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Germany’s motor vehicle authority gave a green light to remedies for a further 1.1 million Volkswagen AG (VOW.XE) vehicles affected by the company’s emissions-rigging scandal, bringing the number of vehicles approved for fixes to more than 2.5 million, the car maker said Wednesday. Owners of Volkswagen Tiguan models and of the Caddy from Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles – all fitted with …

The University of Calgary paid a demanded $20,000 after a “ransomware” cyberattack on its computer systems. The university announced the ransom payment Tuesday, a week after the initial attack. The university grappled with security issues for almost a week after the cyberattack and on 7 May it announced that it had made the ransom demanded by hackers in efforts to …

The Ontario government will be setting guidelines to ensure young athletes are taken out of a game in case of a suspected concussion. The move comes after a bill dubbed “Rowan’s Law”, named for a 17-year-old Ottawa girl who died of injuries sustained while playing highschool rugby, passed yesterday in the legislature with rare all-party support.

New study into the ringing-ear condition known as tinnitus points to an alarming level of early hearing damage in young people who are exposed to loud music, prompting a warning from a leading Canadian researcher in the field. “It’s a growing problem and it’s going to get worse,” said Larry Roberts of McMaster University’s department of psychology, neuroscience, and behavior. …

Human rights group Amnesty International has accused Malawi of a systematic failure in policing following the abduction and killings of several albino men, women and children in recent months. In a recent report, Amnesty International has declared that Malawi government has failed to protect people with albinism. The report also demands the authorities do more to punish those responsible deeply …

Theresa Saldana, best known for her role as Rachel Scali on the ’90s crime series The Commish, has died. The actress reportedly died at the age of 61 of undisclosed causes following a Los Angeles hospital stay. The actress was one of Hollywood’s hottest starlets at the start of the ’80s, but an acclaimed turn in the hit movie “Raging …

Angelika Graswald, the Poughkeepsie woman accused of murdering her fiance faced an Orange County Court judge again on Tuesday. Angelika Graswald, of Poughkeepsie, is accused of causing her fiance’s drowning while kayaking in the Hudson River last April. Authorities say Angelika Graswald removed a drain plug from Vincent Viafore’s kayak in April 2015 and pushed a floating paddle away from …

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has taken the crown in Forbes’ annual list of the worlds most powerful women for the sixth consecutive year. Markel has been the Chancellor of Germany since 2005 and has led her constituents through a recession and has opened Germany’s borders to more than a million immigrants from Syria and other Muslim countries in the last …

For the second day in a row, two miles of beaches in Orange County were closed to swimmers Monday afternoon after a cluster of large sharks was spotted near the shore, authorities said. Lifeguards at the beach said they saw three sharks estimated to be about 12 feet long on Monday. It wasn’t clear whether any of them were the …

Researchers pointed out a glaring gender gap in their field: Women are less likely than men to be included in studies about exercise and sports medicine, in part because of their periods. “The complexities of the menstrual cycle are considered major barriers to the inclusion of women in clinical trials,” the authors wrote. Historically, women were often left out of …

Comedian John Oliver has partnered with nonprofit group RIP Medical Debt to buy up and forgive nearly $15 million owed by patients for hospital treatment. “It is pretty clear by now [that] debt buying is a grimy business, and badly needs more oversight, because as it stands any idiot can get into it,” John Oliver said. “And I can prove …