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Defence Minister David McGuinty is expected to announce next week in the United Kingdom that Canada will play a role in an international program to build the next generation of stealth fighter jets, CBC News has learned.

Check out some of the best photos from the 113th Tour de France, with 184 cyclists currently competing in 21 stages over more than 3,000 kilometres.

The number of confirmed cases of Ebola in Congo has reached 2,011, including 754 deaths, according to government data released overnight in what authorities say is the fastest-growing outbreak on record.

Nine European nations have asked the European Union to cut funding to sports bodies including the International Olympic Committee that let Russian and Belarusian athletes return to competition, Estonia's ministry of culture said on Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said federal immigration agents won't end vehicle stops, one day after officials announced a temporary pause in such stops after ICE agents fatally shot two men in Texas and Maine.

The U.S. said it had begun a new wave of strikes against Iran on Wednesday after reimposing a naval blockade of Iranian ports, while Tehran threatened to shut off more regional energy exports.

Most of the people who were killed were found trapped in windowless bathrooms, where they may have sought to escape the flames, police said.

Singles in the fourth, eighth and ninth were the only hits by the National League, which failed to advance a runner past first.

Two recent fatal shootings of motorists by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are sparking renewed calls for change in how the federal agency operates. Following Tuesday reports that Trump officials have told ICE officers to suspend most vehicle stops, legal experts told CBC News that's not enough.

Heartbreak, panic, anger. Those are just some of the emotions contained in customer complaint logs StubHub provided B.C.'s consumer protection agency during an investigation into alleged wrongdoing related to sales of tickets for Taylor Swift's Vancouver Eras Tour in December 2024. As the ticket resale site faces fresh controversy over the recent sale of World Cup tickets, documents obtained by CBC News provide a window into a probe emerging from another high-profile event.

Infections from the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora are surging, with state-level data suggesting that 2026 is already the nation's worst year for reported cases.

California lawmakers, from both sides of the aisle, have signed a letter to Quebec Premier Christine Frechette, urging her to put U.S. wines and spirits back on the shelves, despite Canada's ongoing trade war with the U.S.

Sotheby's says 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex fossil, which includes 'exceptionally preserved' skull containing a gaping jaw of powerful teeth, is now the most expensive set of dinosaur bones ever auctioned.

Mikel Oyarzabal scored from the penalty spot after a heady play by teenager Lamine Yamal, Pedro Porro added another goal and Spain advanced to its first World Cup final since winning in 2010 with a 2-0 victory over France on Tuesday in Arlington, Texas.

A photo posted on U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell's Facebook page may have done little to convince the internet that he's still alive, but it's working as a punchline for late-night television hosts in the U.S.

Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week, people familiar with the decision said Tuesday.

Following backlash over his plans to toll the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump said Gulf states would invest a tremendous' amount of money in the United States as he met with Iraq's Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi.

Norway's star striker was photographed stepping off the team plane in Oslo Monday carrying a Dolce & Gabbana tote in one hand and a taxidermy raccoon in the other.

Hudson Williams seems to have reached a breaking point when alleged autograph sellers followed him to his residence in Paris over the weekend. Multiple videos of the incident were shared online, garnering divided reactions on social media.

Twelve states, including California and New York, sued to block Paramount's takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, arguing that the $81-billion US merger would "extinguish competition" in Hollywood and lead to fewer choices for consumers across the U.S.

An Israeli strike and gunfire killed at least 10 Palestinians, including a 10-year-old boy and a senior Hamas police officer, in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Gazan health and police officials said.

The average price of gas in Canada was up 3.4 cents midday Tuesday, as the price of a barrel of Brent crude oil hovered around $84 US. The jump in oil prices was mainly due to ratcheting tensions between the U.S. and Iran, but that wasn't the only global conflict impacting the energy industry.

Police in southwestern Colorado say a man from British Columbia has died after the helicopter he was piloting crashed on Sunday.

The death toll from a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar has increased to 30, officials said Tuesday. The investigation into the blaze proceeded while relatives of the victims took on the grim task of identifying their loved ones and retrieving their bodies.

