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Reda Aliwa, 60, is caring for her 36 grandchildren in Gaza City after five of her own children were killed this September. Statistics suggest there are some 40,000 children in Gaza who've lost one or more parents, resulting in what one Palestinian organization has called the largest orphan crisis in modern history."

Almost three years ago, hundreds of residents in Joshimath, India, were forced to leave after deep cracks appeared in the walls of some 800 homes because the ground was sinking around them. The town's location, climate change and heavy construction are being blamed.

Indonesia's Mount Semeru erupted, covering nearby villages in ash and prompting evacuations of more than 300 residents of the most at-risk villages.

At least 25 Palestinians were killed in four Israeli airstrikeson Wednesday, in a part ofGazaunder Hamas control since a shaky ceasefire took effect in October, the local Health Ministry said.

Pope Leo has come out in support of a rare special message released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in recent days that lamented a "climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement."

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers abruptly went on leave Wednesday from teaching at Harvard University, where he once served as president, over recently released emails showing he maintained a friendly relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, his spokesperson said.

The U.S. stock market swung through another unsettled day of trading on Wednesday, ahead of a couple of crucial tests for Wall Street.

Polish authorities plan to charge two Ukrainians with sabotage of a terrorist nature on behalf of Russia over an explosion that damaged a train track used for deliveries to Ukraine, prosecutors said Wednesday.

The Israeli military carried out powerful airstrikes in two villages in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, witnesses said, pressing a campaign of near-daily attacks in the border region where Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah.

At least 26 people were killed in a Russian drone and missile attack overnight that hit apartment buildings in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday.

Despite an overwhelming vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Epstein Files Transparency Act, lawmakers believe U.S. President Donald Trump could skirt the bill's intent and avoid disclosing material about the notorious sex trafficker's activities.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is slated to meet with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan in Abu Dhabi with the explicit focus on expanding the Canada-U.A.E. economic partnership in key sectors such as energy, agriculture, infrastructure and AI.

A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school's principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as hunters joined security forces in the search for the missing students in forests close to the school.

Canadian travel to the United States has dropped sharply since President Donald Trump retook office earlier this year. Andrew Chang breaks down the numbers to explain the impact on the U.S. economy, and how many American businesses are trying to win Canadians back.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking.

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.