TORONTO — Police are investigating a shooting outside rapper Drake’s mansion in Toronto that left a security guard seriously wounded. Authorities did not confirm whether Drake was at home at the time of the shooting, but said his team is cooperating. The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Tuesday in the affluent Bridle Path neighborhood of…
(NAIROBI, Kenya) — Kenya’s government has begun bulldozing homes built in flood-prone areas and promising evicted families the equivalent of $75 to relocate after a deadline passed to evacuate amid deadly rains. In the capital, Nairobi, a bulldozer ripped through iron-sheet walls as people watched in despair. Security forces with guns and batons stood guard…
April was the Earth’s 11th consecutive month of record-breaking heat, with warmer weather already sweeping across Asia and a hotter-than-usual summer expected in Europe. The European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said last month’s temperatures globally were 1.58°C (2.8°F) above historical averages and marked the hottest April on record. The past 12 months have been…
(WASHINGTON) — Police using pepper spray cleared a pro-Palestinian tent encampment at George Washington University and arrested dozens of demonstrators on Wednesday just as city officials were set to appear before hostile lawmakers in Congress to account for their handling of the weekslong protest. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability canceled the hearing after…
Maybe you feel like a failure because all your friends seem to have more money than you do. Or maybe you’re up to your eyeballs in credit card debt, and no matter how many times you manage to pay off your balances, you find yourself in the hole over and over again. Or you’re a…
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued his first apology over his wife receiving a luxury handbag under questionable circumstances, highlighting his efforts to set a new course for his government after a stinging defeat in parliamentary elections. In his first news conference in about two years, Yoon pledged Thursday to improve livelihoods and create…
In March 2023, the Japanese medical authorities announced that the new weight loss drug Wegovy—which was in staggering demand across the world, causing shortages everywhere—had been approved to treat obesity in their country. It sounded, at first glance, like great news for Novo Nordisk, the company that makes Ozempic and Wegovy. But industry outlet the…
Bridget Rochios arrived in Rafah from California on May 1 to volunteer at the Al Halal Al Emirati Maternity Hospital with the Canadian medical charity, the Glia Project. In just one week, the 34-year-old midwife has assisted a displaced mother of two from Gaza with giving birth in a hospital elevator and delivered the baby…
By 10 am on the morning of July 11, 2021, a horde of soccer fans was already gathering outside of London’s Wembley Stadium in anticipation of the Euro 2020 Final matchup between England and Italy set to kick off later that night. What transpired over the next 10-plus hours would make the day memorable, and…
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday reappointed Mikhail Mishustin as the country’s prime minister after the previous stint on the job during which the low-key technocrat has shown a distinct lack of political ambitions. In line with Russian law, Mishustin, 58, who held the job for the past four years, submitted his Cabinet’s…