Iran fired missiles at Jordan and Bahrain on Tuesday after the United States launched a five-hour attack on Iranian targets, stepping up a battle for control of the Strait of Hormuz that has pushed up oil prices to four-week highs.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham's political legacy, and how it illuminates what happened to the Republican party under Donald Trump.

StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers - connections reported by CBC News last week.

During her set at Madrid's Mad Cool Festival, Lorde took aim at wearable AI, calling smart glasses "not sexy." Meanwhile, Kylie Jenner is facing backlash over her collaboration with Meta on a line of AI-powered smart glasses featuring a built-in camera, and hands-free recording capabilities.

Lindsey Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, has been named as her late brother's temporary replacement in the U.S. Senate after his unexpected death over the weekend.

While you're not likely to see the swarms of players you did in 2016, people around the world gathered to catch new Pokemon while spending a summer day outside with like-minded friends for the mobile game's 10th anniversary.

A federal immigration officer fatally shot a motorist in Maine on Monday, the second time in a week that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have used deadly force and at least the ninth time since President Donald Trump began his immigration crackdown.

Technically, the Zara pants at the centre of a new internet phenomenon are called "flowy wide leg pants." But on social media, they're better known as "death trousers" because people keep tripping and falling.

Britney Spears said "I think I need to come out of the roof quite a bit more" after being photographed standing with her head through the sunroof of a Mercedes G-wagon as it travelled down a highway near Los Angeles.

After three days in which British authorities suggested there was no information suggesting a political or terroristic motive to last week's killing of longtime MP Ann Widdecombe, it was revealed Monday that the top counterterrorism unit is low leading the investigation.

European countries reported more than 10,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heat wave that engulfed the west of the continent in late June, official data shows.

One of Florida's prisoners scheduled to die in July, a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents in 1986, is 80 years old and would be only the second known octogenarian to be executed in the U.S.

The hospital said there was no risk to the public or other patients, as the individual is being treated in complete isolation in a unit that is structurally and organizationally separated from the rest of the facility.

An explosive fire at a pub in Thailand's capital Bangkok killed 27 people and injured dozens, officials said on Monday, with police investigating possible negligence including obstructed emergency exits as people scrambled to flee the burning venue.

Sam Neill, a smoothly elegant and versatile actor whose career moved from art film to blockbuster, has died at the age of 78.

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner beat Alexander Zverev 6-7 (7), 7-6 (2), 6-3, 6-4 Sunday for his second consecutive title at the All England Club after his German opponent appeared bothered by a knee issue following a slip to the grass on a key point in the third set.

Kristina Mladenovic won a seventh career Grand Slam women's doubles title by teaming up with Guo Hanyu to defeat Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski and Luisa Stefani 6-3, 7-5 in the Wimbledon final Sunday.

Messi's nine-game World Cup scoring streak ended, but his pursuit of a second World Cup title continues.

Lindsey Graham, 71, was a prominent Republican senator from South Carolina. Earlier in his career, he was a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump before becoming one of his most loyal allies on Capitol Hill.

An outdoor pursuit that took Catherine, Princess of Wales, up peaks in England, Scotland and Wales was both a personal challenge and an opportunity for the House of Windsor to send signals about how a slimmed-down Royal Family approaches its role in trying to be a more relatable 21st-century monarchy.

The death toll from the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24 has risen to 4,333, National Assembly President Jorge Rodriguez told reporters on Saturday, announcing that the distribution of housing to those affected will begin next week.

Linda Noskova recovered from a second-set meltdown in which she wasted five match points to overcome Karolina Muchova 6-2, 5-7, 6-3 in an all-Czech final on Saturday for her first Grand Slam trophy.

The Trump administration's move, which seeks to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury, should 'shock the conscience' of Americans, a New York Times lawyer says.

South African soccer player Jayden Adams, 25, has died just weeks after playing for his country at the FIFA World Cup.

Typhoon Bavi has made landfall in eastern China, with nearly two million people evacuating ahead of time. The storm has already struck parts of Japan and brushed past Taiwan.

Fighting continues in Russia's war against Ukraine, which is running low on munitions that would help it shoot down and intercept Russian strikes.