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Actors Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine have signed a deal with AI company ElevenLabs, becoming the latest stars to license their voices for digital recreation.

Over a decade after Canada stopped producing the penny, the U.S. Mint on Wednesday announced it's ending production of one-cent coins to save money and because they had become increasingly irrelevant.

Marion County in rural Kansas has agreed to pay more than $3 million US for its role in authorizing police raids against a smalltown newspaper, its publisher and a city councilor.

A California court on Wednesday denied rapper Tory Lanez's appeal of his guilty verdict on charges he fired a gun at Megan Thee Stallion.

Taiwan evacuated more than 8,000 people from coastal and mountainous areas and closed schools ahead of the arrival of tropical storm Fung-wong. In Yilan County, rescue workers ferried people using boats and amphibious vehicles after torrential rains triggered severe flooding, and residents worked to clear debris and water from their homes.

Israel's president on Wednesday called for an end to a growing wave of settler violence following a "shocking and serious" attack by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Global oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, the International Energy Agency said on Wednesday, departing from previous expectations of a speedy transition to cleaner fuels following U.S. criticism about its climate focus.

Security has been tightened at the COP30 climate summit in Brazil after Indigenous activists and other protesters burst through barriers at the venue on Tuesday night. Indigenous groups from across Latin America sent representatives with demands for an end to logging, mining, farming and fossil fuel extraction in the Amazon.

Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said Donald Trump "knew about the girls," according to emails released on Wednesday by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

During a G7 meeting in Ontario, France's foreign affairs minister said the deadly boat strikes in the Caribbean carried out by the United States since early September violate international law. Colombia, California's governor and the Washington Post also weighed in on the strikes on Tuesday - but Canada has been relatively silent on the U.S. actions.

Turkey's defence ministry said on Wednesday that 20 soldiers were killed in thecrashofits military aircraftin Georgiaa day earlier,as inspectors continued to seek clues what caused the NATO member's cargoplaneto go down.

Many Canadians continue to boycott travel to the United States, and the U.S. economy is paying the price. A U.S. Travel Association report forecasts a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spending in the country for 2025, a loss of $5.7 billion US compared to the previous year.

A few days before the federal budget was tabled, the CEO of Swedish industrial giant Saab flew to Ottawa to meet with the country's top bureaucrat, fuelling the sense a deal is brewing between the Canadian government and the military manufacturer. Now, the country's king, queen and a delegation of political and business leaders are set to visit from Nov. 18-20.

Canadian astronomical research is getting a big boost with the return of Sara Seager to Canada after around 20 years at MIT. Her research includes looking for life in the clouds of Venus and searching for Earth 2.0.

Masked Israelisettlers hurled stones and torched dairy trucks, farmland andBedouin structures, injuring four people on Tuesday in thelatest in a surge of settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.

Skygazers are spotting the lights deeper into Canada, the U.S. and Europe because the sun is going through a major facelift. Every 11 years, its poles swap places, causing magnetic twists and tangles along the way.

American model-turned-actress Sally Kirkland, who was noted for her stage, TV and film roles - including sharing the screen with Paul Newman and Robert Redford in The Sting and earning an Oscar nomination for 1987's Anna - has died at 84.

The number of confirmed deaths from Hurricane Melissa in Jamaica rose to 45, with 15 other people missing, authorities said Tuesday. The death toll is expected to rise, with officials still trying to reach two towns that remain cut off since the catastrophic Category 5 storm made landfall in western Jamaica on Oct. 28.

Non-profit consumer advocacy group Public Citizen demanded in a Tuesday letter that OpenAI withdraw its video-generation software Sora 2 after the application sparked fears about the spread of misinformation and privacy violations.

The U.S. Senate is on its way to ending the longest-ever U.S. government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed without a guaranteed extension of health-care subsidies, angering many in their caucus.

Several ancient statues dating back to the Roman era were stolen during a break-in at the national museum in Syria's capital, officials said Tuesday.

Pakistan's interior minister says a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a police vehicle outside the gate of a district court in the capital, Islamabad, on Tuesday, killing 12 people and wounding 27.

