The posthumous pardoning of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK in 1955, shows how far we have come from an era when defending yourself against domestic abuse could result in a death sentence.
The conditional pardon for the nightclub hostess from Rhyl in Denbighshire does not erase her conviction for murdering her lover, David Blakely. But it does acknowledge that Blakely subjected her to sustained physical and emotional torment before she killed him.
Savings have deteriorated for a majority of Canadians, particularly the bottom 80 per cent of Canadian households, as spending significantly outpace income growth, according to research by Boston Consulting Group.
Consumer spending is up, but that growth isn’t coming from income for those outside the top 20 per cent earners. The report said that for the lowest 20 per cent of earners, spending jumped 27 per cent over the past five years, while disposable income just went up three per cent.
A German court has sentenced a man and a woman to lengthy prison sentences for enslaving and abusing two Yazidi girls under the so-called “Islamic State” group in Iraq.
The Iraqi couple were convicted of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. They were also convicted of sexually abusing children and aiding and abetting the listed offenses.
The man was sentenced to life in prison, while his former partner was given a juvenile sentence of nine and a half years.
A Saskatoon man is facing a two-year sentence and a $10,000 fine for his role in an immigration scheme that saw records falsified and employment records misrepresented.
Balvir Singh received his sentence on July 8 after pleading guilty to one count of counselling immigration misrepresentation under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) back in April.
The conditional sentence also includes 40 hours of community service.
The article doesn’t mention anything about being whipped and deported.
The US will take control of the Strait of Hormuz from Iran and be reimbursed for doing so, Donald Trump has said.
The president claimed the US would become the “guardian angel” of the waterway, a major maritime chokepoint for global energy trade that has effectively been closed by the conflict in the Middle East.
“We’re going to keep the strait, and we’ll probably run it,” Mr Trump told Fox News on Monday. “We’ll become the guardian of the strait. Maybe we’ll call it the guardian angel of the strait. And we should be reimbursed for that.”
Canada’s greatest energy problem is not that we produce too little oil. It is that we have spent more than a decade making it increasingly difficult to sell it. Ottawa’s decision to support, in principle, a new pipeline to Canada’s Pacific coast is encouraging, but approval alone will not restore investor confidence. Trust, once lost, must be earned back. For years, governments layered Canada’s energy sector with carbon taxes, increasingly complex regulations, emissions caps, tanker restrictions and political uncertainty. Investors responded exactly as rational investors should. They invested elsewhere.
Counter terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the death of Ann Widdecombe, after “new information and evidence”, officers have said.
A 28-year-old white British man from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was originally arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday but has now been re-arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
“We are pursuing multiple lines of enquiry to establish the motivation for this attack,” head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, Laurence Taylor, said.
Only yesterday the UK Police were assuring us that she had committed an act of racial violence against herself.
🚨 BREAKING: CHILLING CCTV CAPTURES ANN WIDDECOMBE MURDER SUSPECT FLEEING HOME WITH WOODEN BATON HOURS BEFORE BRUTAL KILLING
The Sun has obtained dramatic CCTV showing the prime suspect, a 28-year-old man from Rotherham, jumping into his red hatchback just before 8am last… pic.twitter.com/xlaG5OGT8r
— J Stewart (@triffic_stuff_) July 12, 2026
BANGKOK (AP) — A huge fire tore through a music bar in Bangkok overnight, killing at least 27 people and leaving 25 hospitalized in critical condition in the Thai capital’s most deadly blaze in 17 years.
Photos from the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar in a northern part of the Thai capital showed people fleeing as flames shot out the single-story building and thick black smoke billowed into the sky. Shoes lost and scattered as their owners sought to flee could be seen in pictures from the aftermath of the tragedy.
🇹🇭🚨‼️ INSANE FIRE IN BANGKOK CLUB!
Flames shot 20 meters (65 feet) out of the entrance. People inside had no chance.
Unfortunately, at least 29 dead.
What caused such a raging fire shooting into the streets? That’s insane. pic.twitter.com/5PvKd25wrG
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) July 12, 2026
Canada will never be a military powerhouse. But it is making up for lost time during the post-Cold War years, when spending on fighting machines sank to risible levels. As various MPs have stated, Canada had planes that wouldn’t go up and submarines that wouldn’t go down, and still does for the most part. Today, only one of Canada’s four rust-bucket submarines is in service and its CF-18 fighter jets are twice the age of some of its pilots.
Even before two powerful earthquakes reduced the OPPE 25 government housing project to an anarchy of shattered concrete and broken lives, the foundations of Hugo Chávez’s populist “Bolivarian” revolution were shaking in what was once a hotbed of support.
Gabriel González remembers his elation when, in 2013, he received the keys to his freshly completed apartment in one of the 12-floor tower blocks El Comandante had ordered to be built in an affluent corner of the resort town of Caraballeda.
The moment a building collapses as the ground shakes violently during the powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake that struck Venezuela pic.twitter.com/Pnfy7v15pm
— Surajit (@surajit_ghosh2) July 10, 2026
OTTAWA—Experts are urging Correctional Service Canada to slow down after it claimed using artificial intelligence to help create criminal profile reports for prisoners would save time and maintain accuracy, despite using just six text cases in a trial.
The warnings come as CSC considers rolling out generative AI tools that would summarize sensitive documents used to write influential assessment profiles of offenders going to prisons, as the Star has reported, raising alarm about the potential for the summaries to be tainted by AI-generated hallucinations or biases.
An Iranian newspaper has published a “revenge list” of world leaders to be targeted for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the former supreme leader of Iran.
The rogues’ gallery in the conservative newspaper Hamshahri, which is published by authorities in Tehran and is known for its provocative tone, begins with images of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu with sniper-style targets on their foreheads.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending the deal brokered between Canada and the United States to open the delayed Gordie Howe International Bridge and insists the profits split with the Americans will be minimal.
“The word ‘net’ does a lot of work in this. We are sharing after Canada is paid back,” Carney said in an interview with CTV Calgary’s Tara Nelson at the Calgary Stampede on Sunday when asked about the agreement.
An accurate visual representation of "Modern Britain". pic.twitter.com/auRyaKxjSe
— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) July 12, 2026
It may have been the final day of the 10-day Calgary Stampede exhibition and rodeo, but two pancake breakfasts held simultaneously Sunday morning made clear the battle for the hearts and minds of Albertans is just ramping up.
At Ranchman’s Cookhouse and Dancehall, one of Calgary’s most well-known western bars, the pro-independence group Let Alberta Decide hosted a pancake breakfast, drawing hundreds. One man wore a shirt that read “Alberta First. Ottawa Last,” before grabbing a plate of eggs, sausages, pancakes and fruit.
