The local housing market was hot in January as there was a 14.6 per cent boost in year-over-year sales, according to the Kitchener-Waterloo Association of Realtors (KWAR). The sales boost was buoyed by large increases in the detached market and the condo market which saw 189 (26 per cent increase) and 80 (19. 4 per cent increase) sales respectively. Only […]

Thrill-seeker Matt Ziegler, 43, died with a New Zealand friend, named as Sarah Barker, 40, and two French people. Officials believe the foursome may have taken a ski lift together before heading to an off-piste slope. It is thought one of the groups may have triggered the avalanche at 8,200ft in Val Veny on Sunday. The area is near Mt […]

MADRID (Reuters) – Catalan pro-independence parties said on Monday they would file parliamentary amendments opposing the Spanish government’s 2019 budget proposal, potentially putting at risk the budget and the administration of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’ Socialists. Sanchez’ minority Socialist government came to power last June and holds just a quarter of the seats in parliament, meaning it relies on the […]

BEIRUT – The United States on Monday called on other nations to repatriate and prosecute their citizens who travelled to Syria to fight with the Islamic State group and who are now being held by Washington’s local partners. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces say they have detained more than 900 foreign fighters during their U.S.-backed campaign against IS in northeastern […]

A vibrant cocktail, ruby-red and sparkling, will set the tone for an intimate Valentine dinner at home. Called Los Amores and inspired by a Kir Royale, it was created by Patrick Timmis, the beverage director for the Bien Trucha Group, a family-owned Mexican restaurant and catering company in Geneva, Ill., with four places: Bien Trucha, A Toda Madre, Quiubo and […]

The body of a woman was found in the bathroom of a luxury charter boat in Sydney on Saturday. (iStock) Unsafe gas levels were detected in the bathroom of a luxury cruise ship in Sydney where a woman's body was found over the weekend, Australian officials said Monday. The New South Wales Police Force said in a news release the […]

The brutal attack of the 17-year-old, known as Promise, happened in Canning Town, London, on January 14. The court heard how Anton Muir, 18, Ephraim Idris, 18, Ishaq Ahmed Musa Abdille, 18, Shemar Dawes, 18 and a 15-year-old boy stole a car and mowed Promise down at speed. After Promise had been hit by the car, he scrambled to his feet and […]

The opioid crisis continues to rear its ugly head in Waterloo region. On Monday, Waterloo Regional Police announced that officers had responded to 75 calls for opioid overdoses in January and that 10 of those calls were fatal. Police made the announcement on Twitter where they noted that both numbers are records within the region. — Waterloo Regional Police (@WRPSToday) […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet with the leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party Arlene Foster on Wednesday during a visit to Belfast, the DUP said. The DUP, which props up May’s minority government but opposes her Brexit deal, wants changes to an insurance policy in that agreement which seeks to avoid the return of […]

In November 2016, when the cookbook author Yasmin Khan returned to her home in London after the olive harvest in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, she faced a problem: No matter how strenuously she tried, she could not write. Her manuscript for a book on Palestinian cooking was due the next spring. But images of the Israeli military checkpoints and soldiers […]