An extensive air and land search for a missing toddler in the mountainous village of Le Vernet, France, is nearing the 48-hour mark, a window that French authorities said would be “crucial to be able to optimize our chances” of finding him. The two-and-a-half-year-old boy, identified as Émile, was playing in the garden of his
Leandro De Niro Rodriguez, a grandson of Robert De Niro, has died at 19. His mother, Drena De Niro, announced the news Monday in an Instagram post.“I don’t know how to live without you but I’ll try to go on and spread the love and light that you so made me feel in getting to
The company behind the submersible that imploded during a recent dive to the Titanic ignored key principles that guide organizations working in high-risk environments, experts in emergency management say. Jack Rozdilsky, a professor at York University in Toronto, says OceanGate’s business — ferrying paying passengers to the floor of the North Atlantic — could be
Canada is urging travellers to exercise a “high degree of caution” when travelling to France as protests have broken out across French cities in response to the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old by police. “Since June 27, 2023, demonstrations in opposition to police violence have been taking place. Further demonstrations are planned in the commune
A woman had to have part of her leg amputated after it became trapped in a movable walkway at Bangkok’s Don Mueang Airport on Thursday, officials said. The 57-year-old Thai woman was on her way to board a domestic flight to Nakhon Si Thammarat province at around 8:40 a.m. when the incident took place.Authorities believe
Ukrainian troops are advancing in all directions of their counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces, a senior defence official said on Friday. Since the start of the counteroffensive this month, Ukraine says it has reasserted control over clusters of villages in the southeast although Russia still holds swathes of territory in the east, south and southeast.“If we talk
A Canadian-flagged ship carrying debris from the imploded submersible Titan docked in Canada on Wednesday as the investigation into the fatal disaster continues. Horizon Arctic returned to port in St. John’s, N.L., carrying the remains of OceanGate Expedition’s Titan submersible. It went missing on June 18 while on an expedition to the wreckage of the
A British tourist in Jamaica died after trying to drink all 21 cocktails listed on a bar’s menu alongside two Canadian women as part of a challenge, an inquest has found. Timothy Southern, 53, was on holiday in May 2022 with his children, sister and other family members, staying at the Royal Decameron Club Caribbean
The leader of the Wagner mercenary group defended his short-lived insurrection in a boastful audio statement Monday, but uncertainty still swirled about his fate, as well as that of senior Russian military leaders, the impact on the war in Ukraine, and even the political future of President Vladimir Putin. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made his first public appearance
Suleman Dawood, a 19-year-old university student, and his father Shahzada Dawood, a British-Pakistani businessman, were among five passengers aboard the Titan submersible, believed to have catastrophically imploded Sunday during a deep-water exploration of the Titanic shipwreck. All five passengers are presumed dead. It’s uncertain if authorities will be able to recover their bodies.Shahzada had been