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NEW YORK - Stocks are opening broadly higher Monday as the weekend rollout of the first batches of COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by U.S. regulators helped brighten the outlook for fighting the pande...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog says a series of technological and administrative gaps caused a high-profile data breach at Desjardins - the largest in the Canadian financial services sector.In ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian authorities said Monday that a top terror suspect arrested last week was the architect of a series of deadly attacks and sectarian conflicts in the world's most populou...

LONDON - Justin Bieber has teamed up with a choir of London medical staff to record a special charity Christmas single. The choir, made up of nurses, doctors and other health care staff working in the...

UPDATEVernon council has endorsed the City of Vernon's finance committee recommendations on discretionary grant applications.There were 13 applications totalling $130,337 for available funds of $34,00...

The Leigh Centurions have been chosen to replace the Toronto Wolfpack in Super League.Leigh was the unanimous choice among the six teams applying from the second-tier Betfred Championship to take the ...

Pick your poison. Canada will face either New Zealand or England in group play if it secures one of the two direct qualifying spots from the Americas for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. At Monday'...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - South Korea was opening dozens of free COVID-19 testing sites in the greater Seoul area, as the country registered additional 718 new cases Monday amid a surge in infection...

KOIDU, Sierra Leone - The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader. "I'm going...

ATLANTA - What could be the main event in Georgia's twin U.S. Senate runoffs - early in-person voting - begins Monday. More than half of the record 5 million votes in the Nov. 3 general election were ...