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LONDON - A British jury has convicted an Italian man of murdering a policeman he met online and trying to dissolve his body in acid, a technique used in the TV show “Breaking Bad.” Jurors ...

MOSCOW - A Russian fighter jet based on an aircraft carrier currently near Syria’s shores has crashed on a training mission, but its pilot has bailed out safely, the Defence Ministry said Monday...

WASHINGTON - President-elect Donald Trump is considering an oil billionaire and a North Dakota lawmaker for top posts as he moves to roll back President Barack Obama’s environmental and energy p...

TORONTO - Two gamblers who allege their privacy was breached are spearheading a proposed class action against an Ontario casino whose databases were hacked. In a notice of action, they also alleged Mo...

NEW YORK - A work by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch fetched over $54 million at Sotheby’s auction of impressionist and modern art on Monday. “Girls on the Bridge,” a seminal work from...

WINNIPEG - An annual awards ceremony that celebrates people who work toward gender equality is being held in Winnipeg instead of Ottawa this year. The Governor General’s Awards in Commemoration ...

MOSCOW - The Kontinental Hockey League, widely considered the world’s strongest hockey competition outside the NHL, is considering cutting teams because of financial pressure. A recession in Rus...

JOHANNESBURG - The South African government says convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius has been moved at his request to a prison that is better able to accommodate disabled offenders. The Department of C...

TORONTO - The NHL hopes to inch closer to a decision on the 2018 Olympics later this week. League officials will meet with the International Ice Hockey Federation in New York on Wednesday. Deputy comm...

So much about the career of Eric Lindros reads like a Hollywood script, including where the incoming Hall of Famer lived when he entered the National Hockey League. It was about a month into Lindros&#...