Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The confident consumer helped drive across-the-board economic growth in the second quarter, giving the country its best start to a calendar year since 2002. Growth expanded at an annual pace ...

LONDON - British authorities on Thursday charged a man with terrorism offences following an incident near Buckingham Palace last week in which a suspect with a 4-foot sword injured three police office...

BAGHDAD - The northern town of Tal Afar has been “fully liberated” from the Islamic State group, Iraq’s prime minister said Thursday, further shrinking the territory controlled by th...

SYDNEY, N.S. - Jim Matthews was a coal miner’s son who would wake before dawn to work on a local milk truck. His reverence for hard work helped the 54-year-old become a prominent entrepreneur - ...

DALLAS - A major gasoline pipeline may be able to resume shipping fuel from the Houston area by Sunday, its operator said, potentially mitigating gasoline shortages across the southern United States s...

MIAMI - A 6-foot (2-meter) Burmese python slithered near a popular Miami Beach pedestrian mall, scaring the crowd outside a convenience store. Customers leaving Exprezo noticed the snake beneath a roy...

ISLAMABAD - A Pakistani court on Thursday sentenced two former police officers to 17 years in prison for failing to protect former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, but the same court acquitted five susp...

MADRID - Regional authorities in Catalonia on Thursday denied news reports that U.S. anti-terrorism officials had warned them of an attack targeting Barcelona, but acknowledged that they did receive t...

VENICE, Italy - Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” is an aquatic “Beauty and the Beast,” a transgressive fairy tale about a young woman’s love for a scaly cr...

LONDON - Memories of Princess Diana remain strong two decades after her sudden death in a Paris car crash. Here, in her own words, her thoughts on a range of topics: - On her parents’ failing ma...