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LONDON - The British and Irish leaders were meeting Friday to discuss the Irish border - and mend fences - amid rising tensions between Britain and the European Union over Brexit. British Prime Minist...

LOS ANGELES - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he was the target of "extortion and blackmail" by the publisher of the National Enquirer, which he said threatened to publish revealing personal photos of him ...

LOS ANGELES - The black dress that a distraught Marilyn Monroe wore to a 1954 press conference announcing her separation from baseball legend Joe DiMaggio less than a year after she married him is goi...

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican on Wednesday clarified comments by Pope Francis about a case of what he called "sexual slavery" within a French congregation of nuns, saying he was referring to an abuse of ...

HALIFAX - The federal government is awarding a long-awaited contract to design its $60-billion fleet of warships to U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin. Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough ...

VANCOUVER - Minutes after he was drafted by the Washington Capitals last year, Alex Kannok Leipert got a call from his best friend and Vancouver Giants teammate. Bowen Byram simply couldn't conta...

MOSCOW - Russia will be able to compete at next year's Paralympics in Tokyo after being reinstated Friday, more than two years after the country was suspended for widespread doping. The IPC ruled refo...

BRUSSELS - European Union authorities on Wednesday blocked a deal to create a rail giant that could compete with China, angering France and Germany so much that they vowed to change the way the EU ove...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, Feb. 6 --- MILITARY AIMS FOR ARMED DRONES IN SIX YEARS The Royal Canadian Air Force is hoping to pull the trigger on the purchase of new drones w...

OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Air Force is hoping to pull the trigger on the purchase of new armed drones within six years after spending nearly two decades weighing different options. The Canadian Forc...