Striking Air Canada flight attendants vowed Monday to defy another back-to-work order from the country's labor tribunal, but resumed talks seeking to end a walkout that has cancelled travel for half a million people worldwide.

The dream final never materialised. Jannik Sinner was forced to retire in the first set due to illness against Carlos Alcaraz in the Cincinnati Open final. The Italian said he had been feeling unwell since Sunday and could no longer continue. For Alcaraz, its his sixth title of the year and his first in Cincinnati.

Hamas negotiators in Cairo have received a new ceasefire proposal for Gaza, a Palestinian official said Monday. Despite ongoing mediation by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, attempts to broker a lasting ceasefire in the nearly 22-month-long conflict have so far fallen short, while the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen.

At least 20 people were killed on Monday by fresh torrential rains in northern Pakistan, amid the aftermath of an unusually severe monsoon season that has already claimed more than 300 lives in recent days. Flooding and landslides have destroyed entire villages, leaving hundreds trapped or missing, while rescue efforts have been repeatedly suspended by ...

Words popularised by Gen Z and Gen Alpha including "skibidi", "delulu", and "tradwife" are among 6,000 new entries to the online edition of the Cambridge Dictionary over the last year, its publisher said Monday.

An alleged Ukrainian attack on a transformer station cut off crude oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline that runs through Belarus and Ukraine, officials in the two countries said Monday. While other European countries have weaned themselves off Russian energy since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Budapest and Bratislava have ...

An estimated 500,000 civilians are trapped in El-Fasher, the capital of Sudan's North Darfur state, which has been under siege for more than a year by the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group. Our team spoke to one resident who told us about his daily fight for survival.

Iraqi authorities have started to unearth the remains of what could be thousands of victims of the Islamic State group left in a mass grave near the city of Mosul, including soldiers, city residents and members of the Yazidi religious minority.

Two firefighters have died across Spain and Portugal as the Iberian peninsula grapples with devastating wildfires exacerbated by an enduring heatwave. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed across southern Europe in recent weeks to beat back a series of deadly blazes.

Israel is carrying out "a deliberate campaign of starvation" in the besieged Gaza Strip, human rights group Amnesty International said Monday. Seven more people, two of them children, died from malnutrition-related causes in the Palestinian territory on Sunday, the occupied enclave's health ministry said.

A center-right senator and a right-wing ex-president will advance to a run-off for Bolivia's presidency after the first round of elections on Sunday, marking the end of two decades of leftist rule, preliminary official results showed.

PSG began the defence of their Ligue 1 title with a 1-0 victory at Nantes. Vitinha scored the only goal of the match 25 minutes from the final whistle with a deflected shot from outside the box. In other matches, Brest and Lille played out a thrilling 3-3 draw, with Lille striker Olivier Giroud opening the scoring as he returned to Ligue 1 after a 13-year ...

The union representing Air Canada's strikingflight attendants on Sunday said it will remain on strike and spurn a government return-to-work order that they called unconstitutional. The strike has stranded more than 100,000 passengers across the world during the peak summer travel season.

Inspired by the bond he shared with his dogs, a Vermont folk artist founded Dog Mountain on a sprawling hillside property that caters to pets. For dog owners, it's a chance to pay tribute and recognise the contributions their beloved pooches have made to their well-being.

Ahead of an August 18 deadline, a Qatari official on Sunday said Qatari negotiators had shared a draft peace deal with the Congolese government and M23 rebels. Doha is set to host a new round of negotiations, the official added.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa vowed Sunday that the fight to reunify his war-torn country must be achieved through dialogue, not bloodshed, while accusing Israel of fueling unrest in the south.His remarks came as hundreds protested in Sweida over recent Druze-Bedouin clashes and called for self-determination in the Druze-majority province.

Canadas labour board has ordered Air Canada to resume operations after a nationwide flight attendant strike grounded over 700 flights. The directive, issued following a request from Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu, marks the end of the airlines first flight attendant walkout since 1985.

At least 150 people are missing in Pakistans Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province following devastating flash floods that have killed at least 344 nationwide, officials said Sunday. Rescue efforts are underway, with fears that many victims may be trapped under rubble or swept away by raging waters.

Demonstrators rallied across Israel on Sunday, demanding an end to the war in Gaza and a deal to free the remaining hostages, as the military readies a new offensive. The protests come amid rising domestic pressure and international concern over the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian territory.

Frenchman Terence Atmane was knocked out by world number one Jannik Sinner in the semi-finals of the Cincinnati Masters 1000, despite putting up a strong fight in the first set (7-6, 6-2).

Israel said Sunday it struck a Huthi "energy site" in Yemen, after repeated attacks by the Iran-backed group during the Gaza war.

Bolivians are heading to the polls in a pivotal election that could bring the countrys first right-wing government in over 20 years and end the dominance of the fractured MAS party. With the economy in crisis and voter uncertainty high, the outcome could lead to a major political shift both domestically and internationally.

Israel on Saturday said it is preparing to move Palestinians from combat zones to southern Gaza as plans move ahead for a military offensive in some of the territory's most populated areas. Meanwhile the families of Israeli hostages called for a nationwide day of stoppage on Sunday to express growing frustration over 22 months of war.

The Canadian government on Saturday moved to end a strike by Air Canada flight attendants by asking a labour board to order an arbitration. The strike stranded more than 100,000 passengers across the world during the peak summer holiday season.

France was in discussions with Mali over the arrest of a French embassy employee in Bamako, the French foreign ministry said Saturday, noting that the claims, by Malian authorities, that the Frenchman was working to "destabilise" the country were "unjustified".