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BANGKOK - Police in the Thai capital blocked a march Tuesday by pro-democracy activists protesting four years of military rule and detained several of the movement’s leaders. About 3,200 officer...

BOSTON - A Spanish galleon laden with gold that sank to the bottom of the Caribbean off the coast of Colombia more than 300 years ago was found three years ago with the help of an underwater autonomou...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump laboured with South Korea’s Moon Jae-in Tuesday to keep the highly anticipated U.S. summit with North Korea on track after Trump abruptly cast doubt that the ...

BEIJING - China’s ambition to soft-land a spacecraft on the far side of the moon later this year faces considerable challenges, but if successful would propel the country’s space program t...

Food Truck Fridays returns to Red Deer this week at a new location. This year food trucks are being hosted at Carnival Cinemas (4740-50 Street) as opposed to Cool Beans where they've been for the past...

Jonathan Ericson put on a record setting aerial attack at the Football Alberta Senior Bowl. The graduating Lacombe Rams quarterback threw for 278 yards and three touchdowns for Team North in a 38-23 l...

MONCTON, N.B. - Staff at a New Brunswick zoo are mourning the loss of a rare tiger cub who died more than a week after she was born with three siblings. The Magnetic Hill Zoo announced in a Facebook p...

LOS ANGELES - Iowa native Maddie Poppe has won “American Idol.” The singer-songwriter bested Caleb Lee Hutchinson and Gabby Barrett in Monday night’s two-hour finale on ABC. Poppe an...

LONDON - The American bishop whose sermon caused a stir at the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle thought the invitation was a prank. Rev. Michael Curry told ITV that he thought “somebody ...

HALIFAX - Federal Crown prosecutors argued on Tuesday that two of Nova Scotia’s most notorious white-collar criminals should be sentenced to 10 to 12 years in prison, prompting a judge to ask: &...