Tuesday night, a sombre crowd of more than 500, holding candles and balloons huddled around an intersection near where 11-year-old Finnigan Danne’s body was found. With a dozen green and white balloons sent drifting into evening sky, a mother, a family and a community said goodbye to 11-year-old Finnigan Danne. …

A heat warning by Environment Canada says a warm front will bring extreme heat and humidity to Toronto—and much of Ontario. A blistering heat wave is expected to begin Wednesday in Ontario, blanketing a zone from Windsor to as far north as Temagami in what will feel like 40 C …

A York University professor says it’s an albino raccoon in the photos taken by a Richmond Hill woman. It appeared like a vision — sniffing around a tree, wriggling itself under a plant, strolling along the metal fence with a swagger that did not subside despite a dog’s barks metres …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – As a high school senior, Hwang Yu-mi went to work bathing silicon wafers in chemicals at a Samsung factory that makes computer chips for laptops and other devices. Four years later, she died of leukemia. She was 22. After Yu-mi’s death in 2007, her father, …

MEXICO CITY (AP) – Americans’ love for avocados and rising prices for the highly exportable fruit are fueling the deforestation of central Mexico’s pine forests as farmers rapidly expand their orchards to feed demand. Avocado trees flourish at about the same altitude and climate as the pine and fir forests …

New Delhi: A Dalit youth was allegedly beaten to death in the Lakhimpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday over suspicion of being involved in a case of theft in the area recently. According to reports, the 22-year-old Dalit youth, who belonged to a very poor family, was mercilessly thrashed …

New Delhi: The Opposition on Wednesday discussed the ‘deplorable’ situation in Kashmir and the alleged thrashing of Dalits’ by a new group of so called cow vigilanteas and sought the Centre’s explanation in this regard. Speaking in the Upper House, the Leader of Opposition Ghulam Nabi Azad said, ”I appreciate …

In what appears to be a case of ‘human sacrifice’ or ‘witchcraft’, a seven-year-old boy’s body was found in the almirah of a neighbour at Malko village near Lambra on the Jalandhar-Nakodar road on Tuesday. The victim’s hands and legs were tied and mouth stuffed with cloth, besides injury marks …

Days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the states to act against “self-styled” cow vigilante groups, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal on Tuesday warned those violating law on the pretext of cow protection of stern action. He also batted for dairy farmers who are being harassed in the name …