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A Gustav Klimt painting that helped save the life of its Jewish subject during the Holocaust sold Tuesday for $236.4 million US - smashing several records.

If you felt more excited for Taylor Swift's engagement announcement earlier this year than you did for your friend or family member's, you might relate to Cambridge Dictionary's word of 2025: "parasocial," which describes having a one-sided connection with someone you do not know, such as a celebrity, a fictional character or an AI chatbot.

Federal immigration authorities could expand their enforcement action in North Carolina to a second city, as operations in other U.S. cities approved by Donald Trump's administration have either been deprioritized or caught up in legal limbo.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Monday it's investigating a new sexual battery allegation against hip-hop mogul Sean (Diddy) Combs. The claim involves an unnamed music producer who says he was asked to come to a photo shoot in 2020 at a Los Angeles warehouse.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the murder of U.S. resident and Saudi citizen Jamal Khashoggi.

Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday.

Japan has warned its citizens in China to step up safety precautions and avoid crowded places amid a deepening dispute between Asia's two largest economies over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan.

Former high-ranking officers of the Canadian Armed Forces are mounting a defence of the planned acquisition of 88 American F-35 fighter jets, hoping to put an end to the ongoing courtship between the Canadian government and the Swedish firm Saab.

Former U.S. treasury secretary Larry Summers said on Monday he will step back from all public commitments, days after President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate his and other prominent Democrats' ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Anzi Hu was identified on Monday as the seven-year-old who died in California after she was caught in a large wave at Garrapata Beach. Her father, Yuji Hu, also died after attempting to rescue her.

Canadian first baseman Josh Naylor and the Seattle Mariners finalized a five-year contract on Monday.

The UN Security Council on Monday approved a U.S. plan for Gaza that authorizes an international stabilization force to provide security in the devastated territory and envisions a possible future path to an independent Palestinian state.

Gunmen attacked a high school in northwestern Nigeria before dawn on Monday, taking 25 schoolgirls and killing at least one staffer, authorities said of the latest abduction of students in the region.

The acting chief of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency left his job Monday after just six months, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the latest disruption in a year of mass staff departures, program cuts and policy upheaval at the agency charged with managing federal disaster response.

A U.S. judge found on Monday there is evidence of misconduct in how a federal prosecutor closely aligned with President Donald Trump secured criminal charges against James Comey. He also ordered that grand jury materials be turned over to the former FBI chief's defence lawyers.

Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Monday that an explosion on a section of railway line used for deliveries to Ukraine was an "unprecedented act of sabotage."

The number of Palestinians dying in Israeli custody surged to nearly 100 people since the start of the war in Gaza, according to a report published Monday by a human rights group that says systematic violence and denial of medical care at prisons and detention centers contributed to many of the deaths it examined.

Dozens of Indian pilgrims are feared dead after a bus was in collision with a diesel tanker on Monday near the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia, Indian officials said.

U.S. President DonaldTrumpon Sunday urged his fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives to vote for the release of files related to the late convicted sex offender JeffreyEpstein,after weeks of railing against the Democrats' desire to pass the Epstein Transparency Act.

A Bangladeshwar crimes courtsentenced ousted prime minister SheikhHasinato death on Monday, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

New York Jets cornerback and special teams standout Kris Boyd was critically injured in a shooting in midtown Manhattan early Sunday, according to multiple news outlets.

Washington's most advanced aircraft carrier arrived in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday in a display of U.S. military power, raising questions about what the new influx of troops and weaponry could signal for the Trump administration's intentions in South America as it conducts military strikes against vessels suspected of transporting drugs.

Investigators in California say a Calgary man and his seven-year-old daughter have died after they were swept into the Pacific Ocean.

The March 23, 1994, death of Luis Donaldo Colosio, a reformer on the cusp of winning the Mexican presidency who promised a more just and democratic country, holds a space in the country's consciousness like the 1963 killing of President John F. Kennedy does in the United States. Federal authorities in Mexico recently arrested a 64-year-old man in Tijuana in connection with Colosio's killing.

Britain saidit would make refugee status temporary and the wait for permanent settlement would be quadrupled to 20 years under the country's most sweeping overhaul of policy onasylumseekers in modern times.

Prince William's recent visit to Brazil reflected both the personal and public sides of an heir to the throne coming under increasing focus as the monarchy faces its own pressures and recent scandal.

