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OSTRAVA, Czech Republic - Alexis Lafreniere scored seven seconds after the United States tied the game late in the third period as Canada beat its North American rival 6-4 on Thursday in the...

Bianca Andreescu started the season as an up-and-coming teenager eager to make her mark on the WTA Tour. She finished the campaign as one of its top stars. A murderer's row of tennis talent - Ker...

With the end of 2019 drawning near, North Okanagan residents are reminded that there is still time to help local charities.The annual Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation Light a Bulb campaign will clos...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey's president said Thursday that the U.N.-supported government in Libya has asked Ankara to send troops to help authorities in Tripoli defend the city from an offensive by rival ...

KABUL - The Taliban released 27 peace activists Thursday, a day after they were abducted in an ambush on their convoy in western Afghanistan, a leader of the activist organization said. Phone lines we...

NEW YORK - A 14-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing a Barnard College freshman in a park near the school's New York City campus has been found following a two-week manhunt, police said Thursday...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Thousands of people knelt in prayer in Indonesia's Aceh province at ceremonies Thursday marking the 15th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami, one of modern history's worst ...

FRANKFURT - Opera singer and conductor Peter Schreier, who won fame at the Salzburg festival and Milan's La Scala, has died in Dresden, Germany. He was 84. The dpa news agency reported Thursday that h...

RIO RANCHO, N.M. - Police in New Mexico on Thursday were investigating the shooting of four people found dead on Christmas Day in a home in a suburb of Albuquerque. Police in the community of Rio Ranc...

WARRENTON, Ore. - A rare environmental success story is unfolding in waters off the U.S. West Coast. After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen - those who use nets to scoop up rock...