The long-standing trend of the incumbent U.S. president's party getting thumped in the midterms strongly suggests Donald Trump won't need to make good on his new promise to send every American citizen a $5,000 US cheque if the Republicans win in Nove...

Almost three years after the Houthis first garnered international attention by attacking ships off Yemen, the rebels have only increased their violent influence in the Middle East. Here's a primer on the group that could push the price of global oil ...

Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi rebels captured a strategic island at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, two officials said Friday, opening a new front in the Iran war and further threatening oil exports from Saudi Arabia, which shut down a major pi...

The largest cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in U.S. history is over, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

David Maloney's proposal comes on the heels of U.S. President Donald Trump's signed order to change name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.

Bobbing for days atop a capsized skiff in Alaska's frigid Bering Sea, a 15-year-old boy held on until he was rescued by a fishing vessel this week, the U.S. Coast Guard said.

Forty per cent of the 2,753 people who died at Ground Zero on 9/11 have not had their remains identified, including approximately 10 of the 24 Canadian victims. Last month, the lab announced it made its first identification of previously unknown rema...

A U.K. man facing accusations he took part in a scheme that wiped out a Canadian couple's retirement savings says he's provided proof to Mexican authorities probing the case that he never touched a dime of the vanished funds, and that he's also a vic...

Police say five people have died and 40 others were injured after a Dutch tour bus slammed into a roadside crash barrier and overturned in eastern Switzerland.

Andrew Chang breaks down how thieves stole millions of dollars of Renoir paintings from a museum in France, moment by moment. (Photo credits: The Canadian Press, Reuters, Adobe Stock, and Getty Images)

A Hong Kong court sentenced three activists — who for years organized vigils in remembrance of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown — to prison for terms ranging from five to more than seven years on Friday in a case that is widely seen as a b...

At Poland's massive MSPO arms fair, Canada arrives as the 'lead nation' with 230 firms. But shifting decades of reliance on the American market won't be easy.

Canada and Ukraine signed a sweeping 100-year partnership on Thursday that puts defence production at its core. Ottawa plans to build millions of drones, pairing Canadian firms with Ukraine's battle-tested industry, while expanding co-operation on co...

ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel said an interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico on Thursday will air on YouTube and not during the network broadcast, citing threats from the ‌Federal Communications Commission.

Twenty-five people died in a fire aboard a foreign cargo vessel undergoing repairs at a state-owned ‌shipyard in the eastern Chinese city of Qingdao on Thursday, state media reported.

Lindsay Clancy's lawyer has asked the judge who oversaw the Massachusetts woman's murder trial to declare her not guilty by reason of insanity, saying ‌prosecutors had failed to prove that, despite being mentally ill, she knew killing her three you...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he would pay every American adult a $5,000 US "Trump dividend" if Republicans retain control of Congress in November's midterm elections, an extraordinary attempt to persuade voters to back his party.

The driveway of a coastal mansion in Malibu believed to belong to Nicolas Cage collapsed Tuesday morning as a giant sinkhole opened up in front of the home.

Iran said Wednesday it had attacked 10 ships near the Strait of Hormuz after the U.S. sank five Iranian oil tankers, with the attacks ‌in and around the vital waterway sending the international Brent crude benchmark over $100 US a barrel for the fi...

One of the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that careened off a Miami runway and killed five people repeatedly warned they were coming in too fast nearly two minutes ahead of time and at the last second urged them to abort the landing, according to h...