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LOS ANGELES - Ruth E. Carter is a black woman blazing a trail as a costume designer in a film industry with not many who look like her. But through her upcoming career achievement award and Oscar nomi...

DHAKA, Bangladesh - A devastating blaze raced through a crammed slum in southeastern Bangladesh on Sunday, killing at least nine people and injuring several others, a fire official said. The fire brok...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Canada's Eugenie Bouchard is out of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The 24-year-old native of Westmount, Que., lost 7-6 (4), 6-4 to No. 3 seed Simona Halep of R...

HALIFAX - Multiple people were killed in an early-morning fire Tuesday that witnesses said quickly engulfed a home in a Halifax suburb. Police and fire officials would not discuss the number of d...

BRAMPTON, Ont. - The city in which an 11-year-old girl allegedly died at the hands of her father last week is holding a vigil in her honour tonight. City councillors in Brampton, Ont. will host a...

PARIS - Chanel's iconic couturier, Karl Lagerfeld, whose accomplished designs as well as trademark white ponytail, high starched collars and dark enigmatic glasses dominated high fashion for the past ...

VANCOUVER - When Jody Wilson-Raybould was demoted in cabinet, a rabbi in her Vancouver Granville riding reached out to her with a message from the Bible. It quoted Joseph, who said afte...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's parliament speaker said Sunday that an attack that killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard was "planned and carried out from inside Pakistan," which he said should ...

WASHINGTON - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 presidential campaign reshaped Democratic politics, announced Tuesday that he is running for president in 2020. "Our campaign is not only...

MUNICH - Europeans need to do more than talk if they want to preserve a deal meant to keep Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon after the unilateral withdrawal of the United States, Iran's foreign m...