Thousands were ordered to evacuate Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories marked the latest chapter of a terrible summer for wildfires in Canada, with tens of thousands of people forced to leave their homes and vast swathes of land scorched. As of Thursday, more than 1,000 wildfires were burning, including about 230 in the Northwest Territories. More than 20,000 residents of Yellowknife have been given until noon Friday to leave by road or on commercial and military flights.

SEE THE MAP SHOWING HOW QUICKLY FIRES ARE SPREADING

North Korea was accused at the UN Security Council on Thursday of spending heavily on its nuclear arms program while its people go hungry and lack basic life necessities. Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the council that people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have experienced increasingly severe political repression while economic conditions have worsened, with widespread systematic human rights violations committed.

SEE HOW NORTH KOREA RESPONDED TO THE UN'S CHARGES

Britney Spears and her model husband Sam Asghari are heading for a divorce after 14 months of marriage, US media reported -- the latest personal crisis for the troubled pop star. Asghari, 29, filed divorce papers citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for ending the marriage. The couple was married in 2022, about a year after a California judge dissolved a controversial 14-year conservatorship.

HOW WILL DIVORCE IMPACT SPEARS' NEW-FOUND FREEDOM?

The school where Britney Spears' music video "Baby One More Time" was filmed is also the site of a popular teen musical. Name the film and year.

Thursday's answer: Walmart, along with Sam's Club and Neighborhood Market, owns a 25.2% share of the US grocery market -- double the combined total of runner-up Costco (7.1%) and third-place Kroger (5.6%).