Category Archives: Canadian Press

ACCRA, Ghana - Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, have arrived in Ghana for the second stop of their West African tour. The royals landed Friday afternoon in Accra where the...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio broke his silence about his absence from Parliament Hill on Friday, saying he is performing unspecified tasks assigned by the prime minister himself. The Montreal-a...

MATIAS ROMERO, Mexico - The main caravan of Central American migrants spent a rain-drenched night outside before continuing their slow walk through southern Mexico, on a path that is taking them towar...

FREDERICTON - When New Brunswick’s Liberal government was defeated Friday in a confidence vote, 36-year-old Premier Brian Gallant was set to transform from Canada’s youngest premier to Can...

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Goodwill worker collecting clothes and other items at a Texas sorting centre was surprised to find an albino python clinging to the side of a bin. The python was huddled in a pil...

OTTAWA - The federal government has agreed to give a judge the chance to review thousands of documents including cabinet secrets to decide which ones are relevant to the politically charged case again...

ISLAMABAD - Prominent Pakistani cleric Maulana Samiul Haq, also known as the “father of the Taliban,” was killed in a knife attack at his home in the garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday,...

DOHA, Qatar - Canada’s Shallon Olsen captured a silver medal on vault in the individual apparatus finals Friday at the world gymnastics championships. Olsen, of Surrey, B.C., entered the competi...

MONTREAL - As he was training in 2004 for his second space flight to help in the construction of the International Space Station, a routine visit to the doctor almost cut short Dave Williams’ ca...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - In an attempt to protect the coral reefs that divers so admire they have dubbed them the underwater Serengeti, the Pacific nation of Palau will soon ban many types of sunscre...