US & Canada
NFL, ex-players agree to $765M settlement in concussions suit
The U.S. National Football League has agreed to a $765 million settlement with thousands of former players who sued the league for ...U.S. economy grew faster than initially estimated in Q2
The US economy grew much faster than originally estimated in the second quarter, the Commerce Department reported Thursday, boosting the case for ...US court martial sentences Fort Hood shooter to death
A US military jury has sentenced former army psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan to death by lethal injection for killing 13 people in ...Measles-like virus linked to dolphin deaths along US east coast
A virus that is similar to measles in humans is suspected of killing hundreds of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins since July, US officials ...Joe Biden: No doubt Assad regime used chemical weapons in Syria
US Vice President Joe Biden said there is no doubt that Syria\'s government was responsible for a recent chemical attack in Damascus, ...Stocks slide, oil up as Syria tensions escalate
Fears of an escalating conflict in Syria rippled across financial markets on Tuesday, sinking stocks, lifting gold and pushing the price of ...UN says it will contact Washington over NSA spying report
The United Nations said on Monday it plans to contact the United States over a report that the U.S. National Security Agency ...Yosemite wildfires threaten California towns
A massive wildfire in the western U.S. state of California is raging out of control and threatening one of the country\'s best ...German report says US spied on UN
The German magazine Der Spiegel says the U.S. National Security Agency secretly monitored the U.N.\'s internal video conferencing system by decrypting it ...FARC killed 13 Colombian soldiers
Thirteen soldiers were ambushed and killed by the FARC on Saturday in the oil-producing province of Arauca, the army said.




