Author: The Canadian Post
The 13-year-old Fraser Valley girl who became Canada’s first locally acquired human case of H5N1 avian flu no longer needs supplemental oxygen and stopped being infectious weeks ago, her doctors say in a case report published this week.
Hundreds of Koreans adopted overseas as children are discovering their adoption files were falsified — listed as orphans when their parents were alive, or swapped for other babies. A truth commission in Seoul is now picking through six decades of records.
The steel bollards meant to keep vehicles off Bourbon Street were not in the ground on New Year’s Eve. New Orleans officials say the aging system was being replaced ahead of the Super Bowl — and the attacker drove around a police car on the sidewalk instead.
El Salvador recorded 114 homicides in 2024, a rate of 1.9 per 100,000 people, its attorney general’s office announced Wednesday — a stunning drop for a country that a decade ago had the world’s highest murder rate outside a war zone.
The New Year’s Day truck rampage in New Orleans was the deadliest vehicle attack in U.S. history, and it followed a pattern security experts have warned about for a decade: a rented vehicle, a crowded street and a target that cannot be fully hardened.
A gunman killed at least 10 people, including two children, in a shooting rampage in Cetinje, Montenegro, on New Year’s Day and remained at large as police sealed off the town.
Weeks after Assad’s fall, Syrians gathered in Douma to demand justice for Razan Zaitouneh and three colleagues, abducted in 2013 and never seen since — one of the revolution’s defining mysteries.
Nearly a month’s rain fell in two days across North West England, breaching a canal, cutting power to thousands and sending rescue boats into a flooded Didsbury hotel on New Year’s Day.
TCU has hired Mike Buddie away from Army West Point as its ninth athletic director, betting on a fundraiser and former major-league pitcher to steer the Horned Frogs through college sports’ upheaval.
Airstrikes across Gaza killed at least 12 people on the first day of 2025, most of them women and children, Palestinian officials said, while Israel warned Hamas of blows “not seen in Gaza for a long time.”
