TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian dollar ticked moderately higher against the U.S. dollar on Monday, but with volumes light, the market remained mostly in a holding pattern ahead of key data and policy news later in the week and beyond. "There's a lot of tier-one event risks that have the ability to push the markets around fairly significantly, so the market does take a breather from time to time. … Britain and Ireland tuning into Netflix
Netflix on Monday announced that one million people in Britain and Ireland signed up for the film and TV show streaming Internet service in the seven months after its debut there. Superb Ba goal gets Newcastle off to winning start
Senegal striker Demba Ba scored a sublime goal to help Newcastle defeat Tottenham 2-1 on the opening weekend of the English Premier League season. Chris Brown, Drake and operators of NYC club sued by injured model over bottle-throwing brawl
NEW YORK, N.Y. – A model who was injured during a bottle-throwing nightclub brawl between Chris Brown and Drake is suing both singers and the owners of the New York nightclub.
Cholera outbreak in Sierra Leone hits emergency proportions; many deaths reported
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – An outbreak of cholera in Sierra Leone has infected more than 10,000 people and killed at least 176, authorities said as they appealed for international assistance.
Reports: 8 killed in bomb in Turkey
A bomb concealed in a vehicle exploded near a police station in southeast Turkey on Monday night, Turkish media reported, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens amid an escalation in fighting between Kurdish rebels and Turkish security forces.
Typhoon brings flashfloods, landslides to Philippines
Typhoon Tembin brought heavy rains to the northern Philippines on Monday, triggering landslides and flashfloods just weeks after a series of deadly storms and monsoon rains, the government said. Moscow police search for other Pussy Riot members
Russian police say they are searching for other members of Pussy Riot, the punk band whose anti-Putin protest inside a Moscow cathedral led to prison sentences for three of the activists.
Bank of Canada governor apologizes for race row
Canada’s central bank governor apologized Monday for provoking a racial row after purging an image of an Asian-looking scientist peering into a microscope from new $100 bills.
Syria airstrikes, shelling kill 100 during holiday
Government forces pummeled the battered city of Aleppo with airstrikes and tanks and shelled parts of Damascus and southern Syria Monday, killing at least 100 people during a major Muslim holiday, rights groups and activists said. 
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