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Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 02-02-2019

SAO PAULO - Lax regulations, chronic short staffing and a law that muffled the voices of environmentalists on mining licenses made the devastating collapse of a dam in southeastern Brazil all but dest...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump is the latest chief executive to deliver a State of the Union address at a time of turmoil. But others may have had it even worse. Abraham Lincoln delivered a writt...

PARIS - A French judicial official says three people detained over the investigation into the Christmas market attack in Strasbourg that left five dead have been handed preliminary terrorism charges. ...

MOSCOW - Following in the footsteps of the U.S., Russia will abandon a centerpiece nuclear arms treaty but will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if Washington does so, President Vladimi...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s Ministry of Defence has published a video purportedly showing the launch of a new cruise missile, saying it has a 1,350-kilometre (840-mile) range. In the 37-second video o...

BEIJING - China called Saturday for Washington to negotiate with Russia instead of pulling out of a nuclear arms treaty the Trump administration sees as a restraint on its ability to compete with Beij...

There are conflicting predictions from Canada’s two most famous forecasting groundhogs, with Wiarton Willie heralding an early spring while Shubenacadie Sam claims there will be six more weeks o...

TORONTO - A ticket sold in Quebec claimed Friday night’s $26.6 million Lotto Max jackpot. That means the jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Feb. 8 will be approximately $10 million. The Cana...

Friday’s Games NHL Washington 4 Calgary 3 Detroit 3 Toronto 2 (OT) Pittsburgh 5 Ottawa 3 Tampa Bay 1 N.Y. Islanders 0 (SO) Chicago 7 Buffalo 3 Nashville 4 Florida 1 Carolina 5 Vegas 2 Dallas 3 M...