In September 2016, the life of a young Lethbridge woman was changed forever. The woman, who can’t be identified, was 25 years old. She was walking to work early one morning when she was attacked. Now, the man who admitted to committing the attack will be added to the national sexual offender registry. Related Convicted […]

PRAGUE (Reuters) – Restoration experts in the Czech Republic have been set an unusual task – to dismantle four towering pyramids made up of centuries-old bones from more than 40,000 human bodies, clean them up and then reconstruct them as before. The restoration project, expected to last two years, is aimed at preserving the bones, […]

ROME (Reuters) – North Korea informed Italy last year that the daughter of its acting ambassador had asked to return home after her father left his post in Rome, the Italian foreign ministry said on Wednesday. North Korean diplomat Jo Song Gil and his wife went missing in November, and a South Korean newspaper has […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – The key to securing a Brexit deal the British government can get through parliament is to define more precisely the “temporary” nature of the Irish backstop, British Foreign Secretary Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday. The backstop, an arrangement to avoid a hard border between European Union member Ireland and British-ruled […]

York House School is asking for more support from Vancouver police after a man allegedly exposed himself to a student. The all-girls private school emailed parents on Tuesday, saying an unidentified man driving a black vehicle approached a student and exposed himself near the school in the area of Marguerite Street and West 32nd Avenue. […]

Good morning. Besha Rodell has a terrific interview with my old colleague Nigella Lawson in The New York Times today, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of her cookbook “How to Eat.” The article shows Nigella off in all her glamour and erudition, and explores her incandescent fame in Britain, while at the same […]

RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) will no longer accept tax revenues collected on its behalf by Israel following its decision to trim the sum over the PA’s financial support of militants’ families, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said. The cash-strapped Palestinian Authority, an interim self-government body set up following the 1993 Oslo […]

A fire in Malahide has closed a section of Ron McNeil Line on Wednesday morning, according to Elgin County OPP. Police say they responded to a residential fire at around 4:30 a.m. on Ron McNeil Line. While details are sparse, police say they closed Ron McNeil Line between Imperial and Newell roads to allow fire […]

Crediting an outpouring of community support, the business licence for the Nyala Lounge is being reinstated, after the Community Standards and Licence Appeal Committee at Edmonton City Hall overturned a previous decision of the city’s program manager. Related Former bouncer shot at downtown Edmonton bar looking for justice: ‘I hope he gets life’ Police investigate […]

Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London when she was aged 15 to join Islamic State in Syria, has had her British citizenship revoked, according to a letter sent to her family published by ITV News on Tuesday. Begum, who gave birth to a son at the weekend, was discovered in a refugee camp in […]