Category Archives: Canadian Press

FREDERICTON - When New Brunswick’s Liberal government was defeated Friday in a confidence vote, 36-year-old Premier Brian Gallant was set to transform from Canada’s youngest premier to Can...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio broke his silence about his absence from Parliament Hill on Friday, saying he is performing unspecified tasks assigned by the prime minister himself. The Montreal-a...

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Goodwill worker collecting clothes and other items at a Texas sorting centre was surprised to find an albino python clinging to the side of a bin. The python was huddled in a pil...

OTTAWA - The federal government has agreed to give a judge the chance to review thousands of documents including cabinet secrets to decide which ones are relevant to the politically charged case again...

ISLAMABAD - Prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, also known as the “father of the Taliban,” was killed in a knife attack at his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday,...

DOHA, Qatar - Canada’s Shallon Olsen captured a silver medal on vault in the individual apparatus finals Friday at the world gymnastics championships. Olsen, of Surrey, B.C., entered the competi...

MONTREAL - As he was training in 2004 for his second space flight to help in the construction of the International Space Station, a routine visit to the doctor almost cut short Dave Williams’ ca...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - In an attempt to protect the coral reefs that divers so admire they have dubbed them the underwater Serengeti, the Pacific nation of Palau will soon ban many types of sunscre...

TOKYO - Japan’s Cabinet on Friday approved a draft bill that would allow the entry of more foreign blue-colour workers as the country’s fast-aging population faces labour shortages. The bi...

LONDON - A Japan Airlines co-pilot arrested after failing a breath test shortly before a London to Tokyo flight pleaded guilty Thursday to being almost 10 times over the legal limit for alcohol. Londo...