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The Greek debt crisis is getting worse rather than better, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Monday as he urged European leaders to take clear and decisive action to avoid a banking meltdown.

J.C. Penney Co Inc's incoming boss has lured a senior executive from Target Corp as he assembles his team before taking the reins of the department store chain next month.

It's been billed as the mother of all oil battles -- that may be an overstatement, but one thing is certain: the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada's oil sands region to the Gulf of Mexico is a high-stakes fight.

Predicting who will receive the Nobel Prize is an annual guessing game for some, for others, such as Thomson Reuters, it involves statistics.

Tropical Storm Ophelia (formerly Hurricane Ophelia) hit Newfoundland, Canada on Monday, causing some evacuations in the small town of Belleoram.

One of the three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday used his insights into the immune system in treatments against the pancreatic cancer he suffered for four years.

rganizers have reportedly asked participants to bring sleeping bags, first aid kits, electrical generators, among other items.

Target Corp said its marketing head, who earlier this year was tapped to oversee the company's entrance into Canada, has resigned. The discount retailer did not say why.

Fitbit, which is the market leader in wireless activity tracking, has launched its newest tracker - the Fitbit Ultra.

Three scientists shared the Nobel Prize for medicine Monday for their discoveries about the human immune system that forged the development of new treatments against infectious diseases and cancer.

Scientists have identified unprecedented levels of depletion of the ozone layer above the Arctic this spring. These levels were comparable to those found in the Antarctic, where a hole has formed every spring since the mid-1980s.

Selena Gomez, the girlfriend of singer Justin Bieber, landed the cover of Canada's Fashion magazine for the month of October.

Apple Inc.'s iPhone5 is coming. The tech world assumes the incoming device is a monster of a device, displaying all of Apple's game-changing capabilities and aesthetic finesse. The rival camps have reason to panic.

Canadian opposition legislators mocked Foreign Minister John Baird on Friday after it emerged he had demanded gold-embossed business cards at a time when the government is pushing the need for austerity.

Hurricane Ophelia became a major hurricane on Friday as it tracked on a projected path just east of Bermuda on its way toward Newfoundland.

After the cantaloupe-associated listeriosis outbreak linked to a Colorado farm that has left 15 people dead and 84 sick across 19 states, it is romaine lettuce now threatening to spread the infection in North America.

European Union (EU) plans to put a charge on carbon emissions from airlines are discriminatory and inconsistent with global laws, a meeting of a UN aviation body and non-EU member nations has agreed, an Indian government statement said on Friday.

Every year, just before the Nobel Prizes are announced and the list is issued for the National Medals of Science and Technology, the Ig Nobels are handed out.

Two more people in the United States have died from eating listeria-tainted cantaloupes, bringing the death toll to 15 in the country's deadliest foodborne outbreak in more than a decade, health officials said on Friday.

Hate mornings, especially on Mondays? You may be surprised to know that much of the world doesn't share that grumpy feeling.

Sudan plans to double gold production at its main mine run together with Canada's La Mancha Resources within around two to three years and launch a copper production by 2015 or later, company officials said.