Britain's inflation rate hit a new 40-year high of 9.1 per cent in the 12 months to May, figures showed Wednesday, as Russia's war in Ukraine drove food and fuel prices ever higher.
The war in Ukraine will cast its shadow over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Commonwealth national leaders as they arrive in Kigali, Rwanda on Wednesday for their first meeting since the onset of the pandemic.
An earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing at least 255 people, authorities said.
Jurors in a civil trial Tuesday found that Bill Cosby sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975, awarding Judy Huth, who is now 64, $500,000 US.
Two Canadians — one of them sought by Interpol — have been found dead of knife wounds in Mexico's Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen, the state prosecutor's office said Tuesday.
