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PARIS - This is why Stan Wawrinka went through two operations on his left knee in the span of a month. Why he dealt with the rigours of rehabilitating that joint. Why he did all the work, on and off t...

The newly released Netflix movie "Always Be My Maybe," is an Asian American rom-com with a twist: Ethnicity isn't central to the plot. It's just stand-up comedian and actress Ali Wong and "Fresh Off t...

PARIS - No more Nutella?! French workers are threatening as much, bringing the world's biggest Nutella factory to a near-standstill in a showdown over salary negotiations. Tensions have been mounting ...

BERLIN - Conductor Daniel Barenboim is getting a five-year contract extension as general music director of Berlin's Staatsoper, which would keep him at the opera house until 2027. Klaus Lederer, Berli...

WASHINGTON - Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday that the Federal Reserve is prepared to respond to the Trump administration's trade conflicts to protect the U.S. economic expansion if it decides that...

NEW YORK - "When I am laid in earth," the heroine sings just before she dies at the end of Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas." Rarely will the aria be heard in a more fittingly sepulchral setting than ...

ROME - Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini is warning that a government crisis will be unavoidable if his League party cannot start working constructively with the 5-Star Movement, its coalit...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A St. Louis judge on Tuesday is set to weigh whether physicians from the state's only abortion clinic can be forced to testify amid a legal fight over the facility's license. The...

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed major new travel restrictions on visits to Cuba by U.S. citizens, including a ban on many forms of educational and recreational travel. The Tre...

MONCTON, N.B. - The commanding officer of the RCMP in New Brunswick is calling on the public to continue to honour the legacy of three Mounties killed by a gunman in Moncton five years ago today. Cons...