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China counts 2,700 cases of new virus, 80 deaths
BEIJING - The death toll from a new virus has risen to 80 with more than 2,700 confirmed cases, China's government said Monday, after the health minister warned that the virus's ability to "spread is ...
Jan 26, 2020
Woods stunned to learn of Kobe Bryant's death
SAN DIEGO - Tiger Woods has heard just about everything from playing before the biggest crowds in golf, and he tends to ignore it. Most puzzling was what he kept hearing along the back nine Sunday at ...
Jan 26, 2020
Raptors, Spurs share 24-second Bryant tributes; Toronto wins
SAN ANTONIO - The Toronto Raptors and the San Antonio Spurs collaborated on a touching tribute to Kobe Bryant at the beginning of their game Sunday, with each team dribbling out the 24-second shot clo...
Jan 26, 2020
Librarians honour books by Luiselli and Higginbotham
NEW YORK - Valeria Luiselli's novel "Lost Children Archive" and Adam Higginbotham's nonfiction "Midnight in Chornobyl" have been awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal, a $5,000 prize presented by the Amer...
Jan 26, 2020
The Latest: Lizzo, Billie Eilish each win early Grammys
LOS ANGELES - The Latest on the Grammy Awards, being presented Sunday at Los Angeles' Staples Center (all times local): 4 p.m. Lizzo and Billie Eilish have won their first career Grammys in what could...
Jan 26, 2020
Kobe Bryant, Lakers great and basketball icon, dies in crash
LOS ANGELES - Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, ...
Jan 26, 2020
Decision on top Canadian canoeist's doping case set to be revealed
MONTREAL - One of Canada's top 2020 Olympic medal contenders is expected to find out a decision on a doping case affecting her status for Tokyo on Monday. Canoeist Laurence Vincent Lapointe is slated ...
Jan 26, 2020
Kobe Bryant, daughter perish in copter crash, 3 others dead
CALABASAS, Calif. - NBA legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter and three others were killed in a helicopter crash in Southern California on Sunday, his sudden death at age 41 touching off an out...
Jan 26, 2020
Quebec Court of Appeal to hear Alexandre Bissonnette appeals on Monday
MONTREAL - Nearly three years after the massacre that claimed six lives at the Quebec City mosque, the length of the sentence imposed on the man convicted of the crimes will be debated in the pro...
Jan 26, 2020
Canadian women defeat Ireland in opening match at New Zealand Sevens
HAMILTON, New Zealand - Canada captain Ghislaine Landry booted her 300th career conversion in a 24-7 win over Ireland at the HSBC New Zealand Sevens on Friday. A late Phil Berna try then lifted the 12...
Jan 26, 2020