Canada to legalize marijuana on October 17

Marijuana will be legal nationwide in Canada starting Oct. 17 in a move that should take market share away from organized crime and protect the country's youth, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Wednesday.

Son serving as pallbearer killed when mom's coffin crushes him

An Indonesian man died on Friday after a coffin carrying the body of his mother fell from a stilt tower and crushed him to death, police said.

23-foot-long python swallows woman whole

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) - A 7-meter-long (23-foot-long) python has swallowed a woman in central Indonesia, a village official said Saturday. The victim, 54-year-old Wa Tiba, went missing while checking her vegetable garden near her village on Muna island in Southeast Sulawesi province on Thursday evening, according to the village chief, Faris.

After 57 years, international pen pals meet in person for the first time

Connie Male and Gun-Britt Efraimmson have been friends for 57 years, but they’re about to meet for the first time ever. How is that possible? They’re pen pals.

North Korean refugee gives insight on historic summit

Many are weighing in on the historic summit that took place yesterday between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un. North Korean refugees have also been watching closely, and are hoping that this first meeting between the two leaders won’t be the last, and change will come soon to their homeland.

Significance of Singapore summit

A historic moment for the U.S. as President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore, the first time that the leaders from both nations have ever met face to face. 

Trump, Kim Jong Un arrive in Singapore ahead of Summit

President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un converged on this island city-state Sunday ahead of one of the most unusual and highly anticipated summits in recent world history, a Tuesday sit-down meant to settle a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal.

Woman caught on video destroying gym equipment

A woman in Toronto was captured on video trashing gym equipment with a set of weights inside a health and fitness club. 

Supplies, messages of support for Guatemala

From supplies to messages of support, Houstonians coming together to help the victims of Volcán de Fuego in Guatemala. Guatemala Restaurant near Hillcroft and Richmond avenues in Houston is doubling as a donation collection site.

France: Macron rewards real life 'Spiderman' who saved dangling child

PARIS (AP) - President Emmanuel Macron on Monday lauded as a hero a migrant who scaled an apartment building to save a young child dangling from a balcony, and rewarded him with French nationality and a job as a firefighter.

With US talks in limbo, Korean leaders hold surprise summit

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in met Saturday for the second time in a month, exchanging a huge bear hug and broad smiles in a surprise summit at a border village to discuss Kim's potential meeting with President Donald Trump and ways to follow through on the peace initiatives of the rivals' earlier summit.

Voters in Ireland repeal constitutional ban on abortion

Abortion rights activists proclaimed victory for Irish women Saturday as referendum results indicated voters in largely Roman Catholic Ireland overwhelmingly backed repealing a 1983 constitutional ban on abortions.

GUILTY: UK couple murdered nanny, burned her body

LONDON (AP) — A London couple delusionally obsessed with a former boy-band star were found guilty Thursday of murdering their French nanny and burning her body on a bonfire in their backyard.

Pakistan teen killed at Santa Fe High School is laid to rest

A 17-year-old Pakistani exchange student killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Texas was laid to rest Wednesday in her hometown of Karachi. Sabika Sheikh was among 10 students and staff slain Friday at Santa Fe High School. The alleged shooter is 17-year-old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, who is being held on capital murder charges.