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LIMA, Peru - The Canadian men's field hockey team will have to take the longer road to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Canada missed out on its first chance to qualify, falling 5-2 to reigning Olympic c...

OTTAWA - The federal government is overhauling the way it regulates the cost of patented medicines, including ending comparisons to the United States - changes that Canada's health minister ...

BEIRUT - A British Columbia man detained in Syria since late last year became emotional Friday as he expressed his fears that he would never see freedom again. "I thought...

JERSEY CITY, N.J. - Masters champion Tiger Woods withdrew Friday from the opening FedEx Cup playoffs event with what he described as a mild oblique strain. It was the first time Woods has pulled out i...

OTTAWA - Wage growth accelerated last month to its fastest clip in more than decade, according to numbers released Friday from Statistics Canada. The 4.5 per cent burst c...

When three Pennsylvania Superior Court judges gather Monday to hear Bill Cosby's appeal of his sexual assault conviction, more than the aging comedian's freedom may be at stake. As the first celebrity...

BETHEL, N.Y. - Woodstock will be celebrated on its 50th anniversary, but it won't be your hippie uncle's trample-the-fences concert. While plans for a big Woodstock 50 festival collapsed after a run o...

Carrying boxes of fruit, Richard Gere visited rescued migrants Friday on a humanitarian ship that has been struck in the Mediterranean Sea for over a week, landing smack in the middle of a debate over...

HONG KONG - Police fired tear gas late Sunday afternoon to try to disperse a demonstration in Hong Kong as protesters took over streets in two parts of the Asian financial capital, blocking traffic an...

LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is promising more prisons and stronger police powers in an effort to fight violent crime. The government announced plans Sunday to create 10,000 more pris...