The Canadian Press LONDON – Daniel Nestor has his career Grand Slam. The Toronto native and Serbian partner Nenad Zimonjic defeated Sweden's Jonas Bjorkman and Kevin Ullyett of Zimbabwe 7-6 (12), 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3 in the doubles final at Wimbledon.
Dana Brown The Hamilton Spectator OAKVILLE – Halton police have identified a teenager seriously injured in a dirt bike crash early Saturday morning.
The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein's nuclear program, a huge stockpile of concentrated natural uranium, reached Montreal on Saturday to complete a top-secret U.S. operation.
QUEBEC CITY - Legendary singer Charles Aznavour has been invested as an honorary officer of the Order of Canada. Gov.Gen. Michaelle Jean bestowed the honour upon the French citizen today in Quebec City.
BEND, Ore. - Riding a green lawn chair supported by a rainbow array of more than 150 helium-filled party balloons, Kent Couch took off Saturday in a third bid to fly from central Oregon all the way to Idaho.
REGINA - Hundreds of people who fled forest fires in northern Saskatchewan are being allowed to return home, but there are warnings that more evacuations may be needed.
Torstar News Service The smell of rotting fish is spreading. A week after dead carp began washing up on the shores of Lake Simcoe, the problem has spread to neighbouring Lake Couchiching and Sparrow Lake, where more and more belly-up carp are floating, like driftwood, onto the shore.
Torstar News Service One man is dead and another is injured after a boating accident early this morning in Trenton.
OAKVILLE – Halton police are asking for the public’s help to identify a teenager seriously injured in a dirt bike crash early Saturday morning.
BARA, Pakistan - Pakistani security forces have eased an operation against insurgents in a tribal region near the border with Afghanistan as local elders try to negotiate peace with a militant leader.
Stephen Wilson The Associated Press WIMBLEDON–Venus Williams beat sister Serena 7-5, 6-4 Saturday to win her fifth Wimbledon title and seventh Grand Slam championship.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier was found dead in the sleeping area of a Middle Eastern military base. The death of Cpl. Brendan Anthony Downey, a military policeman based in Dundurn, Sask., had been declared non-combat-related even before investigators arrived at the base.
GEIR MOULSON The Associated Press BERLIN–A man tore the head off an Adolf Hitler wax figure at Madame Tussauds' new branch in Berlin in what appeared to be a symbolic protest on the museum's opening day Saturday, officials said.
Torstar News Service Const. Patrick Lee, one of two Toronto police officers charged earlier this week with running a large-scale criminal enterprise, is under investigation again, this time for owning a bar, police said yesterday.
As it prepares to build new suburban schools, Hamilton's Catholic school board is also reviewing schools for possible closure. Area reviews are at various stages across the city.
The 20-year-old who died after being pinned by Canadian Tire security and staff June 26 will be buried this morning. Funeral services for Djo Bwabwa-Kalamba will be held this morning at Bread of Life-Pain de Vie Church (at First CRC) at 9:30 a.m.
Tyler desperately wants to get into a third-year political science class this fall at McMaster University. So much so that the 22-year-old has placed an ad on Facebook and is offering his peers $100 for a seat in the popular Public Law elective.
A 29-year-old Hamilton man is recovering in hospital after the car he was driving was hit in a collision that killed a 25-year-old Hamilton woman. Hamilton police have not yet released the name of the woman, a passenger in the young man's car.
Charlotte Yates is McMaster's new dean of social sciences, responsible for the university's largest and most diverse faculty, with disciplines that range from labour studies to religion, kinesiology to economics.
A sudden, dramatic increase in black smoke from U.S. Steel Canada's Hamilton coke ovens earlier this year resulted in Environment Ministry orders that have already led to a sharp reduction in visible emissions.