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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas highway officials shut down westbound lanes of a cross-country interstate for four hours so crews could pick up pizza. An 18-wheeler containing DiGiorno and Tombstone froz...

TORONTO - Relatives of a Canadian pastor released this week after more than two years in a North Korean prison said Thursday he is “on his way home” and they are anxious to be reunited wit...

MONTREAL - Many Coldplay fans in Montreal hoping to catch their final show in the city Wednesday night were turned away, the victims of an apparent online fake ticket scam. City police said Thursday t...

HALIFAX - A hefty reward helped crack the cold-case deaths of two Halifax men at a burned-out camp outside the city, RCMP said Thursday. Elmer Percy Higgins, 65, and Karen Marie Higgins, 49, face char...

Smugglers have thrown some 280 migrants into the sea off the coast of Yemen in the last two days, causing more than 50 to drown and leaving over 30 missing, the U.N. migration agency said Thursday. U....

OTTAWA - “They were talking generally there about a much, much higher mass arrival situation - not what we’re dealing with. What we’re dealing with is definitely a very high, steady ...

SARAJEVO, Bosnia - Bosnia is marking the 20th anniversary of Princess Diana’s visit, her last overseas tour before she died in a car crash in Paris. Her crusade against land mines led to her thr...

HALIFAX - Two geese are dead after being hit by a vehicle at a crosswalk the popular birds use to access a pond at a park in Dartmouth, N.S. Police say a man was driving on Prince Albert Road during t...

OTTAWA - “In my prime,” Jack Nicklaus once wrote, “my legs were very strong.” That was true in more ways than one, it turns out: in 2014, Golf Digest published never-before-see...

HALIFAX - A labour dispute at Canada’s largest independently owned daily newspaper ended Thursday after striking workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new contract. Newsroom employees at t...