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A gunman who killed at least six people in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, on Saturday before taking hostages and barricading himself in a nearby supermarket has been shot dead by police, Ukrainian officials said.

Pope Leo XIV says he won't debate U.S. President Donald Trump and will continue to preach peace.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday criticized the current iteration of North America's free trade agreement as a bad deal, taking a swipe at Canada's trade strategy ahead of upcoming negotiations.

Calls are growing for Keir Starmer to resign after it was revealed that Peter Mandelson, who was a close friend to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, failed a security vetting process but was appointed as the U.K's ambassador to the U. S. anyway.

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is planning to depart at the end of next month. Lyons's boss Markwayne Mullin at the Department of Homeland Security says he hopes that the Trump administration can carry out deportations "in a more quiet way," after several deaths and a drumbeat of negative media coverage.

When Dublin scientist Emma Murphy got word that a dead Greenland shark had washed up on the shores of northwestern Ireland, she was gobsmacked. Not only are the massive and ancient ocean dwellers notoriously elusive, but they usually make their homes in the remote depths of the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.

An Israeli drone strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the first full day of a U.S.-brokered truce meant to end hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, paramedics in the area and the head of a local hospital told Reuters.

Progress on cutting carbon emissions has stalled somewhat in Canada, according to the federal government annual reporting to the UN. Oil and gas emissions have continued to rise since the pandemic.

Several workers for a Canadian-owned Mexican gold mine received no response after making complaints to the company's workplace ethics hotline saying that local management was working with a prominent organized crime group to force out the existing union, according to two former local union members.

Jeremy Hansen sat down with CBC News to share some of his insights, like how he felt during lift-off, the joy the mission brought him, and that one time he accidentally let a water bag explode in the capsule.

U.S. President Donald Trump railed against a federal judge's decision on Thursday that continues to block above-ground construction of a $400-million US White House ballroom, allowing only below-ground work on a bunker and other "national security facilities" at the site.

Congressional Republicans have sent U.S. President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, about 160 kilometres southwest of Thunder Bay, Ont.

A 10-day ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, six weeks into a renewed war with Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,000 people, caused widespread destruction and driven more than a million residents from their homes.

An Israeli strike destroyed the last bridge over the Litani River into Lebanon's south, according to a senior Lebanese security source, fully severing almost a tenth of Lebanon from the rest of the country, after Israel destroyed other crossings during the war.

After flying 406,771 kilometres around the moon - the farthest any humans have ever been - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch are ready to share more of their experiences with the public. CBC will have live coverage of today's news conference as they take questions from the media at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Russia unleashed its deadliest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities overnight, killing 16 people, including a 12-year-old child, and wounding scores, in drone and missile strikes, officials said on Thursday.y.

The Trump administration expressed optimism on Wednesday about reaching a deal to end the war with Iran, while also warning of increasing economic pressure against Tehran if it remains defiant.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues' use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders "scratch-paper musings" that can have a "potentially corrosive" effect.

A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of U.S. states.

Andrew Chang explains what's keeping the U.S. and Iran from reaching a peace agreement following six weeks of ongoing war and a recent marathon negotiating session in Pakistan.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images

A Russian court has fined a local news agency and one of its directors thousands of dollars for a review it posted on the smash hit series Heated Rivalry, which the Russian government considers LGBTQ+ propaganda.

The Artemis II astronauts made many mind-blowing images during their historic lunar mission earlier this month. They have two NASA trainers to thank for equipping them with tried-and-true digital SLR cameras and sharing their photo skills.

A Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out Tuesday he'd won a Pablo Picasso painting worth more than $1 million in a raffle.

Three years on from the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, the country is in the grip of what the United Nations calls the world's worst displacement crisis, with more than 11 million people forced from their homes.

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West postponed his upcoming show in the city of Marseille after French authorities said they would seek to ban the concert.

British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves was not backing away from her criticism of the Iran war as "folly," even as she prepared to meet Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday.

Taylor Frankie Paul, a star of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and the recently scrubbed season of The Bachelorette, will not be charged in recent fights with her former partner, the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.

A student opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, the interior minister said, in the country's second such shooting in two days.

Israel has often struck alleged Hezbollah militants or officials in their homes without warning, frequently in areas far from the front line when they are with their families, in apartment buildings surrounded by uninvolved neighbours.

At least 250 people, including Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi nationals, were missing after a boat capsized in the Andaman Sea recently on the way to Malaysia, according to the United Nations' refugee and migration agencies.

A group of volunteers had begun sifting through the damage at the Omari library in Gaza City and trying to save whatever books they can find. They say the work is not just about the books, it's about protecting the culture and heritage of the Gaza Strip.

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep U.S. President Donald Trump in office over five years ago.

The man accused of trying to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by throwing a Molotov cocktail at his San Francisco home was experiencing a mental health crisis and has been overcharged by prosecutors, his public defender said Tuesday.

A super typhoon steadily battered a pair of remote U.S. islands in the Pacific Ocean with ferocious winds and relentless rains, shredding tin roofs and forcing residents to take cover from flying tree limbs.

Israeli fire killed at least 11 Palestinians, including two children, in separate incidents across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, local health officials said, in the latest violence to undermine a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is calling for the release of Kuwaiti American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin after he was detained in Kuwait over social media posts during military escalations in the Iran war.

The director of the Texas summer camp where 27 campers and counsellors were killed by a devastating flood last year testified Monday he did not see official warnings issued the day before the storm hit and that staff had no meetings about the pending danger.

A former student opened fire at a high school in southeast Turkey on Tuesday, wounding at least 16 people before killing himself, officials said.

The White House is on a push to showcase the success stories of U.S. manufacturers who are benefitting from tariffs, one that saw U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, a member of Trump's cabinet, setting out last week on a two-day tour of factories in Ohio and Michigan.

Rare, bilateral talks between senior Lebanese and Israeli officials set for Tuesday in Washington could pave the way for a ceasefire - but almost no one appears to believe that will happen. There is dismay and a feeling of hopelessness across Lebanon as it reels from the aftermath of Israel's ferocious attack on Wednesday that killed over 300 people.

The man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home has been charged with attempting to kill Altman and a security guard at the residence, San Francisco district attorney Brooke Jenkins said Monday.

The U.S. military has initiated a blockade across the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea, a move experts say is an act of war with potential for serious escalation in the midst of a ceasefire. U.S. Central Command says it is targeting all vessels traveling to and from Iran as of Monday morning

U.S. President Donald Trump took shots at Pope Leo XIV on Truth Social after the pontiff criticized Washington's role in the war in the Middle East. Andrew Chang explains how Trump's issues with Pope Leo are reaching a new public boiling point.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images

For Michael Ignatieff, news that Viktor Orban's 16-year rule in Hungary had come to an end was reason enough to raise a glass. He speaks about what Orban's defeat and Peter Magyar's victory could mean for geopolitics.

The investigation, announced on the attorney general's website Monday, concerns whether Lululemon's athletic apparel contains PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Australian actress Ruby Rose alleged in a post on social media that American singer Katy Perry sexually assaulted her at a nightclub 20 years ago, a claim the pop star's representatives deny. The allegation first came in response to a Complex post on Instagram about Perry's reaction to singer Justin Bieber's headlining Coachella set.

A Minnesota county is investigating the arrest of a Hmong American man by federal officers that was captured on video as a potential case of kidnapping, burglary and false imprisonment, officials announced Monday.

More than a thousand movie stars, writers, directors and other Hollywood professionals announced their "unequivocal opposition" to the proposed Paramount merger with Warner Bros. Discovery in an open letter published Monday.