Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The captain of one of two Air Transat flights that was forced to sit for hours on a sweltering Ottawa tarmac last month said Thursday he considered keeping passengers aboard the delayed aircr...

TORONTO - Canadian swimming star Penny Oleksiak is returning to her roots. The four-time Olympic medallist is leaving coach Ben Titley and the Swimming Canada High Performance Centre to return to Bill...

COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Three boats carrying ethnic Rohingya fleeing violence in Myanmar capsized in Bangladesh and 26 bodies of women and children have been recovered, officials said Thursday...

OTTAWA - Gerry Ritz won’t enter the race to lead the Saskatchewan Party, the long-serving Conservative MP said Thursday, after announcing he’s leaving federal politics. “It is out of...

BALTIMORE - The police response time was quicker than ever. Two men were arrested after police say they robbed a bar outside Baltimore while off-duty officers were there for a police retirement party....

LITHIA, Fla. - Some Florida residents woke up to an uninvited, scaly guest in their backyard swimming pool: a 7- to 8-foot-long (2-meter-long) alligator. The Tampa Bay Times reports that Hillsborough ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea on Thursday vowed to execute reporters from two South Korean newspapers, saying they insulted the country’s dignity while reviewing and interviewing the B...

LONDON - It has been 20 years since the death of Princess Diana in a car crash in Paris and the outpouring of grief that followed. Here is a timeline of the key moments in Princess Diana’s life:...

MOSCOW - Police in St. Petersburg say they are searching for unidentified assailants who attempted to set fire to a building housing the studios of a director whose film about the last Russian czar...

BEDFORD, Ohio - A 19-year-old Ohio man has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge in the beating death of a 15-month-old girl. A Bedford Municipal Court judge ordered Tariq Debardeleben held without bo...