Category Archives: Canadian Press
Men carry wives through obstacle course for cash, beer
NEWRY, Maine - Carrying your wife over the threshold means good luck in your new marriage. Carrying your wife over the threshold of an obstacle course featuring log hurdles, sand traps and water hazar...
Oct 08, 2016
New Hampshire college heats campus with used cooking oil
KEENE, N.H. - Things are heating up at New Hampshire’s Keene (KEEN) State College, which is now using 100 per cent used cooking oil to keep more than a third of its campus warm. Officials say th...
Oct 08, 2016
Haiti mourns as families bury loved ones killed by hurricane
JEREMIE, Haiti - As a pale blue coffin came into view, grieving women flung themselves to the floor near a morgue overlooking the ravaged city of Jeremie, where a humanitarian crisis has emerged in th...
Oct 08, 2016
NBA star Derrick Rose says he assumed ex-girlfriend consented to sex
LOS ANGELES - There was no text message that specifically gave Derrick Rose permission to have sex with his ex-girlfriend, but for the NBA star the signs were clear, he testified in a lawsuit that acc...
Oct 08, 2016

Lindsay Lohan visits Syrian refugees in southeast Turkey
ISTANBUL - Turkey’s state-run news agency says Lindsay Lohan has visited a government-run refugee camp near Turkey’s border with Syria. The Anadolu Agency said Saturday the U.S. actress to...
Oct 08, 2016
Thousands march in Yemen after over 140 killed in airstrike
SANAA, Yemen - Thousands of Yemenis marched in the capital Sanaa on Sunday to protest an airstrike a day earlier by the U.S.-backed, Saudi-led coalition fighting Shiite Houthi rebels, one of the deadl...
Oct 08, 2016
Republicans tell Trump to quit, billionaire vows to press on
NEW YORK - A defiant Donald Trump insisted Saturday he would “never” abandon his White House bid, rejecting a growing backlash from Republican leaders nationwide who disavowed the GOP̵...
Oct 08, 2016
Cameras and legal measures can help curb fan violence, British prof says
TORONTO - Banning or limiting alcohol sales isn’t likely to reduce rowdy fan behaviour at large sporting events, a British professor who has researched hooliganism said Friday in the wake of a b...
Oct 08, 2016
Turkish post-coup crackdown sparks democracy fears
ANKARA, Turkey - A dozen police officers, joined by officials from Turkey’s treasury and the county’s broadcasting watchdog, marched into the pro-Kurdish IMC-TV television station, sealed ...
Oct 08, 2016
Jihadi bride who fled Syria uses life on probation as lesson
BRUSSELS - Her hair pulled back neatly from her face, eye shadow dramatic and flawless, Laura Passoni bears little resemblance to the jihadi bride she was less than two years ago, when she fled in dar...
Oct 08, 2016