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In Louisiana, it's a search for life and death
Louisiana continues to dig itself out from devastating floods, with search parties going door to door looking for survivors or bodies trapped by flooding so powerful in some cases it disturbed the...
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Horrors of war-ravaged Syria exposed, #DeBolt and true Olympic spirit on...
(Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) Brotherly love between Andre De Grasse and Usain Bolt. The 200-metre final at the 2016 Rio Olympics on Thursday went as scripted, with Usain Bolt capturing his...
View ArticleWedding party bombing in Turkey kills 22, injures 94
Twenty-two people were killed and 94 wounded when a suspected suicide bomber targeted a wedding celebration in the Turkish city of Gaziantep on Saturday, adding to a surge in violence this week in the...
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Turkey blames ISIS for wedding attack that killed 50
Turkey’s president on Sunday blamed the group Islamic State in Iraq and Syria for the bombing of an outdoor wedding party in the southeast that killed 50 people and wounded dozens of others. Officials...
View ArticleSyrian doctor confirms death of boy's brother pictured in Aleppo
A doctor who treated the older brother of the Syrian boy pictured in Aleppo after an airstrike struck his home, has given an interview in which he says the brother has died of his wounds. Ali...
View ArticleDon't lie to your lover about being single — at least not in Italy
Apparently in the country that produced the libertine legend Casanova, all is not fair in love and war after all. This month, a high court in Italy found a man criminally responsible last week for...
View ArticleRyan Lochte says 'immature behaviour' got him into a mess
American swimmer Ryan Lochte says he over-exaggerated what happened at a Rio de Janeiro gas station and acknowledges it was his “immature behaviour” that got him and three teammates into a mess that...
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Southern California wildfire evacuees allowed to return home
Five days after an explosive wildfire in Southern California drove thousands from their homes, authorities lifted all evacuation orders on Sunday to allow them to return. About 82,000 people were...
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PHOTOS | Top moments from the Rio Olympics
(Shaun Botterill/Getty) #DeBolt was the beginning of something special. A bromance was born the moment sprinters Andre De Grasse and Usain Bolt crossed the finish line in the 100-metre semi-final,...
View ArticleNearly half the victims of the Kurdish wedding suicide bombing were under 14,...
At least 22 of the victims in a suicide bomb attack on a wedding party in the southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep at the weekend were under the age of 14, a government official said on Monday. A...
View ArticleU.S., South Korea begin joint drills amid tension over North Korean...
The United States and South Korea kicked off annual military exercises on Monday, prompting warnings of retaliation from the North, as already-heightened tension on the peninsula has been inflamed by...
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Chaos could be the reward of victory over ISIS in Iraq: Brian Stewart
It’s one of the grimmest ironies of war in Iraq: the advance of ISIS two years ago terrified foreign governments, but the steady retreat of the same jihadist group now makes diplomats nervous about...
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Floods in India kill 40, force hundreds of thousands from their homes
Officials say at least 40 people have died and hundreds of thousands have been evacuated as floods hit vast swathes of central and eastern India. Disaster management officials said Monday that days of...
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Discovery of inked Egyptian priestess called 'scientific bomb'
Tattoos found all over the body of a woman who lived more than 3,300 years ago are being called “a scientific bomb” between the hands of the researchers who found her. Quebec’s Cédric Gobeil has been...
View ArticleWhere are the Ron 'Paulite' libertarians in 2016?
Lucian Perkins | The Washington Post | Getty Images Ron Paul supporters holler during the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida. Paul’s devotees — the so-named Paulites — are now...
View ArticleDrones caught delivering phones, drugs to U.K. prison
While Amazon and the British government are looking into how to use drones to deliver parcels to customers, criminals are already exploiting the technology to send drugs to accomplices in prison....
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Iraqi police disarm 11-year-old would-be suicide bomber in Kirkuk
Police apprehended an 11-year-old boy wearing a belt of explosives that was cut off by two officers in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk before it could be detonated, police said Monday. Local...
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Rio Olympics leave mixed legacy of disappointment and inspiration
Only days after criminals in the favela of Maré ambushed a wayward Brazilian state police car, killing two officers, a boxing club in the same favela carried on with kids’ training. The boxing club,...
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Hillary Clinton's edge over Donald Trump gets less comfortable
While Hillary Clinton remains the heavy favourite in the U.S. presidential election, recent polls suggest her victory isn’t looking as assured as it once did. Recently, the CBC’s Presidential Poll...
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Here's how two beaten-down stocks could be big buys
Even LeBron James would be impressed with this comeback story: The two best-performing stocks in the Dow this year — Caterpillar and Wal-Mart — held the title of the two worst-performing stocks in...
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