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The hookup app Grindr is on the hook for a huge payout after settling a U.K. lawsuit that alleged sensitive information about its users - including their HIV status - was sold to advertisers.

King Charles authorized a letter to senior British officials on Monday confirming that his youngest son, Prince Harry, and Harry's wife, Meghan, remain non-working royals following their return to the U.K.

Feminist leader Gloria Steinem died at age 92 on Wednesday. CBC interviewed Steinem several times over the years on a range of topics, including how the women's liberation movement helped her stop feeling guilty about marriage and children.

A U.N. expert said on Monday that Israeli clearance of rubble in Gaza could destroy valuable evidence of "atrocity crimes" and prevent the recovery of human remains.

The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday were all inside a van carrying seven people from a cleaning company and an SUV hit outside of airport property, according to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.

The British government on Monday condemned the "intimidating and thuggish behaviour" of anti-immigrant demonstrators who converged on a port in southern England where migrants were brought ashore after crossing the English Channel.

Germany's far-right AfD party won a state election in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday. Some experts say the victory sends a message to right-wing populists around the world that the political tides are in their favour.

Israeli strikes on a southern Lebanese town early on Monday killed at least 11 people including two children and two medics, Lebanon's state news agency said.

An Amazon cargo plane barrelled off a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, killing at least five people as it struck vehicles and burst into flames, authorities said.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) surged to a resounding victory in a regional election on Sunday but fell a little short of winning a majority in its quest to form the country's first far-right state government since the Second World War.

Sept. 11, 2001 started like any other work day in the CBC newsrooms - and then the world changed. Correspondents Adrienne Arsenault, Ioanna Roumeliotis, Paul Hunter and David Common reflect on the chaos and shock of covering 9/11, 25 years later.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino will stand for re-election, world soccer's governing body said Sunday.

Anak Krakatau volcano erupted in Indonesia early Sunday, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupting other domestic airports as volcanic ash drifted across parts of western Indonesia.

Believing she had perished in Nepal's deadly floods, the family of Chandika Kumari Shrestha started the ritual of mourning the elderly woman's death.

Israeli strikes killed four people, including two women, in southern Lebanon on Sunday, the Lebanese Health Ministry said, as Israel retaliated for what it said were Hezbollah drone attacks within areas occupied by its troops.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held "encouraging" talks in Kyiv on Sunday in their first official visit to Ukraine as part of a renewed push to end more than 4 years of Russia's full-scale invasion.

The new head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council on Sunday said Tehran plans to announce an "exclusion zone" outside the Strait of Hormuz aimed at vessels it believes are attempting to transit the waterway.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Saturday met with Palestinian Americans, including relatives of U.S. citizens killed by Israeli settlers, in a Palestinian town in the occupied West Bank that has been the target of settler attacks.

U.S. forces struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with ballistic missiles, the American military said Saturday, warning that it would "if necessary, destroy Iran's limited and exposed oil fleet."

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin on Saturday for talks to try to revive a stalled push to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations Saturday, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.

Ikram, 17, left the Moroccan border town of Fnideq at the end of July, when an estimated 80,000 Moroccans and migrants from countries further south travelled travelled to the northern border city, hoping to cross into Ceuta. For a brief period, Ikram felt relief in the Spanish enclave. But she is now homeless.

At least 10 people were killed and dozens more injured on Friday after an explosion at a military barracks in the Bolivian municipality of Viacha, about 30 kilometres from La Paz, local authorities said.

The World Nomad Games, a cultural and sporting festival centred on traditional nomadic sports, are happening in Kyrgyzstan until Sunday.

The helicopter search for Canadian mountain runner Kalie McCrystal, who was last seen on Tuesday above the Jean-Antoine Carrel hut of the Matterhorn, has been suspended after repeated aerial sweeps of the Italian side of the mountain.

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter.

The judge in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial has officially declared a mistrial after the defence's eleventh-hour emergency appeal was denied, bringing this chapter of the case that has captivated spectators to a dramatic close.

A Russian drone hit the headquarters of Ukraine's SBU security service in Kyiv on Friday, one of the most high-profile targets struck during the war as Russia intensified its campaign of air strikes against Ukraine.

Buses carrying crew members of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier streamed into Thailand's seaside resort city of Pattaya, as part of a port call after a lengthy deployment to the Middle East.

Romanian prosecutors officially indicted social media influencer Andrew Tate on Friday for trafficking minors, money laundering, sex with a minor and witness tampering and his brother Tristan for complicity, years after they began investigating them.

Rescuers in Nepal pulled two workers alive from a hydropower tunnel Friday, raising hopes of reaching a dozen others believed to be trapped nine days after catastrophic floods devastated towns and swept away villages.

Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party is soaring in popularity in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. It could form government in an upcoming regional election and become the first far-right party to hold state power in the country since the Second World War.

The arrest of Canadian Biwei Zhang on espionage allegations has set off a transatlantic intelligence scramble. From NATO headquarters to Canadian and European agencies, investigators are retracing a decade of internships and government work to determine what she accessed, what may have been compromised - and whether she was working alone.

U.S. President Donald Trump is promising to campaign alongside Republicans who are at risk of losing their Congressional races in the upcoming midterm elections. Many Democrats are secretly hoping this is one promise that Trump keeps.

Tech experts are warning of dire consequences if AI systems continue to escape human control, after a group of OpenAI agents went rogue in July and hacked into a billion-dollar company - what some are calling a "warning shot" amid the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

U.S. President Donald Trump's oil deal with interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodriguez is being rejected by the Venezuelan opposition, and by some in her own party. Venezuelan Canadians, some with long careers in the oil industry, say the deal is illegitimate and will be repudiated.

Russian drones struck and damaged a Coca-Cola plant outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

The deadlocked jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Thursday following a dramatic sixth day of deliberations.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would ask European nations to pay back the United States for military aid and munitions previously sent to Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia and appeared to signal a halt in sales to allied nations.

British police are trying to recover 70,000 pints worth of stolen Guinness.

Israel is waiting for U.S. approval to remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, Defence Minister Israel Katz said, renewing a plan that has been widely condemned as forced displacement and described as ethnic cleansing.

The sister of an Ontario university student arrested in an FBI counter-intelligence investigation has denied her brother is knowingly involved in espionage for Beijing. Weiheng Zeng, a Chinese citizen, was arrested while attempting to cross the U.S. border.

As the death toll from its Ebola outbreak exceeds 3,000, the Democratic Republic of Congo is using cell data to map travel routes out of the epidemic's hotspots. The pioneering approach aims to contain the thus-far untreatable strain before it reaches major cities like Kinshasa.

Thousands of Inuit women in Greenland are now eligible for monetary compensation over a decades-long Danish birth-control program that forcibly implanted intrauterine devices (IUDs). The compensation has some Inuit women in Canada who faced the same treatment hopeful for an apology from their own federal government.

With millions of Canadian kids heading back to school and temperatures set to drop, it's time to brace for another fall of seasonal illnesses - and medical experts say staying healthy takes more than just a flu shot.

On Friday, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's administration will celebrate 1,413 consecutive days in office, overtaking a record set by Silvio Berlusconi's second administration to become the longest-lasting government in the country's postwar history.

On Wednesday, as jurors in Lindsay Clancy's murder trial started deliberating for a fifth day, a Clancy supporter was arraigned on charges that she filmed members of the jury. It was far from the first time the trial has been overshadowed by the frenzy surrounding it.

Shedd Aquarium in Chicago says two whales have died after it took in several beluga whales from Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ont.