A few months ago I wrote from eastern Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have blinked when he appeared to do an unexpected volte-face and called for an end to the violence there. I was wrong. Putin did not blink. What the Russian leader ...

As the crisis in Gaza and Israel deepened this week, the top Palestinian diplomat to Canada, Said Hamad, discussed the violence with Mark Kennedy. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. Q. From your perspective, what is happening in Gaza ...

BAGHDAD - With large parts of Iraq in militant hands, a top Kurdish leader called on regional lawmakers Thursday to lay the groundwork for a referendum on independence, a vote that would likely spell the end of a unified Iraq. The recent blitz by Sunni ...

BEIRUT — A young, red-bearded ethnic Chechen has rapidly become one of the most prominent commanders in the breakaway Al-Qaeda group that has overrun swaths of Iraq and Syria, illustrating the international nature of the movement. Omar Al-Shishani ...

The day's best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. © Copyright (c) Postmedia Network Inc. E-mail this Article · Print this Article; Share this Article ...

The day's best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. © Copyright (c) Postmedia Network Inc. E-mail this Article · Print this Article; Share this Article ...

The day's best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. © Copyright (c) Postmedia Network Inc. E-mail this Article · Print this Article; Share this Article ...

The day's best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world. © Copyright (c) Postmedia Network Inc. E-mail this Article · Print this Article; Share this Article ...

ABUJA, Nigeria — A Nigerian government official said “all options are open” in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their captors as U.S. reconnaissance aircraft started flying over this West African country in a search effort. Boko Haram, the ...

WASHINGTON — Two new studies indicate that part of the huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a slow collapse in an unstoppable way. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured. This won't happen fast. Scientists are ...

SEOUL, South Korea — The head of the company that owns a South Korean ferry that sank and left more than 300 people dead or missing was formally arrested Friday as authorities worried he may destroy evidence, officials said. Kim Han-sik, president of ...

BEIJING — Explosions Wednesday rocked a railway station in China's far-western minority region of Xinjiang and assailants slashed at arriving passengers with knives, killing three people and injuring 79 in what state media called a premeditated terrorist ...

MASTIC BEACH, N.Y. — Yale is the pick for the son of Ghanaian immigrants who made U.S. national headlines after being accepted to all eight Ivy League schools. In a move usually reserved for highly-recruited athletes, a suburban New York high school ...

Bob Hoskins could play tough or vulnerable — often both at once — and much else in between. Postmedia's Jay Stone picks five memorable roles: Mona Lisa (1986): Hoskins plays an ex-con given the job — by frightening crime boss Michael Caine — of ...

LONDON — Bob Hoskins never lost his Cockney accent, even as he became a global star who charmed and alarmed audiences in a vast range of roles. Short and bald, with a face he once compared to "a squashed cabbage," Hoskins was a remarkably ...

VANCOUVER — Apple refreshes MacBook Air, no price drop in Canada. The rumoured updated MacBook Air launched today, adding a more powerful processor and lowering the price for some countries but not Canada. While our neighbors to the south get ...

If you have Korean-Canadian friends and family within your circles, then you've undoubtedly already felt firsthand the monumental devastation after the sinking of the Sewol ferry on April 16. The loss of more than 300 lives — most students from the same class ...

“We pray to the Lord,” was the call of an estimated 10,000 Catholics who filled Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum Sunday to celebrate the canonization of a pair of popes. Some 60 priests gave mass to mark the declaration of sainthood for popes John Paul II and ...

“We pray to The Lord,” was the call of an estimated 10,000 Catholics who filled Vancouver's Pacific Coliseum Sunday to celebrate the canonization of a pair of popes. Some 60 priests gave mass to mark the declaration of sainthood for popes John Paul II and ...

LIVERPOOL, England — The Premier League title race swung back in Manchester City's favour Sunday as the team took full advantage of Liverpool slipping up against Chelsea. Liverpool still tops the standings despite losing 2-0 to Chelsea, which is now ...