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Generations' worth of memories were laid out on Mary Winning's curb in St. Catharines, Ont., on Sunday in a jumbled mess of sewage-soiled mementoes, furniture, boxes and bags. The 93-year-old's home was flooded twice in five days during back-to-back storms.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's government left the position of Canada's prison watchdog vacant for several months, despite written warnings from the outgoing correctional investigator that leaving the position vacant would seriously compromise the office's powers to do its job protecting inmates.

Thijs de Buck tells The National about the moment he set up a Strava sports app account for his pet hamster, Mollie, to log his nightly rodent runs in Utrecht, Netherlands.

A bear attack in Maple Ridge, B.C., on Sunday has left a three-year-old girl in hospital.

The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs is calling on Ottawa and Alberta's government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters.

RCMP say they are investigating the homicide of a 12-year-old Edmonton boy after remains were found in a rural area of northern Alberta. In a news release on Sunday, police said Athabasca RCMP officers responded to a report of human remains found on Thursday, Aug. 6, just before 3:30 a.m.

Some Taylor Swift songs have been removed from social media videos posted by U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign and the White House, which has used two of the American superstar's recordings over the past week.

10 years after Colten Boushie was shot and killed on a rural Saskatchewan farm, his family says there are few opportunities for healing. With every new article and social media post come hateful comments, often presented by people who are ignorant of the facts surrounding his death.

With the arrival of mosquito season, health officials are reminding residents to protect themselves against West Nile virus.While most people experience flu-like symptoms or no symptoms at all, some people do experience severe illness, or death.Residents whose lives have been impacted by the virus believe there should be more public awareness.

New Amnesty International report concludes that the country has suffered ‘an alarming regression into authoritarian practices’

Iran has issued dramatic new demands around the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oman says talks to manage the strait between it and Iran are continuing.

Large-scale Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities have become almost routine in recent weeks

More than one million people have been moved to safety as authorities brace for flooding and landslides

Iran will not engage in talks with U.S. as long as Washington breaches an interim deal signed in June, says Iran’s foreign minister

A new round of 50 per cent U.S. tariffs on a range of Canadian goods is set to take effect in about 10 days

Trump announced last month that there had been a breakthrough in his plan to end the war

Probes likely to target companies, donors and contractors around Trump administration

EU member states are allowed to temporarily reintroduce controls at so-called internal borders in case of a serious threat, though they should be a last resort and time-limited

The Republican-led Senate voted 50-49 to make Blanche the second confirmed attorney general since Trump returned to the White House last year

A car bomb exploded in southwestern Colombia on Saturday, injuring two people, a day after newly sworn-in President Abelardo de la Espriella vowed to crack down on armed groups.

Spain imposed border checks on Italian travellers after Rome refused to lift restrictions on Spaniards, escalating a dispute over migration to Ceuta.

The U.S. government this week halted inspection activities in Michoacan, Mexico's top avocado-producing state, where organized crime groups have extorted growers and exporters.

George Box, who died last year, was 11 when he swiped the bone fragment while on a school trip to Glastonbury Abbey in the summer of 1956.

The bipartisan legislation, championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, would penalize countries that continue to buy Russian oil, gas and other exports that fund the Ukraine war.

Five school staff members, including teachers and administrators, died in the shooting around 10 a.m. at Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province northwest of Bangkok.

The orders come after an earlier effort by Trump to overturn birthright citizenship was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled it's protected by the U.S. Constitution.

Defence Minister David McGuinty says Canada must 'be vigilant' of foreign actors targeting the country's technology, pointing to artificial intelligence and intellectual property.

As of Sunday, AI systems in Europe must explicitly notify users when they're dealing with AI instead of a human, while AI-generated content like deepfakes must be labelled.

The tests will help rapidly reduce the time it takes for women to be told whether they have the condition, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Officials told platforms to verify children’s ages using government-issued documents, like identity cards. But the companies have balked, apparently over privacy concerns.

He played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television series before serving two terms as a Democratic congressman from Georgia.

Five years after giving up on Afghanistan, America still has a responsibility to the country’s women.

