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  • Jemma Melvin the Platinum Jubilee Pudding winner poses for the media with her creation, at a department store in London, Friday, May 13, 2022. Jemma was chosen from over 5000, entries. The 31-year-old copywriter's seven-layer lemon Swiss roll and amaretti trifle beat 5,000 desserts in a U.K.-wide competition to become the official pudding — or dessert, if you’re not British — of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

    A trifle for the queen: UK unveils Jubilee pudding winner

  • This image released by the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, Thursday, May 12, 2022, shows a black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. The Milky Way black hole is called Sagittarius A*, near the border of Sagittarius and Scorpius constellations. It is 4 million times more massive than our sun. The image was made by eight synchronized radio telescopes around the world. (Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration via AP)

    Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way's huge black hole

  • Florida is pictured in this satellite image. (Google)

    Pilot down, passenger takes over with 'no idea how to fly'

  • A dead fish that used to be underwater sits on cracked earth above the water level on Lake Mead at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Monday, May 9, 2022, near Boulder City, Nev. Lake Mead is receding and Sin City is awash with mob lore after a second set of human remains emerged within a week from the depths of the drought-stricken Colorado River reservoir just a short drive from the Las Vegas Strip. (AP Photo/John Locher)

    Watery graves recall early Las Vegas' organized crime days

  • Gerda Cole and her daughter Sonya Grist reunites at Cole's 98th birthday party. The two have not seen each other for 80 years after Cole gave Grist up for adoption when she was still a baby.

    She gave her newborn daughter up for adoption 80 years ago. On her 98th birthday, they finally reunited.

  • Cryptocurrency investor Jillian Friedman is seen in her office Wednesday, April 27, 2022 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

    More traditional finance professionals shifting to crypto as sector grows up

  • Cst. Mike Della-Paolera returns a stolen hockey card to Ian Moore in a Kelowna RCMP handout photo. A Wayne Gretzky rookie card that was stolen seven years ago in West Kelowna, B.C., is now back in the hands of its owner. Mounties say the card landed in their exhibits file in 2019, but it was only returned to owner Moore when it came up for disposal and the officer who investigated the original theft put the pieces together. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kelowna RCMP **MANDATORY CREDIT**

    Rookie Gretzky card returned to B.C. man seven years after it was stolen

  • Police officers attend the scene of an incident at Point Frederick, Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, on Friday April 29, 2022. Government officials didn't specify how many people were involved in the incident. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg

    Friend remembers cadet who died in vehicle incident as 'class clown'

  • Suly Ortiz stands with her Labrador retriever at McCarren Park in the Brooklyn borough of New York, on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. Ortiz described her yellow Lab as "really calm, lazy and shy." Research released on Thursday, April 28, 2022, confirms what dog lovers know _ every pup is truly an individual. A new study has found that many of the popular stereotypes about the behavior of specific breeds aren’t supported by science. (AP Photo/Emma H. Tobin)

    Your dog's personality may have little to do with its breed: study

  • FILE - A marine iguana suns itself on the edge of a boardwalk in San Cristobal, Galapagos Islands, Ecuador on May 2, 2020. More than one in five species of reptiles worldwide, including the marine iguana, are threatened with extinction, according to a comprehensive new assessment of thousands of species published Wednesday, April 27, 2022, in the journal Nature. (AP Photo/Adrian Vasquez, File)

    One-fifth of reptiles worldwide face risk of extinction

  • Danica Nelson is photographed in Toronto on Monday, April 25, 2022. Nelson never used to invest the money she saved out of fear that she might lose it in the stock market. She credits this thinking to a scarcity mindset, which is a belief that there are not enough resources -- time, opportunities, connections or in this case, money -- to go around.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young

    Understanding scarcity thinking can help remove the shame of financial difficulties

  • A forest canopy is shown at Sunnybrook Park, in Toronto, on Friday, June 3, 2016. (Eduardo Lima/The Canadian Press)

    Toronto wants residents to help choose the city's new official tree

  • A Canada Post stamp honouring Salome Bey, Canada’s First Lady of the Blues, is shown in a handout. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Canada Post

    Stamp of Salome Bey, Canada's 'first lady of the blues,' unveiled

  • Physical bitcoins are displayed next to a Bitcoin ATM in Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Kin Cheung

    EXPLAINER: How cryptocurrencies work (and how they don't)

  • Matthew Butler, who spent 27 years in the Army, speaks during an interview on March 30, 2022, in Sandy, Utah. Butler is now one of the military veterans in several U.S. states who are helping convince conservative lawmakers to take cautious steps toward allowing the therapeutic use of hallucinogenic mushrooms and other psychedelic drugs. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

    'Magic mushrooms' for therapy? Vets help sway conservatives

  • Joyce Ares sits for a portrait in the dinning room of her home on Friday, March 18, 2022, in Canby, Ore. When she turned 74, Ares was feeling fine when she agreed to give a blood sample for research. So she was surprised when the screening test came back positive for signs of cancer. After a repeat blood test, a PET scan and a needle biopsy, she was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

    Can cancer blood tests live up to promise of saving lives?

  • The setting sun reflects off of power lines as a motorist in a pickup truck travels on the Trans-Canada Highway in Walhachin, B.C., Tuesday, March 29, 2022. Canada's greenhouse gas emissions plummeted to their lowest level in almost three decades in 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

    Canada's emissions plummet during first year of COVID-19 pandemic

  • In this Thursday, June 4, 2015, file photo, Lay's products, a PepsiCo brand, are displayed at a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market in Bentonville, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

    Loblaw, Frito-Lay resolve high-profile pricing dispute that pulled chips from shelves

  • Canadian conductor and founder of the Brott Music Festival, Boris Brott, is seen in this handout image. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Bob Hatcher

    Renowned Canadian conductor Boris Brott remembered after alleged hit-and-run in Hamilton

  • A waiter talks with patrons at a patio in Yorkville in Toronto, on Friday, June 26, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

    Summerlicious to return to Toronto in August