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Bombarded with spam texts? Stats show the problem is getting worse in Canada

Bombarded with spam texts? Stats show the problem is getting worse in Canada

At least once a day, Digvijay Kosamia glances at his vibrating cellphone to check the latest text he's received, only to find a "frustrating" message from an unknown number.
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King Charles III鈥檚 openness about cancer has helped him connect with people in year after coronation

King Charles III鈥檚 openness about cancer has helped him connect with people in year after coronation

LONDON (AP) 鈥� King Charles III鈥檚 decision to be open about his cancer diagnosis has helped the new monarch connect with the people of Britain and strengthened the monarchy in the year since his dazzling coronation at Westminster Abbey.
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Madonna's biggest-ever concert transforms Rio's Copacabana beach into a massive dance floor

Madonna's biggest-ever concert transforms Rio's Copacabana beach into a massive dance floor

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) 鈥� Madonna put on a free concert on Copacabana beach Saturday night, turning Rio de Janeiro's vast stretch of sand into an enormous dance floor teeming with a multitude of her fans.
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With a vest and a voice, helpers escort kids through San Francisco鈥檚 broken Tenderloin streets

With a vest and a voice, helpers escort kids through San Francisco鈥檚 broken Tenderloin streets

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) 鈥� Wearing a bright safety vest with the words 鈥淪afe Passage鈥� on the back, Tatiana Alabsi strides through San Francisco鈥檚 Tenderloin neighborhood to its only public elementary school, navigating broken bottles and stained sleeping b
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Juro Kara, rebel playwright behind Japan's modern underground theater, dies at 84

Juro Kara, rebel playwright behind Japan's modern underground theater, dies at 84

TOKYO (AP) 鈥� Juro Kara, who helped shape Japan鈥檚 postwar avant-garde theater, defiantly yet playfully transforming the essence of Kabuki aesthetics into modern storytelling, has died. He was 84.
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Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87

Frank Stella, artist renowned for blurring the lines between painting and sculpture, dies at 87

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� Frank Stella, a painter, sculptor and printmaker whose constantly evolving works are hailed as landmarks of the minimalist and post-painterly abstraction art movements, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.
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It's Cinco de Mayo time, and festivities are planned across the US. But in Mexico, not so much

It's Cinco de Mayo time, and festivities are planned across the US. But in Mexico, not so much

The United States is gearing up for Cinco de Mayo.
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After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'

After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) 鈥� Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of 鈥渁bortion aftercare kits,鈥� Kimra Luna got a text.
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After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'

After Roe, the network of people who help others get abortions see themselves as 'the underground'

NAMPA, Idaho (AP) 鈥� Waiting in a long post office line with the latest shipment of 鈥渁bortion aftercare kits,鈥� Kimra Luna got a text.
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Kevin Spacey denies new allegations of inappropriate behavior to be aired on UK television next week

Kevin Spacey denies new allegations of inappropriate behavior to be aired on UK television next week

LONDON (AP) 鈥� Kevin Spacey , the Oscar-winning actor, has denied new allegations of inappropriate behaviour from men who will feature in a documentary on British television that is due to be released next week.
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