Former Toronto Raptors guard Alvin Robertson was arrested Wednesday on six warrants in San Antonio, Texas.

Canadian car dealers enjoyed their best January sales since 2003, but it was mainly the sellers of import brands that were seeing the sales jumps.

The next federal budget will not include income splitting for families, according to a news report.

The Toronto Raptors were recognized for their recent turnaround as Chris Bosh, Andrea Bargnani and Sam Mitchell were all winners of monthly awards for January.

Britain will increase its military presence in southern Afghanistan by about 800 troops to 5,800 this summer, Defence Secretary Des Browne said Thursday.

Left-leaning comedian and political commentator Al Franken will run for the U.S. Senate in 2008, a senior Democratic Party official from Minnesota said Wednesday.

Shootings, assaults and other violent incidents strained the two-day-old truce between Hamas and Fatah in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.

Lower oil and natural gas prices pulled earnings lower in the fourth quarter at Imperial Oil Ltd., the company said Thursday.

Dictatorships are predictably the worst offenders when it comes to press freedom, but democracies, too, need to make some improvements, Reporters Without Borders said in its 2007 report on press freedom, published Thursday.

A stretch of Highway 401 was closed Thursday after an 18-vehicle pileup killed at least two people near Cobourg, east of Toronto.

At least 45 people were killed and dozens wounded when two suicide bombers blew themselves up Thursday in a crowded outdoor market in a Shia city south of Baghdad, police said.

An 89-year-old Baptist minister, who has worked at various churches in Ontario and Nova Scotia, has been charged in connection with alleged sexual assaults of a young girl over several years in the late 1980s.

Two men whose marketing stunt for a cartoon show inadvertently shut down Boston were released on bond Thursday, and didn't seem to take matters seriously.

The Conservative government's controversial changes to income trusts appear to "level the playing field" with corporations, Bank of Canada governor David Dodge said Thursday.

Ontario's minimum wage officially rose to $8 an hour Thursday, but the government warns not to expect another hike anytime soon.

Ontario's minimum wage officially rose to $8 an hour Thursday, but the government warns not to expect another hike anytime soon.

Power Financial's Great-West Lifeco Inc. is making a major move into the United States with a $4.6-billion takeover offer for Putnam Investments Trust from Marsh & McLennan.

Karlheinz Schreiber is one step closer to being sent back to Germany after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the German-Canadian's appeal to avoid extradition.

Shares of Dell Inc. gained Thursday as investors welcomed the return of Michael Dell to the CEO's office.

The Toronto Transit Commission has approved a proposal to replace its streetcars with a new fleet of light-rail vehicles.