Charities across Canada are accepting monetary donations to help Haitians because it is the fastest way to get supplies on the ground.

The courtyard of the Ofatma hospital in Les Cayes, Haiti, is a scene of abject misery right now, as patients await treatment and hospital staff struggle with a lack of supplies in the wake of the 7.2 ...

More medical supplies are badly needed to help some of the thousands of people who were injured in Saturday's earthquake in Haiti, says Dr. Inobert Pierre, the director of St. Boniface Hospital in Fon...

Afghan protesters defied the Taliban for a second day Thursday, waving their national flag in scattered demonstrations, and the fighters again responded violently as they faced down growing challenges...

The Africa director for the World Health Organization has sharply criticized the decisions by some richer countries, including most recently the U.S., to roll out COVID-19 booster shots. ...

An Australian man has been sentenced to three years in prison after being found guilty of soliciting sexual abuse material from a young girl in Calgary through online interactions.

Swedish green steel venture HYBRIT says it has made the world's first customer delivery of steel produced without using coal as it looks to revolutionize an industry that accounts for around eight per...

Poland's Maria Andrejczyk auctioned her silver medal from the Tokyo Games to raise money for a life-saving operation for an infant boy, and then was told by the buyer that she could keep her prize. ...

Taliban soldiers riding in Afghan army vehicles visited apartments in Kabul on Tuesday, looking for former Afghan government staff and other Afghans who worked with international organizations, accord...

U.S. health officials Wednesday announced plans to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and signs that the vaccines' effectivene...

R&B star R. Kelly is a predator who lured girls, boys and young women with his fame and dominated them physically, sexually and psychologically, a prosecutor said Wednesday, while a defence lawyer war...

The chaos that ensued following the hasty withdrawal of remaining U.S. forces from Afghanistan may have been prevented had President Joe Biden executed a more gradual and protracted pullout, military...

The Biden administration on Wednesday proposed changing how asylum claims are handled, aiming to reduce a huge backlog of cases from the U.S.-Mexico border that has left people waiting years to find o...

The former president and board chair of Purdue Pharma told a court Wednesday that he, his family and the company are not responsible for the opioid crisis in the United States.

CBC's Ellen Mauro visits a makeshift camp in Les Cayes, Haiti, where anger and frustration is growing among those displaced by the deadly earthquake last weekend.

Zara Rutherford, a Belgian-British 19-year-old, took to the skies Wednesday in her quest to become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.

The British government said it would take in 5,000 Afghan refugees this year, primarily women and children, as lawmakers packed Parliament Wednesday for a heated emergency debate on the U.K. response ...

A fossil egg found by a Chinese farmer has turned out to have a rare surprise inside: A baby turtle nearly ready to hatch. For the first time, that’s allowed scientists to figure out what kind of an...

At least three people were killed in anti-Taliban protests in the Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, witnesses said, as the militant group tried to set up a government and Western countries steppe...

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau said today that Canada has no plans to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.