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Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.

Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.

A researcher on sexual violence says it's good that people are talking about the inappropriate banner displayed on an off-campus house during St. Francis Xavier University's homecoming, but the conversation must continue.

For a young woman in St. John’s, the anticipation of her 21st birthday was anything but exciting.

Self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski's fraud and money laundering trial will begin Tuesday morning in Toronto.

Food manufacturers and fast food companies are cramming whey protein into everything. That’s causing shortages of the ingredient and pushing prices to record highs. Now whey protein is also a target in the U.S.-Canada trade war - increasing costs that may end up being passed on to customers.

A giant underwater wave of water connected to this year's El Niño weather pattern is making its way up the west coast of the Americas, raising alarm bells amongst scientists worried about how climate change is magnifying the impacts of the naturally-occurring phenomenon.

Thirty-two years after a 10-year-old boy was tied to a tree and sexually assaulted, an audio tape of his September 1994 police interview was played for the jury Monday at the trial of his alleged attacker. Richard Neil has pleaded not guilty to 17 historical charges linked to attacks on three children.

For weeks, posters and stickers across Ottawa advertising the anti-immigration group Dominion Society of Canada — which is calling for mass deportations of millions of people — have been generating complaints of racism and white nationalism. But police say the materials reported so far do not constitute hate crimes, and the group's chair and founder says the recruitment campaign is not going to stop.

U.S. Secretary of State called Iceland ‘a good friend’ and offered no hint of tensions with the island that is a NATO member but has no army

Flag- and placard-waving demonstrators responded to labor union calls for workers to march in support of the high school movement that is rattling the government of President Emmanuel Macron.

Authorities say the 28-year-old woman died on Friday from pneumonia of an as-yet unestablished origin

More than two weeks of class boycotts and school blockades has become a flashpoint in the early days of the presidential election campaign

At its peak, Bakker and his first wife Tammy Faye’s empire included a TV show drawing millions of viewers, a Christian-based theme park and hotel in South Carolina

University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is best known for his work establishing the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole

Influencers remain jailed in Florida with no date for extradition hearing

Speed Skating Canada CEO says the organization did send its filing on time but it wasn’t received by the CRA

Case comes at fraught moment for bilateral relations, with Taiwan persistently at centre of military and diplomatic rivalry

The Gulfstream G100 jet was carrying four Canadian crew members, as well as a mother and son from Bermuda

Rights groups accuse police in France ​of using heavy-handed tactics against minors, including batons, tear gas and flash-ball guns.

Wikimedia also said that the OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits to Wikimedia wiki sites, including "potentially malicious edits" to a citation tool.

Canadians could wind up with a bigger grocery bill in the coming months as a major price "shock" for diesel and crude oil works its way through supply chains, Scotiabank says.

The former prince, Andrew, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office in February. His former home was searched at the same time.

The Nobel Assembly of Sweden's Karolinska Institute said the trio of scientists had been selected for their "discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics."

Persian Gulf oil exporters topped pre-war levels for about half of September, shipping data showed on Monday, though attacks on tankers continue to cloud the outlook.

Russian authorities said the situation was under control and that all known contacts of the dead woman had been identified, examined and placed under medical supervision.

Cornell's president pledged greater transparency amid mounting outrage over the school's handling of the case, calling the alleged gang rape "deeply disturbing."

The co-pilot accused of attacking the captain on an Israel-bound flight with an axe had been barred from flying on his country's airline because of concerns about extremist views.

A dual U.K.-Iranian national arrested on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.-run military air base in England has been released on bail.

Supreme Court decisions that were small comfort in 2026 will turn out to be no comfort at all in 2028.

Huge tax breaks and a weak currency sustain exports, widen the government budget deficit and complicate the country’s efforts to rebalance its economy.

The rallies are a test of the strength of the student-led protest movement that has escalated at French high schools since late September.

After winning a state election last month, the Alternative for Germany is the first far-right party to oversee a state legislature since the Nazi era.

The Nobel Committee praised his “vision and scientific leadership” at a research project at the South Pole.

We look at the pet food market.

Plus, the ancient treasures revealed by melting glaciers.

What it will take for Israel to overcome the ghosts of Oct. 7.

With less money than G.O.P., Democrats are torn over where to spend in the final weeks. The party is making its biggest move in years against one of G.O.P.’s biggest blue-district survivors.

The administration has shifted its enforcement of a civil rights law from allegations of sexual misconduct to issues like blocking protections for transgender students.

U.S. Treasury yields were broadly lower on Tuesday morning after reaching fresh highs the previous day.

Lithuania is seeking to bolster its security amid growing concerns over Russia.

The U.S. national average price of diesel topped $6 a gallon in September for the first time ever, as fuel supply disruptions pushed up transportation costs in the country.

Mattel is facing pressure from a major investor to consider a sale amid struggling sales and profitability, according to various reports on Monday.

Rep. John Moolenaar wants the Fed to rethink Hong Kong’s access to a dollar-liquidity facility as China promotes the renminbi as a global currency.

A teenager reportedly lost a hand in the protests, which have seen over 5,000 people arrested.

Oil markets remain on edge over potential Middle East supply disruptions, with Brent trading around $100 a barrel as the risk of further escalation persists.

Goldman Sachs says tight refinery capacity could keep diesel prices elevated through 2027, with high margins needed to curb demand and rebuild inventories.

Britain has the highest government borrowing costs in the G7.

Quantitative hedge funds have captured big trends in bonds and oil to outperform the stock market this year.

It is not clear who is behind the attacks which come as Russia intensifies strikes in the Black Sea as part of its war against Ukraine.

Amanda Mathewson, 55, pleaded guilty to neglect and abandoning children in her care at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court.

The National Crime Agency says it is the first time the detection of small boat equipment has been made in air freight.

The four-hour one-off performance will also star Adjoa Andoh and Juliet Stevenson and

Belgian physicist Prof Francis Halzen has won for his pioneering work on an observatory that detects particles from space.

The Conservatives say their plan would protect the UK at a time when Nato allies have warned of Russian drone incursions.

The US president said rising gas prices were a "small price to pay for keeping the world safe" at an election rally in Nebraska.

The ex-Little Mix star worked with Hans Zimmer on an official track for the BBC nature documentary.

Dani Payne would have panic attacks at the thought of presenting - now she does it most days.

Daniil Medvedev once said you would need to knock on his hotel door at 6am for seven days in a row to make him angry - but his China Open disqualification was no surprise.

‘Barricades are ablaze’ as protestors given ‘endless supply of projectiles,’ local media reports

Kilmar Ábrego Garcia is back in federal court as the government keeps trying to deport him

Darya Shipilova is reported to have been exposed to the pathogen while working at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia

Ivan Milat was convicted of seven murders and died in prison in 2019

As this year’s Tory conference struggles to cut through with the public, the party looks like a defeated army not up for the fight – even as a potential early election beckons, writes political editor David Maddox

Military and intelligence officials believe that Moscow is preparing to test the international alliance

​John Meise was taking part in the Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon in Wisconsin when he collapsed not far from the finish line

Procedure works by vibrating water molecules to create intense heat and destroy tumour from inside out

It appeared to be the first such attack in Bulgarian waters

More than half of the positive tests were found to be a variant of XFG