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Ryanair said one of its planes was forced into an emergency landing at Thessaloniki airport in Greece shortly after takeoff on Friday after a window was "dislodged," with two industry sources saying a passenger was partially sucked out of it.

The unemployment rate fell to 6.5 per cent, from 6.6 per cent in May.

One of Spain's deadliest wildfires on record killed 12 people overnight into Friday, authorities said, as soaring temperatures grip much of the country.

Canada’s relationship with Saudi Arabia was severely strained when the Trudeau government called them out over human rights issues. Mark Carney went to the kingdom to get it back on track. Is that a good idea?

The construction of a large seawall around a coastal property in Cap-Brûlé has neighbouring residents concerned about the impact on public beaches and calling out a lack of rules governing erosion-control structures in New Brunswick.

A British man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of restaurant owner Sharif Rahman nearly three years ago is expected to be sentenced today in Owen Sound, Ont. Robert Evans Jr. struck Rahman outside The Curry House, a week before he died. His father and uncle, also from England, previously pleaded guilty to being accessories after the fact.

Rates of intimate partner violence involving a firearm increased significantly between 2010 and 2024, according to new research released by Statistics Canada Wednesday.

Toronto Raptors fans had to temper their excitement Thursday after a proposed trade to bring back superstar Kawhi Leonard was put on hold due to the NBA's ongoing investigation into whether the Los Angeles Clippers broke the league's salary cap rules. Leonard could potentially be forced to sit out the upcoming NBA season.

Canadian government permits allowing most of the 30 beluga whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont., to be shipped to U.S. aquariums should come with the condition that the whales aren't to be bred, a national animal law advocacy organization is urging.

A lifeless and pointless rehash of beautiful source material that Disney seems desperate to strip-mine until even its memory is nothing more than the skeletal remains of something once vibrant and alive. In other words: Moana is Disney's newest live-action adaptation.

Who is the Brantford Bulldogs’ history-making goalie prospect?

Assembly Corp. has a portfolio that includes affordable housing for seniors and 2SLGBTQIA+ youth.

After sitting empty since 2008, 17 city-owned townhomes at 50 Torbolton Dr. are ready to reopen as net-zero housing for families of children with special needs.

Soft2bet denies wrongdoing and says it takes compliance "extremely seriously." Ontario's gambling regulator says it is investigating.

Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon drew attention this week when it was revealed that his name — and those of his wife and five children — were newly engraved on the Stanley Cup.

The judge concluded that multiple officers provided “false and misleading testimony” in court, including a constable who refused to acknowledge that the accused man’s face was covered in blood.

Raptors GM Bobby Webster clearly believes that if you are going to go for it, you should go for it, and he seems to be comfortable with a significant amount of risk in the process.

MLB draft is getting smaller. Player agents are doing more work than ever to get their clients noticed.

Brampton trucker Guramrit Sidhu was sentenced in Los Angeles on Thursday after pleading guilty to leading a criminal organization that - during a roughly one-month span - trafficked from the U.S. into Canada hundreds of kilograms of meth and cocaine…

'I think a lot of the stuff we do is stupid in the best, most glorious, most perfect and most artistic way,' said the director of 'Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass.'

Supporters fear Zhang Xinyan could be deported to China, where there’s a bounty on her head for subversion

The vivid visual record of the 1066 Norman invasion will go on display at the British Museum from Sept. 10 until July, 2027

After almost 1,000 years, the Bayeux Tapestry is back on English soil. On loan from its home in France, the tapestry will go on display at the London museum from Sept. 10 until July, 2027 – a public homecoming for a vivid visual record of the 1066 Norman invasion, the last successful conquest of England.

Series of early summer heat waves has left large parts of Spain parched and vulnerable to any spark, fuelling an early start to wildfire season

Strikes across southern Iran raise questions of who else may be targeting the Islamic Republic

Polls show a majority of Spaniards would like to see the spectacles abolished, but for some it’s hard to imagine the country without its centuries-old practice

Zelensky has long pleaded for faster supplies of interceptors capable of bringing down Russian ballistic missiles

Federal prosecutors allege the group planned to murder Trump, Vance, Netanyahu, Musk and ‘other high value targets’ at the event

Carney told reporters at the NATO summit that Iran had acted ‘irresponsibly’ and described the U.S. response as ‘appropriate’

Premium cabins now generate a disproportionate share of revenue compared with the space they take up on commercial aircrafts

Ukraine has intensified its attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, including large oil refineries, to try to undermine Moscow’s war efforts.

The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded changes.

Race organizers say the event is 'used as the first major indicator of whether a candidate has the physical and mental aptitude to complete the legendary Selection course.'

A placard in the gift box says this was the first type of revolver manufactured in Turkey in the 1990s and that the commemorative firearms were made by Turkish firm MKE.

The United States launched new airstrikes against Iran early Thursday, and Tehran responded by targeting U.S.-allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire.

Anand met with Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Thursday and she says Canada stands alongside Persian Gulf countries as Iran lashes out against them.

Love them or hate them, anchovies could end up making your grocery bill more expensive because of its use in fishmeal used for seafood and livestock feed.

