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MONTREAL - Nestawedjat, a wealthy, married "lady of the house," died in the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes sometime around 700 BC. Some 2,700 years too late to save her, she was brough...

LOS ANGELES - Viola Davis is set to portray Michelle Obama in a Showtime series under development about America's first ladies. Davis also is an executive producer on the project, which Showtime said ...

Head coach Mike O'Shea and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers have more adversity to deal with. The West Division-leading Bombers (8-2) will open an important home-and-home series with the Saska...

NEW YORK - Kei Nishikori lost his focus. At least he didn't lose the match. The seventh seed from Japan dropped a set, blew a lead in another and let four match points slip away before finally downing...

VICTORIA-If you haven't voiced your idea on what the province should do to ban, reduce and recycle more plastics, there's still time.Originally the province had scheduled to end their public engagemen...

NEW YORK - Serena Williams was not about to let Maria Sharapova make a match of this. So facing a break point early in the second set, Williams conjured up a backhand passing shot so good, so powerful...

SURREY, B.C. - At the end of a tranquil cul-de-sac in a pleasant neighbourhood, a tall stucco house overlooks a well-kept lawn and lush flowerbeds. The home is in the Metro Vancouver city of Surr...

SURREY, B.C. - At the end of a tranquil cul-de-sac in a pleasant neighbourhood, a tall stucco house overlooks a well-kept lawn and lush flowerbeds. The home is in the Metro Vancouver city of Surr...

SZEGED, Hungary - Opera legend Placido Domingo was set to appear Wednesday at a concert in southern Hungary to inaugurate a sports and youth complex for a local Catholic diocese, continuing his calend...

AUSTIN, Texas - Oscar-winning actor Matthew McConaughey will join the University of Texas as a professor who this fall will teach in the university's Department of Radio-Television-Film. McConaughey h...