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Months after the death of their baby girl, Carly Wedge and Alexandre Genest are touring around Nova Scotia on their bicycles — working through their grief, raising money for the hospital that tried to save her, and spreading the word about a vaccine that’s in development.

An administrative building belonging to Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil company Saudi Aramco in the eastern city of Dhahran was attacked, causing a limited fire, the Energy Ministry said in a statement Wednesday, as fighting between Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis and the kingdom intensified.

A winery in Tuscany is reeling after thieves made off with about 30,000 bottles of some of Italy's most prized wines last week in what the producer described as the country’s largest wine theft on record.

As polls show the race to be Toronto’s next mayor is tightening, experts say endorsements can help Brad Bradford and Olivia Chow show they’ve got momentum in the final stretch.

The cyberattack on French supermarkets earlier this week that left hundreds of fridges worth of food spoiled should be a wake-up call about the vulnerabilities of digitized systems and devices that are connected to the internet, cybersecurity experts say.

When Ukrainian drones hit three data centres owned by Russian technology and AI company Yandex this weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy initially said it resulted in a sudden drop in pro-Russia bot activity on social media. Some experts are casting doubt on his claim, instead suggesting people are misinterpreting data collected after the strikes.

Cole Davison, co-owner of Ottawa bookshop the Spaniel’s Tale, tells The National about the moment hundreds of people formed a human chain to help him move books to the store's new location.

A Wyoming microbiology graduate student from China has been arrested on accusations she poisoned the tea of a colleague who had pending patents, then tried to flee the U.S. after police questioned her.

Helen Branswell, a journalist celebrated for her years of coverage on public health and infectious diseases, has died at the age of 69.

The Ontario NDP wants the government to nationalize the steelmaker to save local steel plant jobs.

As Toronto's condo crash deepens, QuietMarket lets individual buyers access discounted developer sales previously reserved for investment firms.

Jamaican police say Trevon Bryan was kidnapped at gunpoint by four masked men on a local roadway in August.

He spent decades greeting students each morning — and when the school board tried to move him elsewhere, they fought to keep him.

A dental hygienist described soaring "returns," as a Durham officer showed how easily numbers can be faked at the Crypto King fraud trial Tuesday.

Publicly posted construction notices from the Ministry of Transportation said road work was set for Tuesday between Clissold and Royal York roads.

Not much is clear about the deals the U.S. administration claims to have brokered with Russia and Ukraine.

A record 222,550 Torontonians cast early ballots, marking the highest advance voting turnout in more than 10 years.

Korchinski-Paquet had a long-standing medical history of seizures and "often experienced symptoms of confusion, irritability, physically and verbally abusive behaviour, and episodic amnesia following a seizure."

Cycling advocates are seeking leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to save Toronto's downtown bike lanes.

The few questions she took were nonconfrontational and from media outlets that have been sympathetic to Trump

Comedian-actor has pleaded not guilty to charges of rape, sexual assault and indecent assault involving six women between 1999 and 2009

The suspect, identified as Serhii K., has denied involvement in blasts that ruptured Baltic Sea pipeline in 2022

Resource exploration and extraction has stymied companies for decades thanks to the island’s harsh climate, lack of key infrastructure and difficult geology

Kyiv’s relationship with Washington has taken a sharp turn for the worse since Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel and publicly turned on Zelensky

Prosecutors said Jalen Smith, 30, played a ‘central role’ in helping fix games in the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons

A dozen U.S. senators, including six Republicans, call on U.S. President to rescind arrangement with Russia

The White House publicly asked for U.S. Ambassador to Greece Kimberly Guilfoyle's resignation on Tuesday as she faced mounting accusations of improper conduct. Within two hours Guilfoyle announced that she was quitting, ending days of talk and speculation about her professional fate.

Employee identified as a 35-year-old Saudi national named Abdulrahman Alfozan

Houthis had threatened ‘harsh and painful’ response to Saudi-led strikes on Yemeni capital of Sanaa

The 71-year-old Leo returned to his room after the surgery at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, according to a statement from the Vatican spokesman.

While authorities do not possess clear evidence on who was responsible for the drone attacks, “it makes no sense for Ukraine to destroy its own ships in the Black Sea."

Rising bond yields have been a warning sign for financial markets in recent months amid the Iran war's risk to global economies, and the IMF says those risks are more of a concern.

Gillis, who hosted SNL over the weekend, was fired from the sketch comedy show in 2019, five days after being cast as a regular for making racial slurs on a podcast.

Canada has joined more than two dozen other countries in denouncing Iran’s apparent involvement in a planned attack on an air base in England.