'Following the terrible burglary the museum suffered, it is impossible to carry on as if nothing had happened. The investigation is ongoing,' the museum said in a statement.

Gas prices are likely going to tick up once again in Canada, according to an analyst, as a signed peace agreement between the U.S. and Iran appears to be unravelling.

The aircraft was observed on radar rapidly descending with a heading change before radar and communication were lost, Pakistan aviation authorities said.

Days of strikes by the two countries have given way to an uneasy pause as Qatari mediators seek to salvage the tattered U.S.-Iran truce.

First-time buyers from the Bay Area won an abandoned house at a Kingston, N.Y. tax auction. Eight years later, they’re still restoring it.

An eerie limbo prevails at small art shows, independent theaters and private political clubs, where the war is the elephant in the room.

More than 20 people were still missing after the blaze in Andalusia, one of the deadliest on record in the country. Many of the victims were foreign tourists, the Spanish authorities said.

Plus, the Friday news quiz.

Happy Friday. I want to tell you about a rare instance of bipartisan cooperation in Congress.

Advancements in renewable energy are paving the way for a new climate politics. The environmentalist Bill McKibben articulates some of the possibilities in this new era of energy abundance.

They believe the accuser, but they also grieve the demise of a campaign that promised that politics could be different — and they blame those who failed to find a less flawed candidate.

The movement was better at critiquing the system than reshaping it. But it has never had this much mainstream political power.

Children who played for Venezuela’s youth baseball league, a symbol of national pride, have been left injured, orphaned or dead.

The three members of a task force advising the Fed on artificial intelligence are strong proponents of the technology.

The drone strikes form part of Ukraine's campaign designed to choke off supplies and transportation routes in and out of Crimea.

Stablecoin issuer Circle surged in premarket trading after the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted it approval to operate as a trust bank.

The stock market has boomed on AI euphoria, while the trajectory of the U.S. economy has been more tepid, economists said.

Instagram and Facebook's "addictive" designs have put Meta in breach of the European Union's digital laws, the EU concluded Friday in a preliminary report.

Teenagers are increasingly becoming dependent on AI chatbots, echoing a familiar problem with social media in the 2010s.

The update followed a high-stakes boardroom showdown with the group's supervisory board.

Fidji Simo stepped away from OpenAI in April for a medical leave, says she now has to focus on recovery.

Its latest fundraising round provides the French biotech with enough cash to finance operations through 2029.

Renewed escalation in the U.S.-Iran war could complicate matters and further cloud the outlook, the IEA warned Friday.

The deaths in Andalusia included foreign nationals, and high temperatures raised fears of more fires across Europe.

After President Donald Trump declared the collapse of a preliminary peace agreement on Wednesday, the U.S. and Iran traded renewed airstrikes.

Doctors and Nurses on the front lines of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ebola response have reached a breaking point.

For a second straight day, the U.S. military attacked Iranian targets overnight and Iran struck back, targeting U.S. bases in Bahrain and Kuwait.

The president embraced the alliance in a meeting Wednesday, extolling member nations’ defense spending and saying nothing about the Danish territory, officials said.

The Duke of Sussex is travelling without his wife for the event at Birmingham's NEC.

Immigration agents were looking for a different person when they shot Lorenzo Salgado Araujo during a traffic stop, officials say.

As England prepare to face Norway, how can Thomas Tuchel's side prepare for their main threat - star striker Erling Haaland?

As England prepare to face Norway in a World Cup quarter-final on Saturday how do Thomas Tuchel's side prepare for their main threat - star striker Erling Haaland?

On Thursday, temperatures exceeded 34C for the eighth day this year, breaking the previous record of seven days in a calendar year.

Ryanair confirm a passenger was given medical treatment after an incident on a Malta Air flight, which is owned by Ryanair.

Regulators say features such as infinite scroll contribute to "compulsive use" and "unhealthy habits".

A leading figure on the right of British politics who reinvented herself as a reality TV star.

Lisa Nandy was speaking as 322 Labour MPs voted to back Burnham, meaning he is likely to become leader.

The investigation is looking into donations made to Reform UK by the mother of the convicted fraudster George Cottrell, according to the Times.

Passengers said they heard a loud bang before something flew against the window, breaking it

Eight South Carolina National Guard helicopter pilots have returned to flying duties after a suspension that followed a low flight over the state's beaches during a July 4 event

Political commentator Scott Jennings claimed that McConnell was also preparing to meet his staff

Most of America’s Lower 48 states are about to swelter under an unusually large, strong and long-lasting heat dome

By the time he arrived at the hospital, the man’s tongue had gone numb and he was struggling to breathe

Temperatures have already rocketed past 35C this week in UK’s longest heatwave since 1976

Detectives plan to talk to Sky and Amanda Roberts in the US about Ms Guiffre’s claims of sexual assault by the former prince

Ex-officials warn retrofitting work on luxury jet to install necessary security sytems could not have been completed within a year, leaving the presidential plane potentially vulnerable to attack when travelling outside of U.S. airspace

Scientists warn that the climate crisis is exacerbating the frequency and intensity of heat and dryness

The Ministry of Justice has been urged to fix issues with the system ahead of a rise in demand in September as the early release plan comes in