OTTAWA — Canadian officials visited detained entrepreneur Michael Spavor on Tuesday, their second meeting since he was arrested in China last month for allegedly endangering national security. Diplomats are providing services to Spavor and his family and will seek further access to him, Global Affairs Canada said in a statement. The department is also trying…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Oklahoma’s Jocelyn Alo and Arizona State’s G Juarez were named Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division I National Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for games played March 19-25. Alo, a freshman from Hau’ula, Hawai’i, batted .556 with all five of her hits leaving the yard, 11 RBI and a 2.222 slugging percentage. In helping…

Ahead of the much-anticipated festive season German gold dealer Pro Aurum has erected the most expensive Christmas tree in all of Europe. The unusual decoration is made of gold coins worth €2.3 million ($2.6 million). According to the dealer, the tree could’ve been worth more, but gold’s value declined during the second half of the…

Canadian officials are condemning the killers of a Canadian mining company executive whose bullet-riddled body has been found in Burkina Faso. Kirk Woodman, a Halifax man who worked for Vancouver-based Progress Minerals Inc., was found dead Wednesday in Oudalan province, an official with the west African country’s Ministry of Security said Thursday. Jean Paul Badoum…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An unmatched speaker lineup is featured at the seven remaining two-day regional NFCA Coaches Clinics being offered this month. A Chicago Advanced clinic led off the schedule just prior to the NFCA Convention in December. A second clinic will be held in Chicago on Jan. 5-6, featuring Hofstra University head coach Larissa…

Russian hockey player Alexander Ovechkin was making out with his wife Anastasia when his black Labrador got envious and leaped between them to join the intimate moment. A video posted on Instagram shows the captain of the national Washington Capitals ice hockey team repeatedly kissing his 25-year-old wife in their dining room. Ovechkin is seen…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Holly Speers of Kent State and UCLA’s Rachel Garcia were named Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division I National Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for games played April 16-22. Speers powered her way to this week’s honor, recording six extra base hits, including four home runs, and 11 RBI. The senior infielder also doubled…

A new weapon installed on Russian warships can make enemy soldiers miss targets by blinding them, while also causing hallucinations and making them want to vomit. Two Russian frigates were fitted with the new non-lethal dazzler-type weapon, the 5P-42 Filin (eagle-owl), the manufacturer’s representative told RIA Novosti. The weapon is designed to temporarily blind the…

MONTREAL — Renowned Quebec director Robert Lepage says his previously cancelled play about black slavery has been rewritten and reworked before it is presented once again on stage next month. Lepage published a long public letter today in which he acknowledges what he calls his clumsiness and misjudgments in his early production of “SLAV,” which…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Los Alamitos won twice this past week to stay in the top spot, and the top 10 teams were unchanged in the latest USA Today Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll. The (12-0) Griffins outscored their two opponents 20-6 to remain unbeaten, while five of the other teams in the first 10…