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BERLIN - A six-member jury of former winners has been chosen to allocate the prizes at this year's Berlin International Film Festival, which is taking place in a revamped form because of the coronavir...

LONDON - Prince Harry on Monday accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of British tabloid The Mail on Sunday and its online version, MailOnline, in a libel lawsuit relating to articles abo...

LONDON - The price of silver is rallying as the online trading movement fuelling the rise of unloved shares like GameStop took a shine to the precious metal. Silver futures jumped almost 12% on Monday...

RED DEER, Alta. - A trial date is to be set today for a man who wants to act as his own lawyer when he is tried in the killing of a family doctor at a medical clinic in central Alberta.Deng Mabiour (m...

MOSCOW - A Moscow court on Monday has ordered the wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to pay a fine of 20,000 rubles (about $265) for violating protest regulations after she attended a de...

A new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) shows the average private apartment vacancy rate in Grande Prairie climbed to 9.6 per cent in 2020, up from the 5.1 per cent record...

The Grande Prairie-Beaverlodge-Valleyview forecast area has been placed under a snowfall warning by Environment Canada.The weather office says a long period of snowfall is expected to begin Monday, wi...

WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden is set to meet Monday with a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed spending about one-third of the $1.9 trillion he is seeking in coronavirus aid, though c...

WUHAN, China - A World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited two disease control centres on Monday that had an early hand in managing the outbreak in t...

MOGADISHU, Somalia - At least five people have died in the attack on a Mogadishu hotel by Somalia's al-Shabab rebels that was ended early Monday by security forces, according to the Somali police forc...