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Hockey-player-turned-Ukrainian-soldier Oleksandr Matviychuk is recovering after nearly being killed while on a military mission last year. Plastic surgeons have spent the past year reconstructing his face, one painful surgery at a time.

Waymo driverless cars were involved in 68 per cent fewer crashes than human drivers over a three-year period across four U.S. cities, according to new data from the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.

Canadian Blood Services is appealing for people across the country to donate blood, saying its supply has dropped significantly in the last several weeks.

The Carney government's national food security strategy aims to both empower farmers and reduce consolidation by pledging a 10-year, $1-billion fund to establish as many as 40 local food hubs across the country. While experts acknowledge the proposal could help wrest control from the large grocery chains, some doubt it will lower Canadians' food bills.

Though it will soon be easier for Canadians to buy alcohol from outside their home provinces, a litany of other barriers remain. Here's a look at some key issues that hinder the free flow of goods, services and labour between provinces.

The White House Correspondents' Association event in Washington, D.C., was rescheduled after the original dinner in April was called off following a shooting.

The federal government says it won't support Ontario Premier Doug Ford's plan to expand Billy Bishop Airport to allow jets to take off and land there.

Brandon Klayme, who spent 18 months in jail for child luring and possession of child pornography after an investigative mix-up between two nearly identical online usernames, has been acquitted on all charges on appeal.

Karolina Huebner-Makurat was killed by a stray bullet while walking for lunch outside the South Riverdale Community Health Centre. Drug dealer Damian Hudson, 35, had opened fire at two men who were trying to rob him.

They’re calling for a shift in how Canadians think about alcohol consumption, as well as in how it's depicted in ads.

The question that looms over the new bridge is whether the world it was built for is still the one we live in, Alex Ballingall writes.

The author of a new paper in a peer-reviewed scientific journal said he doesn't think Toronto learned from what he considers to be its mistakes in the Liberty Village attacks.

Toronto police investigators say they have to adapt to a new reality, one dominated by burgeoning and rapidly evolving AI tools.

Resentments linger among the former friends of Denise Tisor, who recently pleaded guilty to defrauding 107 Swifties.

Democracy has always had an Achilles heel, and Trump found it

Business leaders say CUSMA protections shield roughly 90 per cent of Canadian goods, even as lawyers question whether forced labour is really the point.

The Jays rallied from four runs down but couldn't seal the deal in Friday night’s pivotal showdown in Boston.

The just-concluded public survey suggested strong public opposition to the project, according to a federal government official.

Ordinary citizens train to defend the island in a possible conflict with China

Workers say honey prices could fall by as much as 40%

Petition still can’t proceed as it remains tied up in a court dispute

Saudi Arabia has not signed accords because it wants an irreversible path to a Palestinian state before recognizing Israel

With fighting flaring again and diplomacy appearing to sputter, both sides made moves suggesting an escalation was possible

Twelve states, led by California, allege that such a combination would ‘extinguish competition’ in Hollywood

Confrontation adds to a growing toll over recent weeks as Israeli settler violence has intensified against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank

Israel withdrew from UNESCO in 2019, accusing the organization of being biased against it and of downplaying its historical ties to the Holy Land

Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania were newly tied to the outbreak, in addition to Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia

Large majority of 125 member state representatives vote to oust Karim Khan from his position

Trump addressed the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner as organizers honoured Secret Service officer Victor Gonzales for his actions during April's shooting.

By a large majority, the International Criminal Court’s 125-member states ousted British barrister Karim Khan, the first time in its history the court has made such a move.

The Australian carrier plans to start selling tickets for its non-stop flight in February, CEO Vanessa Hudson told an event in Toulouse, France, in June, Reuters reported.

Paramedics treated the injured on a black inflatable boat as a police helicopter hovered overhead near the clock tower that houses the bell known as Big Ben.

Research shows that the use of grazing animals can reduce the rate at which fires spread and therefore make them easier to control and put out.

India's “Cockroach” protests began more than a month ago over leaks in some of the country’s most competitive entrance exams for medical colleges and government jobs.

Mujtaba Hussain, a spokesperson for International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu, confirmed a signing ceremony is taking place but said there are no public events scheduled.

Kyiv’s drones first hit the sites over the weekend in Elektrostal, just east of Moscow, and in the Tambov region, killing eight people and injuring scores more.

New rules around casual office attire mark a bold change in a country where dark suits and white shirts have long been the uniform for office workers.

The plane, the Clipper Endeavor, was carrying 69 passengers and crew when it made a hard landing on water after losing both engines less than 10 minutes after takeoff.

