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U.S. President Donald Trump promised on Thursday "major military punishment" for Iran and its Houthi allies, after the Yemeni fighters struck two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, extending the Middle East war to a second major shipping chokepoint.

Google was fined a total of 890 million euros ($1.01 billion US, or $1.43 billion Cdn) on Thursday for flouting European Union rules aimed at reining in the power of Big Tech, the European Commission said.

Cindy Thompson and Glenn Brown, who live in Curve Lake, Ont., sent $280,000 Cdn to a company co-owned by a British and Mexican national who promised big returns on a condo-flip play in Playa del Carmen that never materialized.

Italy is seeking to extradite Carlo Bruzzese, a Toronto-area man accused of serving as a high-ranking member of the powerful Calabrian 'ndrangheta criminal syndicate, CBC News has learned. The son of a purported mob boss, the 41-year-old Bruzzese was recently arrested by Toronto police.

Haitians' permission to live and work in the U.S. is set to expire in less than a week. In Springfield, Ohio, where Haitians make up roughly one-quarter of the population, there's concern that federal agents could immediately start targeting the community for detention and deportation.

Next summer, Snoop Dogg's storied life will come to the big screen in a new biopic from Universal Pictures. The theatrical release of Snoop is scheduled for Aug. 6, 2027, and Outer Banks star Jonathan Daviss will be playing the hip-hop icon.

At least 5,700 more people than usual died in France last month during a historic heat wave, French public health officials say.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's daughter Vivienne wants to legally remove Pitt" from her last name. She's the latest of their six kids to legally drop the name.

American YouTube star Jimmy Donaldson, known online as MrBeast, has married content creator Thea Booysen.

An independent autopsy commissioned by the family of Nolan Xavier Wells found the 18-year-old's cause and manner of death to be "undetermined" pending further investigation.

Lebanon's prime minister visited Wednesday a battered southern village as the implementation of a Washington-brokered Lebanese-Israeli agreement began, following months of war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah .

The High Commissioner for Canada in the U.K. Bill Blair says the government is engaged in talks urging the U.K. to join its multinational defence bank now that Andy Burnham is the new prime minister.

OpenAI said on Tuesday that an autonomous agent powered by its advanced artificial intelligence models went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of the AI startup Hugging Face last week.

Prince George turned 13 on Wednesday, and Kensington Palace released a new photo of the young royal to mark the occasion.

Iran launched a missile attack on a Jordanian city on Israel's doorstep on Wednesday, and alerts were issued in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia as a nearly two-week upsurge in fighting continued.

The building Adolf Hitler was born in near the Austrian border with Germany officially begins a new life as a police station on Wednesday, a conversion Austria's government hopes will prevent it serving as a place of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis.

U.S. FDA advisers this week will weigh whether seven popular peptides can be compounded by licensed pharmacies, but even if regulators decline to expand access, industry participants say consumer demand is likely to remain strong.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said late Tuesday that the city would not be able to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world's top war-crimes court for Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged the federal government to do so.

U.S. President Donald Trump has approved an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could potentially provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability for its civilian nuclear program, according to two people familiar with the matter.

U.S. President Donald Trump is imposing his new tariffs on Canadian exports under a section of law that has never been used since it was put on the books in 1930.

Wildfires that have torched huge areas of forest and devastated communities are also sending smoke far and wide, prompting air quality warnings in distant cities and heated political rhetoric from the U.S. Experts say there's nothing particularly unusual about this summer's smoke patterns - but they say wildfires are getting worse, and that's not likely to stop on either side of the border.

Two oil tankers carrying Saudi crude to Asia reversed course in the Red Sea on Tuesday after threats from Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, as a widening Middle East conflict disrupted shipping through two of the world's most critical energy chokepoints.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday fired Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi as commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces and named his replacement, following days of mass protests in Kyiv, the country's capital, and other cities nationwide demanding his removal.

Kaylee Hottle, a deaf actress best known for her starring role in two Godzilla films, died in a car crash in Maryland early Tuesday morning, the Frederick County Sheriff's Office said. She was 18.

