For many people, restrictions on cross-border travel are no big deal. For others, it’s been a life-altering mess. That includes residents of one unusual U.S. community stranded by the Canadian borde...

The global death toll from COVID-19 eclipsed four million people on Wednesday as the crisis increasingly becomes a race between the vaccine and the highly contagious delta variant.

A squad of gunmen assassinated Haitian President Jovenel Moïse and wounded his wife in an overnight raid on their home Wednesday, with police killing four suspects and arresting two others hours late...

Emergency workers gave up Wednesday on any hope of finding survivors in a collapsed Florida condo building, telling sobbing families that there was "no chance of life" in the rubble as crews shifted t...

England and its long-suffering soccer fans finally have the chance to add another trophy to the 1966 World Cup after overcoming Denmark 2-1 in extra time on Wednesday to reach the European Championshi...

A container ship anchored in Dubai at one of the world's largest ports caught fire late Wednesday, authorities said, causing an explosion that sent tremors across the commercial hub of the United Arab...

England has broken through its semifinal ceiling at major soccer tournaments. A title match awaits for the first time in 55 years after their 2-1 win over Denmark.

New York heralded a comeback from the COVID-19 pandemic by honouring first responders, but the CBC's Kris Reyes says not everyone is ready to open things up so fast. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) ...

Businessman Aftab Dada is thrilled to have a giant Marilyn Monroe statue back in Palm Springs, Fla., where he says it is “absolutely loved” by residents and tourists alike. But not everyone in to...

American authorities have revoked the NEXUS trusted traveller cards of thousands of Canadians over the past five years — more than three times the number revoked by Canadian officials, CBC News has ...

Japan is considering banning all spectators from the Olympics, several sources told Reuters on Wednesday, with authorities expected to declare a state of emergency for Tokyo to contain coronavirus inf...

Pope Francis's recovery from intestinal surgery continues to be "regular and satisfactory," the Vatican said Wednesday, as it revealed that final examinations showed he had suffered a "severe" narrowi...

The apparent ease with which a former U.S. diplomat convinced the Syrian Kurds to investigate and release a Canadian woman he helped — with no clear evidence that other detainees were being offered ...

A storm that has lashed the Caribbean and the Florida Keys with pounding rain and gusty winds and complicated the search for survivors in a deadly condominium collapse has strengthened into a hurrican...

The Pentagon said Tuesday it cancelled a disputed cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion US. It will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft and Am...

The Canadian whose body was found at the site of a collapsed condo building in southern Florida has been identified as a 66-year-old woman who died alongside her husband.

Jorginho converted the decisive penalty kick Tuesday to give Italy a 4-2 shootout win over Spain and a spot in the European Championship final.

Created by Dutch designer Wilfred Stijger, the sandcastle in northwest Denmark shattered the old Guinness World Record for tallest sandcastle by 3.5 metres, at a grand height of 21.16 metres tall. ...

An Egyptian court on Tuesday lifted a three-month-long judicial seizure of a hulking shipping vessel that had blocked the Suez Canal for nearly a week earlier this year, paving the way for it to leav...

People who work fewer hours per week are not only happier, but also more productive at their jobs, according to a large-scale pilot program in Iceland.