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NEW YORK - Yum Brands says it will sell a stake in its China unit, which the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut is spinning off later this year. The company said Friday that it struck deals to sell s...

OTTAWA – The parliamentary budget officer has taken a look at the long-term costs to the government and families of the Liberals’ new child benefit and says the number of families who qual...

PARADISE, N.L. - A lucky, but tired dog is back with his family after rescuers plucked him from the side of a sheer cliff where he had been stranded for days. Askim, a black and white pooch, was spott...

MIAMI - A day care worker at a private charter school in Miami Beach has been arrested after officers reviewed video surveillance footage that appears to show her slapping, elbowing and twisting the a...

Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- NEW VANCOUVER REAL ESTATE FIGURES OUT TODAY Metro Vancouver’s real estate market is bracing for a steep decline in detached home sales...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - Two lovers caught on tape planning to drug and kill their spouses have each been sentenced to three years in prison. Chief Justice Martel D. Popescul on Friday ruled Curtis Vey ...

ATLANTA - Donald Trump will visit a predominantly black church in Detroit this weekend and, his campaign says, “outline policies that will impact minorities and the disenfranchised in our countr...

HILO, Hawaii - Tourists in Hawaii who had been planning an escape to a sunny island paradise were instead hit with the threat of back-to-back hurricanes, but they’re making the best of their vac...

MOSCOW - Russian news agencies are citing the government of Uzbekistan as saying that President Islam Karimov has died, ending days of rumours about the condition of the 78-year-old hardliner who led ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks hours apart on Friday that left at least 13 people dead. Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony ...