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LONDON - A barber in Beijing is supporting his wife and child by charging food and other expenses to a credit card while he waits for his employer's shop to reopen. A waiter at a barbecue restaurant i...

LOS ANGELES - "Jeopardy!" and "Wheel of Fortune" will tape without studio audiences in response to the ongoing virus outbreak. A person close to the shows tells The Associated Press Monday that the mo...

NEW YORK - U.S. stocks, oil and other financial markets around the world clawed back some of their historic plunge from a day before on hopes that the U.S. and other governments around the world will ...

NANAIMO - An eyesore in a beautiful Nanaimo neighbourhood is no more. Crews spent the weekend demolishing the old Amrikko's by the Sea building on Wingrove St. at Departure Bay Rd. The building sat va...

Michele Audette feels disappointed when she looks online and sees a barrage of violent threats towards Indigenous women. "It made me so mad that we tolerate this. There's no real ... reprimand," ...

OTTAWA - Former Liberal leader Bob Rae is being named Canada's special envoy for humanitarian and refugee issues. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is appointing Rae to the new role to continue th...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia's King Salman was shown in state media Sunday in apparent good health and working, just days after the arrest of two senior princes triggered speculation abo...

TORONTO - Canadian Quinn Ngawati is back with the Toronto Wolfpack. The Wolfpack said the 20-year-old from Victoria, who left the team in October 2018, will begin playing for League 1 s...

JERUSALEM - A Jerusalem district court on Tuesday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request to delay the start of his corruption trial, ruling it would begin as planned next week. Netanyahu...

OTTAWA - A plane carrying Canadians who were on a cruise ship with a cluster of novel coronavirus cases arrived back in Canada this morning. The government-chartered aircraft landed at Canadian F...