry and taxpayers."The project must...

December 11, 2018

TAMPA, Fla. — Authorities say the lead guitarist for the death metal band Cannibal Corpse broke into a Florida house and tried to attack a deputy.A Hillsborough County ...

December 11, 2018

A look at where the investigations related to President Donald Trump stand and what may lie ahead for him.WHAT'S THIS ALL ABOUT?Trump is facing criminal investigations in ...

December 11, 2018

AMSTERDAM, N.Y. — Public officials and relatives of Kirk Douglas have unveiled a new historic marker in his upstate New York birthplace to honour the Hollywood legend on his ...

December 11, 2018

CALGARY — The mother of slain Calgary Stampeder Mylan Hicks says she thought her son would be safe when he left his native Detroit to play football in Canada.Renee Hill has ...

December 11, 2018

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative government has tabled a $600-million capital budget that dramatically turns away from the big spending of the previous ...

December 11, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby's lawyers detailed nearly a dozen alleged legal errors Tuesday, including the judge's decision to send the case to trial, as they appeal his sexual ...

December 11, 2018

EDMONTON — An Alberta First Nation is suing the province over development approvals that the band says threaten sacred land the government has promised to protect."We will ...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — There has been no surge of extremist travellers returning to Canada, despite the overseas setbacks suffered by militant forces in Iraq and Syria, a new federal ...

December 11, 2018

CHAMBLY, Que. — For Raymonde Thibeault, it was the little details others took for granted about their roots that weighed on her. Adopted on Christmas Day 1955 just weeks ...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — The federal government can award a contract to design the country's $60-billion fleet of new warships after a trade tribunal reversed an earlier order not to finish ...

December 11, 2018

Winning a Nobel Prize changed nearly everything about Donna Strickland's professional life except the principles that helped shape it in the first place.The University of ...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — Police chiefs say methamphetamine is fuelling a crime wave in some of Western Canada's biggest cities as use of the highly addictive drug skyrockets across the ...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — China's economic and political rise may be bad news for North American workers but the U.S. pursuit of a Huawei executive is a separate legal matter, says Donald ...

December 11, 2018

RIO DE JANEIRO — A man opened fire in a cathedral in southern Brazil after Mass on Tuesday, killing four people and wounding four more before taking a bullet in the ribs in a...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — The union representing Canada Post employees is taking the Trudeau government to court over the legislation that ended rotating strikes by its members.The Canadian ...

December 11, 2018

SACKVILLE, N.B. — A New Brunswick physics professor says an astronomical discovery could give rare insight into the workings of the universe and advance the study of stellar ...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — A Liberal MP who's stayed out of the House of Commons for months says he's been busy with other important work."Time spent in the House is a part of a member's work ...

December 11, 2018

SASKATOON — A promotion by the Saskatchewan Rush of the National Lacrosse League to get fans involved in a singalong of what has become a controversial Christmas favourite ...

December 11, 2018

MONTREAL — Provincial police are asking anyone with information about a missing 41-year-old Quebec woman to come forward after she failed to return as planned last week from ...

December 11, 2018

MONMOUTH BEACH, N.J. — Police in New Jersey have given $3 to the person who found it 14 years ago.Paige Woodie was 12 years old when she and a friend discovered the cash and ...

December 11, 2018

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minneapolis Star Tribune's film critic has resigned in the face of plagiarism accusations, the newspaper reported in an apology to its readers.The newspaper...

December 11, 2018

BERLIN — Juliette Binoche will be the jury president at this winter's Berlin International Film Festival.Organizers of the festival announced Tuesday that the French actress ...

December 11, 2018

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. — Floyd Estel Parton, the brother of country singer Dolly Parton, has died.An obituary posted by Atchley Funeral Home in Sevierville, Tennessee, says ...

December 11, 2018

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has contacted Chinese authorities about the detention of a sometime Canadian diplomat in China at a time of ...

December 11, 2018

NEW YORK — Time magazine on Tuesday recognized journalists, including the slain Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi, as its 2018 Person of the Year in what it said was an effort ...