US & Canada
Canada, USA reach semi-finals at worlds
Canada swept aside Belarus 9-0 as Dallas forward Tyler Seguin helped himself to a hat-trick in the ice hockey world championship quarter-finals ...Ukraine appoints US senator McCain presidential aide
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has appointed John McCain, a hawkish US senator who has pressed Washington to send lethal weapons to war-torn ...Iranian ships fire warning shots at Singapore-flagged vessel in Gulf
Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces fired warning shots at a Singapore-flagged commercial ship in the Gulf on Thursday, before vessels from the United ...Barack Obama meets two Saudi princes after King sent regrets
President Barack Obama on Wednesday went out of his way to praise two of Saudi Arabia\'s top leaders before meeting privately with ...Nepali troops search for U.S. Marines chopper in rivers
The Nepali army has been told a missing U.S. Marines helicopter with eight on board may have come down in a river ...Saudi King Salman skips Obama summit amid angst over US-Iran nuclear negotiations
Newly crowned Saudi King Salman has refused an invitation to attend a landmark summit hosted by President Barack Obama, amid angst over ...US court rules NSA bulk phone metadata collection illegal
A US appeals court ruled Thursday that the National Security Agency\'s massive collection of phone records of Americans is illegal because it ...British woman begins last leg of world horse ride
A British woman passed through Ottawa Thursday on the last leg of her around-the-world horse ride, a six-year journey that has already ...New British princess named as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana
Britain\'s new princess has been named as Charlotte Elizabeth Diana, Kensington Palace said on its Twitter account on Monday, a choice of ...Police kill two gunmen at US Mohammed cartoon event
The group behind the Prophet Mohammed cartoon event in Texas where police killed two gunmen Sunday has a history of making provocative ...