Tokyo: Japan hope the appliance of science can trigger an Asian Games gold rush but admit they will struggle to steal hosts South Korea`s thunder, insisting that building momentum for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is their top priority. It would take an astonishing effort for the Japanese to finish aboveRead More

Toronto, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has not decided on his future, according to his brother Doug Ford, but the councillor says the ailing mayor could decide to drop out of the mayoral race and run as a councillor in his old ward of Etobicoke North, while Doug Ford would runRead More

British Columbia, Efforts to restart negotiations in the B.C. teachers’ strike that were made Thursday have yet to yield any concrete results, increasing speculation the government has other plans to get the teachers back to work. B.C. Education Minister Peter Fassbender told CBC News that the striking teachers’ union andRead More

Toronto, Toronto police are warning the public of the dangers of recreationally using drugs, normally used for research purposes, after two men unintentionally overdosed on them. Inspector Howie Page told reporters during a press conference Friday that the men purchased the drugs online in the belief that they would mimicRead More

Toronto, A convicted American fugitive has been arrested in Etobiocke after being on the loose since the spring. Anthony Joseph Maiorano, 32, was convicted of aggravated assault in 2007 and had been serving a 20-year sentence at a Georgia correctional facility when he was released on a day pass inRead More

Edmonton, With only a year to go before the next federal election, New Democrats have joined Conservatives in trying to knock Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau off his perch as the front-runner. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair declared open season Thursday on Trudeau, mocking the “getting ready to lead” slogan used inRead More

Moscow,The Syrian government and its close allies in Moscow and Tehran warned Barack Obama that an offensive against Islamic State (Isis) within Syria would violate international law yesterday, hours after the US president announced that he was authorising an open-ended campaign of air strikes against militants on both sides ofRead More

Sydney,Australia on Friday raised the terror threat level to “high” from “medium” for the first time in a decade, on concerns about Australians returning from fighting in the Middle East. The heightened alert means a “terrorist attack is likely”. “There are people with the intent and the capability to mountRead More

New York, An American who tweeted his allegiance to the leader of Islamic State jihadists was arrested at New York’s JFK airport last week, officials said Friday. Donald Ray Morgan was taken into custody on August 2 upon his arrival from Frankfurt, according to documents filed in a federal courtRead More

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein on Friday said a team of international investigators should gain immediate access to the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17`s crash site in Ukraine. Hishammuddin said he along with Dutch Defence Minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert agreed to the need to resume the search, recovery and investigationRead More