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As the third rape trial of Harvey Weinstein's opens in New York, this trial focuses on hairstylist and actor Jessica Mann and her encounter with Weinstein one morning in a hotel room.

Israel's military says it has replaced a crucifix in southern Lebanon after a soldier smashed it down over the weekend.

Canadian officials have summoned Israeli ambassador Iddo Moed to request an investigation into the killing of Mohammad Hassan Haidar, a Canadian citizen in southern Lebanon, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said.

Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday after Israeli settlers and soldiers opened fire, witnesses said, while in Gaza health officials said two Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes.

A former top Foreign Ministry official said on Tuesday he had faced "constant pressure" from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer's office to speed up the process to install his pick as U.S. ambassador, deepening a row that threatens the British leader.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down from the job that he inherited from the late Steve Jobs, ending a nearly 15-year reign that saw the company's market value soar by more than $3.6 trillion US during an iPhone-fuelled era of prosperity.

The U.S. war on Iran indirectly opens the door for China to help reshape the world order as the ceasefire deadline looms. Andrew Chang explains how China, Iran's largest oil customer, takes a unique position in this war to become the new 'global grown-up' in the room.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Adobe Stock, Reuters and Getty Images

Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to go back to court Tuesday, in his third New York trial regarding various allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Just 10 days after local authorities in Caddo Parish, La., announced a new domestic violence unit, a father killed eight children, including seven of his own, and injured two women in Shreveport, officials said during a news conference on Monday - the worst mass shooting in the United States in more than two years.

The Gold Plan, adopted by the PWHL when it launched in 2024, forces teams to try to win after being eliminated from playoff contention. Each win earns the team draft order points toward securing the top pick at the entry draft.

The parody news site the Onion says it has a new plan to acquire the conspiracy website Infowars.com, something it has been trying to do since the site first came up for sale two years ago.

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said the 21-year-old D4vd, whose legal name is David Burke, was charged with first-degree murder, lewd and lascivious acts with a person under 14 and mutilating a body. His attorney entered not guilty pleas on his behalf to all counts.

Defending champion John Korir broke the Boston Marathon course record on Monday, riding a tailwind to a win in two hours one minute 42 seconds, the fifth-fastest marathon of all time. Calgary-born Rory Linkletter ran his best marathon in 2:06:04.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke today about the fact that Peter Mandelson was appointed ambassador to the U.S. despite a recommendation against him receiving security clearance.

Israel's prime minister, foreign minister and military on Monday condemned the desecration of a crucifix smashed by an Israeli soldier in a southern Lebanese village home to Christians.

A pro-Russian former president, Rumen Radev, is set for a runaway victory in Bulgaria's election and may even secure a parliamentary majority, exit polls showed, potentially ending years of weak coalition governments and altering the European Union member's foreign policy.

Japan issued an advisory Monday for an increased risk of a possible mega-quake in northern coastal areas, induced by a major earthquake earlier in the day.

A gunman in Louisiana killed eight children in domestic-related shootings at two different homes early Sunday, police in Shreveport said.

Rat poison was found inside a jar of Hipp baby food, Austrian police said late on Saturday after the product was recalled from 1,500 Spar supermarkets in the country over safety fears.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb sat down with CBC News chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton to talk about trade, his relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump and NATO's role in a shifting global order.

The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's birth on April 21, 1926, offers what might be considered typical royal recognitions for such milestones. But the moment also offers an opportunity to assess the legacy of Britain's longest-reigning monarch.

Fujiyoshida was a sleepy town with a great view - until its cherry blossoms went viral on social media. Now, it's the latest travel hotspot struggling to find ways to balance tourism with liveability.

A gunman who killed at least six people in the streets of Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, on Saturday before taking hostages and barricading himself in a nearby supermarket has been shot dead by police, Ukrainian officials said.

Pope Leo XIV says he won't debate U.S. President Donald Trump and will continue to preach peace.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Friday criticized the current iteration of North America's free trade agreement as a bad deal, taking a swipe at Canada's trade strategy ahead of upcoming negotiations.

