BEIJING (AP) — The pilot who flew a small plane into Beijing’s tallest building last week wrote in his diary about “ending his life,” Chinese authorities said Thursday.

Their investigation concluded that the cause of last Friday’s crash was “personal reasons,” according to a statement posted on social media by Beijing’s Chaoyang district government.

The pilot, a 66-year-old man, died and 13 other people were injured. None of the injuries are life-threatening and

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Keir Starmer formally apologized Thursday for the British state’s role in separating tens of thousands of unmarried mothers from their babies , a practice that lasted for decades until the 1970s.

He said in Parliament that “we are deeply and profoundly sorry” for what he called a “stain on our history.”

An estimated 185,000 babies of unmarried mothers were adopted in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976.

GENEVA (AP) — European food safety and health officials have reported an outbreak of salmonella infections linked to flavoured-noodle products involving 106 confirmed cases — mostly among children and young adults — in 14 countries.

The cases were first reported in November and at least 49 people needed hospital treatment, food safety agency EFSA and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said in separate statements on Tuesday and Wednesday.

“Flavored noodle products are the most likely source of an ongoing multi-country outbreak of infections

NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities are seeking to recover the body of a climber known as “Green Boots” from the upper slopes of Mount Everest , nearly three decades after the mountaineer died on the world’s highest peak.

The Indo-Tibetan Border Police, an Indian paramilitary force, has begun the process of hiring high-altitude recovery specialists to retrieve what it believes is the body of Dorje Morup from Everest’s northern route in Tibet.

Morup was part of a six-member Indo-Tibetan

The heat wave that’s been bearing down on Ontario this week has shown no signs of letting up and has only spread further east.

Environment Canada has scores of heat warnings posted for most of Ontario and Quebec, and now stretching across to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

Daytime temperatures in Ontario — from Windsor to Ottawa and Thunder Bay through Timmins and southern James Bay — have been in the mid-30s, with the humidex making it feel even hotter.

Similar heat warnings across much

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vision of middle powers working with less traditional partners outside the superpower club is already taking shape at the United Nations, says Canada’s ambassador.

“We have set up a number of different kinds of relationships that work for specific issues,” said David Lametti, Canada’s ambassador to the UN. “And that’s precisely the manner in which I think Prime Minister Carney has envisaged this, for areas outside of the UN.”

Carney attracted global attention this January

It’s the 1,000th day of war since a Hamas-led attack on Israel that sparked the war in Gaza . Other conflicts have emerged in the region, and fragile ceasefires show scars of persistent attacks. Both Israelis and Palestinians are weary of the strain.

The fate of over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza, largely displaced and living amid ruins, remains uncertain. Israeli forces controlled over half of the territory under the ceasefire that took effect on Oct. 10, but Israel’s government

Toronto police are searching for at least one suspect after two people were stabbed in Scarborough on Canada Day.

Investigators say they were called to Nugget Avenue and McCowan Road, north of Sheppard Avenue East, just before 10 p.m. for reports that someone had been stabbed.

When they arrived, they found two people suffering from stab wounds.

Paramedics tell CityNews they were taken to the hospital in serious but stable condition.

The ages and genders of the victims were not immediately known.

There was no immediate suspect description

Toronto Zoo officials say they plan to reopen on Thursday after the facility was forced to close its doors on Canada Day due to a power outage.

A statement from the zoo says the outage impacted “guest-facing services” across its site, and that the decision to close was made “out of an abundance of caution” and to ensure the safety and comfort of its visitors.

The outage occurred while much of southern Ontario was under an extended heat wave, but the zoo says its animals were kept cool despite the