CTV News has learned that of the two Canadians killed in an attack on a hotel in the Afghan capital Friday, one was from Vancouver and the other from Calgary. Both were killed Friday evening at the Kabul Serena Hotel. Reports say four gunmen entered a ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Four military search planes were dispatched Thursday to determine whether two large objects bobbing in a remote part of the Indian Ocean are debris from the missing Malaysia Airlines flight. One of the objects spotted by ...

LONDON -- The Rolling Stones have cancelled the first date on their Australian tour after the death of fashion designer L'Wren Scott, Mick Jagger's girlfriend. The designer, whose company was heavily in debt, was found dead in her New York apartment ...

WASHINGTON -- Scientists have revived a moss plant that was frozen beneath the Antarctic ice and seemingly lifeless since the days of Attila the Hun. Dug up from Antarctica, the simple moss was about 1,600 years old, black and looked dead. But when it ...

LOS ANGELES -- A predawn earthquake rolled across the Los Angeles basin Monday, rattling nerves and shaking buildings along a 240-kilometre swath of Southern California but causing no major damage. The 4.4-magnitude quake was centred 3.2 ...

NEW YORK -- Emergency workers removing debris from the site of a deadly explosion at two New York City apartment buildings were expected to reach the basement levels Saturday, clearing the way for investigators to search for clues that might reveal what ...

With an estimated 2.2 million Canadians unaware that they are suffering from kidney damage, the Kidney Foundation of Canada is launching a free online tool that will help raise awareness about kidney disease. Click here for the online tool. The latest ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- The international search for the missing Malaysian jetliner expanded westward Friday toward the Indian Ocean amid signs the aircraft may have flown on for hours after its last contact with air-traffic control nearly a week ago.

INDIAN WELLS, Calif. -- Defending champions Rafael Nadal and Maria Sharapova were upset in the third round of the BNP Paribas Open on Monday. First, Sharapova went down to qualifier Camila Giorgi, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, giving the young Italian her first victory ...

Ukraine's fugitive president requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region "to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order," Russia's UN ambassador said Monday, while Ukraine's ambassador said 16,000 troops are now deployed there. The third ...

Ukraine's fugitive president requested Russian soldiers in the strategic Crimea region "to establish legitimacy, peace, law and order," Russia's UN ambassador said Monday, while Ukraine's ambassador said 16,000 troops are now deployed there. The third ...

Hudson awaits his new home in the Journey to Churchill exhibit, but you don't have to wait for a journey to Churchill, thanks to Google Street View. Frontiers North Adventures, the Winnipeg organization who hosted the Google maps team last fall, said people ...

Seth Rogen poked fun at his love of marijuana while testifying before a U.S. Senate subcommittee. The 31-year-old actor, who has frequently spoken of his fondness for the drug, visited Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, to voice his support for ...

ANKARA, Turkey -- A chief prosecutor's office on Tuesday initiated an investigation into audio recordings purportedly of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ordering his son to dispose of vast amounts of cash amid a graft probe, state-run media ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Parts of Oscar Pistorius' murder trial can be broadcast live by three remote-controlled cameras set up in court, a judge ruled Tuesday, but the testimony given by the double-amputee Olympian himself can't be shown.

The moment when a large meteorite smashed into the moon was captured on camera in what scientists are calling that largest lunar impact every recorded. The nearly 900-pound rock was travelling 61,000 km/h when it plowed into the moon on Sept.

BEIRUT -- Two suicide attackers from an al Qaeda-linked group blew themselves up Wednesday trying to hit an Iranian cultural centre in a Shiite district in southern Beirut, killing at least two people, according to security officials and the militants. It was the ...

ALGIERS, Algeria -- The toll for the crash of an Algerian military transport plane has been reduced to 76 dead and one survivor, a civil defence spokesman said Wednesday. Lt. Nassim Bernaoui of Algerian Civil Defence said the military plane carried a total of ...

LOS ANGELES -- The praises of Shirley Temple are being sung by celebrities across Hollywood who remembered her as America's prolific little darling. For the fifth time in its history, the Chinese Theatre planned to dim the lights in its famous forecourt, which ...

ALGIERS, Algeria -- An Algerian military transport slammed into a mountain Tuesday in the country's rugged eastern region. A civil defence official said 102 people on board were killed but one person managed to survive. The U.S.-built C-130 Hercules ...