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MANCHESTER, England - It is looking increasingly likely that Chelsea and Arsenal will be the teams from the Premier League’s “Big Six” to miss out on Champions League qualification t...

OTTAWA - In just over a week, six volunteers will start filing up to 500 tax returns for people with little to no income at the Shepherds of Good Hope homeless shelter in downtown Ottawa. The Liberals...

OTTAWA - The head of the government’s new development finance institution says he’s determined to make it a player in the world’s poorest countries where it can do the most good. Pau...

NEW GLASGOW, N.S. - A law firm is seeking submissions from across Atlantic Canada for artwork to be displayed on the exterior of the movie theatre where Viola Desmond took her legendary stand for civi...

VATICAN CITY - The archdiocese of Naples says it has sent the Vatican a 1,200-page dossier compiled by a male escort identifying 40 actively gay priests and seminarians in Italy. In a statement on the...

WASHINGTON - Russia will “never” extradite any of the 13 Russians indicted by the United States for election-meddling, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, even as he insisted they didn&...

LONDON - Annie Lennox says she plans to remain a global ambassador for Oxfam despite allegations of sexual misconduct by some of the charity’s employees during a relief operation in Haiti. The f...

UDINE, Italy - Fiorentina captain Davide Astori was found dead in his hotel room on Sunday at the age of 31 after a suspected cardiac arrest before an Italian league match. The defender, who also play...

HALIFAX - A small-town university in Atlantic Canada has been thrust into the epicentre of a national debate about free speech on campus, amid new allegations a controversial professor has made “...

CHANGCHUN, China - Canadian speedskater Laurent Dubreuil was second in the men’s 500-metre race Sunday at the ISU World Sprint Championship for a 12th-place overall finish at the weekend event. ...