The traditional ways of cultivating the peppers may not survive the challenges of climate change and soaring costs, so Pakistani farmers are trying to adapt.

Francisco de la Torre, the mayor of Málaga, is credited with turning the once drab port into a culture and tech hub. Critics say he’s also destroyed the city’s soul.

The president said Mr. Scharf, a deeply conservative lawyer and the current staff secretary, would replace David Warrington in early September.

The Trump administration’s proposed changes to the review process will allow it to take a wrecking ball to historic sites across the country.

Police divers found a 27-year-old woman and her 5-month-old baby in the water near Liberty Island. A man was arrested and charged with reckless endangerment.

Water levels in the reservoir, which sits behind the Hoover Dam, are at record lows. A continued drop would imperil water supplies for millions of people and cut electricity from the dam.

Hopes were dashed over the weekend for a breakthrough on the Strait of Hormuz.

The Trump administration has backed plans to build an Australian scandium mine as part of a push to challenge China’s critical-minerals dominance.

U.S. Treasury yields inched lower at the start of the week as investors look ahead to a busy week of economic data, particularly key inflation data.

German inflation figures and U.K. GDP will show just how deeply months of elevated energy costs have seeped into prices, and how much growth has taken a hit.

As Earth’s orbit gets more crowded, companies are betting that cleaning up space junk could become a lucrative new business.

"Excitement about Myspace's relaunch reflects nostalgia for a more analog time, when algorithms were less dominant in our lives," an analyst told CNBC.

The windfall is fueling fresh political and environmental backlash, with Trump accusing Exxon Mobil and Chevron of making “too much money.”

The escalating tally underscores how far the two sides remain from resolving a crisis that has choked the Strait of Hormuz for more than five months.

Iran's foreign minister reportedly said his country is not engaging in talks with the U.S., but added: "Messages are being exchanged through intermediaries."

In his second quarter as the new CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Greg Abel did some serious spending, including $4.5 billion on buybacks.

The rogue AI attacks involving OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta all tied back to a small Israeli startup named Irregular.

“Israel does not accept the 15-point document,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The U.S. president had touted the Board of Peace plan as a step toward a lasting settlement.

Tehran insists on compensation and the lifting of sanctions, among other concessions from the U.S., as a condition for reopening the strait.

The 2026 festival was being hosted in the city for the first time and ended on Sunday.

Typhoon Dolphin has made landfall, bringing strong winds and heavy rain across eastern China including Shanghai.

The prime minister is embarking on a UK tour with a series of announcements aimed at easing living costs.

BBC Sport looks at the team behind Great Britain 800m star Keely Hodgkinson's golden rise and pursuit of a world record.

Footage also shows the home burning after the explosion, thought to have been caused by a gas leak.

Forensics revealed that the 'realistic' looking body was in fact not human.

Four pre-season games is a very small sample, but Andoni Iraola is starting to put his stamp on Liverpool. So how are the Reds shaping up under their new boss?

The party says the government's plans to modernise the NHS risk another major hospital scandal.

Tech companies are not modelling their own claims of the technology giving people more free time.

A woman tells the BBC her attacker kicked her hotel room door "off its hinges" after reception gave him the key.

A bookshop event and a conference speech featuring the former Cambridge University professor have been called off

A shoplifting suspect jumped into a river to try and escape a police officer who was chasing him on a borrowed bicycle.

Former rugby player Gary Lavin founded VitHit in 2001.

The extreme heat has led to major wildfires, prolonged drought and thousands of projected heat-related deaths

Travelodge said they have since made immediate changes to its room access security policy

The Prime Minister said the cost of living ‘continues to weigh heavily on so many people’s lives’.

Heat health alerts are in place across England as the UKHSA has warned there could be a rise in deaths among the vulnerable population

Parts of the UK are set to see their fifth heatwave of the summer

Exclusive: As judges begin to overturn indefinite jail terms handed to children and young people – and hundreds more cases are being reviewed – Vera Baird, chair of the miscarriages of justice watchdog, demands that Andy Burnham take ‘wholesale’ action to address the scandal. Amy-Clare Martin reports

The scheme will begin from the start of the new school year