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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a “new partnership” with the United States to “help make America great again”, in a speech delivered in New York on Thursday.
Carney said that while the world is ‌undergoing a “rupture” as the US transforms its commercial relationships, working closely with Canada in specific sectors, including aluminium, cars and critical minerals, would strengthen both countries.
Asked about his January trip to Beijing to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping, Carney…

Worn down by thousands of passers-by honouring an unusual tradition, a floor mosaic of an anatomically detailed bull in one of Milan’s grand arcades is getting a sensitive makeover.
Legend has it that grinding one’s heel on the mosaic bull’s testicles at the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II guarantees a return one day to the city.
“Because of constant pirouettes on the heel made by tourists visiting Milan, the pink tesserae that make up its testicles have been worn down, forming a small crater,”…

The live-in assistant of actor Matthew Perry has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for his role in supplying ketamine that contributed to the star’s fatal overdose in 2023, bringing a major chapter of the case to a close.60-year-old Kenneth Iwamasa pleaded guilty in August 2024 to conspiracy to distribute ketamine resulting in death. He was sentenced in a Los Angeles court on Wednesday and will also serve two years of supervised release and pay a $10,000 fine.Perry was found dead in his backyard hot tub in Los Angeles in October 2023. Medical officials later ruled his death was caused by the acute effects of ketamine, with drowning listed as a contributing factor.Iwamasa had no medical training and injected Perry with ketamine and worked alongside two doctors to supply the actor with more than $50,000 worth of the drug in the weeks leading up to his death. He admitted to repeatedly administering injections, including multiple doses on the day Perry died.During sentencing, Judge She..

Hrishikesh Koloth was a MMA figher A 27-year-old Indian-origin mixed martial arts (MMA) trainee who died in a rare bear attack in northern Saskatchewan, Canada has been identified as Hrishikesh Koloth, a fighter who dreamed of competing in the UFC, according to his family.Hrishikesh Koloth was killed on May 8 while working at a uranium exploration site near Nordbye Lake, around 850 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon. He was employed as a contractor technician at the Zoo Bay property operated by Vancouver-based UraniumX Discovery Corp.He was from Kerala, India and had moved to Canada three years ago and was living in Penticton, British Columbia with his elder brother, according to CBC News. He had trained in MMA for more than a decade, first in India and later in Canada, and was preparing to pursue a professional fighting career.His brother, Arjun Koloth, said Hrishikesh’s lifelong ambition was to fight professionally.”That was his dream. That's why he came here,” Arjun said. “He wa..

The personal assistant who ⁠injected Friends star Matthew Perry ⁠with a fatal dose of the hallucinogenic ⁠drug ketamine was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison on Wednesday, bringing to a close the prosecution of five people who admitted to playing roles in the actor’s death.
Judge Sherilyn Garnett delivered the sentence for Kenneth Iwamasa, the person who ‌found Perry floating face down and lifeless in a hot tub at his Los Angeles home in October 2023.
Federal prosecutors said Iwamasa…