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CALGARY - Utility workers have managed to track down the source of a mysterious gas-like odour that’s been lingering in a Calgary Dairy Queen restaurant for about three years. Owner Sujad Bandal...

VANCOUVER - Experts attempting an unprecedented rescue effort to save an endangered killer whale off the West Coast have managed to inject the young orca with antibiotics. A team set out Thursday and ...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - The 21-year-old university student, nearly two months pregnant, had hoped to escape Nicaragua with her boyfriend, but a police officer on a motorcycle blocked their path as they w...

AMALIA, N.M. - Dirty diapers, shotgun shells, small broken bicycles, the white sandal of a baby, anguished journals about faith and a DVD about killing techniques in close combat. Ordinary and extraor...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - On a glorious, late-spring day, Maya Little strode across the poplar-lined University of North Carolina quadrangle, past protesters and a uniformed officer. She stepped onto the ba...

MATARAM, Indonesia - After a deadly earthquake devastated the Indonesian island of Lombok last weekend, Husni Handayani thought the worst was over. The powerful quake claimed hundreds of lives, wounde...

HACKENSACK, N.J. - Authorities say a suspended police chief in New Jersey has been buying cocaine online. Prosecutors say Palisades Interstate Parkway Police Chief Michael Coppola went to a post offic...

BERLIN - Ryanair pilots in several European countries staged a strike over work conditions on Friday that prompted the budget carrier to cancel 400 flights. Walkouts called by German and Belgian union...

NEW YORK - A man who fled to Thailand after allegedly tossing his dead 7-month-old son into a river sent a chilling text to the mother while he was on the run about the fate of her child, prosecutors ...

TORONTO - Emily Batty has climbed the World Cup top-five podium 14 times in her career, including three times in the last few weeks. But she’s never stood on the top step. The 30-year-old from B...