The decapitated head of a white male found Monday night in the southern Philippines belonged to a Canadian taken hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in September, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed in a statement Monday.

In a bizarre story on Thursday, the Windsor Star reported that Jonathon Nicola, a Canadian high-school basketball star, may actually be 29 years old.

One morning last spring, Gregory Dole received a call f-rom a friend with whom he'd played high school basketball in Tanzania nearly two decades ago.