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1 day ago | castanet.net | John O'Connor |Krysta Fauria |Lindsey Bahr

Alanis Morissette "would not be alive" without therapy. The Ironic hitmaker admitted she still "struggles" with suicidal thoughts and believes much of her depressive nature comes from being "highly sensitive". After making her admission about being saved by therapy, she was asked if she was suicidal and told The Guardian newspaper: “All the time. I still struggle with it. I have an anxious, depressive tendency. Those who are sensitive are much more susceptible to their environmental information.

1 day ago | castanet.net | Abdulrahman Shaheen |Kareem Chehayeb |Mike Pesoli |Josh Boak

A Michigan police chief said church staff stopped a man armed with a handgun and a long gun, averting a potential mass shooting at a church west of Detroit on Sunday morning. Chief Ryan Strong said parishioners at CrossPointe Community Church in Wayne spotted the gunman driving recklessly and then saw him exit his vehicle wearing a tactical vest and carrying weapons. The man began firing as he approached the building during a church service and was confronted, Strong said at a news conference.

1 day ago | castanet.net | Abdulrahman Shaheen |Kareem Chehayeb |Mike Pesoli |Josh Boak

A suicide bomber in Syria on Sunday detonated himself inside a church filled with people, killing at least nine, Syrian state media reported. The explosion in Dweil’a in the outskirts of Damascus took place as people were praying inside the Mar Elias Church. SANA, citing the Health Ministry said that at least 15 others were wounded. Britain-based war monitor the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says there were 30 people wounded and killed, but did not give exact numbers.

2 days ago | castanet.net | Sidhartha Banerjee |Alessia Passafiume |Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison

A murder charge has been laid in the disappearance of an Alberta woman who was last seen close to six years ago. RCMP say Twyla Evans, who was 39 when she was last seen alive in Wetaskiwin, south of Edmonton, was reported missing in September of 2019. Police say her body has not been recovered despite search efforts they describe as exhaustive.

3 days ago | castanet.net | Alessia Passafiume |Sarah Ritchie |Catherine Morrison |Sidhartha Banerjee

Alberta has surpassed a thousand cases of measles, making it the second province in Canada after Ontario to do so within this year. Data from the provincial government's dashboard shows 24 more cases were confirmed as of Friday, bringing Alberta's total to 1,020. Officials say most cases have been found in children between the ages of five and 17.