WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A compound in red wine may ward off a variety of medical conditions related to aging, providing heart benefits, stronger bones and preventing eye cataracts, researchers said on Thursday.

Keeping score. In sports, it's necessary. But in relationships, tallying is immature - yet everybody does it.

The entitlement state is alive and well on the other side of the Atlantic. Writing from abroad, I can report that subsidization of indolence, restricted hours of work and punitive taxation, pervades the economies of western and central Europe. And Canada isn't far behind, thanks to a deteriorating work ethic and the debate here, which focus on work-life balance, sensitivity and emotional ...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders touched down in Regina on Saturday broken, bruised and still elated over Friday’s  26-16 victory over the host British Columbia Lions.

American fighter jets will be involved in security operations during the Vancouver Olympics by keeping a close eye on airspace in the region, the head of the North American Aerospace Defence Command said Saturday.

Leaders of the Group of Eight rich nations meet this week in northern Japan to grapple with a raft of problems from soaring food and fuel prices to African poverty and global warming amid doubts about how much the annual diplomatic pageant can achieve.

Montreal Police have fished the body of a man involved in an early morning police chase out of the Riviere des Prairies.

Venus Williams survived a fierce onslaught from Serena Williams to win her fifth Wimbledon singles title on Saturday, finally subduing her younger sister 7-5 6-4.

An RCMP clerk and her son are among the three people facing charges following last week's record drug bust in the South Okanagan area of B.C.

An explosive situation was narrowly averted Saturday morning after a semi unit carrying 43,000 pounds of dynamite caught fire in Moose Jaw.

Thousands of farmers and activists from around the world demonstrated Saturday in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo ahead of next week's summit of the Group of Eight rich nations.

Secret footage filmed by a Zimbabwean prison guard shows how a supporter of President Robert Mugabe rigged votes in his favour, British newspaper The Guardian said.

A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum on Saturday, police said.

Military officials have launched an investigation into the death of a Canadian soldier in the living quarters at Camp Mirage - a base in the Persian Gulf that supports airlifts in and out of Afghanistan.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders deployed a three-quarterback system to win their second straight CFL game on Friday night.The Saskatchewan Roughriders defeated the B.C. Lions by a score of 26-16 on Friday night.

A 35-year-old man who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $47,000 from a Sakimay First Nation business was handed an eight-month jail sentence on Friday.

It was anything but a happy Fourth of July for one American man who was handed a $10,000 fine for illegally trying to bring several guns across the border into Saskatchewan.

The reality of euthanizing animals for lack of space is something that has been virtually unheard of for years at the Regina Humane Society shelter.

The Regina Police Service continues to investigate three bear spray attacks that occurred early Friday morning.

Four days after blazing Saskatchewan forest fires began forcing residents of northern communities from their homes, another 650 evacuees were being sent away due to a heavy smoke threat, bringing the total of displaced residents to more than 2,800.