Calls are growing for Keir Starmer to resign after it was revealed that Peter Mandelson, who was a close friend to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, failed a security vetting process but was appointed as the U.K's ambassador to the U. S. anyway.

Todd Lyons, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), is planning to depart at the end of next month. Lyons's boss Markwayne Mullin at the Department of Homeland Security says he hopes that the Trump administration can carry out deportations "in a more quiet way," after several deaths and a drumbeat of negative media coverage.

When Dublin scientist Emma Murphy got word that a dead Greenland shark had washed up on the shores of northwestern Ireland, she was gobsmacked. Not only are the massive and ancient ocean dwellers notoriously elusive, but they usually make their homes in the remote depths of the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.

An Israeli drone strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the first full day of a U.S.-brokered truce meant to end hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, paramedics in the area and the head of a local hospital told Reuters.

Progress on cutting carbon emissions has stalled somewhat in Canada, according to the federal government annual reporting to the UN. Oil and gas emissions have continued to rise since the pandemic.

Several workers for a Canadian-owned Mexican gold mine received no response after making complaints to the company's workplace ethics hotline saying that local management was working with a prominent organized crime group to force out the existing union, according to two former local union members.

Jeremy Hansen sat down with CBC News to share some of his insights, like how he felt during lift-off, the joy the mission brought him, and that one time he accidentally let a water bag explode in the capsule.

U.S. President Donald Trump railed against a federal judge's decision on Thursday that continues to block above-ground construction of a $400-million US White House ballroom, allowing only below-ground work on a bunker and other "national security facilities" at the site.

Congressional Republicans have sent U.S. President Donald Trump a resolution that would lift a federal ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, about 160 kilometres southwest of Thunder Bay, Ont.

A 10-day ceasefire deal between Israel and Lebanon was announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday, six weeks into a renewed war with Hezbollah that has killed more than 2,000 people, caused widespread destruction and driven more than a million residents from their homes.

An Israeli strike destroyed the last bridge over the Litani River into Lebanon's south, according to a senior Lebanese security source, fully severing almost a tenth of Lebanon from the rest of the country, after Israel destroyed other crossings during the war.

After flying 406,771 kilometres around the moon - the farthest any humans have ever been - Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen and NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch are ready to share more of their experiences with the public. CBC will have live coverage of today's news conference as they take questions from the media at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, at 2:30 p.m. ET.

Russia unleashed its deadliest attack so far this year on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and other cities overnight, killing 16 people, including a 12-year-old child, and wounding scores, in drone and missile strikes, officials said on Thursday.y.

The Trump administration expressed optimism on Wednesday about reaching a deal to end the war with Iran, while also warning of increasing economic pressure against Tehran if it remains defiant.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered a sustained attack on her conservative colleagues' use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration, calling the orders "scratch-paper musings" that can have a "potentially corrosive" effect.

A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of U.S. states.

Andrew Chang explains what's keeping the U.S. and Iran from reaching a peace agreement following six weeks of ongoing war and a recent marathon negotiating session in Pakistan.Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images

A Russian court has fined a local news agency and one of its directors thousands of dollars for a review it posted on the smash hit series Heated Rivalry, which the Russian government considers LGBTQ+ propaganda.

The Artemis II astronauts made many mind-blowing images during their historic lunar mission earlier this month. They have two NASA trainers to thank for equipping them with tried-and-true digital SLR cameras and sharing their photo skills.

A Parisian art enthusiast could not believe his luck when he found out Tuesday he'd won a Pablo Picasso painting worth more than $1 million in a raffle.

Three years on from the outbreak of war in Sudan in April 2023, the country is in the grip of what the United Nations calls the world's worst displacement crisis, with more than 11 million people forced from their homes.

The rapper formerly known as Kanye West postponed his upcoming show in the city of Marseille after French authorities said they would seek to ban the concert.

British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves was not backing away from her criticism of the Iran war as "folly," even as she prepared to meet Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other U.S. officials in Washington on Wednesday.

Taylor Frankie Paul, a star of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and the recently scrubbed season of The Bachelorette, will not be charged in recent fights with her former partner, the Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office said Tuesday.

A student opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, the interior minister said, in the country's second such shooting in two days.