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BATON ROUGE, La. - Diagnosed with cancer, LSU’s live tiger mascot, Mike VI, won’t take the field during home football games this season but will remain in his habitat instead. The universi...

TORONTO - A mentally ill man finally deported to Jamaica on Wednesday deserves compensation because his five years in immigration detention was inhumane, illegal and violated his rights, his lawyer to...

MONTREAL - The colleagues of a Canadian-Iranian university professor jailed in Iran are urging governments to apply pressure as her detention enters a third month with no end in sight. Homa Hoodfar, w...

GATINEAU, Que. - The big four TV service providers are defending how they rolled out new, trimmed-down TV packages earlier this year, denying in hearings Wednesday that they were being “paternal...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - The International Olympic Committee promised to co-operate Wednesday with Brazilian authorities in the ticket scalping investigation that has targeted one of its executive boar...

MOSCOW - Alex Ovechkin has been named Russia’s captain for the World Cup of Hockey. The Russian Ice Hockey Federation announced the decision Wednesday. It also says Evgeni Malkin and Pavel Datsy...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. – Samsung has released Canadian details for the 10-country recall of 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, following reports that some of their batteries have exploded or caug...

TORONTO – A new poll suggests that about half of working Canadians would be hard-pressed to meet their financial obligations if their paycheque was delayed for a week. The survey released Wednes...

PARIS - A criminal terrorist investigation has been opened in Paris following the discovery of a car parked near Notre Dame Cathedral with seven gas canisters and pages written in Arabic inside, prose...

MADRID - Spain’s film academy has selected Pedro Almodovar’s film “Julieta” as its entry for best foreign language film at next year’s Oscars. It is the sixth time the di...