Category Archives: Canadian Press

MADRID - Nobel Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been discharged from a Madrid hospital, 24 hours after sustaining light injuries in a fall at home. The 82-year-old Peruvian writer left the S...

TORONTO - A police expert’s testimony suggesting that an aviation executive whose death was initially ruled a suicide could not have killed himself was dismissed Friday as biased and unreliable....

MONTREAL - Quebec’s striking crane operators defied an order to return to work on Friday, as the province’s transport minister announced the government’s intention make the union pay...

PHOENIX - The human backup driver in an autonomous Uber SUV was streaming the television show “The Voice” on her phone and looking downward just before fatally striking a pedestrian in sub...

BANGUI, Central African Republic - Central African Republic’s foreign minister says a reported diplomatic passport for Boris Becker appears to be a fake and the country’s prosecutor genera...

WASHINGTON - Police generally need a warrant to look at records that reveal where cellphone users have been, the Supreme Court ruled Friday in a big victory for privacy interests in the digital age. T...

NEWNAN, Ga. - Rapper Jim Jones has been arrested after a brief police chase in west Georgia. A Coweta County investigator said he saw a southbound Mercedes sport utility vehicle drift into the emergen...

NEW ORLEANS - Former first lady Michelle Obama will discuss her upcoming memoir “Becoming” as she kicks off the American Library Association’s annual conference in New Orleans. Libra...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - After more than 90 minutes of aggravation and exasperation, Neymar and Brazil finally broke through Costa Rica’s smothering defence. Philippe Coutinho scored in the firs...

Friday’s Games World Cup At St. Petersburg, Russia Brazil 2 Costa Rica 0 Volgograd, Russia Nigeria 2 Iceland 0 At Kalinigrad, Russia Switzerland 2 Serbia 1 — CFL Winnipeg 56 Montreal 10 Ha...