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A collapsed glacier in Nepal caused catastrophic flooding that killed more than a thousand people, while thousands more are still missing. Andrew Chang breaks down what accelerated the flood to such a violent degree and how factors like the scale of the Himalayan mountains and the region's climate make prediction and monitoring so challenging.CORRECTION (September 3, 2026): The correct unit of measurement for the debris described going down the mountain slope at 2:39 is metres. (Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images)

The U.S. Pentagon issued detailed guidance on Wednesday for a new, mandatory testosterone deficiency screening policy for active-duty and reserve service members age 30 and older, a follow-up to a July announcement from U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth.

Republican members of Congress are publicly backing U.S. President Donald Trump in his trade war with Canada and blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney's government for walking away from negotiations.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday implied the Bank of Canada was a commercial bank with locations south of the border, not a Crown corporation based up north.

Drone footage from Wednesday shows skeletal remains of homes and mud-caked debris in the Nepalese town of Devighat, which sits on the banks of the Trishuli river, after deadly flash floods tore through the region last week.

Jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial went home without a verdict Wednesday following a fifth day of deliberations - and twice saying they can't agree whether the Massachusetts mother is criminally responsible for killing her three young children.

A Mexican court has issued arrest warrants against the man and woman accused of defrauding a Canadian couple of their retirement savings through an alleged condo-flip scheme, CBC News has learned.

South Africa's aviation regulator is probing a low flypast by two jets over a Cape Town stadium last week.

Chevron will invest more than $7 billion US through its Venezuela joint ventures to double oil production to about 600,000 barrels per day over the next five years in the South American country, the U.S. oil major said on Wednesday.

Grab your glitteriest outfit and your tallest blonde wig: Dollyfest is set to go ahead in 2027 without its titular star, with the festival now transformed into a celebration of Dolly Parton's life, her estate has announced.

In a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the world must now figure out how to get temperatures below the danger zone and back to safety.

Golf legend Tiger Woods has pleaded no contest to a reckless driving charge from March in Florida.

Iran and its Arab neighbours were plunged back into war on Wednesday by the biggest exchange of fire between Tehran and Washington since July, with U.S. forces striking Iran's southern coast and Iran firing at American bases across the region.

An explosion near a German train station followed by the discovery of a suspicious object caused police to temporarily close the transport hub in the southern city of Augsburg on Wednesday morning.

Rescue teams raced on Wednesday to reach dozens of workers believed to be trapped inside hydropower tunnels in Nepal's mountains, offering one of the last hopes of finding survivors a week after a Himalayan flood killed more than 1,200 people.

It has been 20 years since Canadian soldiers walked into a Taliban killing ground west of Kandahar. Operation Medusa became Canada's largest battle since Korea - a brutal test against a disciplined, entrenched enemy. Canada prevailed, but at a terrible cost, in a fight that changed the Afghan war and those who survived it.

U.S. President Donald Trump is continuing his pursuit of Venezuela's oil jackpot, announcing a new deal aimed at boosting production in the South American country. And while Trump is flaunting the potential controlling stake in a portion of Venezuela's oil reserves as a warning to Canada, experts say there is little cause for concern in Western Canada.

A University of Waterloo student is suspected of espionage after the FBI said he admitted to accessing airport facilities in Toronto and Chicago, to take photos on behalf of a shadowy figure from China. Weiheng Zeng, himself a Chinese citizen, was arrested in Michigan on Aug. 23 and charged with making false statements.

Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security under a Beijing-imposed law that has effectively stifled the city's once-thriving pro-democracy movement.

Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting prominent U.S. conservative activist Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus last year, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to a murder charge that a judge ruled could carry the death penalty.

Apple changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America on the web version of its Apple Maps following U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order renaming the lake. The move by Apple on Tuesday followed a decision by Alphabet late on Saturday to change the name of the lake on its Google Maps for U.S. users.

Canada is attracting dozens of top academics from the United States with a promise to support their work, which has been deprioritized by the Trump administration. Andrew Chang breaks down how this sweep of American professors fits into Canada's trade war with the U.S.(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)

More than 170 Jewish members of the entertainment industry, including Hannah Einbinder, Ilana Glazer, Joel Coen and Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman, have signed an open letter defending American actor Mark Ruffalo from what the letter calls an "outrageous smear campaign."

Four people were killed in a Gaza City displacement camp Tuesday in a raid Israel's defence minister said was to locate a senior Hamas official.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario Lake America" last week, but not all Americans are happy with the change - including some in the United States House of Representatives. Democratic Rep. Tim Kennedy of New York, along with two colleagues, introduced the Hands Off Our Great Lakes Act to block the renaming.

