Category Archives: Canadian Press
What makes chickens happy? University of Guelph researchers try to find out
NEW YORK - How do you measure a chicken’s happiness? Is it in the way it runs for food? How much time it spends preening? To size up what might make chickens happy in their brief lives, research...
Dec 20, 2018
4 faced scrutiny before arrest in Tibbetts case
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Before investigators arrested a farmhand in the death of University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts, they scrutinized a neighbour seen washing his car hours after she vanished, an ac...
Dec 20, 2018
Belgium edges France to end 2018 on top of FIFA rankings
ZURICH - Belgium ends 2018 atop FIFA’s rankings with World Cup winner France at No. 2. FIFA says Belgium is a single ranking point - 1,727 to 1,726 - ahead of a French team which won their World...
Dec 20, 2018
UN: Women migrants in Libya often face gang rape, abuse
GENEVA - The “overwhelming majority” of women and older girls who passed through Libya as migrants reported being gang-raped by traffickers or having witnessed others taken away to be sexu...
Dec 20, 2018
300 uncounted dead: 2015 migrant shipwreck yields new clues
ROME - Before their lives ended in an underwater deathtrap, before they lined up 100 to a row on a Libyan beach to board a boat with no anchor, the young men from the parched villages of the Sahel had...
Dec 20, 2018
Trump move to pull US troops from Syria opens way to turmoil
BEIRUT - The United States’ Kurdish allies had been gearing up for a new fight for weeks, digging trenches and defence tunnels in northeastern Syria in preparation for an offensive Turkey’...
Dec 20, 2018
Pentagon scrambles on Syria exit amid withdrawal outrage
WASHINGTON - Military leaders were scrambling Thursday to devise a swift but safe departure of troops from Syria, as outraged lawmakers appealed to President Donald Trump to reverse an abrupt withdraw...
Dec 20, 2018
Trump bows to conservative backlash over border wall funding
WASHINGTON - Rattled by accusations he was caving on his promised border wall, President Donald Trump instead bowed to a conservative backlash. After signalling earlier in the week that he was backing...
Dec 20, 2018
3 astronauts return from International Space Station
MOSCOW - Three astronauts returned to Earth Thursday after more than six months aboard the International Space Station. A Russian Soyuz capsule with NASA’s Serena Aunon-Chancellor, Russian Serge...
Dec 20, 2018
3 killed, 1 hurt in plane crash near Georgia airport
BLAIRSVILLE, Ga. - Authorities say three people died and another was wounded when a single-engine plane crashed near a north Georgia airport. News outlets report authorities say the passenger wounded ...
Dec 20, 2018