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The leader of Russia's only registered anti-war party said he will stay in the country and keep pushing for change, despite increased pressure from the authorities ‌that has led to the party's exclusion from upcoming parliamentary elections.

Forecasters in the U.K. are predicting the mercury will rise as high as 38 C in central and southeast England on Thursday, potentially making it the hottest day of the year. Temperatures in France, meanwhile, are forecast to go even higher, reaching 40 C in central and southern areas and 38 C in Paris.

A man who has been on the run since 1991 was arrested by the U.S.'s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in California, they say.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel on Thursday condemned a siege by Israeli settlers of a Palestinian American family's home in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, calling it a "horrific act of terror."

At Mountain Park Cemetery in Alberta's foothills, a one-way rotary phone connects the living to the dead through the wind. The cemetery is the last thing left of the old mining town, telling the stories of frontier hardship through the many restored gravestones that lie there.

A Toronto police officer is injured after being shot during a robbery investigation early Thursday morning.

Documents unsealed by CBC News and a consortium of other media outlets reveal a chronology of the day law enforcement responded to the deadly shooting in northern B.C.

How the political narrative on immigration in Canada changed dramatically over less than a decade.

A Saint John man convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the 2025 stabbing deaths of his sons, aged 10 and 17, is scheduled to be sentenced today.

Two countries traded written negotiating positions at an hour-long meeting earlier this week

Lawsuit alleges the service violates the U.S. Constitution and requests that it be shut down

It usually happens within several days of giving birth but can occur up to six weeks afterwards and affects someone’s sense of reality

Tehran says strategic waterway is ‘under Iran’s control and management,’ a day after Trump said U.S. had ‘total control’

Revered by some who miss him in the face of the U.S. energy blockade; blamed by others as the architect of the process that led to Cuba’s current crisis. Fidel Castro would have turned 100 this Thursday, and his long shadow continues to loom over the island.

Facing awkward questions about his finances, the anti-immigration politician dramatically announced that he’s quitting Parliament in order to run again, a move critics denounced as a ploy to dodge a parliamentary probe. So far only one candidate has announced plans to run against Farage: Count Binface, a comedian with a trash can on his head.

Lawyers for Andrew and Tristan Tate say they need more time to respond to prosecutors’ arguments

From beaches in Portugal and the U.K. to the French capital and a hilltop town in Spain, crowds gathered in countries across Europe to watch the solar eclipse on Wednesday.

Forecasters in the U.K. are predicting the mercury will rise as high as 38 C in central and southeast England, potentially making it the hottest day of the year. The highest temperature this year was recorded on June 26 when the temperature hit 38 C in eastern England.

This is the fourth refinery targeted in three days in Kyiv’s months-long campaign to choke Moscow’s vital oil sector

A Ukrainian attack on Russia's Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk hit warships at a naval base and forced two major grain terminals to halt operations on Wednesday.

Demand for crude oil worldwide is expected to fall as higher gas prices force many consumers and businesses to reduce their consumption, according to the IEA.

The attacks have dented Russia’s refining capacity. Kyiv officials say the onslaught seeks to compel Russian President Vladimir Putin to seek a peace deal.

It was widely reported that Swift wore a haute couture Christian Dior dress to her Madison Square Garden wedding to NFL player Travis Kelce on July 3.

A partial solar eclipse occurs when “the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth but the Sun, Moon, and Earth are not perfectly lined up."

Millions of people in Spain will have some of mainland Europe’s best views of the celestial spectacle. It will begin around sunset, when the sun, moon and Earth align.

The Ukrainian president has warned that Russia is preparing for escalation and could use its parliamentary elections next month as a pretext to declare a new mobilization.

The current outbreak was declared on May 15, but health authorities now say sequencing showed it began months earlier, in February.

Oil prices spiked Tuesday as the Iran war continues to jeopardize global supplies, with U.S. strategic stockpiles falling to the lowest level in more than 40 years.

A remembrance ceremony was held in Saskatoon Sunday to remember the loss of lives and freedom in Iran. Associations say more awareness needs to be spread in Canada about the IRGC.

Tributes for former Premier Zhu Rongji reflect nostalgia for an era when China was opening to the world and the future seemed more prosperous and hopeful.

Bob Iger, the former chief executive of Disney, and Josh Kushner, the venture capitalist, are buying the Los Angeles Lakers. Their wives set them up.

The recurring climate phenomenon is expected to peak later this year, but it is already causing dry spells and crop failures on three continents.

New York State’s generous health plan for working-class people was hit hard by federal funding cuts. More than 400,000 people are now looking for new coverage or living without it.

The tech mogul is trying to design the blueprint for defying death.

Live audio, a new format and new voices have transformed and unsettled the court’s signature public ceremony.

