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OMENA, Mich. - Politics in a small northern Michigan village have gone to the cats and dogs and goats and even chickens. Omena’s newly elected mayor is a feline named Sweet Tart. Dogs Diablo Sha...

KHARTOUM, Sudan - South Sudan’s warring leaders have agreed to share power once again in the latest effort to end a five-year civil war, officials announced Wednesday, days after the United Stat...

The largest and most precise study yet done on acid emissions from Alberta’s oilsands suggests they could eventually damage an area almost the size of Germany. The study finds that in 2013 more ...

RAFINA, Greece - The cries for help pierced the choking smoke. Dozens of people bobbed in the sea, forced by the vicious flames into the water. Children held onto adults, and people who couldn’t...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. - On Sunday, Vladimir Guerrero will become the first position player from the Dominican Republic inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and only the third player from that...

OTTAWA - Canada’s foreign affairs minister says a meeting with Mexico’s president-elect has cleared the haze about diving back into free trade talks between Canada, the United States and M...

BERLIN - Five female musicians accuse organizers of an Austrian classical music festival of not acting on sexual abuse complaints they made for years against its artistic director, according to an ope...

CALGARY - A crime-scene-type tool is being used by an Alberta university to help investigators looking into the cause of wildfires, arsons and oil spills. Gwen O’Sullivan of Mount Royal Universi...

WASHINGTON - Cher, composer Phillip Glass, country music star Reba McEntire and jazz legend Wayne Shorter will be honoured for lifetime achievements in the arts at this year’s Kennedy Center Hon...

TORONTO - The Canadian Centre for Child Protection says this cake isn’t for kids. The centre’s Cybertip.ca program is warning parents that an app called Cake - Live Stream Video Chat is a ...