Half of Canada’s aboriginal children are living in poverty, triple the national average, according to a new analysis of census statistics. Updated: Jun 19, 01:35 PM
For the second time in less than a year, a Montreal mayor has stepped down amid corruption scandals ripping through Canada’s second-largest city. Updated: Jun 19, 01:35 PM
Outgoing U.S. ambassador to Canada David Jacobson said Monday he is leaving the relationship between Canada and the United States in a very good state, but acknowledged a "very important decision" on the contentious Keystone XL pipeline looms. Updated: Jun 17, 05:35 PM
Police conducted a series of early morning raids Thursday targeting an apartment complex linked to a video purportedly showing the mayor of Toronto smoking crack cocaine. Updated: Jun 17, 08:05 AM
A group of masked assailants has attacked a leading university in the Venezuelan capital, torching two buses and seriously damaging its rectory building. Updated: Jun 19, 07:35 PM
Venezuelan authorities say the undersea wreckage of a small plane that disappeared five years ago with 14 people aboard has been found. Updated: Jun 19, 07:35 PM
With massive protests by middle-class Brazilians demanding wholesale government reforms, people all over this continent-sized country have reached a verdict on the streets and online: "The giant has awakened." Updated: Jun 19, 07:05 PM
Leaders in Brazil’s two biggest cities said Wednesday that they reversed an increase in bus and subway fares that ignited anti-government protests that have spread across the nation in the past week. Updated: Jun 19, 06:35 PM
Britain’s Supreme Court quashed sanctions against an Iranian bank penalized over its alleged links to Iran’s nuclear weapons program, saying Wednesday that Bank Mellat had been arbitrarily singled out. Updated: Jun 19, 06:05 PM
President Barack Obama invoked President John F. Kennedy’s famous Cold War speech in Berlin 50 years ago in his Brandenburg Gate speech Wednesday. But he was not trying to best him. Not when his crowd of 4,500 was one one-hundredth the size of Kennedy’s. Updated: Jun 19, 04:35 PM
The zoo in Novosibirsk, Russia’s third-largest city, is home to a unique animal _ the liliger. That’s a big cat breed where the father is a lion and the mother is a lion-tiger hybrid, called a liger. Updated: Jun 19, 04:35 PM
Summoning the harsh history of this once-divided city, President Barack Obama on Wednesday cautioned the U.S. and Europe against "complacency" brought on by peace, pledging to cut America’s deployed nuclear weapons by one-third if Cold War foe Russia does the same. Updated: Jun 19, 03:35 PM
China’s new leader Xi Jinping is commanding wayward Communist Party cadres to purify themselves of corruption, and he’s summed it up in a pithy slogan as Mao Zedong might have done: Look in the mirror, take a bath. Updated: Jun 19, 08:35 PM
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday suspended security negotiations with the U.S. and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban, sending American officials scrambling to preserve the possibility of dialogue with the militants. Updated: Jun 19, 07:35 PM
A senior police official says militants attacked a military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades and other heavy weapons in northwest Pakistan, killing six soldiers. Updated: Jun 19, 03:35 PM
Negotiators from North Korea and China held strategic talks in Beijing on Wednesday as they work to repair strained relations, but offered little indication they will lead to a resumption of nuclear disarmament talks any time soon. Updated: Jun 19, 03:05 PM
Seven al-Qaida-linked militants on a suicide mission attacked the U.N. compound Wednesday with a truck bomb and then poured inside, killing at least 13 people before dying in the assault. Updated: Jun 19, 04:35 PM
A notorious arms supplier and top associate of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has been living freely in Sierra Leone’s capital city, according to United Nations experts. Updated: Jun 19, 03:05 PM
Soldiers fighting to halt an insurgency by Islamic militants are banning the use of Thuraya satellite telephones by civilians in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state, throttling communications already made difficult by cut cell phone service. Updated: Jun 19, 01:05 PM
Zimbabwe’s highest court said Wednesday it has received an application from longtime President Robert Mugabe’s party to delay crucial elections by at least two weeks following pressure from regional leaders. Updated: Jun 19, 09:05 AM
Police say armed robbers have shot and killed 48 people in a revenge attack on villagers in northwest Nigeria who have formed vigilante groups to try to end a spree of violent thefts. Updated: Jun 19, 07:35 AM
For Syrians, no visit to Damascus’ Old City is complete without a stop at a more than century-old ice cream parlor in its main souq where you can watch them make their distinctive desert by pounding it into shape with giant wooden mallets, then enjoy a bowl of it sprinkled with pistachios. Updated: Jun 19, 04:05 PM
Jordan’s military says infiltrators from Syria have clashed with Jordanian soldiers near the border. One infiltrator was killed and two wounded. Updated: Jun 19, 03:35 PM
Egypt’s top Muslim cleric declared Wednesday that peaceful protests against the president are permitted, in a snub to hard-line Islamist backers of Mohammed Morsi who declared that those behind opposition protests planned for June 30 are heretics. Updated: Jun 19, 03:35 PM
Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian forces in battling rebels in a Damascus suburb that is home to a revered Shiite Muslim shrine, in a push to secure the area around the ornate, golden domed mosque. Updated: Jun 19, 02:35 PM
Bomb attacks in Iraq have killed seven people, including a local political leader and four of his relatives, authorities said Wednesday. Updated: Jun 19, 02:35 PM
