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VENICE, Italy - Roman Polanski is not at the Venice International Film Festival, but his new film, "An Officer and a Spy" is. Yet, after much hand-wringing over its inclusion among the films in compet...

OTTAWA - An Ottawa court has agreed to delay until November the case of a public servant accused of leaking cabinet secrets about a $700-million shipbuilding project, amid concerns about fairness and ...

WARSAW, Poland - A couple and their seven-year-old child were hospitalized Friday after lightning hit a tree they were passing while trekking in the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland, where a thunder...

NEW YORK - Novak Djokovic would be a little closer to Roger Federer's record for men's Grand Slam singles titles if he'd done better against Stan Wawrinka. They meet Sunday for the first time since Wa...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Canadian Blood Services (CBS) will be making a series of changes that it says will "reduce blood donor screening and rest time for repeat donors, resulting in a shorter donation time ...

VENICE, Italy - Kristen Stewart only knew Jean Seberg as an image. The picture of the waif with the pixie haircut and the New York Herald Tribune shirt embodied the effortless chic associated with the...

SANAA, Yemen - The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's rebels attacked a detention centre in the southwestern province of Dhamar with several airstrikes Sunday, killing at least 60 people and woundin...

DONGGUAN, China - Two NBA players. A couple of Euroleague standouts. Five Canadian university grads. Canada's final roster for the FIBA World Cup looks nothing like what many people had predicted - an...

OTTAWA - In Canada's largest city, raw sewage flows into Lake Ontario so often, Toronto tells people they should never swim off the city's beaches for least two days after it rains. Acr...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis says he was stuck for 25 minutes in a Vatican elevator and had to be rescued by firefighters. Francis apologized to faithful in St. Peter's Square Sunday for showing up sev...