National Lifestyle

Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 18-24: May 18: Actor Candice Azzara (″Caroline in the City,” ″Rhoda”) is 84. Bluegrass singer-guitarist Rodney Dillard of The Dillards is 83. Keyboardist Rick Wakeman of Yes is 76.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The complex effects of personal trauma have not traditionally been the stuff of sci-fi and fantasy. They tend to get in the way of the quest. “Game of Thrones” made a meal of it.

MILAN (AP) — South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung was named on Monday the new musical director of the famed Milan opera house, Teatro alla Scala , the first Asian to hold the position.

The salt-and-pepper treatment is a Cantonese technique that can be applied to give almost any meat, seafood or tofu a crunchy exterior and tongue-tingling flavor.

SAN FERNANDO, Calif. (AP) — At least 10 people in the U.S. have been sickened in a listeria outbreak linked to ready-to-eat food products, and a producer is voluntarily recalling several products, federal officials said. The U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter , days after abruptly terminating the head of the Library of Congress, which oversees the U.S. Copyright Office.

People taking Eli Lilly's obesity drug, Zepbound, lost nearly 50% more weight than those using rival Novo Nordisk's Wegovy in the first head-to-head study of the blockbuster medications.

MONTREAL — MedicAlert bracelets are well known to most Canadians — a distinctive piece of jewelry that allows first responders to identify medical conditions in emergencies.

ST. JOHN'S — Atlantic music stars Classified, Kellie Loder and Maggie Andrew emerged as top winners at this year's East Coast Music Awards on Sunday as days worth of festivities honouring the region's musicians wrapped up in St. John’s, N.L.

Amber Heard is now a mother of three. The actor on Sunday wrote on Instagram that she has welcomed twins into the family, a son named Ocean and a daughter named Agnes. She shared the news along with a photo of their tiny feet.