Global supermarket chain Carrefour will stop selling PepsiCo products in its stores in France, Belgium, Spain and Italy over price increases for popular items like Lay’s potato chips, Quaker Oats, Lipton tea and its namesake soda. The French grocery chain said it pulled PepsiCo products from shelves in France on Thursday and added small signs … Read more
WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Monday, due to complications following a minor elective medical procedure, Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said Friday. It was the department’s first acknowledgement that Austin had been admitted — five days earlier — to Walter Reed National Military Medical … Read more
Christian Oliver was on a vacation with his two daughters. (File) German Hollywood actor Christian Oliver and his two daughters were killed on Friday in a tragic plane crash in the Carribean sea, police said, adding that the family’s small plane experienced trouble soon after it began its journey to a nearby island. The family … Read more
Stories about the power of stories are an easy sell; in part, I think, because they subtly ennoble the producer and the consumer of those stories, shedding a glow of valour on the profession of the former and chosen leisure pursuit of the latter. Ferdia Lennon’s debut novel, Glorious Exploits, is very much a story … Read more
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Rocket barrage fired at northern Israel from Lebanon – reports About 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Mount Meron area of northern Israel, the Times of Israel has quoted the Israel Defence Forces as saying. Widespread sirens sounded but … Read more
Article content A 35-year-old Whitby man and a 34-year-old Oshawa man have been charged with attempted murder while a 27-year-old Whitby man faces a slew of firearms charges tied to a Mississauga shooting. Article content Peel Regional Police were called on Nov. 8 at 12:33 p.m. to a shooting in the Matheson Blvd.-Creekbank Rd. area. … Read more
Even with a regulatory crackdown on cryptocurrency exchanges in the past year, the price of bitcoin rose steadily through most of 2023, and now sits at around $43,610 — a nearly $18,000 increase in value since September. Bitcoin hit a peak value of around $68,000 in November 2021. But by November 2022, it had lost … Read more
(NewsNation) — The American public is divided over how much involvement the U.S. should have in the war between Israel and Hamas, according to a new poll released this week. New findings from Gallup published Friday found four in 10 surveyed Americans say the U.S. is involved about the right amount, while 39% think the … Read more
The man who brought Tetris to the Western world three decades ago says it was never designed to have an end – calling the fact a 13-year-old managed to beat the game “kind of a miracle.” “This kid is amazing,” Henk Rogers told Global News about Willis Gibson. “I love what he did and the … Read more
LEEDS, Alabama – A man crashed his car outside a Bass Pro Shop in Alabama, stripped down to his birthday suit and plunged into the giant aquarium inside the store, police said. The ordeal happened Thursday night in front of shocked shoppers in the town just outside Birmingham, Leeds Police Chief Paul Irwin … Read more