Chatbot platform Character.AI said on Monday it has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. and has agreed to sell some assets for US$20 million to Walt Disney.

U.K. spy chief Ken McCallum’s warning comes as NATO’s commander in Europe issues stark language about defending against any military attack.

The Canada Border Services Agency has alleged that Rong Xiang Yuan committed war crimes while serving in the PLA.

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England was “almost certainly” directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Russia has continued to strike Ukraine's energy facilities after the U.S. President claimed there was an agreed ceasefire.

Leo, 71, is expected to spend about a week in the hospital recovering from surgery that found lung cancer.

Kyiv has found itself increasingly vulnerable. A huge attack cut power to 600,000 people there, and a Pentagon-funded satellite program appeared to be curbed without warning.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine received “no early warning from our partners” about a Russian attack. President Trump has said Washington is still “sharing intel.”

We look at the state of the U.S.-Ukraine relationship.

For a pope who appeared to have time on his side, cancer has raised questions about his longevity and brought a new urgency to his plans for the church.

Plus, the antique apples making a comeback.

Pope Leo XIV was diagnosed with a common form of lung cancer on Tuesday, about a year and half into his papacy. He still plans to travel to South America next month.

The strike was the Iran-backed militia’s most lethal against the kingdom, by far, during their long conflict.

President Trump tapped his political appointees to determine whether he could oust Lisa Cook, a Fed governor he had already tried to oust.

The race in Maine, which could decide Senate control, is testing whether there is still room for Ms. Collins’s brand of moderation during a sharply polarizing presidency.

Morgan Stanley is expected to benefit from robust investment banking and equities trading revenue.

U.S. Treasury yields inched lower on Wednesday as investors awaited the latest CPI inflation reading ahead of a flurry of economic data this week.

The action by the Treasury Department was announced less than a day before Bank of America reports quarterly earnings.

Diesel supply is expected to remain tight into 2027 as Iran war-related disruption, falling inventories and resilient demand strain the market, the IEA said.

Worries over supply disruptions due to escalating tensions in the Middle East helped to push oil prices higher.

A ballistic missile has struck energy infrastructure supposedly covered by the "energy ceasefire" announced by Trump on Sunday, Zelenskyy said.

IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said Bessent’s reliance on growth won’t cut the U.S. deficit and $40 trillion debt fast enough, calling for fiscal consolidation.

ASML said some customers are "expressing an interest" in placing orders with the company in 2029 and 2030, giving investors a view into longer-term demand.

U.K. Prime Minister is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as European leaders rally to show support for the country.

President Donald Trump had sought to ban media outlets MS NOW, CNN and Politico from reporting from the White House.

William Chapman was attacked by the tiger after he entered its pen at Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

Elon Musk's system allows Kyiv to protect Ukrainian skies and effectively guide drones to Russian targets.

Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam imposed a curfew after days of unrest that first began over water shortages.

Pope Leo had a "peaceful night" in the hospital after the surgery to remove a lower lobe of his right lung, the Vatican says.

The Competition and Markets Authority has fined Wayfair, Appliances Direct, and Gold's Gym £6m in total.

On three occasions in the past 24 hours, top IMF officials have praised UK plans to reduce its annual levels of borrowing.

Emma Moore shares how creating a special place at home has helped her family.

It is the latest in a series of crackdowns on media critical of the Turkish president and his government.

The TV presenter says she suffered memory loss following her operation to remove a benign tumour.

The red card controversially shown to Brighton defender Pascal Struijk against Sunderland is overturned.

The prime minister branded the recent motion passed by the Green Party conference that ‘zionism is racism’ as antisemitic

Currently undergoing treatment for cancer himself, Charles will privately write to the Pope

The prime minister said he was ‘very happy’ to set out details of the meetings with the club’s owners

Leicestershire Police say the attack appears to have been ‘completely unprovoked’

Purdue University researchers will spend nights away from the search site because of the three-foot-wide, 9lb coconut crabs

A September deal between Greenland, Denmark and the U.S. was supposed to resolve underlying tensions around sovereignty

A vessel carrying more than 2,500 containers is reported to have caught fire and sunk after hitting a naval mine in the 24-mile Strait of Hormuz

Bulgaria says Russia was likely behind drone attacks in the Black Sea that sank two ships in the Black Sea but there is no way of proving it

Family says Frank Stephen Ramirez is in critical condition with his body ‘covered in horrific injuries’

‘A badge should NEVER be a license for discrimination,’ the attorney wrote on social media