Thousands of people take to the streets of Athens as Greek unions launch a two-day general strike against planned austerity measures.
After two days focused on economic deals, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday that his Chinese hosts should expect Canada to continue to advocate for human rights as well.
A Canadian man is dead after what police are calling a "bizarre ordeal" at a Deerfield Beach, Fla., campground that involved a seven-hour standoff and also claimed the life of the shooter and a nine-year-old boy.
Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin said two executives have hastily left the company amid reports of turmoil over the firm's involvement with Cyndy Vanier, a hired consultant now facing serious charges in Mexico.
To discuss a Greek default openly and rationally would be to make a bad situation worse. But is it really better to keep the charade going? Don Pittis asks.
A senior Russian diplomat signalled Friday that Moscow will again use its veto power at the United Nations to block any resolution aimed at ousting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power.
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year award Friday for an image of a veiled woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a demonstration in Yemen.
The U.S. trade balance widened in December, as a strengthening American recovery outpaced global growth.
Attorneys accusing Greg Mortenson of defrauding readers in Three Cups of Tea say his case is no different from that of James Frey, who admitted he lied in his memoir A Million Little Pieces.
One of the three Canadians picked up by a giant container ship at sea overnight after a storm damaged their Hawaii-bound sailboat is calling their dramatic rescue a "gauntlet of happiness."
NASA has released a video of time-lapse photography from space showing the northern lights clearly visible over Canada.
The federal government's approval of a Glacier Discovery Walk in Jasper National Park has raised concerns about the impact increased tourism will have on the park's prized Athabasca Glacier. We take a look at some other sites around the world that are under threat from a combination of development, tourism and climate change.
Canada is pulling out of a NATO project 20 years in the making that will use unmanned aerial vehicles to collect surveillance.
A clemency hearing has been set for two days in early May for the only Canadian on death row in the United States: Ronald Smith, originally from Red Deer, Alta.
The U.S. inspector general has cleared TransCanada of undue influence in a State Department review of the Keystone XL pipeline, but faults the department for the way it handled some aspects of the review.
