Christa Pike, convicted of murdering a classmate three decades ago, survived Tennessee's effort to execute her by means of lethal injection late on Wednesday, prison officials and her lawyers said, foiling the state's first attempt to put a woman to death in two centuries.
The families of the workers of a Canadian mining firm kidnapped earlier this year by a suspected cartel commando squad in the violence-torn Mexican state of Sinaloa plan to file an RCMP complaint against the Vancouver-based company, their lawyer says.
U.S. President Donald Trump's war of words with Canada continued Wednesday as he veered off a prepared script at an event marking Hispanic Heritage Month in the States to chastise Canadian leaders for being what he called "very bad."
OpenAI says one of its models, while in testing, went rogue and hacked an official Australian government website in a security breach that went undetected for months. Andrew Chang explains what we know about the hack and why Australian authorities say the manner in which they learned about the incident was 'entirely inadequate.'Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images
U.S. War Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. military will cut 20 per cent of its generals and admirals as he made a series of announcements in what he called his "state of the force" address.
Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday, media witnesses said, after the lethal injection was halted for hours as courts considered a last-minute appeal.
The head of the company that runs the Eiffel Tower will step down at the end of the year after female staff at the landmark building in Paris were excluded during a visit by a Hindu religious group.
Passengers on a FlyDubai flight reached Israel safely on Wednesday after passengers and crew foiled a co-pilot's attempt to crash the aircraft, Israeli officials said, in a struggle that began when he stabbed the pilot and sent the jet plunging.
Russia unleashed an air campaign against Ukraine's energy grid on Wednesday, hitting power facilities and infrastructure around Kyiv and other regions in what Ukraine's prime minister said was the heaviest combined attack on energy sites in months.
With crucial midterm elections just weeks away, the White House is using taxpayer funds to air campaign-style TV ads featuring U.S. President Donald Trump.
Most of the officials attending the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Milwaukee, Wisc., find themselves in challenging positions, largely because of U.S. President Donald Trump's global tariff agenda. It makes for a potentially unusual summit, with high-level meetings on the sidelines where different countries discuss plans to work around the host.
Charles Spencer has written a new book about the late Princess Diana, and Buckingham Palace is not impressed. In conversation with CBC Radio The Current host Matt Galloway he offers an intimate look at his sister's character and talks about the tense moments with Prince Charles in the aftermath of the tragic 1997 Paris car crash.
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday extended by six months the mandate of an international security force in Haiti intended to fight powerful armed groups that have taken control of much of the country.
Avneet Dhillon breaks down what we know about a foiled suspected terror plot near a U.K. air base used by the U.S. in its war on Iran.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump's administration resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may face, bolstering a tool his administration has used for rapid expulsions as part of his immigration crackdown.
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections - though it's not clear what he anticipates the country would do to impact the vote.
A surprise decision by the U.K.'s counterterrorism police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot at a U.S.-operated air force base in England has prompted questions and uncertainty about the incident.
Manchester City has been found guilty of almost all of the unprecedented 115 charges of financial wrongdoing it faced, the Premier League confirmed on Tuesday, in one of the biggest scandals in English soccer history.
U.S. forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war.
The torch relay for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics will begin in Atlanta, home of the last U.S. Summer Games in 1996, and travel through all 50 states, organizers announced Tuesday.
The death toll from rains and flooding in Thailand has risen to 23, authorities said on Tuesday Waters receded from the hard-hit capital Bangkok, where its main airport operated in chaos and the government approved a multi-million aid package.
FIFA lawyers claimed UEFA is harassing Gianni Infantino, in a court filing urging a Florida judge to deny the European soccer body's request for evidence discovery about a World Cup private investor plan that has rocked the sport.
Estonian authorities said Tuesday they have concluded that an arson attack in mid-August on a defence company that provides military vehicles to Ukraine was an act of sabotage commissioned by Russian security services.
Almost 30 years after the death of Princess Diana, her brother, Charles Spencer, has written a new memoir about her life, her struggles and the royal institutions that were a big part of both.
