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Super Bowl ad winners: Bud Light, Amazon
NEW YORK - This year some of the Super Bowl ads that grabbed the greatest buzz were surprises, like Bud Light's "Game of Thrones" teaser. Other crowd-pleasers focused on humour, like Amazon's take on ...
Feb 04, 2019
Wiarton Willie predicts early spring; Shubenacadie Sam says there's more winter to come
There are conflicting predictions from Canada's two most famous forecasting groundhogs, with Wiarton Willie heralding an early spring while Shubenacadie Sam claims there will be six more weeks of...
Feb 04, 2019
Body visible in wreckage of plane carrying soccer player
LONDON - One body is visible in the seabed wreckage of a plane that went missing carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot two weeks ago, air accident investigators said Monday. Sal...
Feb 04, 2019
Iran's revolutionaries have mixed feelings, 40 years later
TEHRAN, Iran - Forty years after he defected from the shah's Imperial Guard to join the Islamic Revolution, Mohammad Reza Tajik, like many Iranians from that time, looks back wistfully at the youthful...
Feb 04, 2019
Body visible in wreckage of plane carrying soccer player
LONDON - One body is visible in the seabed wreckage of a plane that went missing carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala and his pilot two weeks ago, air accident investigators said Monday. Sal...
Feb 04, 2019
Some lofty goals from 2018 State of Union speech still unmet
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump whiffed on some lofty goals that he laid out in last year's State of the Union address, most notably his call for an overhaul of immigration laws and a "great wall ...
Feb 04, 2019
Feuding UK politicians seek elusive unity as Brexit looms
LONDON - With Brexit just seven weeks away, Britain's ruling Conservative Party was locked in tense negotiations with itself Monday to rework the U.K.'s divorce deal with the European Union - as the E...
Feb 04, 2019
Deadly car bomb blast in Somalia's capital, say police
NAIROBI, Kenya - At least seven people died in a powerful car bomb explosion in Somalia's capital Monday, said a senior police officer. At least nine people were also injured in the blast by an explos...
Feb 04, 2019
Canada and Lima Group allies meet in Ottawa to discuss crisis in Venezuela
OTTAWA - Canada and its Lima Group allies are meeting in Ottawa today to talk about the political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will host t...
Feb 04, 2019
Sentencing hearing to begin for serial killer Bruce McArthur
TORONTO - A sentencing hearing for a serial killer who preyed on men in Toronto's gay village is expected to get underway today. Bruce McArthur, who pleaded guilty last week to eight counts ...
Feb 04, 2019