Category Archives: Canadian Press

HONOLULU - A Turkish man accused of inflight behaviour that prompted bomb-threat procedures and U.S. military fighter jets to escort the American Airlines plane to Hawaii is mentally competent to stan...

AMMAN, Jordan - Just a year out of college, Jordan’s crown prince has made his debut on the world’s biggest stage, addressing the U.N. General Assembly - the clearest sign yet that he is o...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Hosting a Los Angeles event with the son of Bahrain’s king, two prominent U.S. rabbis let something slip to those in attendance: the ruler of the island nation thin...

WASHINGTON - Prospects are good for a public shaming in the Equifax data breach, but it’s unlikely Congress will institute sweeping new regulations after hackers accessed the personal informatio...

CANBERRA, Australia - Australia’s prime minister on Friday urged restraint in the nation’s same-sex marriage debate after his predecessor, Tony Abbott, said he was head-butted by a gay rig...

ADA, Okla. - A small chapel nestled on a university campus in a rural central Oklahoma town is at the centre of a firestorm over the use of religious symbols on public property after a Washington, D.C...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - Dozens of descendants of Japanese soldiers killed in World War II visited Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Thursday to pay respects to fallen American soldiers. Nippon Izokukai, the Be...

SAN DIEGO - The busiest border crossing in the United States will close this weekend to the more than 40,000 cars that pass through it daily to Mexico. The closure between San Diego and Tijuana for wo...

MILAN - On the third day of Milan Fashion Week, past and present merged at Donatella Versace’s joyous, celebratory, healing runway tribute Friday to her brother Gianni Versace, 20 years after hi...

NEW YORK - A New York judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two women trying to stop police lawyers from serving as prosecutors in their low-level cases and others like them, suggesting the arra...