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Toronto's Greektown community is expected to gather tonight to remember the victims of a mass shooting last summer. The vigil - set to begin at sunset - marks the first anniversary of the tr...

NEW DELHI - India successfully launched an unmanned spacecraft to the far side of the moon on Monday, a week after aborting the mission due to a technical problem. Scientists at the mission control ce...

OTTAWA - Nearly four years after Justin Trudeau opted not to move into the prime minister's official residence over concerns about its crumbling state, the building remains vacant - except for staff w...

VIENNA - Yukiya Amano, the International Atomic Energy Agency's director general, has died at 72, the agency announced Monday. The Secretariat did not give a cause of death for Amano, or say when he d...

BEIRUT - Syrian opposition activists say an airstrike on a busy market in a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria has killed at least 16 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights s...

JERUSALEM - Israeli work crews have begun demolishing dozens of Palestinian homes in an east Jerusalem neighbourhood. Monday's demolitions cap a years-long legal battle over the buildings, which strad...

WASHINGTON - Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens never really put down his pen. Without opinions and dissents to write following his retirement from the Supreme Court in 2010, Stevens chos...

WINNIPEG - Quarterback Matt Nichols set a new team record for consecutive pass completions as his Winnipeg Blue Bombers shut the Ottawa Redblacks out Friday night, walking away with their fifth straig...

DETROIT - Danny Jansen was hitless in his first three at-bats when he tried to change his luck - by shaving his moustache. "Got a hit right after," the Toronto catcher said. "Maybe I'm a little supers...

CALGARY - A Calgary judge has denied British Columbia's attempt to block Alberta legislation that would allow that province to stop oil shipments to the coast. In a decision released Friday on th...