Category Archives: Canadian Press

RICHMOND, Va. - Some of the oldest and largest Confederate statues in the U.S. tower over Monument Avenue, a four-lane road that has served as Richmond’s parade route. The avenue, lined with tre...

BOGOTA - Pope Francis urged young Colombians on Thursday to take the lead in promoting forgiveness to help their country heal from a half-century of conflict, saying they should “look to the fut...

TOKYO - North Korea’s latest nuclear test was part theatre, part propaganda and maybe even part fake. But experts say it was also a major display of something very real: Pyongyang’s master...

ATLANTA - Georgia police shot and killed a Bengal tiger on Wednesday after it escaped from a truck and wandered along a major interstate near Atlanta, frightening residents of a nearby subdivision. Fe...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX launched the Air Force’s super-secret space shuttle on Thursday, a technology tester capable of spending years in orbit. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off from...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - With daring filmmakers, untold stories and entertainment-starved young people, Saudi Arabia has all the makings of a local movie industry - except for theatres. As the tr...

LOS ANGELES - Justin Timberlake, U2, Cate Blanchett and Salma Hayek are joining an hour-long live television special about reinventing American high schools. Organizers announced Thursday that Kelly C...

BANGKOK - Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in a Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and pages ripped from Islamic texts that were left on the ground. That intensifie...

BANGKOK - Two weeks after violence erupted in western Myanmar, minority Rohingya Muslims continue to flood into neighbouring Bangladesh every day. The military said it was carrying out “clearanc...

ALBANY, Wyo. - Vast stands of dead timber in the Western U.S. have forced firefighters to shift tactics, trying to stay out of the shadow of lifeless, unstable trees that could come crashing down with...