The hacking group behind a massive FBI data breach says it will not publish the information it obtained, but it cannot guarantee what will happen with the data it already shared with journalists.
OpenAI has scrapped the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence model planned for an October debut, after internal testing found the system did not meet the company's safety and alignment standards, the ChatGPT maker confirmed on Monday.
After months of threatening tariffs and possible military action to acquire Greenland, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an Arctic security pact with the leaders of Denmark and Greenland. Andrew Chang explains how this deal updates the long-standing 1951 defence agreement but falls short of an outright U.S. takeover, and why experts question if the diplomatic fallout was worth the result.CORRECTION: At 08:31, there is a photo of an airplane at Nuuk airport. It should show an image of a Naval port in Greenland.(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)
At least two people were killed when a drone hit the National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday, as Russia pounded the heart of the Ukrainian capital with some of the most persistent drone strikes since the start of the war.
Investigators in New York are reopening an investigation into an alleged gang rape at Cornell University after a woman filed a lawsuit claiming the university didn't do enough to protect her.
A Dutch man whose journey from cybercriminal to reformed security professional was widely covered in the international media has been arrested as part of an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters, Dutch police and the man's boss said on Monday. The news comes on the heels of ShinyHunters hacking the FBI last week.
Ads for a documentary about controversial billionaire Elon Musk have reportedly been banned from both TikTok and X but, after brief delays, are now running on YouTube and Meta's social media platforms.
An airstrike carried out by Myanmar's military near a market in territory controlled by a powerful rebel group killed at least 33 people and wounded 36 others on Monday, the group and a rescue official said.
SpaceX launched its enormous Starship into orbit for the first time Monday and successfully delivered the most advanced Starlinks yet, but decided to cut short the flight.
Taylor Swift became the most-awarded artist in VMA history, Madonna won multiple times and people paid tribute to the late Dolly Parton at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards.
British police said on Monday they had released on bail five men who were arrested on suspicion of terrorism and explosives offences near a British airbase used by the U.S., although they remain under investigation.
Hurricane Polo, which has weakened to a Category 3 storm, is expected to make landfall on the Pacific coast of Baja California Sur on Monday night, forecasters said, bringing sustained winds of 100 to 130 kilometres per hour and heavy rain to the popular tourist destination.
Rescue teams on Monday searched for a dozen people swept away by an avalanche that killed at least two others on a Nepalese mountain during severe weather.
The Canada-U.S. trade war is playing out amid a tight race for U.S. Senate in Maine. The election result will help determine which party controls Congress for the remainder of Donald Trump's term as president.
Residents of coastal communities in the U.S. northeast slogged through floodwaters for a second day as a powerful nor'easter pummelled the shoreline Sunday, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes.
Ukrainian officials say residents in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky are at risk of starving. With no aid coming in by road, the military used drones to deliver food supplies by air.
Brandon McNulty captured the men's elite road race on the final day of UCI Road World Championships in Montreal. McNulty, 28, became the first American to win an elite road race world title since Lance Armstrong struck rainbow gold at Oslo in 1993.
AI requires safeguards that go beyond self-regulation, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in an interview that aired on Sunday, calling for legislation to be passed in Congress. A groundswell has risen in favour of federal intervention after OpenAI said in July an autonomous AI agent went rogue during a security test and hacked into another company
Serbia's populist president, Aleksandar Vucic, resigned on Sunday to pursue a bid to become the prime minister in an upcoming early parliamentary election that will test his firm rule in the Balkan country after nearly two years of protests.
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham called for calm in Northern Ireland on Sunday after a contentious parade was given the go-ahead by the High Court in Belfast in a late-night sitting.
Swiss voters on Sunday looked set to reject a proposal to adopt a more restrictive form of neutrality that would have blocked their country from imposing economic sanctions or co-operating with NATO.
South African police on Sunday were hunting the perpetrators of two separate shootings that killed 27 people within hours of each other, highlighting the country's gun violence problem.
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