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  • Celebrity
    The Canadian Press

    Celebrities join Prince William for Earthshot Prize award

    LONDON (AP) — Celebrities joined Prince William in London on Sunday for the inaugural awards ceremony of his Earthshot Prize, an ambitious environmental program that aims to find new ideas and technologies around the world to tackle climate change and Earth's most pressing challenges. The winners announced Sunday included the government of Costa Rica, which was honored for a project that pays local citizens to restore natural ecosystems, and the city of Milan, which was handed a prize for its Fo

  • Business
    Yahoo Finance

    Netflix earnings, housing data: What to know this week

    Third-quarter earnings are set to ramp further this week, after big banks beat consensus estimates. New data on the housing market will also be in focus.

  • News
    The Canadian Press

    Coast Guard: 1,200-foot ship dragged California oil pipeline

    Investigators believe a 1,200-foot (366-meter) cargo ship dragging anchor in rough seas caught an underwater oil pipeline and pulled it across the seafloor, months before a leak from the line fouled the Southern California coastline with crude. A team of federal investigators trying to chase down the cause of the spill boarded the Panama-registered MSC DANIT just hours after the massive ship arrived this weekend off the Port of Long Beach, the same area where the leak was discovered in early Oct

  • Entertainment
    The Canadian Press

    ‘Halloween Kills’ carves out $50.4 million at box office

    “Halloween Kills” may be available to watch at home, but the latest installment in the Michael Myers saga is making a killing at the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters. The David Gordon Green-directed horror scared up $50.4 million from 3,705 locations, according to studio estimates Sunday. Universal’s “Halloween Kills” far surpassed expectations, which had the film pegged for a more conservative debut in the $30 million range. It also easily bested its main competition,