A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit southwest Japan, igniting fires near its epicenter, damaging buildings and highways, ...

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Booker Prize winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running for the 2026 edition of the prestigious fiction award ...

RAVE to the kind Canadian couple who allowed us to cut in the border line at the Aldergrove border crossing. We didn’t know that the Nexus line had shut down early — much to our chagrin — when ...

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At 12:20 a.m. on a clear, cool night, I started up the snow-covered flanks of Mount Hood. I soon fell behind my friend David Moffat and our guide Denis Lee. They walked side by side, debating the ...

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is full of charming chemistry, chuckle-inducing humor, crunchy action sequences and twists galore, writes our reviewer.