Esther Tanquintic-Misa

Saint Nick Santa Claus's sleigh loaded with gifts for children around the world had been cleared for take-off.

The Public Health Agency of Canada has advised Canadians not to eat prepackaged caramel apples.

Keurig is recalling over 7 million of its single- MINI Plus brewers in the United States and Canada due to burn risks.

Ukraine's central bank has lost some 11kg of gold bullion worth by almost £270,000.

Russia boosted its gold reserves for the eighth month now in a row, while Ukraine slashed its bullion holdings for a second straight month.

North Korea's massive nine-hour Internet outage was just done by a group of hackers.

A study has revealed that an experimental Ebola vaccine tested right among African nationals had yielded early promising results.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa has sold the St. Charles Church in the Vanier neighbourhood.

Striking the ISIL facilities was utterly important because it "disrupts their ability to plan and mount offensive attacks," Canada's Department of National Defence said.

Spent radioactive fuel in reactor number 4 of the Fukushima nuclear power plant had been cleared.

WestJet Airlines and its 1,250 pilots have signed on a new collective bargaining contract.

Blackberry and Boeing are working on a new smartphone that self-destructs when tampered with.

As ISIS sets out to "conquer the world," it will eradicate all other religions that what will be left will only be the Jews and Christians, described as the original "people of the book."

There's a looming storm for Canada this week.

The ISIS has recently killed over 150 women and girls because they refused to marry the jihadists.

The fatal Ebola virus that has killed some 6,915 could be cured by at least 53 existing drugs, researchers said.

Canada Bread buys Saputo's bakery division for C$120 million ($103.38 million).

Chevron Corp announced on Wednesday it is putting on hold "indefinitely" its arctic offshore drilling program in Canada due to the continued fall of world oil prices.

Apple Canada had been ordered by the Canadian federal court to release pertinent documents needed by the Competition Bureau over allegations of anti-competition deals.

Pope Francis has been revealed to have had given a major participation in the U.S.-Cuba deal.

Air Canada needed to divert a flight from London to Toronto because of an unruly female South African passenger.

Japan is set to restart two more nuclear reactors.

China is copying the design of the United States' Nimitz- and Ford-class aircraft carriers.

Russia's new long-range Sarmat heavy ICBMs can hit both static and moving modern armoured targets.

Japan's north-eastern Fukushima prefecture wants to host some of the preliminary events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Robin Williams was the most searched topic in Google Canada for the year 2014.

Canada is looking for 50 wealthy immigrants to test its new Immigrant Investor Venture Capital pilot program.

British Columbia has approved the construction of a C$8.78 billion ($7.55 billion) hydroelectric dam on the Peace River.

Canada's economy stands to lose billions if the prices of oil continue to drop.