Ukraine urged its allies on Friday to send more weapons as its forces dug in to slow Russia's military advance through the eastern Donbas region, while a belligerent Moscow warned Western nations of c...

Elon Musk's tumultuous $44 billion US bid to buy Twitter is on the verge of collapse after the Tesla CEO sent a letter to Twitter's board saying he is terminating the acquisition. Twitter isn't accept...

Under mounting pressure from fellow Democrats to be more forceful in response to the Supreme Court ruling reversing Roe v. Wade, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order to try to protect ac...

Police imposed a curfew in Sri Lanka's capital and surrounding areas on Friday, a day before a planned protest demanding resignations of the country's president and prime minister because of the econo...

Brittney Griner is a pawn, caught between Russia and the U.S. during a particularly tense time in the relationship between the two superpowers, writes CBC Sports senior contributor Morgan Campbell. ...

Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly announced new sanctions against Russian agents and organizations Friday, including on a prominent journalist at Russian state-sponsored media RT. ...

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were acquitted on charges of defrauding FIFA by a Swiss criminal court on Friday, a rare positive outcome for the pair who were among soccer's most powerful figures bef...

Chile is on the cusp of replacing its Pinochet-era constitution with a radically progressive new alternative. But not everyone’s on board with this bold new direction.

A Michigan regulatory panel said Thursday that it needs more information about safety risks before it can rule on Enbridge Energy's plan to extend an oil pipeline through a tunnel beneath a waterway l...

As the flood cleanup at Yellowstone National Park grinds on, climate experts and meteorologists say the gap between the destruction and what was forecast underscores a troublesome aspect of climate ch...

U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner has pleaded guilty in a Russian court to drug charges that could see the WNBA star face 10 years in prison.

Soaring food and energy prices have pushed a staggering 71 million more people into poverty around the world, with inflation rising in the weeks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nati...

President Joe Biden on Thursday presented the nation's highest civilian honour, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles and soccer player Megan Rapinoe. ...

A U.S. federal judge sentenced former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin to 21 years in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade has sparked legal battles across the U.S., as individual state trigger laws restricting access to abortion procedures. But the legal status of medication used to ter...

Disneyland Resort's Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked earlier on Thursday, with a series of inappropriate posts that were subsequently taken down, Walt Disney Co. said.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield, while insisting that Moscow was still open to the ide...

The man charged with killing seven people at a Fourth of July parade in suburban Chicago confessed to police that he unleashed a hail of bullets from a rooftop and then fled to a neighbouring state, ...