Alexis Tsipiros, new Greek PM, tamps down rhetoric on bailout

New Alexis Tsipras vows to pay off debts, expresses certainty a deal with creditors will be reached The Associated Press Posted: Jan 31, 2...

John Baird calls U.S. detente with Cuba long overdue

New Foreign affairs minister says Canada strongly backs decision The Canadian Press Posted: Jan 31, 2015 5:12 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 31,...

ISIS purportedly beheads Japanese hostage in new video

Updated Video conforms to other beheading videos released by the extremists The Associated Press Posted: Jan 31, 2015 10:34 AM ET Last Up...

Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova to win Australian Open title

New The Associated Press Posted: Jan 31, 2015 5:41 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 31, 2015 5:41 AM ET Maria Sharapova beats Makarova to rea...

Doctor won't see you now: Few drop patients with anti-vaccine views in U.S.

With California gripped by a measles outbreak, Dr. Charles Goodman posted a clear notice in his waiting room and on Facebook: His practice w...

Just 4 credit card purchases can reveal who you are

Credit card data isn't quite as anonymous as promised, a new study says. Scientists showed they can identify you with more than 90 per ...

Eugene de Kock, South African apartheid assassin, to be paroled

New Authorities won't release specifics of his release from prison Thomson Reuters Posted: Jan 30, 2015 4:22 AM ET Last Updated: Jan ...

Tim Hortons says 350 laid off this week

New The Canadian Press Posted: Jan 29, 2015 4:29 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 29, 2015 4:49 PM ET Tim Hortons says about 350 employees lost ...

Keystone XL pipeline bill passes in U.S. Senate, faces Obama veto

Breaking Republican-led Senate passed bill that would approve TransCanada Corp's project Thomson Reuters Posted: Jan 29, 2015 1:18 PM ...

Florida treasure hunter: Where is millions in shipwrecked gold?

After years on the lam, a treasure hunter accused of cheating investors after recovering fortune in gold from a shipwreck was scheduled to a...

Gas truck explodes outside Mexico City maternity hospital, killing 2

Updated 'Very likely' that others could be trapped beneath the rubble, emergency official says Thomson Reuters Posted: Jan 29, 201...

New Ebola cases per week fall under 100, just, for 1st time since June

New World Health Organization believes this is "second phase" of fighting epidemic Thomson Reuters Posted: Jan 29, 2015 4:27 AM ...

AirAsia jet that crashed into sea was in sound condition, officials say

New First officer was flying plane when it crashed Thomson Reuters Posted: Jan 29, 2015 12:40 AM ET Last Updated: Jan 29, 2015 12:40 AM E...

How psychopathic criminals learn differently from punishment cues

Criminals such as Paul Bernardo who score highly on psychopathy checklists are known to be callous and derive pleasure from being manipulati...

Tim Hortons layoffs: Long-time employees escorted out the door

Dozens of corporate Tim Hortons workers, including pregnant women and staff who had been with the chain for 30 years, were summoned to meet ...

Milos Raonic loses quarter-final match at Australian Open

Milos Raonic lost to Novak Djokovic of Serbia during their quarterfinal match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Austr...

Japan, Jordan work desperately to free ISIS hostages

The mother of a Japanese hostage held by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) extremists appealed publicly to Japan's leader to save h...

U.S. loans Ukraine $2B, says more Russian sanctions could occur

New Dozens of towns have reportedly come under fire this week from pro-Russian rebels Thomson Reuters Posted: Jan 28, 2015 3:59 AM ET Las...

B.C. couple living 'nightmare' trying to bring surrogate-born twins home from Mexico

A B.C. couple who welcomed premature twin babies by surrogacy in Mexico earlier this month is now fighting to bring them home to Canada for ...

Gordie Howe shows improvement after stem cell treatment

Family took him to Mexico The Canadian Press Posted: Jan 27, 2015 5:17 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 27, 2015 5:22 PM ET Gordie Howe is doing s...

Does a family making $120K per year qualify as 'middle-class'? The feds think so

Canada's finance minister insists low- and middle-income families will see two-thirds of the benefits from the Harper government's c...

Can Ontario sidestep a public service work stoppage?

Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government and Ontario's 35,000-strong public service union returned to the bargaining table Tuesday mornin...

Gunmen take hostages at luxury hotel in Libya

Breaking 5 masked attackers, witness reports, in what appears a coordinated plan The Associated Press Posted: Jan 27, 2015 5:30 AM ET Las...

Facebook denies Lizard Squad had anything to do with widespread outage

Facebook, the world's largest social network, and its Instagram photo-sharing site, suffered temporary outages around the world for up t...

H7N9 bird flu confirmed in B.C. patient

A human case of H7N9 bird flu has been confirmed in B.C., federal health officials confirm. The patient had recently visited Asia and does n...

Man charged with animal cruelty after 16 starving horses found on property

A man from Armstrong, B.C., is now facing criminal charges of animal cruelty after B.C. SPCA officers raided his property in December to se...

Greek fighter jet crashes during NATO exercises in Spain, killing at least 10

New Another 13 people were injured in the incident at the Los Llanos base The Associated Press Posted: Jan 26, 2015 1:06 PM ET Last Updat...

Obama seeks to protect Alaska Arctic refuge from drilling

U.S. President Barack Obama will call on Congress to expand protection of Alaska's Arctic refuge where oil and gas drilling is prohibite...

Offensive Facebook comments keep federal political parties on guard

The recent terror attacks in Paris have unleashed a barrage of anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant comments on the Facebook pages of federal poli...

Canada talks free trade in Kyiv as fighting intensifies in eastern Ukraine

International Trade Minister Ed Fast arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for two days of meetings as fighting intensifies between Ukrainian forces and...

Japan efforts to free remaining ISIS hostage continue in Jordan

Japan's Deputy Foreign Minister Yasuhide Nakayama continued his mission in Jordan on Sunday in an attempt to save Kenji Goto, the second...