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The suspects alleged to have carried out the deadly mass shooting at Sydney's Bondi Beach may have been inspired by ISIS or provided actual training to help carry out the attack, experts of the militant group say.

A private equity firm owned by U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount's hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed Tuesday.

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is ordering a blockade of all "sanctioned oil tankers" into Venezuela, ramping up pressure on the country's authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro.

American skiing standout Mikaela Shiffrin claimed a record-extending 105th World Cup victory on Tuesday after several of her top challengers went out during the opening run of a women's slalom in Courcheval, France.

The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others.

A new proposal is watering down the original plan to have all new cars sold in Europe be electric by 2035, following pressure from carmakers and member states with automotive industries.

FIFA slashed the price of some World Cup tickets for teams' most loyal fans following a global backlash and some will get $60 US seats for the final instead of being asked to pay $4,185.

Trade experts say American tariffs have turned routine paperwork into administrative nightmares for manufacturing executives.

Families in Gaza face an agonizing choice following last week's winter storm: endure exposure in tents after floods destroyed encampment shelters along with their possessions, killing one baby due to exposure - or shelter in buildings damaged in Israeli strikes earlier in the war that could collapse without warning.

The International Luge Federation has withdrawn the eligibility of three Russian athletes who intended to slide in Lake Placid, N.Y., this weekend in hopes of moving closer to qualifying for the Milan Cortina Olympics, the governing body announced Tuesday.

A British man who injured more than 130 people by plowing his car into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans during May's Premier League victory parade was jailed for 21 years on Tuesday, after admitting 31 criminal charges over the incident.

Today, an in-depth look at puberty blockers and their use on minors with gender dysphoria. These drugs have come under an enormous amount of scrutiny in recent years, with some questioning their benefits, safety and long-term impact.After banning the use of puberty blockers for gender treatment of people under 18, a new clinical trial in the U.K. aims to get to the bottom of those concerns.Azeen Ghorayshi is a science and gender reporter for the New York Times.She'll parse through what we know and don't know about the effects of blockers in minors, how this became a hugely divisive and politicized debate around the world, and whether this new trial could change our understanding.For transcripts of Front Burner, please visit:https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts [https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts]

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, a move that dramatically expands the U.S. government's authority to fight the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of American overdose deaths each year.

The U.S. has agreed to provide unspecified security guarantees to Ukraine as part of a peace deal to end Russia's nearly four-year war, and more talks are likely this weekend, U.S. officials said Monday following the latest discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Berlin.

The Russiananti-Kremlinfeministpunkbandand art collectiveknown as PussyRiotwasdesignatedanextremistorganization by a Moscowcourton Monday, banning its activities inside Russia as part of a wider crackdown on dissenting voices.

The two Iowa National Guard members killed in a weekend attack in Syria that the U.S. military blamed on the Islamic State group were identified Monday and remembered as dedicated soldiers.

Scottie Scheffler earned another comparison with Tiger Woods on Monday, joining him as the only players to win PGA Tour player of the year at least four times in a row.

Federal authorities said Monday that they foiled a plot to bomb multiple U.S. companies on New Year's Eve in Southern California, announcing the arrests of members of an extremist anti-capitalist and anti-government group.

The son of filmmaker Rob Reiner was arrested on homicide charges after the actor-director and his wife were found dead in their Los Angeles home, a police official said Monday.

Among the 15 victims of a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach during an event for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Sunday were a rabbi, a Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old girl, according to interviews, officials and local media reports.

The family of Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Syrian Muslim father of two who tackled one of the alleged attackers during the mass shooting on Sunday atBondiBeach in Sydney, Australia, has spoken out, hailing their son as a "hero."

Rhode Island officials renewed their search Monday for the gunman who killed two Brown University students and wounded nine others, a day after they released a person of interest and determined the evidence pointed in a different direction.

A group of five Liberal MPs and a lone NDP parliamentarian are planning to spend three days in Israel and the Occupied West Bank, at a time of heightened tensions between Ottawa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government.

Director-actor Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, were the two people found dead Sunday at a Los Angeles home owned by Reiner, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation.

Two U.S. army soldiers and a civilian interpreter were killed by an attacker who targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces before being shot dead. The Syrian Interior Ministry has described the attacker as a member of the Syrian security forces suspected of sympathizing with ISIS.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday voiced readiness to drop his country's bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees, but rejected the U.S. push for ceding territory to Russia as he held talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war.

Police in Rhode Island say they have a person of interest in custody as they investigate the shooting at Brown University that killed two people and wounded nine others on Saturday.

Twelve people were killed and more than two dozen injured in a shooting by two gunmen at a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi Beach on Sunday.

In the annals of Royal Family history, 2025 will be remembered as the year the monarch took the virtually unprecedented step of stripping his younger brother of his titles and honours. But as much as the scandal surrounding the former prince now known only as Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor garnered headlines, there were other notable moments this year that sent signals about the monarchy and its future.

A shooting in the engineering building at Brown University on Saturday has left at least two people dead and eight critically injured, officials in Providence, R.I., said, as authorities continued to search for a suspect.

Three U.S. military personnel - two army soldiers and a civilian interpreter - were killed on Saturday after an attacker targeted a convoy of American and Syrian forces, the U.S. military said.

Fighting raged Saturday morning along the border of Thailand and Cambodia, even after U.S. President Donald Trump, acting as a mediator, declared that he had won agreement from both countries for a new ceasefire.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko freed 123 prisoners on Saturday, including Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after two days of talks with an envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump, an American statement said.

Lionel Messi's tour of India kicked off chaotically on Saturday as fans threw objects, ripped up seats and invaded the pitch at Kolkata's Salt Lake Stadium after the Argentine soccer great made only a brief appearance at a ticketed event.

At least two people were killed in a drone attack in Russia's southwestern Saratov region, and parts of Ukraine went without power following targeted assaults on energy infrastructure, local authorities said Saturday, as U.S.-led peace talks on ending the war press on.

A U.S. Navy admiral who oversees military operations in Latin America handed off command responsibilities Friday as scrutiny increases over the Trump administration's deadly strikes on alleged drug boats in the region.

A volunteer army of grandmothers are dispensing wisdom and advice to complete strangers at Grandma Stands in cities around the U.S., and they may soon be coming to Canada.

King Charles said on Friday that his doctors can reduce his treatment for cancer in the new year, describing the moment as a "blessing" and a testament to remarkable medical advances.

Sherrone Moore, who was abruptly fired this week as the University of Michigan football coach, was charged Friday with three crimes including home invasion and stalking a person he had dated, prosecutors said.

House Democrats released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of Donald Trump, former U.S. president Bill Clinton and the former prince Andrew.

The favourite in Chile's election on Sunday is the right-wing Jose Antonio Kast. A Kast victory would be the latest rightward political shift in South America, as U.S. President Donald Trump and the White House try to coax or force the socialist leader of Venezuela from office.

Hundreds of thousands of displacedGazans face flooding from heavy rains, and materials for shelters and sandbags are not being allowed to enter the enclave, the UN International Organization for Migration said on Friday.

Lindsey Vonn raced to a stunning fast win in a World Cup downhill on Friday in St. Moritz, Switzerland, to earn her first victory in nearly eight years - and the first in her comeback with titanium implants in her right knee after a five-year retirement.

Indiana's Republican-led Senate has decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map desired by the White House that would have favoured their party. Two Republicans who received bomb threats amid the highly charged battle were among those voting against the measure.