SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. – The board that oversees the bridge between the neighbouring cities Sault Ste. Marie in Michigan and Ontario has voted to spend $2 million on a toll plaza redevelopment project next year.
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic advances to championship match with win over Del Potro at ATP finals
LONDON – As soon as it looked like Novak Djokovic was headed for his off-season vacation, the top-ranked Serb started playing his best tennis.
Federal competition watchdog hopes to sink teeth into Quebec corruption actors
MONTREAL – The corrupt actors in Quebec’s construction industry can add this concern to a list that already includes possible criminal charges, a public inquiry and unwanted notoriety: there’s also a federal watchdog hoping to sink its teeth into them.
Saudi King to undergo back operation next week
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah will undergo a back operation next week, the state news agency SPA reported on Sunday. “The operation will take place, God willing, next week at King Abdulaziz Medical City for the National Guard in Riyadh,” SPA quoted an official statement as saying. The king, in his late 80s, has had surgery in the past to tighten ligaments around his third vertebra. Abdullah, who took power in 2005 after the death of King Fahd, named Crown Prince Salman, 13 years his junior, as his heir apparent in June. …
Doubts in many corners cloud growth outlook
LONDON (Reuters) – The global economy faces an uneasy end to a difficult year as widespread policy uncertainty that is blunting the benefit of an ultra-loose monetary stance shows no sign of lifting. To be sure, the re-election of U.S. President Barack Obama has answered one critical question. And consumer sentiment in America is at the highest level since the onset of the great financial crisis. …
Total Solar Eclipse This Week: How to Pack for Eclipse-Chasing Adventures
After a gap of more than two years, a total eclipse of the sun will be visible this week from northeastern Australia. Residents and visitors in Cairns in Queensland will see the moon completely cover the sun for two minutes in the eastern sky shortly after local sunrise. Robbie Williams takes UK pop charts' crown
LONDON (Reuters) – Robbie Williams was the king of the British pop charts on Sunday after he secured both the UK single and album number ones, the Official Charts Company said, Williams&# 039;s album "Take The Crown" beat a swathe of other new releases for the top spot, giving him his 10th number one album in 15 years as a solo artist. Violinist Andre Rieu debuted in second place with "Magic Of The Movies", with boy band JLS another new entry in third with "Evolution". … Exit poll: Runoff needed in Slovenia election
An exit poll says no candidate has won Slovenia's presidential election and that a runoff will be held between the incumbent and a former prime minister. West African bloc to commit 3,300 troops in Mali battle plan
ABUJA (Reuters) – West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS agreed on Sunday to commit 3,300 troops to help recapture northern Mali, part of battle plans that will be sent for United Nations approval by the end of November, the group’s chairman said. The troops would mostly come from Nigeria, Niger and Burkina Faso, but other West African countries and two or three non-African states may also contribute forces, Ivory Coast President Alassane Outtara told reporters in Nigeria’s capital. He said the soldiers could be deployed as soon as the U.N. …
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