Category Archives: Canadian Press

HALIFAX - He is the ultimate hero of the Halifax Explosion: Vince Coleman saved a trainload of passengers at the cost of his own life. On Wednesday, a ferry named for the train dispatcher was put into...

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - Karin Huster had just arrived home from work and walked in the front door when the phone rang. It was her daughter’s school principal. He said her daughter Nata...

LOXLEY, Ala. - One minute members of the Texas high school band were sleeping soundly on an early morning bus trip home from a much-anticipated trip to a music festival at Disney World. The next minut...

LAKE ELSINORE, Calif. - Yes, that was a blimp towing a water skier across the surface of a Southern California lake. The Press-Enterprise reports the blimp towed skier Kari McCollum for 6.9 miles (11....

ATHENS, Greece - Greece could be expelled from international soccer competitions because of widespread violence, a FIFA representative said Wednesday. Herbert Huebel said a series of incidents, culmin...

The Privacy Commissioner of Canada said Wednesday it has opened a full investigation into how Loblaw Companies Ltd. has required customers to produce personal identification to secure a $25 gift card ...

LONDON - Stephen Hawking was a prolific author with a knack for making books on challenging scientific topics engaging to a wide spectrum of readers. The physicist is best known for his bestselling 19...

LONDON - Key events in the life of celebrated physicist Stephen Hawking, who died Wednesday at 76. Jan. 8, 1942 - Born in Oxford, England, the eldest of four children of Frank Hawking, a biologist, an...

Reaction to the death of theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking: “His passing has left an intellectual vacuum in his wake. But it’s not empty. Think of it as a kind of vacuum energy permeat...

BEIRUT - For the first time since its meteoric rise in 2012 amid the chaos of war, al-Qaida’s branch in Syria is in retreat, battling rival militant groups in the north and fighting for survival...