Category Archives: Canadian Press

TORONTO - The current vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, is highly effective during the first three years after children get their shots, but immunity wanes over the next several years, leaving...

CALGARY - Police say about 20 witnesses, including several members of the Calgary Stampeders, were interviewed following the weekend shooting death of their teammate, Mylan Hicks. A 19-year-old man wa...

The outpouring of warmth for Arnold Palmer extended north of the border the day after his death, even if the King of golf almost thwarted Canadian Sandra Post’s bid to win the 1978 Dinah Shore c...

BERLIN - German broadcaster Deutsche Welle says it has filed a civil lawsuit in Turkey’s capital demanding the return of a videotaped interview with the country’s minister for youth and sp...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s state-run news agency is reporting that Canadian-Iranian professor Homa Hoodfar has been freed from prison and flown out of the country. IRNA filed the brief story Monday a...

TORONTO - A man is in life-threatening condition after being encased in hot tar that solidified during an industrial accident in Toronto on Monday morning. Rescuers worked for more than an hour to fre...

WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes retreated in August, one month after surging to the highest level in nearly nine years. Activity fell in all regions of the country except the West. New home sales drop...

MONTREAL - Retired Canadian-Iranian professor Homa Hoodfar has been released from an Iranian prison and is recovering with family in Oman, her friends and colleagues confirmed Monday, four months afte...

ISTANBUL - Turkey’s state-run news agency says American actress Lindsay Lohan has visited Syrian refugees at an Istanbul hospital and the home of a refugee family from Aleppo. The Anadolu agency...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Islamic extremists have killed eight soldiers and wounded 17 in two attacks in northeastern Nigeria, the country’s military said Monday. The attacks bring the official toll ...