Several scientists who spoke to CBC News say the world needs to brace for more viruses spilling over into human populations in the years ahead, with Langya just the latest example.

The Adrienne Arsht Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center, which studies climate resiliency, is running a pilot program to see whether a naming system for heat waves will affect the public’s perce...

Russia's military shelled residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occup...

Floods triggered by seasonal torrential rains in Sudan have left over 50 people dead and inundated more than 8,170 homes since the rainy season started, senior police official said Saturday. ...

Italy's worst drought in decades has reduced Lake Garda, the country's largest lake, to close to its lowest level ever recorded, exposing swaths of previously underwater rocks and warming the water to...

As the U.K. swelters through another extreme heat wave, air conditioning installers say they are working overtime to meet the growing demand for AC units. Most estimates pin the number of homes with a...

A U.S. federal judge granted the U.S. Department of Justice's request to unseal the warrant that authorized the FBI to search former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. ...

The Chinese air force is sending fighter jets and bombers to Thailand for a joint exercise with the Thai military on Sunday.

A man went on a shooting rampage in the streets of Cetinje in western Montenegro on Friday, killing 10 people, including two children, before being shot dead by a passerby, officials said. ...

Salman Rushdie, whose novel The Satanic Verses drew death threats from Iran's leader, was stabbed in the neck and abdomen Friday as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. A New J...

Health officials identified the virus that causes polio in New York City's wastewater, suggesting local transmission of the virus, state authorities said on Friday. They urged unvaccinated New York...

Health experts through the World Health Organization (WHO) have come up with new names for the monkeypox disease, virus and variants using Roman numerals, according to a release sent Friday. ...

Anne Heche remains on life support and under evaluation for organ donation after a car crash that led to her brain death, a representative for the actor said Friday. Under current California law, deat...

Two years after a pair of former players sued the NFL over the treatment of Black retirees in the league's $1 billion US concussion settlement, hundreds of men whose medical tests were rescored to eli...

As the fallout from the removal of potentially classified documents from Donald Trump's Florida home plays out, here's a look at some recent cases where individuals in and connected to the U.S. govern...

A Republican former U.S. attorney general is pleading with his fellow Americans: cool down the ill-informed speculation threatening to engulf the country’s politics. The police search at Donald Trum...

The UN nuclear chief warned Thursday that "very alarming" military activity at Europe's largest nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine could lead to dangerous consequences for the region and called for...

As the latest wave of wildfires and heat warnings challenges the continent, the head of the European Space Agency (ESA) is warning economic damage from heat waves and drought could dwarf Europe's ener...

Russian hockey player Ivan Fedotov has been accused of trying to evade military service by signing an NHL contract.

A hostage standoff where an armed man demanded a Beirut bank let him withdraw his trapped savings has ended with the man's surrender and no injuries. It was the latest painful episode in Lebanon's eco...