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Montreal's Just For Laughs festival has countless comedy performances at indoor venues — but organizers say it's important that the fun spills out onto the streets, with clowns, dancers and puppets.

It's a simple game to guess a five-letter word. People on social media have been very enthusiastic about sharing how well they did.

Avah Lamie, 11, says this is a stressful time to be a kid. Rates of anxiety and depression among children and youth were on the rise even before COVID, but the past two years have made things worse.

Attorneys who specialize in bankruptcy law already are seeing an increase in business following changes in U.S. regulations on personal bankruptcy. The new rules, which make it more difficult for individuals to file for Chapter 7, go into effect this fall.

Relief food supplies begin to arrive in the West African nation of Niger, months after calls for help first went out. The United Nations says it will feed 2.5 million people, but food shortages are grave throughout the Sahara desert region.

President Bush concludes his European trip in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia. In the capital city of Tbilisi, the president spoke before tens of thousands of cheering people. He praised democratic reforms Georgia and its young leader Mikhail Saakashvili are undertaking.

People in London woke up Friday morning after the worst terrorist attack on British soil, returned to public transportation, and tried to get on with normal life. Londoners seem determined not to be derailed by Thursday's events, and many chalk it up to the city's history.

Security forces battle anti-government protesters in the former Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Some accounts say hundreds of people have died in the country's eastern Fergana Valley. Martha Brill Olcott of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace offers details.

Forty years have passed since Vincent Chin was killed. But today's wave of hate incidents against Asian Americans make what happened in 1982 even more relevant in the fight for civil rights.

An image of the racist sign was shared online Monday, gaining the attention of thousands across social media.