LONDON (AP) — Climate activist was acquitted Friday of a charge of refusing to follow a police order to leave a protest blocking the entrance to a major oil and gas industry conference in London last year.

The courtroom gallery erupted with applause as Judge John Law told Thunberg and her four co-defendants to stand and told them they were cleared of the criminal charge of breaching the Public Order Act. The judge cited “significant deficiencies in the evidence” presented by the prosecutor.

Law said the police could have applied less

Road closures are once again coming to the King Street West and Shaw Street area, as construction for Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) track replacement and water main work, and once it’s set up, it will be there most of the year.

Beginning mid-February, King Street West will be down to a single lane in each direction between Dufferin Street and Shaw Street. This restriction will be here until mid-May.

It gets worse from there.

Between mid-May and October, King Street will

BOSTON (AP) — Theo Epstein, the architect of two World Series championships with the Red Sox, is returning to the organization as a minority owner and part-time senior adviser to its parent company, Fenway Sports Group.

The Brookline, Massachusetts, native, who also helped the Chicago Cubs win the 2016 title — their first in 108 years — will advise the sports and entertainment conglomerate on operations and investment strategy.

“This is truly a unique opportunity for me — a chance to partner

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled Premier Doug Ford’s mandate letters to cabinet ministers can be kept private.

reverses the lower court rulings.

The case stems from the Ontario government’s decision to deny the CBC’s request under the province’s freedom-of-information law for ministerial mandate letters written after the 2018 election.

A mandate letter tells a cabinet minister what is expected of them, outlining the premier’s priorities for their role.

The Information and Privacy Commissioner disagreed, ordering

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For weeks, scrutiny over singer Taylor Swift’s travel in private jets has been bubbling up on social media, with people pointing out the planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide released with every flight.

The megastar is dating Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, one of the NFL’s most celebrated players. The growing romance between the couple has been closely watched, with Swift showing up at several games — which has meant much travel on private jets. The chatter got even louder the

LONDON (AP) — A man died Friday after falling from the Tate Modern art gallery, one of London’s busiest tourist attractions, police said.

The Metropolitan Police force said officers and ambulance crews were called to the gallery at about 10:45 a.m. (1045GMT). A man, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said the death was being treated as “unexpected” but not suspicious.

Tate Modern said it would remain

TOKYO (AP) — A group of residents of towns near Japanese nuclear plants submitted a petition on Friday asking regulators to halt safety screening for the restart of idled reactors until damage to a plant that partially lost external power and spilled radioactive water during a recent powerful earthquake is fully examined.

The and dozens of strong aftershocks in north-central Ishikawa prefecture left 240 people dead and 15 unaccounted for and triggered a small tsunami.

Two idled reactors at Shika nuclear power plant on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa suffered power

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — The head of Tunisia’s largest opposition party was sentenced to three years in prison in the latest display of the North African of President Kais Saied.

Rached Ghannouchi, the 82-year-old president of the Islamist party Ennahdha, was sentenced Thursday along with his son in-law on embezzlement convictions. The charges were based on allegations the party relied on foreign financing to bankroll its political campaigns in 2019.

The court also ordered Ghannouchi to pay a $1