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MADRID - International viewership for Spanish soccer games increased by nearly 50% after they returned from the break caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the league said Thursday. Figures for the firs...

PARIS - As Usain Bolt set the world ablaze, making athletics the hottest ticket at the Olympic Games, the sport was also being eaten from within. That grim picture has emerged from a corruption trial ...

OTTAWA - The Supreme of Court of Canada has sided with a man who was convicted of failing to comply with police checks while out on bail. In its unanimous ruling today, the high court ordered a new tr...

OTTAWA - A realigning of standards on who can compete in Paralympic wheelchair basketball has forced Canadian veteran David Eng off the national team. Canada's flagbearer at the 2016 Summer Paralympic...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says in a new report that this year's federal deficit could hit $256 billion due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The result, posted in a report ...

NEW YORK - A picture book edition of Ibram X. Kendi's "Antiracist Baby," one of the country's top-selling books since the death last month of George Floyd, is coming out July 14. "Antiracist Baby" wen...

NEW YORK - Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died Wednesday, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times. She was 92. Smi...

CALGARY - Get Smart and Stevie Knicks are lounging in the penthouse pasture. Blackstone After Party is having sex. Rodeo announcers constantly refer to bucking stock as athletes and poi...

LONDON - Dame Vera Lynn, the endearingly popular "Forces' Sweetheart" who serenaded British troops abroad during World War II, has died at 103. During the war and long after, Lynn got crowds singing, ...

VANCOUVER - Childhood asthma rates have fallen because fewer unnecessary antibiotics are being prescribed to babies within the first year of life, a study by British Columbia researcher...