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BAGHDAD - Former communications minister Mohammed Allawi was named prime minister-designate by rival Iraqi factions Saturday after weeks of political deadlock. The choice comes as the country weathers...

VANCOUVER - Leaders of a First Nation in northern British Columbia who say they'll never consent to a natural gas pipeline through their traditional territory have agreed to seven days of me...

Medicine Hat, AB - A wind warning has been issued by Environment Canada for Medicine Hat, Cypress County and parts of the counties of Newell and 40-mile as well as Special Areas 2.Winds of 70 kph gust...

OTTAWA - A massive spike in incomplete applications for the federal government's signature summer-jobs program last year has officials revising the forms and guides that explain how to get the money. ...

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - An Afghanistan war veteran shot his wife, daughter and mother from about one metre away before firing a bullet into his own forehead, a pathologist testifi...

POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa - Harmjeet Singh Bedi and Udaybir Walia put on an 86-run seventh-wicket partnership Saturday as Canada finished the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup on a high note, defeating...

EDINBURG, Texas - The whirlwind continued for Christine Sinclair a day after becoming the world's all-time leading goal-scorer. In the wake of notching goals No. 184 and 185 in an 11-0 romp over St. K...

Liverpool's commanding lead in the English Premier League grew to a scarcely believable 22 points with a 4-0 win over Southampton on Saturday. It's surely a matter of when, not if, Liverpool collects ...

BOSTON - The Boston Symphony Orchestra has cancelled its coming tour of Asia amid concerns about the deadly virus in China. Andris Nelsons, the orchestra's music director, said Thursday that the decis...

NEW YORK - Lawyers for a woman who accuses President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she w...