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TORONTO - The breaks have not gone Canada’s way in the buildup to the CONCACAF Women’s Championship, which doubles as a World Cup qualifying tournament. Veteran midfielder Desiree Scott, a...

HALIFAX - A mugger got the worst of it in downtown Dartmouth when a woman fought back, hitting and kneeing him and forcing him to flee empty-handed. Police say the man was hiding in the bushes as the ...

PONOKA- RCMP dealt with a variety of calls for service as the weekend came to a close which included three women who are now facing numerous criminal charges in relation to separate incidents that occ...

LONDON - A paperback copy of “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” used by the judge in the U.K. obscenity trial of the novel’s publisher is expected to sell at auction for up to 15,000 po...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s freedom of information law is becoming “an exercise in frustration,” the privacy commissioner said after the government partially rejected her recommendations...

EDMONTON – Police say a 65-year-old transit bus driver remains in hospital after he was assaulted by an armed 15-year-old boy. The driver suffered multiple injuries in the overnight attack that ...

CINCINNATI - Believing she was dying after a gunman riddled her body with bullets, a bank executive said Wednesday she urged first responders to save her life for her two small children. Whitney Austi...

FRANKFURT - Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche will leave his post in May and be succeeded by Ola Kallenius, who has headed development and research for the automaker’s Mercedes-Benz luxury brand. The c...

TORONTO - Dozens of unlicensed clinics offering stem cell treatments for a wide variety of medical conditions have sprung up in Canada, marketing their services through direct-to-consumer online adver...

BANGKOK - A court in Thailand has given a second life sentence to a drug kingpin from Laos whose social connections to various celebrities were exposed by his arrest. Bangkok’s Criminal Court on...