Alice Wong, a disability rights activist and author whose independence and writing inspired others, has died. She was 51.

A large protest against insecurity and government corruption turned violent inMexicoCity on Saturday as demonstrators clashed with riot police outside the National Palace.

Iran confirmed on Saturday its Revolutionary Guards had seized a tanker in Gulf waters that was carrying a cargo of petrochemicals bound for Singapore over alleged violations, a day after a U.S. official and maritime security sources said Iranian forces had intercepted the Marshall Islands-flagged Talara.

U.S. President Donald Trump has publicly called it quits with one of his most stalwart MAGA-world supporters, referring to Georgia lawmaker Marjorie Taylor Greene as "Wacky Marjorie" and saying he would endorse a challenger against her in next year's midterms "if the right person runs."

Acentury-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and61 other cultural objectsfromFirst Nations, Metis and Inuitcommunities have long been held in Vatican Museumsvaults. But the items will be returnedto Canada on Dec. 6 after Pope Leo on Saturday gifted them to a delegation of Catholic bishops.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger, through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a shotgun in February 2020.

The country of more than 90 million is facing an unprecedented water and energy crisis as reservoirs shrink to record lows, endangering drinking water and power supplies.

On his very last day as Canada's ambassador to the United Nations, Bob Rae spoke to As It Happens host Nil Kksal.

Unionized baristas from 65 Starbucks locations across the U.S. launched a strike on Thursday.

Dozens of Indigenous protesters blocked the front of the COP30 summit venue in Belem, Brazil, on Friday morning, staging a sit-in that forced delegates to use a side entrance to resume their negotiations on tackling climate change.

A man convicted of the 1979 killing of a six-year-old girl who was abducted from her bedroom has been put to death in a record 16th execution in Florida this year.

Russia launched a heavy drone and missile attack on Ukraine early on Friday, killing six people in Kyiv and two more in the south in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

Mu'ayyad Ajjour and his neighbour Mohamed Zaida have searched every day among the ruins of a building, hoping to find the remains of five-year-old Masa, Ajjour's cousin, so they can give her a proper burial. Her body is one of thousands thought to be buried in the debris of the war in Gaza.

Many industry observers have been cool to Donald Trump's proposal to allow 50-year mortgages in the United States. And it's very unlikely such an idea would gain traction anytime soon in Canada, where amortization periods have been shortened over the last two decades.

Israel said Thursday that militants have handed over the body of one of the last four remaining hostages taken during the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that launched the war in Gaza.

The giant New Glenn rocket from Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin launched from Florida on its debut mission for paying customers on Thursday, sending two NASA satellites toward Mars while also nailing the landing of its reusable booster for the first time.

Paris is marking 10 years since the Islamic State attacks that killed 130 people after gunmen and suicide bombers targeted cafes, restaurants and the Bataclan concert hall. People gathered at Place de la Republique for a candlelight vigil on the eve of the anniversary on Wednesday, and French President Emmanuel Macron and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo were among those paying tribute at the attack sites on Thursday.

The state of Michigan is giving up ownership of a rare relic from the famous Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck, just weeks after it strangely obtained it through a settlement in a lawsuit that was unrelated to the doomed freighter.

Former FBI director James Comey and current New York State Attorney General Letitia James have argued their recent indictments are politically motivated prosecutions fuelled by Donald Trump's animus. They say the appointment of Trump's hand-picked choice to oversee their cases negates their indictments altogether.

Israeli settlers torched and defaced a mosque in a Palestinian village in the central West Bank overnight, scribbling hateful messages in a show of defiance, a day after some Israeli leaders condemned a recent attack by settlers against Palestinians.

European Union officials warned Ukraine on Thursday that it must keep cracking down on graft in the wake of a major corruption scandal that could hurt the country's ability to attract financial help. But they also offered assurances that aid will continue to flow as Kyiv strains to hold back Russia's invasion.

Iran is grappling with its worst water crisis in decades after a scorching summer. President Masoud Pezeshkian has cautioned that if rainfall does not arrive by December, the government must start rationing water in Tehran and may even have to evacuate the city.

While crews were deployed to parts of Gaza to do maintenance work on power lines, they say they face challenges that stall the work, including border closures blocking essential equipment and machinery.