Category Archives: Canadian Press
Rat found in vending machine at Florida high school
DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - Students at a Florida high school found an unwelcome surprise in a vending machine: a rat climbing the rows of packaged snacks and drinks. Video of the rat shot by an 11th-grader ...
Dec 10, 2018
Beyonce performs at pre-wedding party in India
Beyonce brought her star power to a pre-wedding party for the daughter of India’s richest mogul. The 37-year-old singer performed Sunday and sang some of her hits such as “Crazy In Love...
Dec 10, 2018
Plan to wipe out tuberculosis in Inuit communities shifts to prevention
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott says a plan aimed at eliminating tuberculosis from Inuit communities shows the federal government is “getting its act together.” Philpot...
Dec 10, 2018
Canada's Donna Strickland, UWaterloo prof, collects Nobel Prize for Physics
A Canadian scientist who became one of just three women to win the Nobel Prize for Physics received her award at a formal ceremony in Sweden on Monday as supporters at her Ontario university cheered h...
Dec 10, 2018
Nobel Peace winners urge global action vs. sexual violence
STOCKHOLM - The Congolese doctor who shares this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end the use of rape and sexual violence as weapons of war called Monday for strong international acti...
Dec 10, 2018
Iraq celebrates victory over IS while grappling with legacy
BAGHDAD - Iraq began removing cement walls from areas surrounding the capital’s most fortified enclave Monday, opening parts of the so-called Green Zone to traffic in a symbolic move coinciding ...
Dec 10, 2018
Sheriff: Uncle cut 3-year-old Kentucky girl's throat
ALBANY, Ky. - A 3-year-old girl whose uncle authorities say cut her throat has died in a Kentucky hospital. Citing a Fayette County Coroner’s Office release, news outlets report Josephine Bulube...
Dec 10, 2018
Pope cites the 'disappeared' among those deprived of rights
ROME - Pope Francis on Monday lamented that the poor, the unborn, those imprisoned and those who have been forcibly “disappeared” do not enjoy the same human rights protections as the weal...
Dec 10, 2018
City to settle lawsuit alleging 'invasive' police body probe
WASHINGTON - The city of Washington, D.C., is settling a lawsuit with a black man who accused a Metro police officer of repeatedly probing his anal cavity during a weapons search. News outlets report ...
Dec 10, 2018
Presidential hopefuls pushed to go big on climate change
WASHINGTON - Environmental activists are ramping up a pressure campaign designed to drum up Democratic support for a sweeping agenda to fight climate change, with the 2020 presidential campaign in the...
Dec 10, 2018