Category Archives: Canadian Press

CAMROSE, Alta. - A peanut-and-chocolate candy popular decades ago has been flying off shelves since an Alberta couple revived it earlier this year. The Cuban Lunch bar disappeared in 1991 when the Pau...

TOKYO - A suspected gas explosion destroyed wooden buildings housing a restaurant and a real estate office in northern Japan on Sunday night, injuring 42 people, police and local media said. The power...

SRINAGAR, India - A security clampdown and a strike sponsored by separatists fighting against Indian rule shut most of Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday, a day after chaotic protests and fighting ...

PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People’s Republic Of - North Koreans are marking the seventh anniversary of the death of leader Kim Jong Il with visits to statues and vows of loyalty to his son, Ki...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - A volcano in central Indonesia has erupted, ejecting columns of thick ash as high as 7,500 metres (24,606 feet) into the sky. Mount Soputan, located on the northern part of Sulawe...

PARIS - People filled a square in the French city of Strasbourg on Sunday to show respect and sympathy for the victims of last week’s shooting attack near a famous Christmas market as the death ...

TORONTO - There were two winning tickets for the $16 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. One was sold in Ontario, the other in the Prairies, and each is worth just over $7.9 mill...

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka’s president accused newly reappointed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe of corrupt leadership in a scathing speech Sunday in which he voiced doubts about their a...

Saturday’s Games (All times Eastern) NHL Calgary 2, Minnesota 1 Anaheim 2, Columbus 1, OT Montreal 5, Ottawa 2 N.Y. Islanders 4, Detroit 3, SO Washington 4, Buffalo 3, SO Pittsburgh 4, Los Angel...

Saturday’s Games (All times Eastern) NHL Calgary 2, Minnesota 1 Anaheim 2, Columbus 1, OT Montreal 5, Ottawa 2 N.Y. Islanders 4, Detroit 3, SO Washington 4, Buffalo 3, SO Pittsburgh 4, Los Angel...