Amazon pays $2.5 billion in FTC settlement over Prime enrollment tactics. Eligible subscribers can claim refunds up to $51 for unwanted memberships.

The Man Who Pays His Way: Other people’s mass transit should be organised better for tourists

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Documents disclosed on Friday revealed relationship between former power broker’s husband and disgraced financier

Letters from students living in fear.

With a Puy du Fou planned to open in Oxfordshire, Chris Allsop checks out the original park to find out just how excited we should be

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The unnamed official viewed ‘territorial issues like real estate’, a senior Ukrainian official claimed. The White House has pushed back on the report

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More than half a million foreigners are believed to live in Spain without legal permission

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Madison Square Garden says anyone fighting at the arena may be “banned for life” after there were multiple altercations at one of its events

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The snowmobile club in Wasaga Beach, Ont., is calling on Ontario snowmobilers who want to help set a Guinness World Record on Feb. 15. Read More

Off-spinner Bashir has joined Derbyshire on a two-year deal after leaving Somerset, where he found his opportunities limited.

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The sanctity of the 2026 vote is indeed under threat.

Let’s talk about the new and old shows we’ll be watching this winter.

The US president has renewed threats against Iran, weeks after promising to come to the aid of anti-government protesters

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British-Iranian comedian Omid Djalili tells Caspar Barnes about the brutal protest crackdown – and whether US intervention could usher in a new era for Iran

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Official put under investigation for ‘serious violations of discipline and law’, watchdog says

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Separatists from Pakistan's Balochistan province have claimed responsibility for nearly a dozen coordinated attacks across southern Pakistan

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Elena Rybakina has won the Australian Open title with a 6-4, 4-6, 6-4 victory over top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka that avenged her loss in the championship decider here in 2023

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Harry Brook admitted to lying about a nightclub incident in New Zealand in a statement released on Friday night

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Has Canada inadvertently helped to strike a blow against the cause of assisted suicide in England and Wales? Early on Thursday, BBC News reported that the euthanasia bill passed by the original classic House of Commons in June is now unlikely to pass the Lords before the end of the current session. The upper house is taking its time juggling with the bill in committee, with over 1,000 amendments submitted for debate. Read More

Stephen Harper’s ten years as prime minister began on Feb. 6, 2006. Twenty years later is a good time to assess his achievements in office and the legacy he left behind. I worked closely with Harper when he was leader of the Opposition, but not when he was in government, so this is a view from the outside. Read More

A judge has sentenced a Markham, Ont., woman to two years in jail for driving through a red light three years ago at 80 kilometres an hour and causing the crash that killed a 75-year-old woman. Read More

Since my reference to it last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney's address in Davos seems to have been both intended and received as a policy manifesto for Canada and also for other countries that feel short-shrifted by what have traditionally been known as the "great powers." The prime minister quoted the Czech president and former dissident Václav Havel that the communist system sustained itself by adopting the habit initiated by a greengrocer, of placing in his window the Marxist tocsin “Workers of the world, unite!”  (The 300 divisions of Stalin’s Red Army had more to do with it.) This gesture to the regime was widely taken up in the Soviet bloc, in what  Havel described as “living within a lie.” Carney considers this analogous to the adherence of Canada and other countries to “what we called the rules-based international order” (a clangorous platitude that reminds me of my bossy Grade 1 public school teacher). Read More