Ninety-three workers have died and at least 200 others have been hospitalised in northeastern India after drinking toxic liquor, officials said Saturday, in the latest case of alcohol poisoning in the country. The deaths in Assam state came less than two weeks after tainted liquor killed about 100 people in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and…
VICTORIA — Two government reviews will dig deeper into possible money laundering in British Columbia, expanding the province’s scrutiny beyond casinos. The reviews are aimed at stopping the possibility of money laundering in other sectors of the province’s economy, which were cited in a June report by former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German, who concluded…
Meghan Markle just had her first official public engagement without her husband, Prince Harry, on Thursday, but that doesn’t mean she wasn’t thinking of him the whole time. According to multiple reports, the Duchess of Sussex described Harry as “the best husband ever” to many of the locals in Chester, U.K. during her first solo…
TORONTO — The diplomatic gulf between the federal government and Saudi Arabia widened to encompass travel on Tuesday as the country’s state airline announced it was suspending operations in Canada. A tweet from Saudia announced that its routes operating between the two countries would cease to function in a matter of days, marking the latest…
A pilot shot down in a dogfight with Pakistani aircraft returned to India on Friday, after being freed in what Islamabad called a "peace gesture" following the biggest standoff between the two countries in years. But fresh violence raged in Kashmir, with seven people killed in the Indian-administered part of the tinder-box territory, suggesting that…
Many of us can only dream about getting up close to the Royal Family. Tim Rooke, Shutterstock’s royal photographer, doesn’t have to. Rooke has been taking pictures of the British royals for more than two decades, including iconic images of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s 2011 wedding, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement photocall…
British fighters are among hundreds of Islamic State jihadists who surrendered to Western-backed forces in eastern Syria, a senior commander has said. Some 400-500 people, including Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) fighters left the village of Baghuz on Monday, in the latest sign that fanatical resistance inside the terror group’s last village is…
Canada’s economy surprised many experts with a stronger-than-expected showing in May, according to new data from Statistics Canada — and it has everything to do with the crappy weather Canada saw this past April. Economic output grew by 0.5 per cent in May, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday, well ahead of expectations of 0.1 per…
With one in six Americans practicing ethical non-monogamy, it’s hard not to wonder if an open relationship might be for you. After all, it’s better than cheating or having your desires go unfulfilled. But it’s not for everyone, and if it’s for you, it takes work. Here are some things to think about before deciding…
The blue-hued mountains rising above the small Nepali village of Solambu are breathtakingly beautiful, but life in the isolated farming communities of the surrounding Kavre district can be grinding and harsh. Solambu’s 12-year-old medical outreach centre, already a rarity in rural Nepal, can only be reached after a five-hour drive from the capital Kathmandu; two…