Category Archives: Canadian Press

EDMONTON - Brynne Wood tries on her sparkly, champagne-coloured princess gown and smells a hint of smoke. The dress was left hanging in an alterations shop in downtown Fort McMurray when a huge wildfi...

TORONTO - The family of a Toronto university student who was detained in Bangladesh after surviving a terrorist attack says the young man has been transferred to prison. Tahmid Hasib Khan’s fami...

VANCOUVER - Millions of people who feel like they’re suffocating from the symptoms of a lung disease could benefit from a new website its creator considers a crystal ball for helping doctors cal...

VARANASI, India - About 3,000 people were evacuated in India’s remote northeast after a lake created by an earlier landslide threatened to collapse and flood their villages, even as flood water ...

AMATRICE, Italy - Rescue workers acknowledged Friday they might not find any more survivors from Italy’s earthquake as they confronted a new obstacle to their recovery work: a powerful aftershoc...

ANKARA, Turkey - A Kurdish suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden truck into a checkpoint near a police station Friday in southeast Turkey, killing at least 11 police officers and wounding 78 other...

TOKYO - Japanese airline All Nippon Airways has started grounding Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” flights after detecting problems with their Rolls-Royce engines. Nine domestic flights were cancel...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Six Indonesian provinces have declared states of emergency as forest fires blanketed a swath of Southeast Asia in a smoky haze. Singapore’s air quality deteriorated to unhea...

QUETTA, Pakistan - A police spokesman says unidentified assailants killed at least six tribal police officers and wounded two others in an overnight rocket and gun attack in southwest Pakistan. Abdull...

AMATRICE, Italy - The Latest on the earthquake in central Italy (all times local): 7:30 a.m. Another strong aftershock has rattled quake-ravaged central Italy, reportedly causing some more damage to c...