Here's everything you need to know about the upcoming U.S. midterm elections and why they're potentially crucial to how U.S. President Donald Trump wields power in his final two years in the White House.

Iraq’s government was racing Saturday to contain the fallout after local Iran-backed militias were accused of attacking and shuttering a key Saudi pipeline.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that he would "love" to see British-run Northern Ireland unify with Ireland, remarks made during a visit to Dublin that drew a sharp response from pro-British unionists in Northern Ireland.

Russian strikes killed three civilians and wounded dozens in Ukraine, local officials said Saturday, after Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that sending European troops into Ukraine would amount to direct conflict with Russia.

Almost three years after the Houthis first garnered international attention by attacking ships off Yemen, the rebels have only increased their violent influence in the Middle East. Here's a primer on the group that could push the price of global oil ...

While fertility preservation measures like egg freezing are typically presented as another way to give women in elite sport greater freedom to decide if and when to become mothers, some experts and advocates say they're concerned that it could send t...

The long-standing trend of the incumbent U.S. president's party getting thumped in the midterms strongly suggests Donald Trump won't need to make good on his new promise to send every American citizen a $5,000 US cheque if the Republicans win in Nove...

The largest cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in U.S. history is over, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

David Maloney's proposal comes on the heels of U.S. President Donald Trump's signed order to change name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Bobbing for days atop a capsized skiff in Alaska's frigid Bering Sea, a 15-year-old boy held on until he was rescued by a fishing vessel this week, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Forty per cent of the 2,753 people who died at Ground Zero on 9/11 have not had their remains identified, including approximately 10 of the 24 Canadian victims. Last month, the lab announced it made its first identification of previously unknown rema...

A U.K. man facing accusations he took part in a scheme that wiped out a Canadian couple's retirement savings says he's provided proof to Mexican authorities probing the case that he never touched a dime of the vanished funds, and that he's also a vic...

Police say five people have died and 40 others were injured after a Dutch tour bus slammed into a roadside crash barrier and overturned in eastern Switzerland.

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic island at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, two officials said Friday, opening a new front in the Iran war and further threatening oil exports from Saudi Arabia, which shut down a major pi...

Andrew Chang breaks down how thieves stole millions of dollars of Renoir paintings from a museum in France, moment by moment. (Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock, and Getty Images)

A Hong Kong court sentenced three activists — who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown — to prison for terms ranging from five to more than seven years on Friday in a case that is widely seen as a b...

At Poland's massive MSPO arms fair, Canada arrives as the 'lead nation' with 230 firms. But shifting decades of reliance on the American market won't be easy.

Canada and Ukraine signed a sweeping 100-year partnership on Thursday that puts defence production at its core. Ottawa plans to build millions of drones, pairing Canadian firms with Ukraine's battle-tested industry, while expanding co-operation on co...

ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel said an interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday will air on YouTube and not during the network broadcast, citing threats from the ‌Federal Communications Commission.

Twenty-five people died in a fire aboard a foreign cargo vessel undergoing repairs at a state-owned ‌shipyard in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao on Thursday, state media reported.