The "something" is the Ottawa Senators, now just one point behind the Northeast Division leaders after handling the Sabres 5-3 at Scotiabank Place on Saturday night.

To borrow from Satchel Paige, the Buffalo Sabres shouldn’t look back.

Joel Plaskett’s ambitious triple album, Three, led the Halifax singer-songwriter to a double victory at the fifth annual Canadian Folk Music Awards on Saturday.

The archbishop of Canterbury and Pope Benedict agreed the need for closer ties between their churches on Saturday, in their first meeting since last month's surprise Vatican offer to disaffected Anglicans.

A broad healthcare overhaul moved closer to clearing its first U.S. Senate hurdle on Saturday when one of two wavering Democrats said she would vote to begin debate on the landmark legislation.

A debate is underway among the Taliban's senior leadership about finding ways to end the war in Afghanistan, and the Western coalition should pursue peace talks with moderate leaders of the insurgency, says the man widely considered to have the closest contacts, of any Westerner, with the Taliban.

Canadian and Afghan forces captured a key Taliban-controlled village Saturday in eastern Panjwaii as they continued to expand their control over the approaches to the provincial capital.

NATO took command of the training of the Afghan army and police on Saturday to consolidate efforts on building an effective security force, a vital precondition for the withdrawal of foreign troops.

Two spacewalkers halted a body-conditioning sleepover in a low-pressure chamber on the International Space Station on Saturday after a false depressurization alarm shut down ventilation fans.

New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham said Friday it's unnecessary to sign an agreement guaranteeing Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador access to ship power through his province.

A gas explosion killed 42 miners in a Chinese mine on Saturday and 66 remain trapped hundreds of metres (yards) underground after the latest accident to hit the world's deadliest mining industry, state media said.

Iran will begin large-scale air defence war games on Sunday to help protect its nuclear facilities against any attack, a senior commander said.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited flood-hit Cumbria in north west England on Saturday to see the damage caused by record rainfall and pay tribute to a policeman who died when a bridge collapsed.

In the northeastern reaches of the Mojave Desert lie a series of small villages with exotic names such as Medina Wasl, Al Jaff and Wadi Al-Ra'id. They are places that cannot be found on most maps.

Ontario’s Liberal government is willing to postpone its Christmas break in order to pass a budget bill containing tax cuts and the controversial new Harmonized Sales Tax.

The owners of the Ottawa franchise that is expected to join the Canadian Football League in 2013 or 2014 are trying to decide whether to call their new team the Rough Riders, or make a fresh start.

A hunting ploy gone awry sent a man plunging into the St. Lawrence River west of Iroquois, Ont., Friday morning.

The City of Ottawa's bad budget news got worse Friday afternoon when city councillors were told that a special $8.1-million contribution to transit workers' pension fund must now go to $14.8 million.

Two additional H1N1 vaccination clinics will open this weekend, the City of Ottawa announced Friday.

The number of Canadian bankruptcies jumped by an annual rate of 43.3 per cent in September, as consumers continued to take the brunt of the economic downturn.