Category Archives: Canadian Press

WASHINGTON - U.S. homebuilders broke ground on fewer apartment complexes in February, causing overall housing starts to fall 7 per cent. The Commerce Department said Friday that housing starts last mo...

BEIRUT - Syrian government and Russian airstrikes killed at least 46 people in a besieged town outside of Damascus on Friday, while Turkish shelling and attacks on a Kurdish-held town in northern Syri...

NEW YORK - Stone tools and other items from ancient sites in Kenya give a glimpse at the emergence of some key human behaviours, perhaps including a building of relationships with distant neighbours, ...

GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of - Canadian curling’s gold medal run at the Paralympics is over. Canada dropped a last-rock decision to China in Friday’s semifinals, and will face South Korea...

LOS ANGELES - An ad on Snapchat asking users if they’d rather “Slap Rihanna” or “Punch Chris Brown” has spawned widespread outrage, including from the singer herself, and...

VANCOUVER - A win Saturday against Atlanta United FC gives the Vancouver Whitecaps a chance to add another item on the list of things the Major League Soccer team has never done. The Whitecaps have ne...

SHUBENACADIE, N.S. - A Nova Scotia livestock farmer’s racy marketing campaign has set off a social-media slugfest over beef and a satirical holiday for men that critics say does little but reinf...

BAGHDAD - All seven service members aboard a U.S. helicopter that crashed in Iraq were killed, the Pentagon said Friday in a written statement. The aircraft crashed in western Iraq a day earlier, said...

LONDON - A teenage Iraqi asylum-seeker who told police he had been trained by the Islamic State group was convicted of attempted murder on Friday for planting a home-made bomb on a London subway train...

NEW DELHI - A popular Indian pop singer was convicted of human trafficking and cheating Friday by a court that found he took money to pretend people were in his performance troupe so they could get jo...