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OTTAWA-Canada’s economy shrank for a fifth straight month in May, weighed down by weak output in manufacturing, oil and gas extraction and wholesale trade.

A mosquito-borne disease advisory was issued Tuesday for Hillsborough County due to an increase in West Nile virus detected in sentinel chicken flocks, according to the Florida Department of Health. The researchers found hundreds of dead birds from 33 counties in California to be...

Both leaders posed for photo shoots before moving to the third floor office of the President of the Republic of Cameroon for discussions that lasted one hour, forty minutes.

The federal government has begun mailing its new monthly Universal Child Care Benefit cheques to parents, but some experts say the benefit isn’t worth as much as advertised.

Joe Root with 63 top-scored for England who were boosted by an entertaining eighth-wicket stand of 87 between Moeen Ali (59) and Broad (31). “I used to put myself under a huge amount of pressure when I went out there and played”, Finn said.

Allegations made in an anonymous phone call to the Director of Public Prosecutions led to a last-minute application to have the jury discharged in the trial of three former Anglo Irish Bank officials yesterday.

As for the July 26 incident involving a KAMAZ truck with weapons which was allegedly detained by Ukrainian border guards the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) called it as being “staged by the Ukrainian security services”.

Reverend Hyeon Soo Lim, a Korean Canadian pastor who has been detained in North Korea after his last visit to Pyongyang on January 31, was reported to have admitted to allegations of attempts to overthrow the North Korean government at a press conference held in Pyongyang,...

Gamboru market is the second-largest in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state and birthplace of Boko Haram.

Unidentified gunmen opened fire at campaign workers in Sri Lanka’s capital on Friday, killing one and wounding 13, police and hospital officials said, in the first major political violence before the parliamentary election.

Given that serious negotiations with Iran date back to 2009, Tomlinson is in effect saying that Benjamin Netanyahu has “bitterly opposed negotiations with Iran from the outset”. Since then, he explained, as the details began to emerge and the “holes” in...

It seems the main opposition Congress is divided over the death sentence to the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon.

NDTV reported that two of the kidnapped Indians were from Hyderabad, one from Raichur and one from Bengaluru.

The embassy, led by Ambassador Robert Beecroft, said in a statement on Wednesday that the F-16s will be flown directly to Egypt from the US, and will be integrated immediately into the Egyptian air force. Gen. Charles Hooper, the U.S. Embassy’s senior defense official in Cairo.

The bank also said that an unexpectedly severe contraction in domestic demand in the first half of 2015 meant that it may revise down its output forecast.