A New Brunswick man was sentenced to three years in prison at the Saint John provincial court on Monday after pleading guilty to the aggravated assault of his girlfriend’s young child in December. Carson Bennett, 20, was accused of assaulting the child in five separate incidents, including suffocating the child to the point of unconsciousness before performing CPR to resuscitate her, […]

A man from Saskatchewan has been arrested for an armed robbery at a Flin Flon business, according to police. Flin Flon RCMP said a masked man entered a Main Street business Thursday night carrying a handgun. He fled the scene with cash and two cases of beer. RCMP picked up Donald Colomb, 34, of Creighton, Sask., on Friday. Colomb has been […]

Realism off the scale: Korean artist spends up to 10 months painting photo-like images of fish and reptiles that can cost £34,000 to buy Hy Young-Sung Kim, 45, from Seoul in South Korea, first took up art in 1993  Paintings can cost 10 months to complete and costs up to £34,000 to buy Hy said: ‘I shock the people with my […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House sought to make the case on Monday that President Donald Trump had not changed his position on withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria, a day after his national security adviser outlined conditions for a withdrawal that could take months. Trump’s abrupt announcement last month that he was bringing home the roughly 2,000 troops in Syria, […]

A Thompson woman who went missing Jan. 3 was found dead outside a home Sunday. Thompson RCMP said they were called to a home at about 5:50 p.m. Sunday. There, they found the woman, 29, dead on the ground. Officers identified her as a woman who went missing on Thursday. RCMP said they haven’t been able to determine if her […]

Louise Sillitoe, 19, claims she was forced to sleep in her living room on Christmas Day because the bedrooms in her "hell hole" home are covered in mould. The mum-of-one now fears the damp could kill 16-month-old Alexis-Leigh Owers after it left their mattresses green, Hull Daily Mail reports. Louise moved into the 70-year-old flat in April and says the mould […]

WASHINGTON — It was the perfect Philip Greene anecdote, equal parts military and mixology. “John Philip Sousa was the director of the Marine Band,” Mr. Greene began, nursing a rye manhattan in a far corner of the Round Robin Bar, a historic lounge just a stone’s throw from the White House. “His successor was a fellow named Fanciulli. Fanciulli was […]

WASHINGTON (AFP) – World Bank President Jim Yong Kim announced Monday (Jan 7) he would step down next month, more than three years before his current term was due to expire. The decision ends Kim’s six-year tenure and may give US President Donald decisive influence over the future leadership of the global development lender.  “It has been a great honour […]

AMMAN (Reuters) – Islamic State said one of its suicide bombers killed several people when he blew himself up on Monday in a public building in the Syrian city of Raqqa, which is under the control of a U.S. backed, Kurdish-led militia. The ultra hardline jihadist group claimed responsibility for the reported attack in a statement issued by the affiliated […]

Police are seeking the public’s assistance in locating 24-year-old Wendy Palmer who was reported missing from the Barrie area on Sunday. According to Barrie police, Palmer was last seen leaving her home late Sunday night. Officers have described Palmer as a woman, approximately five feet seven inches tall, with a heavy build and short, black hair. She was seen wearing […]