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Montreal's Mount Royal looms both literally and figuratively above its namesake city, with the illuminated cross on its summit visible across much of the island and beyond. That visibility is by desig...

KYIV, Ukraine - The vast and empty Chornobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor expl...

BEIJING - China will launch its next robot lunar lander in 2024, and it will carry equipment from France, Sweden, Russia and Italy, the official news agency reported. Plans call for Chang'e 6 to land ...

BAGHDAD - Iraq's Independent High Commission for Human Rights reported Sunday that 58 people died in a catastrophic fire that broke out in a Baghdad hospital. Among the dead were 28 patients on ventil...

TIRANA, Albania - Albanians are voting in parliamentary elections on Sunday amid the virus pandemic and a bitter rivalry between the two largest political parties. Some 3.6 million eligible voters, in...

NEW DELHI - India's crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of...

SUWANEE, Ga. - At least six people died and several others were hurt in an interstate crash in Georgia that left a passenger van engulfed in flames and rolled on its side, police said. Passersby stopp...

VANCOUVER - Tanner Pearson scored the game winner Saturday as the Vancouver Canucks edged the Ottawa Senators 4-2. Nate Schmidt, Brock Boeser and J.T. Miller also scored for the Canucks (19-19-3), and...

CALGARY - Canada's Rachel Homan is one win away from sweeping the condensed Grand Slam of Curling schedule this year. The Ottawa skip advanced to the final of the Princess Auto Players' Championship w...

CALGARY - Johnny Gaudreau scored twice for the Calgary Flames in a 5-2 win Saturday over the visiting Montreal Canadiens. Milan Lucic, Brett Ritchie and Rasmus Andersson, with an empty-net goal, also ...