Category Archives: Canadian Press

NEW YORK - A teary and emotional Elton John celebrated the 25th anniversary of his AIDS foundation with a gala in New York City, raising about $4.4 million and telling the audience that they would end...

SAN FRANCISCO - Struggling social-media darlings Twitter and Snapchat are taking on new looks as the services seek wider audiences in the shadow of Facebook. Twitter is rolling out a 280-character lim...

BUCHAREST, Romania - Romania’s royal house has filed a complaint with Swiss police alleging that the estranged grandson of the ailing ex-King Michael I tried to force his way into his grandfathe...

WASHINGTON - House and Senate negotiators have agreed on an annual defence policy bill that authorizes $700 billion for the Pentagon in fiscal 2018. That’s an ample increase over the amount soug...

LONDON - One of the men tortured in Sri Lanka said he was held for 21 days in a small dank room where he was raped 12 times, burned with cigarettes, beaten with iron rods and hung upside-down. Another...

NEW YORK - It’s before dawn when two outreach workers find a homeless man known as Juice near a train station in Harlem. A nurse will be visiting to discuss his heart problems, they tell him. A ...

NEW YORK - It was built to showcase the United States of America to the world, an airy, eye-catching pavilion with a facade of live plants and a walkway built with pieces of New York’s famous Co...

DENVER, Pa. - Police say a Pennsylvania Dunkin’ Donuts worker sold methamphetamine and heroin on the job, in some cases while wearing his drive-thru window headset. Pennlive.com reports that 35-...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - French President Emmanuel Macron took his first walk Wednesday night through the galleries of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a decade after his country signed an over $1.2 bil...

JOHANNESBURG - During Kenya’s election upheaval, a few protesters displayed images of the flag of the “People’s Republic of Kenya,” a notional breakaway state. Some posted onli...