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For Julie Andrews, sudden success was 'like an assault'
VENICE, Italy - Julie Andrews is reflecting on her career at the Venice International Film Festival, where she received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Award Monday evening. The 83-year-old s...
Sep 03, 2019
Searchers hunt missing Spanish Olympian in mountain area
MADRID - Hundreds of searchers, helped by helicopters and drones, combed a mountainous area outside Madrid Tuesday, 10 days after the last known sighting of former alpine ski racer and Olympic medalli...
Sep 03, 2019
Searchers hunt missing Spanish Olympian in mountain area
MADRID - Hundreds of searchers, helped by helicopters and drones, combed a mountainous area outside Madrid Tuesday, 10 days after the last known sighting of former alpine ski racer and Olympic medalli...
Sep 03, 2019
Serena Williams turns right ankle, holds on for US Open win
NEW YORK - Serena Williams was in pain - "acceptable" pain, her coach called it - after rolling her right ankle during the second set of a U.S. Open victory. That was the bad news. The good news for W...
Sep 03, 2019
Art exhibit takes a look at your backyard critters
LETHBRIDGE, AB - What animals visit your backyard?That's what University of Lethbridge graduate student Leila Armstrong is studying. Armstrong is working towards her PhD in Evolution and Behaviour and...
Sep 03, 2019 One of the photos from Backyard Wilderness (Photo courtesy Leila Armstrong)
Tribute concert of Avicii's music to benefit mental health
NEW YORK - A benefit concert for suicide prevention featuring the music of the late star Avicii is being planned for Dec. 5 in Stockholm, Sweden. Proceeds will support the work of the new Tim Bergling...
Sep 03, 2019
Rapper arrested after alleged assault of employee
LAS VEGAS - Police in Las Vegas say rapper Fetty Wap was arrested after allegedly assaulting three employees at a hotel. Police say the 28-year-old whose real name is Willie Maxwell was arrested Sunda...
Sep 03, 2019
Filmmaker Nate Parker apologizes for being 'tone deaf'
VENICE, Italy - Three years ago, filmmaker Nate Parker came under scrutiny for a rape allegation from his college days that essentially derailed the release of his Nat Turner film "The Birth of a Nati...
Sep 03, 2019
Saudi-led airstrikes on Yemen rebel-run prison kill over 100
SANAA, Yemen - Yemeni medics said on Monday they pulled dozens of bodies from the rubble of a Houthi rebel-run detention centre that was hit a day earlier by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes, killing ov...
Sep 03, 2019
Stampeders down Eskimos 25-9 in quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell's return
CALGARY - Stampeders quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell answered questions about his arm with his arm in Calgary's 25-9 win over the Edmonton Eskimos in Monday's Labour Day game. The CFL's Most Outstan...
Sep 03, 2019