Canada's top military commander has formally hit the pause button on operations in Iraq as fallout from the U.S. targeted killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad continues.
A Ukrainian airplane carrying 170 passengers and crew crashed Wednesday near an airport in Iran's capital, state TV reported. There was no immediate word on casualties.
Why are the fires in Australia so hard to put out? How bad is the devastation? CBC's David Common answers viewer questions while on the ground in Cobargo, New South Wales.
Iranian state TV says Tehran has launched "tens" of surface-to-surface missiles at Iraq's Ain Assad airbase housing U.S. troops in response to the killing of top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani.
Journalist Philippe Lançon recently published a book about surviving the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and his long road to recovery.
World Health Organization calls lack of funding a huge impediment to successfully curbing the outbreak of measles in Congo.
Boeing said Tuesday it is recommending that pilots receive training in a flight simulator before the grounded 737 Max returns to flying, a reversal of the company's long-held position that computer-based training alone was adequate.
Elizabeth Wurtzel, whose blunt and painful confessions of her struggles with addiction and depression in the bestselling Prozac Nation made her a voice and a target for an anxious generation, died Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020 at age 52.
The U.S. government on Monday launched a pilot program to collect DNA from people in immigration custody and submit it to the FBI, with plans to expand nationwide.
President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn deserves up to six months behind bars, the Justice Department says, reversing its earlier position that he was entitled to avoid prison time because of his extensive co-operation with prosecutors.
When researchers pooled data from 250,000 women to estimate the association between using body powder in the genital area and risk of ovarian cancer, they were unable to definitively put to issue to rest.
Juan Guaido, Venezuela's opposition leader and National Assembly president, and a group of allied lawmakers entered the legislative palace on Tuesday following a half-hour standoff with security forces blocking the entrance.
An unidentified form of viral pneumonia will be added to an official list of diseases that medical practitioners are required to report to the government, Hong Kong's health chief says.
Spanish Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez secured parliamentary backing by a wafer-thin majority on Tuesday to form a coalition government, ending a lengthy political stalemate.
A 19-year-old British woman accused of faking a gang rape allegation was given a suspended sentence in Cyprus on Tuesday, in a case that has prompted a rare rebuke from Britain and protests from activists who say she didn't get a fair trial.
Exhausted after a nearly 16-hour flight from the opposite side of the world, Canadian wildfire specialists were cheered by Australians on arrival at Sydney’s airport. They're the latest to join the growing Canadian presence supporting the battle against Australia’s destructive wildfires, in a season of record-shattering temperatures.
Silence continues to be sought through legal non-disclosure agreements in cases of sexual harassment in the workplace, and two of Harvey Weinstein's accusers describe the effects these types of NDAs have had on them.
An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck just off Puerto Rico at a shallow depth, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday.
Nissan said Tuesday it will still pursue legal action against its former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, despite his escape from Japan to Lebanon.