A small turboprop plane on a hurricane relief mission to Jamaica crashed Monday morning into a pond in a gated residential neighbourhood of the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Coral Springs, killing two people shortly after takeoff and narrowly missing homes, authorities and a local resident said.

Yemen's Houthi rebels are signalling they've stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip.

Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will travel to Greenland's capital, Nuuk, this week to open a new Canadian consulate as both allies seek to strengthen ties amid turbulent relations with the United States.

Belgium is the latest target in a string of mysterious drone incidents across Europe, with some officials directly pointing the finger at Russia. It has left authorities scrambling to boost defences.

Armed men in Mali killed a TikTok influencer who had posted videos in support of the West African nation's military, authorities said Monday.

U.N. climate negotiations began Monday on the edge of the Brazilian Amazon as leaders pushed for accelerating efforts to curb global warming by drastically reducing the carbon pollution that causes it. But top U.S. negotiators were absent.

Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 US and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Monday a bid by a former Kentucky county official to overturn its landmark 2015 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, as the justices steered clear of the contentious case some 3-1/2 years after its conservative majority reversed abortion rights.

When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realized an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself.

At least eight people were killedon Monday inacarexplosion near the historic Red Fort in a densely populatedareaof theIndian capital of New Delhi, a police spokesperson said.It was arare blastin the heavily guarded city of more than 30 million people.

The pain Americans are facing at airports across the country is expected to get worse this week if Congress is unable to reach a deal to reopen the federal government.

U.S. President Donald Trump has pardoned his former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, his former chief of staff Mark Meadows and others accused of backing the Republican's efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

Typhoon Fung-wong blew out of the northwestern Philippines on Monday after setting off floods and landslides, knocking out power to entire provinces, killing at least eight people and displacing more than 1.4 million others.

In Oiapoque, Brazil, hopes that oil will transform the economy hangs in air, after the government granted state-owned company Petrobras an exploratory license off the remote Amazonian city's coast. At the same time, on the same coast, Brazilian president is hosting the world's annual climate talks.

Lenny Wilkens, a three-time inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame who was enshrined as both a player and a coach, has died, his family said Sunday. He was 88. The family said Wilkens was surrounded by loved ones when he died and did not immediately release a cause of death.

U.S. airlines cancelled more than 2,700 flights on Sunday as Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned that air traffic across the nation could "slow to a trickle" if the federal government shutdown lingers into the busy Thanksgiving travel holiday season.

Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been charged with taking bribes from sports bettors to intentionally throw certain types of pitches, including tossing balls instead of strikes to ensure successful bets.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is demanding states "undo" full SNAP food benefits paid out under judges' orders over the past week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings - marking the latest swing in a seesawing legal battle over the anti-hunger program used by 42 million Americans.

The head of the BBC and the British broadcaster's top news executive both resigned Sunday after criticism of the way the organization edited a speech by U.S. President Donald Trump.

More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Israel-Hamas war so far, Gaza health officials said Saturday, as both sides completed the latest exchange of bodies under the terms of the tenuous ceasefire.

Super Typhoon Fung-wong slammed ashore Sunday on the northeastern coast of the Philippines, where the massive storm had already left at least two people dead and forced more than a million people to evacuate from flood- and landslide-prone areas, officials said.

A tornado accompanied by strong winds and heavy rain struck the southern Brazilian state of Parana, killing six people, the state government said on Saturday. The town of Rio Bonito do Iguacu was hit hardest late Friday.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Saturday issued an order prohibiting MD-11 planes from flying, pending inspection, after a fiery crash of a UPS cargo freighter that killed at least 14 people in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday.

African Union observers said the vote was not credible and that they had documented ballot box stuffing. The government has dismissed criticism of the process and said the election was fair.

A bold new plan to protect tropical forests, which aims to raise $125 billion US and directly pay developing countries to halt deforestation, is taking shape at the COP30 UN climate conference in Brazil this week.

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is another Democratic mayor in an acrimonious relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump. But observers say these relationships matter and can impact both those mayors' cities and Trump's political ambitions.

Hundreds of flights have been cancelled across the U.S. this week - with more expected in the coming days - as airlines comply with a mandated reduction in service due to the ongoing government shutdown.