One of the people accused in an alleged plot to smuggle members of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s family to Mexico was with an SNC-Lavalin executive when police took her into custody, CBC News has learned. According to a spokeswoman for the Canadian engineering firm, Stephane Roy — who oversaw billions of dollars worth of projects [...]

Police in Cairo fired salvos of tear gas and birdshot Friday at rock-throwing protesters as popular anger over a deadly soccer riot spilled over into a second day of street violence that left at least three people dead and more than 1,500 injured, doctors and health officials said. One man died just feet away from [...]

Russia and Ukraine both took precautions on Friday to protect homeless people, scores of whom have frozen to death on the streets of Europe during its brutal cold snap. As the death toll from the weeklong tragedy rose to at least 169 on Friday, Russian Emergencies Minister Sergei Shoigu ordered the creation of feeding and [...]

Think all Super Bowl commercials are linked to the game of football? Think again. Budweiser Canada is making a hockey commercial for Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. The premise: Two teams from Port Credit – a town in Mississauga, Ont. – are told that a documentary is being filmed during their game. Instead, they’re [...]

Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton, a recovering drug addict, scheduled a news conference for Friday amid reports he had a relapse this week when he drank alcohol at a Dallas-area bar. The team did not disclose the reason for the news conference, but it comes less than 12 hours after The Dallas Morning News reported [...]