With Dharmendra Pradhan offering his resignation, the student protest movement achieved a major victory against the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Three Opinion writers discuss whether the president’s Red Scare strategy will work.

Homer’s Odysseus was hardly a man of remorse and shame.

New York’s star center on playing for his mom, Patrick Ewing. generations of emotional fans — and himself.

Firefighters were scrambling to contain blazes that were moving toward major cities. Some 200,000 people have evacuated or sheltered at home.

Huge blazes have forced tens of thousands of residents and vacationers in France and Spain to evacuate.

Hundreds of thousands of people, including residents as well as vacationers, were forced to evacuate or told to remain indoors.

The answer is something specific, personal, instantly familiar.

Dozens of ships continued to traverse the Red Sea this week, but with scattered disruption, uncertainty about the passage grows by the hour.

A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.

Saudi Arabia intercepted two ballistic missiles from Yemen, Greek security sources told Reuters, as fighting in a second front in the Iran war escalates.

Nvidia is aggressively securing supply of high-bandwidth memory, an essential component for its GPUs and systems.

A small Finnish town has turned to the world's largest commercial sand battery to tackle a major hurdle in the energy transition: intermittency.

Elon Musk's rocket maker is conducting the first test fight for its massive Starship rocket since the company's IPO last month.

President Donald Trump has renewed a flurry of tariffs, including slapping 25% duties on Brazilian imports and vowing 50% tariffs on goods from Canada.

Moody's said AI spending is forcing even the world's most cash-rich corporations to lean heavily on debt, stock sales and off-balance-sheet moves.

Tesla shares plunged almost 18% this week after the company missed on earnings and turned cash flow negative.

Trump on Truth Social railed against the European Union's new fine on Google and prior penalties against U.S. tech giants Apple, Meta and Amazon.

Oil prices dropped by around 3% on Friday, but remained on track for a weekly jump of 10% as the U.S.-Iran war continued to escalate.

The president told Axios he was considering an operation "bigger than ever before" before Reuters reported Pakistan is seeking to restart peace talks.

After threatening a “massive attack,” the president said his envoys were talking with Tehran but left open the possibility of a sharp military escalation.

The country’s foreign minister said, however, that anyone wishing to partner with the West African nation “must respect” its sovereignty.

President Donald Trump’s push for Japanese self-reliance aligns with the long-standing desire of conservatives in Tokyo to build intelligence capabilities.

The votes marked the first test of Republican support for the conflict since President Donald Trump resumed military strikes against Tehran this month.

The price of Brent crude, now up about 40 percent this month, surged Thursday after Iran’s Houthi allies in Yemen claimed strikes on Saudi tankers.

European Union members are looking to keep up pressure on Russia as Ukraine’s outlook improves, even as some countries seek exemptions.

Some residents in the village of Nethy Bridge have left their homes over the threat the wildfire spreading.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Roberto de Zerbi says players who are not "proud and happy to stay" at the club should leave.

Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.

Seven-year-old Miles Phillips' hit song has now had 1.5m views and was even played on the radio.

The tournament director of the Canadian Open says changes need to be made to the "demanding schedule" of players after Jannik Sinner and Novak Djokovic pull out of the Masters 1000 event.

Noah Lyles runs a world-leading 9.79 seconds as he claims an impressive victory in the 100m at the US athletics championships.

The event celebrated press freedom after the first dinner was cancelled by a shooting in April.

United States President Donald Trump said LeBron James might be "a racist" when asked if the basketball star is the "best ever" to play the sport.

US military says it disabled a tanker that was attempting to evade the American blockade on Iranian ports.

BuzzBallz cannot be recycled because the metal lid and plastic body are attached, say experts.

This quintessential village has become ‘Blackpool-on-the-Water’, one local resident tells Jacqui Merrington as daytrippers swarm the village without contributing to the local economy

Punch, the orphaned monkey at a Japanese zoo that stole many people’s hearts by clinging to an orangutan plushie, is marking his first birthday with a flood of well-wishing messages from his fans around the world — even though he now has friends and is no longer holding on to the toy.

Truck drivers currently make an average of $70,000 a year as the truck market has tightened up and rates have increased

A Russian ballistic missile strike killed 10 at a defence exhibition on Friday

Donald Trump hinted he will run for president again during a speech at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Friday (24 July).

Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits

Officials have described it as the ‘worst fire in the history of the region’

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed to the international community to support the people of Syria

The vault depicts Dionysus and Ariadne, whose union is one of the best-known Greek myths

The three heatwaves seen so far this summer have had a lasting impact across farming, wildlife, health, and more – and the Met Office warns this is the new normal