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On a sunny morning earlier in July, Lucy Pecile was putting children’s lunch boxes out on a picnic table at North Burnaby’s Forest Grove Park.A man she didn’t know came purposefully toward her and asked if she’d noticed the large black bear lying in a sunny patch of grass behind…

Published on 21/07/2026 – 11:02 GMT+2 Daniele Compatangelo, La7’s Washington correspondent and president of the White House Foreign Correspondents’ Association (WHFCA), has died suddenly at the age of 50 following a sudden illness, according to Italy’s ANSA news agency. Compatangelo, who covered US politics for more than two decades and…

Published on 21/07/2026 – 20:12 GMT+2 Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister, Yolanda Díaz, has been sued before the Supreme Court by singer Julio Iglesias, who accuses her of “unlawful interference with his right to honour and privacy” after two former employees came forward in January with allegations of sexual abuse. Iglesias…

Defaults on student loans have surged across the United States, reaching record levels as borrowers struggle to keep up with payments.The numbers have spiked since payments came due again following a lengthy pause intended to provide relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, around 9.5 million people — 1 in 5…

By&nbspGreta Ruffino&nbspwith&nbspAP Published on 21/07/2026 – 20:23 GMT+2 A federal appeals court has rejected former US President Joe Biden’s bid to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of interviews he gave to a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected president. In a 2-1 ruling issued late Monday, the…

EXPLAINERSeveral games in the 2026 World Cup have already ended in dramatic penalty shootouts.Published On 19 Jul 202619 Jul 2026|Updated: 19 Jul 2026 09:16 PM (GMT)Updated: 19 Jul 2026 09:16 PM (GMT)It is the business end of the World Cup and as the games get tighter and tenser, many of…

HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Three new women’s world records have been set at the Lumberjack World Championships competition held in a small Wisconsin community, full of high-powered sawing, chopping, logrolling, speed climbing and cheers of “Yo-Ho!”This year, 66 men and 40 women attended the three-day competition in Hayward that ended…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of President Donald Trump or Britain’s King Charles III, and Anthropic’s chatbot would oblige. Prompted to do the same for Thailand’s king, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince or China’s leader, and the artificial intelligence model declined.It is a key finding from…