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Report: Plane that flipped over in Toronto showed high rate of descent

TORONTO (AP) — The alert system on a Delta Air Lines jet that flipped upside down and burst into flames as it tried to land in Toronto last month indicated a high rate of descent less than three seconds before touchdown, a preliminary report said Thursday. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada, which issued the report, continues to investigate the Feb. 17 crash-landing in which 21 people were hospitalized. All 76 passengers and four crew members survived when the Delta plane arriving from Minneapolis burst into flames after flipping over and skidding on the tarmac. The TSB of ...

Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms

NEW YORK (AP) — An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught up in Trump administration funding delays. The early results — a scientific first — were published Wednesday even as study participants worried that politics could cut their access to a possible lifeline. “It’s still a study but it has given me an extension to my life that I never banked on having,” said Jake Heinrichs of New York City. Now 50, Heinrichs ...

Europe’s military leaders discuss peacekeeping force for Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Senior military officers from more than 30 countries across Europe and beyond met in England on Thursday to flesh out plans for an international peacekeeping force for Ukraine as details of a partial ceasefire are worked out. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he didn’t know whether there would be a peace deal in the Russia-Ukraine war, but “we are making steps in the right direction” as a “coalition of the willing” led by Britain and France moves into an “operational phase.” “We hope there will be a deal but what I do know is if there is a ...

Carney plans to trigger an early election in Canada

TORONTO (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will trigger an early election this weekend for an expected vote on April 28, a government official said Thursday, against the backdrop of a trade war and sovereignty threats from U.S. President Donald Trump. Carney will go to Governor-General Mary Simon on Sunday and request to dissolve Parliament, said the official, who wasn’t authorized to publicly give details and spoke on condition of anonymity. Simon’s office holds a constitutional and ceremonial role as the representative of Canada’s head of state, King Charles ...

Israeli strikes across Gaza hit multiple homes, killing at least 85 Palestinians

DEIR-AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli strikes killed at least 85 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip overnight and into Thursday, according to local health officials. Hours later, Hamas fired three rockets at Israel without causing casualties, in the first such attack since Israel broke their ceasefire. Israel resumed heavy strikes across Gaza on Tuesday, shattering the truce that had facilitated the release of more than two dozen hostages and brought relative calm since late January. Israeli bombardments in the past three days have killed at least 592 people, said Zaher ...

Finland is again ranked happiest country in the world, and U.S. falls to its lowest-ever position

HELSINKI (AP) — Finland is the happiest country in the world for the eighth year in a row, according to the World Happiness Report 2025 published Thursday. Other Nordic countries are also once again at the top of the happiness rankings in the annual report published by the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford. Besides Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Sweden remain the top four and in the same order. Aino Virolainen, a digital commerce director, has lived abroad but always wants to return home to Finland. “This is where I always want to come back to and where I ...