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Rescue crews are on scene after a ferry carrying more than 260 passengers capsized off the coast of northern Cyprus on Sunday.

A group of tenants in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is demonstrating how communities can come together to keep each other safe during extreme heat events.

It was a cruel twist of fate. Just three days before the WNBA and its players landed on a new collective bargaining agreement — one that would officialize Canada’s first WNBA team’s inaugural season — the country’s national team was dealt a blow. It was eliminated from World Cup contention. And by Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello’s Australian team, no less.

As Germany’s far right gains political ground, researchers say some of its supporters are becoming more comfortable signalling their views in public — sometimes without displaying an explicitly political symbol at all.

Political stress is a distinct type of stress that refers to how political events, decisions and actors, can cause anxiety, even depression, and other health impacts. Academics like a team of researchers at the Body Politics Lab at Western University are digging into how people feel, emotionally and physically, about politics.

The Canadian women's vollleyball team punched its ticket to the Olympics for the first time since 1996 on Saturday with a 3-1 win (25-15, 20-25, 25-23, 25-14) over the host Dominican Republic in the final of the NORCECA Continental Qualifier in Santo Domingo.

Several questions about the U.S. deal to develop vast Venezuelan oil reserves remain unanswered, and a rapid and large-scale increase in production is unlikely. But experts say increased exports from Venezuela "would compete directly with Canadian crude in the U.S. Gulf Coast market."

John Albert (Buck) Martinez, a cancer survivor, catcher, manager and broadcaster for parts of five decades with the Toronto Blue Jays, was inducted into the club's new Hall of Excellence on Saturday.

Bryan Esbaugh and his 15-year-old son, Wyatt, were fishing on Ponhook Lake in Queens County, N.S., when they accidentally hooked a bald eagle. After safely untangling the bird on shore, they set it free and playfully dubbed it the "Canadian White-Headed Lake Raptor."

More than 100 people gathered outside of Hamilton city hall around midday Saturday to denounce the fact that a self-proclaimed nationalist group that wants to deport millions of people from Canada planned to host a day-long conference in the city the same day. Dominion Society members were seen meeting in Burlington, Ont.

Settlers attacked an NBC crew in the central West Bank Saturday, as they were interviewing a Palestinian woman who said she’d been driven out of her house, the network said.

Labour Day weekend will be the last chance for GTA residents to catch this version of the Snowbirds, set to be grounded.

Glen Griffith says he feels powerful when donning the Trump makeup, but his gigs rely on the president's public opinion.

ICDR software verifies the identities of users logging in to watch children’s dance livestreams and access photos.

For more than 20 years, no one knew who the "Highway 401 Fire Victim" was. Now, a daughter says she has closure.

Balanced Day trades the traditional day for three 100-minute teaching periods split by two 45-minute "nutrition breaks."

OTTAWA - A trio of federal byelections are set for Monday in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia.

Harry and Meghan will face obstacles as they re-acclimatize to Britain’s press and England’s legendary drizzle. But if the Sussex’s play it right, they have every chance to succeed.

'During the six weeks I was in Peru, I saw pathologies that were shocking, strange, and wonderful'

Tariffs should be used to promote and protect domestic industries.

Many of the 259 passengers and eight crew members were rescued, officials say

At least three people were injured in a separate Russian drone strike on Kyiv late Saturday

Brussels officials had hoped an Iceland vote to join would curb euroscepticism

Nepal officials reported 788 dead with 2,502 missing on Sunday, Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing on Chinese side of border

Public shootings are rare in the Alpine country despite relatively widespread gun ownership

She says that the country will retain ‘ownership of and sovereignty’ over its natural resources

A reliable result might not be available until midday on Sunday, election officials said

Venezuela’s acting president described the deal as a step toward economic recovery, but some in the country consider it a betrayal

In a June 2025 post on X, he wrote: ‘We have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people’

Gabriel Perez made US$107,500 on prediction markets by betting on what Trump would say in speeches

Yiannopoulos was arrested Thursday at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport in Louisiana and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Acting President Delcy Rodríguez's government in a statement said the deal involves the development of 17 fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels.

After Nepali authorities updated their figures Saturday, the combined toll in Nepal and Tibet rose to 676 dead and nearly 3,000 people missing.

Immigration officials announced on Friday that Yiannopoulos was arrested in New Orleans and accused him of overstaying after entering the U.S. in 2019.

With transborder screen passenger traffic down by 8.7 per cent in July, the agency notes this number was 'well below the same month in 2024,' which was 12.5 per cent.

