Latest: An Irishman has described the scene of devastation after a van ploughed into pedestrians in Toronto.

A masked gunman who killed a soldier at Canada’s war memorial and stormed parliament before being shot dead by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms was an Islamic convert, it has emerged.

A Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in the country’s capital was shot dead yesterday, and gunfire then erupted inside Parliament, authorities said.

A gunman shot and wounded a Canadian soldier standing guard at a war memorial in Ottawa, then entered parliament, where numerous shots rang out, police and witnesses said.

Should Ireland ever commit to the Commonwealth again, it would only be to the benefit of its sports men and women in the 26 counties, smack bang in the middle of every Olympic cycle

A Dublin-born engineer has died following a bear attack in Canada.

The British Olympic Association’s lifetime ban for drugs cheats violates the global anti-doping code, the World Anti-Doping Agency declared yesterday.

A Canadian mayor has put a 20-tonne rock on his ex-wife's driveway.

Insurgents launched a rare ground assault against Nato’s main military base in southern Afghanistan today, wounding several international service members in the second such attack on a major military installation this week.

Former 'Baywatch' star Pamela Anderson has joined other celebrities in a new ad campaign to save seals from the annual hunt on Canada’s East Coast.

Residents of a small Indian village in Canada braved the stormy waters off British Columbia’s north coast in fishing vessels and speedboats to help rescue 101 passengers and crew from a large ferry that hit a rock and sank.

CANADIAN scientists and Indians are competing in boats for the affections of a dangerously friendly killer whale off Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

A man survived a plunge over Niagara Falls with only the clothes on his back, witnesses said – the first person known to have done it and lived.

German aviation investigators are beginning to analyse the flight recorders of the two planes that collided over Germany on Monday night, killing 71 people.