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LONDON - Official figures show that the British economy shrank by a quarterly rate of 0.2% in the second quarter of the year. The decline reported Friday by the Office for National Statistics was unex...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, August 7 --- RCMP FIND ITEMS LINKED TO MURDER SUSPECTS RCMP in Manitoba have found several items linked to two suspects wanted for killings in Br...

Four stories in the news for Friday, August 9 --- COMMUNITY SEARCHES FOR ANSWERS AFTER MANHUNT ENDS The residents of Gillam, Manitoba are grappling with questions about how a massive manhunt...

KABUL - A Taliban car bomb aimed at Afghan security forces ripped through a busy Kabul neighbourhood on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 145 - most of them women, children and other civilians...

LOS ANGELES - Casting director David Rubin has been elected the new president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization that bestows the Oscars. He is the first casting dire...

BEIJING - China said Wednesday that it was banning Chinese movies and actors from participating in Taiwan's Golden Horse Awards, one of the Asian film industry's most prestigious honours, as Beijing r...

LIMA, Peru - Sage Watson won gold in the women's 400-metre hurdles Thursday as Canada continued to pile up track and field hardware at the 2019 Pan American Games. Watson, from Medicine Hat, Alta., ra...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Advantage Lethbridge.Riley Jepson collected two hits and a run, and the Bulls edged the Medicine Hat Mavericks 3-2 at Spitz Stadium on Thursday night to take a 1-0 series lead in thei...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - It was a single for almost anyone else. It was a double for Kevin Kiermaier, whose speed in the bottom of 10th inning produced the run to cap Tampa Bay's big comeback. Kiermaier...

TORONTO - Gio Urshela hit a pair of home runs as the New York Yankees extended their winning streak to a season-high nine games as they defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 12-6 on Thursday. Mike Tauchman a...