We often hear about bad news, but 2025 offered plenty of positive moments around the world, be it breakthroughs in technology, inspiring achievements in culture and sports, or steps forward in global cooperation, sustainability, and social progress. Across continents, communities celebrated milestones that brought people together, advanced knowledge, and showcased human creativity.
The festive season is often described as the most wonderful time of the year—a time to gather, give, and make memories. It very much is! However, for many families, that joy now carries a quieter undercurrent of financial pressure. Inflation has driven up the price of nearly everything, leaving Canadians rethinking what celebration really means.
Town officials say a fire is threatening Manitoba Hydro transmission lines and, if those lines are damaged, the community could be without power for a month.
Three new swimming sites on the Paris riverbank will open on Saturday — one close to Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral, another near the Eiffel Tower and a third in eastern Paris.
The discovery by a team, including current and former University of British Columbia astronomers, brings Saturn's total to 274, almost twice as many as all other planets in our solar system combined, and leaving Jupiter in a distant second place with 95 moons.
In Germany, people walked across the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, where an estimated 500,000 “love locks” were attached, the padlocks engraved with inscriptions of lovers. In Erbstetten on the Swabian Alb, a wedding couple was made of bales of straw.
