Cristiano Ronaldo shrugged off damaging rape allegations to score for Juventus as the Serie A champions beat Udinese 2-0 under the rain in northeastern Italy to stretch their lead at the top of Serie A on Saturday. The Portuguese forward lashed in the second goal after 37 minutes from...

   Dinar was lucky to survive the Indonesian quake-tsunami that levelled her home. But she didn't have much time to count her blessings -- she was nine months pregnant and about to give birth in a disaster zone. The 38-year-old confronted a terrifying scene: the city of Palu was...

Canada's Justin Trudeau Monday hailed a new continental trade pact with the United States and Mexico as "profoundly beneficial" for Canadians -- but the prime minister must now sell the deal to skeptical dairy farmers, unions and voters. The 11th-hour deal was reached late Sunday after...

A meeting between Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his Chinese counterpart has been canceled, a US defense official said Monday, amid rising tensions between the two nations. The Pentagon had been working on a plan for Mattis to travel to Beijing later this month to meet General Wei...