The long-lost belongings were preserved in glacial ice high in the Austrian mountains, but its melting led to their discovery last month by a hiker.

During nearly two hours in a Miami courtroom, Andrew and Tristan Tate denied under oath criminal accusations across multiple countries.

The extension means decisions on immigration and visa applications from residents of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda and South Sudan will remain on hold until Sept. 28.

The federal government says at least 32 Canadians are reported missing in an area spanning parts of Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region in China, after devastating floods.

The popular king modernized the royal house but refused to follow in the footsteps of other aging monarchs who have abdicated in recent times.

Astronomers will use data collected by Roman’s wide, deep gaze to study the dark universe and hunt for new worlds.

As the U.S. Open kicks off, we’re exploring a tennis technique that has quietly gone extinct.

Marlon James’s story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalist’s banquet — and the Booker Prize winner’s finest book yet.

Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.

With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.

The government is struggling to meet a shortfall in fuel and is wary that higher prices at the pump could stir unrest.

This is what she did for the written word. And medicine. And …

The players, the rivalries and the dramas to follow at this year’s tournament.

For many, the trek to Mount Kailash on the border of Nepal and Tibet is a once-in-a-lifetime trip to find spiritual awakening.

A judge temporarily blocked the agency from refusing to deliver ballots in noncompliant states, which could disproportionately affect Democrats and many battleground elections.

Icelanders voted 52.8% to 47.2% against reopening talks to join the European Union.

The U.S. struck a deal with Venezuela to get majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of oil reserves, Trump said in a social media post.

In a candid 2015 interview, Dolly Parton told CNBC's Tania Bryer about depression, ambition and the business decisions that defined her career.

Economists have long viewed the post-pandemic economy as "K"-shaped. That consensus has now evaporated.

With data center concerns becoming a major election issue and Meta reaching a landmark settlement in a social media case, the tech backlash is gaining steam.

OpenAI plans to end model access through Cursor on Nov. 12, citing concerns after SpaceX’s $60 billion acquisition of the coding startup.

Salesforce, CrowdStrike, and Nvidia all faced major tests with investors and crushed expectations.

Iran's president says sanctions are hitting imports and exports, as its supreme leader urges less reliance on the U.S. dollar.

"Meta is seeking to ensure its competitors will face the same rules," one business professor told CNBC after Meta called on rivals to protect children online.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that sports-related event contracts are not swaps, contradicting a 3rd Circuit ruling from April.

Robert Guanco, 41, was a pastor at Jesus the Living Water Church in Eastbourne, East Sussex.

A 27-year-old German man was arrested immediately after the incident in Rosenheim, Bavaria.

Five others in their twenties were injured after shots were fired at a techno event near Zurich.

Broadcaster RUV reports that 52.8% of voters rejected the government's proposal to resume talks.

Tottenham are in advanced talks to sign Iliman Ndiaye from Everton, with Richarlison set to move in the opposite direction as part of separate negotiations.

Three of the five crew members were rescued and taken to hospital, the coastguard says.

Andy Burnham tells BBC Breakfast anyone convicted of manslaughter will be excluded from the early release scheme in the Sentencing Act.

Everton have called off a proposed deal to sell midfielder Harrison Armstrong to Nottingham Forest following a backlash from the club's supporters.

The prime minister says he will keep hundreds more criminals behind bars but doing so requires complex changes.

George Mason, originally from Hinckley in Leicestershire, is facing deportation from Sweden.

The Independent has long campaigned for thousands of IPP prisoners who are jailed without hope

Exclusive: The family of Ali Karimli claims the regime is ‘deliberately trying to break him’ as they urged the UK to intervene in the pro-democracy leader’s case

Other sites such as YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat could be required to introduce similarly dramatic changes

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Leroy Douglas, whose incarceration has been found to be unlawful and arbitrary by the United Nations, has finally been granted parole

New York Rep. Mike Lawler drew scrutiny two years ago after an old photo surfaced of him dressed in blackface as the King of Pop

The catamaran-style boat was traveling from the port of Kyrenia, also known as Girne, to the Turkish port of Tasucu

Gina Hinojosa talks to Eric Garcia about the growing backlash in Texas and how it could feed a ‘bite back’ against Republicans in November

Authorities have detained a man suspected of fatally stabbing a 31-year-old British woman in Rosenheim, Germany

Iran’s supreme leader has called on leaders of Muslim countries to stand together against Israel and the United States, imploring them to “know your real enemy.”

Does eminent domain prevail against the First Amendment and religious freedom? A diocese in southern New Mexico says ‘nothing could be less Catholic’ than the president’s border wall, Alex Woodward reports