A judge is set to decide at a hearing that opens Tuesday whether there is enough evidence to put singer D4vd on trial in the killing and dismemberment of a 14-year-old girl who authorities said had threatened to expose their relationship. The hearing will be the first public presentation of evidence against him.

Supporters of India's youth-led "cockroach" movement faced police batons and tear gas as they tried to march to parliament to demand the education minister's resignation.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday that a full Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territory was essential to consolidating stability and enabling the state to extend its authority, the Lebanese presidency said.

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, their lawyer said on Monday.

A man stabbed and injured two tourists Tuesday morning near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece's top tourist attraction, police said.

It may appear that U.S. President Donald Trump's move to hit many Canadian products with a new tariff of 50 per cent came out of the blue, but there are clear signs of what's driving the tactic.

More than 30 American states have reported illnesses related to Cyclospora, an intestinal parasite that contaminates food that has come into contact with human feces. Here's how the investigation into the outbreak of cyclosporiasis unfolded.

Even as the U.S. waged war with Iran and encouraged its citizens to take to the streets, the Trump administration was working with the Iranian regime to fast-track the deportations of dissidents, according to a new lawsuit.

The Women's Tennis Association is introducing one-off mandatory gene-testing for all players effective from Tuesday, a requirement to compete at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

U.S. President Donald Trump is moving to impose tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of Canadian exports, a dramatic ramping up of his trade war against his northern neighbour.

After Iranian missiles hit Jordan on Friday, this video circulated claiming to show missiles hitting a U.S. base in the country. But is the video real or AI generated?

Lionel Messi says Argentina's World Cup final defeat by Spain had left "immense" pain but praised his team for reaching a second successive final and thanked supporters for uniting behind the national side.

A federal judge on Monday ordered Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery to halt their $81 billion US merger for at least two weeks, allowing states that are challenging the deal more time to see their case through in court.

A Seattle raccoon with an unusually short body nicknamed Jimothy has become an internet sensation after a video of the critter scampering across a field went viral.

Forty-eight teams, 104 matches, 39 days. Here's a look back at some of the main storylines from the FIFA World Cup 2026 - as illustrated by some of the tournament's best photos.

Ukraine fired more than 400 drones toward Moscow in its latest major attack on the Russian capital, the city's mayor said Monday.The same day, Ukrainian officials said a Russian missile strike on a ship carrying corn near Ukraine's southern port of Odesa killed 10 people in the deadliest attack in a weeks-long flare-up of violence in the Black Sea.

Andy Burnham became the fifth British prime minister in four years and the seventh in a decade as he formally accepted an invitation from King Charles to form a government.

Donald Trump is using the U.S. presidency to re-litigate the 2020 election. Today, we look at his latest claims and whether the president is laying the groundwork to challenge the legitimacy of the upcoming midterms.

Guyana's government said on Monday that 10 bodies had been recovered from a ferry that capsized off the coast over the weekend with 133 people on board.

The United States conducted a new round of airstrikes early Monday targeting Iran after announcing the death of another service member. Iran responded by launching an attack targeting Bahrain, the home of the U.S. Navy's 5th Fleet, as well as Kuwait.

The death of Nolan Wells, a Black teenager whose body was located on an island off the Mississippi coast after he spent the Fourth of July there with three white friends, has drawn widespread attention amid mounting unanswered questions.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Sunday that laboratory experts re-reviewed sample results in the Taylor Farms cyclospora investigation and concluded the finding should be considered a false positive.

Madonna, Justin Bieber, BTS and Shakira each brought a bit of one of their hits to the World Cup's first halftime show in a whirlwind performance Sunday that also squeezed in Burna Boy, Ted Lasso and many Muppets.

U.S. health officials say contaminated lettuce imported from a Mexican branch of American-based produce supplier Taylor Farms is behind the explosive diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis outbreak in the U.S.

Ferran Torres' first goal of this year's World Cup was the goal of his life, and it put Spain back atop the soccer world.Denying Lionel Messi a second straight title, Torres came off the bench and scored in the 106th minute and Spain ended Argentina's reign with a 1-0 win on Sunday.

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook the Andes region of Peru, killing at least six people, authorities said Sunday. More than 30 people were injured and 300 have been displaced.