The German government is blaming Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month using a drone laden with explosives, and announced it would shut down a Russian consulate, among other measures against Moscow.

As video games become an increasingly digital-first hobby, the people keeping the Atari name alive are going back to their roots, by offering new versions of their 1980s classics.

A new academic year began across the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday despite concerns by parents and teachers that the country's Ebola outbreak still poses risks to children in the epicentre.

Canada has an infanticide provision in the Criminal Code that applies exclusively to a mother who kills her newly born child while her mind is "disturbed."

The U.S. military says it began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran on Tuesday, after two supertankers carrying Saudi oil were struck by unknown projectiles within minutes of each other while transiting outbound through the Strait of Hormuz.

Russian air attacks killed 12 people and injured several more in Kyiv and the surrounding region early on Tuesday, authorities said, in the sixth consecutive day of strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

Rescue teams with search dogs on Tuesday continued to look through mud, rocks and debris along the border between Nepal and China for thousands of people still missing following the catastrophic floods that tore through communities across the Himalayas, leaving more than 1,000 dead.

Tens of thousands of music lovers descended on Great Park in Irvine, Calif., over the weekend to scream along to their favourite artists - part of a history-making event to raise funds for women's health, reproductive rights and ending gender-based violence.

A jury has found Duane "Keffe D" Davis guilty of orchestrating the 1996 killing of rap icon Tupac Shakur, marking the first conviction in a case that has gripped hip-hop fans for decades.

Chuck Thompson, the head of public affairs at CBC, says the public broadcaster is reviewing the Republican National Committee's "disappointing" decision to revoke CBC/Radio-Canada press accreditation for next month's event in Dallas, Texas.

U.S. Central Command says it carried out fresh strikes on Iran, claiming it was retaliation for Iran preparing to launch sea mines from rockets into the Strait of Hormuz. Andrew Chang digs deeper into what may be Iran's novel ability to deploy underwater mines with missiles.(Photo credits: The Canadian Press, CAT-UXO, Reuters, Adobe Stock and Getty Images)

U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House said Monday, in the latest departure of a top military leader during the second Trump administration.

An Edmonton-born man who spent months in ICE detention is back in Canada, where he is now sharing his story about the conditions and hurdles he faced while detained.

Dawn, fuzzy fat father who likes the taste of rocks, is officially the most popular yellow-bellied marmot in Gothic, Colo. The Fat Marmot Week contest is the brainchild of the Marmot Project, a long-term research initiative whose future hangs in the balance amid U.S. funding cuts.

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says Apple Maps could "soon" change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America," after President Donald Trump signed an order last week to rename the lake amid Canada-U.S. trade tensions.

The El Nino weather pattern won't peak for several months, but some effects are noticeable right now - both in terms of weather and human preparation. Here's a photographic look at some of the ways El Nino is already making its mark.

Argentina superstar Lionel Messi announced his retirement from international soccer on Monday, ending 21 years of national-team duty that were capped by winning the World Cup in 2022 to secure his place in the pantheon of the game's greatest ever players.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is cancelling its planned exhibit honouring British designer John Galliano, which had led to severe backlash in the Jewish community and beyond because of the designer's past antisemitic and racist statements.

Russian drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, and the surrounding region stretched into the fifth day on Monday, with near round-the-clock air raid sirens disrupting daily life for millions.

Swiss police said on Monday that they had arrested a 43-year-old suspect in relation to a deadly shooting incident at a rave in the town of Aarau on the weekend.

Rescuers raced Monday to free hundreds of workers believed to be trapped in tunnels at hydropower sites that were buried in mud by catastrophic flooding on the Nepal-China border, as the death toll climbed and increasingly desperate families searched for missing loved ones.

Russia may not be preparing to invade NATO, but something more ambiguous could be coming. Intelligence warnings point to provocations designed to rattle the alliance, sow confusion and test its resolve. With uncertainty surrounding Washington's response, Moscow may see an opportunity to probe NATO's most vulnerable point: its political unity.

New research highlights the declines in living corals in reefs around the world, showing the unprecedented twin-danger of human-caused climate change and an expected record El Nino.

At least two bodies have been recovered since a major flash flood swept through the Grand Canyon, park officials said Monday, as search and recovery efforts continued for about 15 people still missing.

U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday in the first military action in a month, prompting an Iranian response and breaking a lull in fighting during an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months.