Hello, royal watchers. This is your regular dose of royal news and analysis. Reading this online? Sign up here to get this delivered to your inbox. When details emerged recently about the experience Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, is having with her diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer, they came via her new podcast. Tea Talks with…
When my colleague Norimitsu Onishi wrote about the matter early this year, there was a lot of suspicion, but little firm evidence, of undue development industry influence surrounding the process that led Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, to open up the Greenbelt around Toronto to housing construction. This week, a number of blanks were filled by…
This summer’s flight headaches, many of them caused by extreme weather, continue to wreak havoc at airports across the US and beyond, with 11,337 delays and 2,077 cancellations reported so far. And it’s not likely to get much better any time soon. The hardest-hit airports on Monday, which saw the bulk of the cancellations, were…
Drone and helicopter footage shows neighbourhoods burnt to the ground, after fast-moving wildfires tore through the Hawaiian island of Maui. The deaths in the city of Lahaina, the island’s main tourist destination, came as strong winds from a distant hurricane fanned the flames. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes and a…
The death toll from recent flooding in China’s capital rose to 33, including five rescuers, and another 18 people are missing, officials said Wednesday, as much of the country’s north remains threatened by unusually heavy rainfall. Days of heavy rain hit areas in Beijing’s mountainous western outskirts especially hard, causing the collapse of 59,000 homes,…