A 15-year employee being fired from a suburban Chicago manufacturing company opened fire with a laser-sighted pistol on Friday, killing five co-workers and wounding five police officers before he was killed by police, authorities said. Aurora, Illinois, Police Chief Kristen Ziman said 45-year-old Gary Martin "was being terminated" before he started shooting at the Henry…

TORONTO, Dec 21 (Reuters) — The Canadian dollar weakened to a 19-month low against its U.S. counterpart on Friday as stocks and the price of oil fell, offsetting data showing stronger than expected growth in the domestic economy. The Canadian economy expanded by 0.3 per cent in October from September, pushed higher by strength in…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – West Texas A&M (20-3) won three road games at No. 6 Angelo State and extended its record streak at the No. 1 spot to 56 consecutive weeks in the NFCA Division II Poll that was released by the Association on Wednesday. The top four spots remain the same with the nation’s hottest…

RBC. TD. BMO. Scotiabank. CIBC. National Bank of Canada. The Big Six. Whenever one of these major Canadian banks tweak their mortgage rates, it makes headlines. Like last month, when RBC dropped its five-year fixed-term mortgage rate by 0.15 percentage points (or 15 basis points) to 3.74 per cent. Every major news outlet in Canada…

Papua New Guinea police are seeking the return of nearly 300 imported cars lent to officials for driving world leaders around its capital during last year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation meeting, a commander said. The purchase of the fleet, including 40 slick Maserati Quattroporte sedans, sparked public protest in a country beset by poverty and potholes….

LOUISVILLE, Ky.- Mission Viejo (Calif.) defeated Newbury Park (Calif.) 12-2 in the opening round of the California Interscholastic Federation Southern Section playoffs. The Diablos face Sunny Hills (Fullerton, Calif.) in the quarterfinals today. Several of last week’s top teams suffered losses this past week, including No. 2 Alexander Central (Taylorsville, N.C.) that saw its 95-game…

Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela’s president, ordered the border with Brazil to be closed and said he was considering doing the same with Colombia as US aid stacked up on both frontiers on Thursday night. Mr Maduro dismissed efforts to deliver basic food and medicine as a "provocation" as opposition groups were heading to the border to…

It’s an inevitable consequence of the passage of time: a new season starts, and with it comes more bad advice about vaginas. Barely a week into fall, the British newspaper The Mirror, which bills itself as “the intelligent tabloid (#madeuthink)” published an article titled “Cold weather causes ‘winter vagina’, midwife warns — and it could…

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) joins the worldwide chorus of support following the successful reception and endorsement of key Olympic Agenda 2020 reforms at the extraordinary IOC session in Monaco today, particularly regarding the adoption of a more flexible Olympic sports program.   On behalf of the worldwide baseball and softball…

Isil bride Shamima Begum has accused the British government of “making an example" of her by stripping her of UK citizenship, but admits she now regrets speaking out about her situation. Speaking to The Telegraph in the al-Hol camp in Syria, the 19-year-old from east London said she might have been able to keep her UK…