The City Council is poised to approve a package of bills loosening some restrictions on roadway dining structures, which became ubiquitous during the pandemic.

The latest round of extreme temperatures, the fifth since May, is disrupting daily life and testing the region’s resilience.

Wyoming, one of the most conservative states, has a legislature divided between a hard-right House and a merely right Senate. Ultraconservatives want a complete takeover in the Aug. 18 primaries.

Ahead of Wisconsin’s Democratic primary for governor, a past tweet by the assemblywoman that called for the holiday to be canceled was resurfaced.

Oil futures retreated early Wednesday morning after prices rose overnight.

South Korean stocks rallied on Thursday, pushing the benchmark Kospi into a technical bull market.

Japan has enough cash at its disposal for a couple more rounds of yen-buying on the scale of last month's intervention, Goldman Sachs says.

The producer price index was expected to increase by 0.2% in July, according to the Dow Jones consensus.

Greenland Energy Company and joint venture partner 80 Mile have delayed planned oil drilling in Greenland until winter 2027.

Iran’s central bank chief said Thursday that the country is set to join the BRICS New Development Bank.

The U.K. economy is showing further signs of a long-awaited rebound, but the picture is complicated by the fallout from the Iran war and high energy prices.

A total solar eclipse crossed Iceland and Spain on Aug. 12, while much of Europe saw a partial eclipse and businesses benefited from demand.

Ukraine has launched a heavy drone assault on warships and major Russian grain export terminals in the Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk.

Pandora is moving ahead with platinum-plated jewelry as it seeks to reduce its exposure to volatile silver prices despite the metal's recent decline.

The election demanded by Reform UK's leader, who faces corruption accusations, has turned into a punch line after major parties dismissed it as a stunt and declined to field candidates.

Israeli forces continue to occupy buffer zone in effort to dismantle Hezbollah’s infrastructure, with restrictions drawing parallels to those in the West Bank.

Scores of buildings collapsed in the strongest temblor to strike the South American country in at least a decade.

He negotiated China’s entry into the World Trade Organization and pushed through reforms that breathed new life into China’s state-directed economy.

Dogs and drones were deployed to search for survivors. At least 220 people were reported dead in the nation’s strongest earthquake in a decade.

The military operation was the first following Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s dismantling of an office focused on mitigating unintended casualties.

The Trump administration gave the contract to Our Rescue, which Tim Ballard, the former agent, left in 2023 before being accused of sex trafficking.

“What we are seeing is shocking and far beyond the threshold of an extremely critical emergency,” one humanitarian official said.

A recall of beef products from Corte Argentino USA affects retailers and grocery distributors in Texas and Florida.

Robert Gilman and his mother were on a plane back to Washington on Tuesday.

Adina Mihai and Madalin Dumitru gave their victims the drug GBL to render them unconscious.

The UK government says it is "disrupting and deterring shadow fleet vessels" in accordance with the law.

Top grades and students going to university are on the up, but technical subjects are also becoming more popular.

Phillip Ormerod was taken to hospital in critical condition and later died, police have confirmed.

The mayor of Qusra says Israeli troops have been telling families to leave their houses, using some as barracks.

Premier League kits are going to have a very different look this season after clubs voted to ban gambling on the front of shirts. BBC Sport looks at the history of sponsorship, and who is replacing the betting companies.

The job requires managing a complex relationship with the media - as well Trump's high expectations.

The department store made famous by sitcom Absolutely Fabulous had warned it would cease trading.

The dating app's boss says the move is in response to a successful trial and a change in what users want.

Leicester City's Thai owners King Power are hoping to sell the club after 16 years, for more than £200m.

Wildfire warning in place for large swathes of Scotland as UK battles another heatwave

Samantha Dallimore went out for lunch at a café that did not serve alcohol, before feeling 'drowsy' and 'not right' after taking her medication

Crew members of a Yemeni ship attacked by Houthi rebels earlier this week say a second missile hit during rescue efforts, causing more chaos and casualties

The discovery of the human remains was made in Biggin Hill in London last Friday

A look at how a verification system could be designed offers some insight into some of the technical challenges AI agents are poised to introduce

Famed oceanographer Sylvia Earle warns that humanity is ‘perilously close to tipping in the wrong direction’ when it comes to our seascape — and can never bring back the oceans we had — but, she tells Julia Musto, we can still save the deep ocean with exploration

Millions turned their eyes to the skies for the best solar eclipse since the turn of the century

A 56-year-old man from Llanelli has been arrested

An extraordinary operation to transport Trump onto a military plane in Ankara in a catering truck was prompted by a warning from Israel of a potential Iranian assassination attempt. But with the CIA saying they had ‘low confidence’ in the intel, experts tell Maira Butt that the relationship between the allies is under increasing strain

Younger generations’ AI job-loss fears can reflect frustrations with the economy, politics and society