An early-morning blaze forced nearly 100 residents of an apartment block on Sherbrooke Avenue out of their homes on Christmas Day, according to the City of Prince Rupert. RCMP said Friday that an investigation determined that the fire was deliberately set.

The 37-year-old ensured that his family were saved from the early-morning fire, but fell unconscious after returning to the house.

A man accused of murdering two women in a suspected stabbing at a block of flats on Christmas Day has appeared in court. Joanne Pearson, 38, and Teohna Grant, 24, were pronounced dead at the scene in Santa Cruz Avenue, Bletchley, Milton Keynes, after police arrived at 18:36 GMT on 25 December.

He was one of four pedestrians hit by a car which was travelling on the wrong side of the road in Shaftesbury Avenue in Soho - in the capital's theatre district - at 00:45 GMT. Anthony Gilheaney, 30,