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BEIJING - The rate of increase in new cases of the virus in China rose again after a brief respite, as the death toll rose to 722 on the mainland and countries around the world enforced stricter measu...

PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. - Canada's Nick Taylor has won the Pebble Beach Pro-Am. He held off Kevin Streelman and golfing great Phil Mickleson to win by four strokes. Taylor, from Abbotsford, B.C., led the...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit Canadian troops in Kuwait on Monday about a month after they were relocated there from Iraq. Canada has two ongoing operations in...

LOS ANGELES - The Oscars are here, already. After the shortest awards season in decades, the 92nd annual Academy Awards will get underway Sunday evening at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. The red ca...

Mirella Freni, an Italian soprano whose uncommon elegance and intensity combined with a sumptuous voice and intelligence to enthrall audiences for a half-century, has died at age 84. Freni died Sunday...

Toronto FC has signed Argentine winger Pablo Piatti as its new designated player. The 30-year-old Piatti leaves Barcelona-based Espanyol for Major League Soccer on a free transfer. Having passed a med...

MONTREAL - The enormity of winning the Super Bowl only sunk in for Laurent Duvernay-Tardif when he saw his mother crying on the field. The Chiefs guard became the first Quebec-born player and ninth Ca...

OTTAWA - Conservatives are accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of stacking Canada's courts with Liberal partisans, pointing to a recently appointed judge who has donated almost $26,000 to...

Westerner Park has received recognition from its peers at the Alberta Association of Agriculture Society, which recently held its annual convention.Westerner Park earned:- First place in Promotional P...

LOS ANGELES - A witness to the deadly crash of a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and eight others said it sounded normal just before slamming into a hillside and wreckage examined by experts at the sc...