New information has surfaced in the odd tale of the British king buried in a car park. King Richard III's remains, which were discovered August under a parking lot in Leicester, England, were laid to rest in a grave researchers are now saying was "badly prepared" and "untidy."

The Rolling Stones take to the stage in Toronto Saturday night, accompanied by a Mississauga high school choir, for the first of three hotly anticipated Canadian concerts.

A high school in Cole Harbour, N.S., hometown of Sidney Crosby, creates a curriculum where every subject, from physics to dance, centres on hockey.

While the real Chris Hadfield reacclimates to Earth gravity and performs experiments in Houston, a parody of the Canadian astronaut is recreating some of his famous space moments, but with decidedly terrestrial results.

An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.

Charles Ramsey, the Cleveland man who helped three women escape from his neighbour's house earlier this month, will get free burgers for life from more than a dozen local restaurants.

A few of the Ottawa Senators have shared their love for dogs by tweeting photos of their pets, big and small. Here's a showcase of some Sens player's pups on a day where fans might need a distraction from hockey.

Google Canada has marked the 140th anniversary of the founding of the North-West Mounted Police, the force that would later merge with the Dominion Police to become the RCMP.

Will Smith and his son Jaden, who have been touring together to promote their upcoming father-son adventure movie, agree that the 14-year-old shouldn't be dating yet. "Blending with another person is very difficult, and a lot of times you can lose yourself in that process," explained dad. Do you agree?

It's not foolproof or without its critics, but U.S. judges are increasingly turning to UrbanDictionary.com - a web-based, crowdsourced dictionary with more than 7 million entries - to decipher street slang and pop culture jargon in court cases.

It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 180-kilogram tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons when he couldn't hack up a soccer ball-sized hairball by himself.

Seven years after what was thought to be the end of Arrested Development, the cult television comedy is coming back to screens of all sizes this Sunday in a first-of-its-kind Netflix resurrection.

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford's woes over crack cocaine allegations are providing plenty of late-night TV fodder for Jimmy Kimmel, Jon Stewart and other comedians south of the border.

Alexis Normand, the Saskatoon singer who was catapulted into an embarrassing spotlight after flubbing the words of the American national anthem at a Memorial Cup game, has bounced back with a crowd-pleasing performance.

A couple in Ross River, Yukon, who have been married since 1932, are believed to hold the record for the longest marriage in Canada, according to Worldwide Marriage Encounter Canada.