Israel’s fierce fourth wave of COVID-19 cases may be in retreat, but the country is on the offensive against the virus once again — with an unprecedented round of vaccine boosters for everyone old...

A former Facebook data scientist told a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Tuesday that the social network giant's products harm children and fuel polarization in the U.S., while its executives refuse to cha...

The pipeline that leaked more than 550,000 litres of oil into the water off Southern California was split open and apparently dragged along the ocean floor, according to authorities.

Antisemitic graffiti has been discovered on barracks on the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau II Nazi death camp, officials running the site said on Tuesday, condemning the act as "outrageous." ...

With Afghanistan under Taliban control, human rights advocates are concerned about a rise in domestic violence directed toward women and girls, as the few institutions and laws which once provided som...

Taiwan needs to be on alert for China's "over the top" military activities, the premier said on Tuesday, after a record 56 Chinese aircraft flew into Taiwan's air defence zone, while the president sai...

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three scientists. Syukuro Manabe of the U.S. and Japan and Klaus Hasselmann of Germany were cited for their work in the physical modelling of Earth's cli...

Alaska is experiencing one of the nation's sharpest upticks in COVID-19 infections, and it's worsened by a limited health care system that largely relies on hospitals in its biggest city. ...

French clergy have sexually abused more than 200,000 children over the past 70 years, a major investigation released on Tuesday found, and its authors accused the Catholic Church of turning a blind ey...

The three-person crew destined for the International Space Station on Tuesday includes a Russian actor and director who will be shooting the first feature film in space — beating a NASA-led project ...

Alberta is expanding COVID-19 booster eligibility to more vulnerable groups as the province battles a severe wave of infections that has strained its health-care system for weeks. Meanwhile, B.C. is m...

Steve Baldwin resigned as CEO and managing partner of the National Women's Soccer League's Washington Spirit on Tuesday in the wake of coach Richie Burke's firing following a harassment investigation....

Authorities on the Spanish island of La Palma say they are tightening their surveillance of an erupting volcano, after part of the crater collapsed and unleashed a cascade of more liquid and faster-m...

Officials investigating one of California's largest oil spills are looking into whether a ship's anchor may have struck a pipeline on the ocean floor, causing the massive leak of crude. ...

Bubba Wallace became just the second Black driver to win at NASCAR's top Cup Series level when rain stopped Monday's playoff race at Talladega Superspeedway.

The estate of Henrietta Lacks sued a biotechnology company on Monday, accusing it of selling cells that doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took from the Black woman in 1951 without her knowledge or con...

Nine of the 24 players on Cuba’s national team at baseball’s U-23 World Cup defected during the tournament in Mexico, the Cuban government confirmed Sunday.

Star Trek's Captain Kirk is rocketing into space this month, boldly going where no other sci-fi actors have gone before.

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even...

The CBC's Susan Ormiston reports from a new flea market in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where desperate residents are hawking household goods for money as economic collapse looms.