Your friendly neighbourhood Spider-Man is on an epic record-breaking run: Spider-Man: Brand New Day is the fastest movie ever to cross the $700-million US mark at the North American box office.

Hockey Night in Canada: Punjabi Edition will not be returning, the long-running show said Friday, ending its 18-year run.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the wordmark — referring to a text-only logo — on the top of the app would be changing to a more minimal design. It's the first time the mark is changing in 10 years — and reactions were mixed.

Premier Doug Ford’s government can rip out 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes, the Court of Appeal for Ontario has ruled in a decision released Friday, reversing a lower court decision made in July 2025.

Firefighters across Europe struggled against multiple fires Friday as a new wave of record-breaking heat baked a swath of the continent, their task further complicated by exceptionally parched landscapes.

The U.S. wants Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn a siege imposed by Jewish settlers in a Palestinian village, officials said on Friday, as settlers pressured residents by pitching a new tent before Israeli soldiers arrived and it was taken down.

Curtis Geiger purchased a Calgary Stampede Showband 50/50 lottery ticket last month but only checked it this week to discover he'd won $125,000 — except he didn't. The organization running the lottery says he missed the 48-hour window to collect his prize money.

‌Record rainfall in Japan stranded thousands of travelers at Tokyo's Narita airport on Friday, bringing floods to the surrounding area that disrupted transport, knocked out power to 20,000 homes and killed eight.

A man from the northeastern Ontario town of Cobalt has pleaded guilty to attempted murder in the sword attack on his 16-year-old ex-girlfriend in 2024. Phillipe Rivard Gagnon, 20, entered the plea in Haileybury court this week.

Nigel Farage beat trash-can wearing comic candidate Count Binface on Friday, regaining a seat in Parliament he quit a month ago to trigger the widely mocked special election.