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(Reuters) — Former U.S. president Barack Obama is in advanced talks with Netflix Inc to produce a series of high-profile shows, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Under the terms of a proposed deal, Netflix will pay Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama for exclusive content on […]

Chinese consumers will soon be able to buy a home in Canada with the click of a button. Real estate portal Juwai, which markets overseas properties to mainland Chinese buyers, has signed an agreement with online retail site JD.com that will see houses in Canada listed for sale “like milk, shoes and other household goods,” […]

A Yemeni mother who was granted a waiver from President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from several Muslim majority countries has arrived in the US to say goodbye to her dying toddler son. Shaima Swileh landed at San Francisco airport Wednesday night, and was greeted by a group of supporters carrying placards. Her two-year-old boy Abdullah Hassan, […]

London has welcomed 2019 with a dazzling firework display and the chimes of Big Ben. Some 100,000 ticket-holders lined the banks of the Thames to watch 70,000 projectiles made up of eight tonnes of fireworks fire into the sky from three barges and the London Eye. Edinburgh also put on a spectacular display, with around 75,000 party-goers gathering in the […]

Already reeling from a tariff on pulp and paper just two months ago, new U.S. levies against the industry announced recently have dealt a serious blow to a newsprint mill in Cornerbrook, Newfoundland. Shortly after the U.S. Department of Commerce announced a new 22-per-cent anti-dumping duty on products produced by Kruger in Cornerbrook, as well […]

A judge in Nantucket has ordered Kevin Spacey to appear in court next week for his arraignment on sexual assault charges, denying the two-time Oscar winner’s plea for him to be excused from what he described as a media circus. Spacey said in court documents, filed on Monday, that will plead not guilty to indecent […]

Valve has announced that Artifact, the Dota 2 card game made by Richard Garfield, is due to be released on Steam on 28th November. The game is also due to be shown publicly at this year’s PAX West, so we should hear a little more about it in a month’s time. Valve has kept its […]

Click:12 watt street light WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump just regaled another audience with a tall tale involving Canada. This one’s about the Keystone XL pipeline. On Thursday, the president claimed to an audience in Ohio that he never heard any gratitude from TransCanada Corp., the company behind the controversial project, after he signed an […]

A lack of snow and an exceptionally high risk of accidents has forced the closure of many of France’s ski runs, with slopes icy and “as hard as concrete”, officials said on Wednesday. A combination of extremely low night temperatures and scant snowfall is making conditions treacherous even for the most proficient skiers. Local authorities […]

All the new headwinds facing Canada’s homebuyers — from tough new mortgage “stress tests” and foreign buyers’ taxes to rising interest rates — haven’t stopped house prices from returning to growth. The latest edition of the Teranet/National Bank house price index shows home prices have recovered from a slump that began in the middle of […]