Category Archives: Canadian Press

BERLIN - Germany is looking to sell a secondhand surveillance drone that has cost the country more than 700 million euros ($823 million) to Canada - without many core components it needs to fly. A def...

NEW YORK - Weight Watchers is trimming its name to just two letters: WW. The company says it is renaming itself to focus more on overall wellness and not just dieting. Its app, for example, will offer...

HALIFAX - A young woman has testified at the sexual assault trial of a British sailor that she found the complainant red in the face with no clothes on in a bed in the barracks of a Halifax-area milit...

MINNEAPOLIS - Actor James Woods has been locked out of his Twitter account over a tweet he sent out months ago that was found to be in violation of Twitter’s rules. The tweet was posted July 20 ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - At the end of the 1991 movie “Thelma & Louise,” the two leading ladies - fugitives cornered by authorities in the Grand Canyon - decide against surrendering and inst...

KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan pop star and opposition figure Bobi Wine said on Monday he is concerned about his safety four days after returning from the United States, where he sought medical care for in...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $24 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for ...

BERLIN - Birds are a well-known hazard for airport operators, but Vienna airport officials have had to deal with different winged intruders: a swarm of bats. Airport spokesman Peter Kleemann told the ...

COPENHAGEN - The man at the centre of a sex abuse and financial crimes scandal that is tarnishing the academy awarding the Nobel Literature Prize was remanded in custody Monday, pending the verdict in...

BRUSSELS - The European Union said Monday it has decided to take Poland to the bloc’s top court over the overhaul of the country’s judicial system and also ask the European Court of Justic...