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TORONTO - IndyCar rookie Santino Ferrucci will be looking to repeat the success he found eight years ago when he raced on the Honda Indy Toronto track for the first time. He'll have to follow the rule...

JOENSUU, Finland - Armed with needles and a yarn of wool, a dozen knitting aficionados have danced to deafening heavy metal music while knitting during an unusual competition in Finland. The goal of t...

CHAMPAGNEY, France - Two Tour de France rookies stole the show on the first mountain stage, with Dylan Teuns of Belgium winning Stage 6 and Giulio Ciccone of Italy taking the overall race lead on Thur...

VICTORIA - Researchers collected DNA from the tops of some of Canada's tallest trees to search for mutations that could provide evidence of how the ancient forest giants evolve to survi...

NEW YORK - Amazon, needing a more tech-savvy workforce, is offering to pay to retrain its employees and help them switch to more technical jobs at Amazon or elsewhere. The online shopping giant said T...

WIMBLEDON, England - Slowed by a balky ankle, trailing by a service break in the third set of her Wimbledon quarterfinal, Serena Williams appeared to be in trouble Tuesday against an opponent playing ...

MONTREAL - Nearly three dozen passengers sustained minor injuries Thursday when an Air Canada flight travelling from Toronto to Sydney, Australia, ran into severe turbulence, prompting an em...

BILOXI, Miss. - A security guard who used pepper spray on a crowd including rapper Boosie Badazz says he did so because a man was trying to start a fight with him as he tried to get the group to leave...

MONTREAL - They arrived a few years ago - three-foot tall, bare-headed visitors that would occasionally stare intently at residents from their balconies and yards.  The wild turkeys fra...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is distancing the Trudeau government from its former ambassador to China, a day after he said he has warned Chinese officials that further punishmen...