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The Canadian Armed Forces is holding an event today with Canadian drone manufacturers to test their platforms in real-world scenarios.

Zhu Rongji, the impatient, sharp-tongued reformer helped ignite China's explosive economic boom by forcing change on state industry in the 1990s and leading the country into the World Trade Organization, has died at the age of 97.

The Saskatoon team heads to France Wednesday for the festival. The sport is helpful for recovering and building strength after surgeries, but team members say they stay in the program because of the life-long connections between women with a shared story.

More than a year after Moncton revoked permits that Sean Feucht needed for his "musical worship event" at Riverfront Park, the city is being sued. Feucht's organization claims the city infringed on its rights to freedom of expression.

What does Quebec identity mean — and who defines it? Ahead of the Oct. 5 provincial election, CBC's Sudha Krishnan sat down with a cross section of Quebecers, and they offered a wealth of perspectives.

Fairground AI Creator TV features fully AI-generated content, 24/7, for free — supported by AI-generated ads — but will viewers want to tune in?

Lindsay Clancy's legal team does not deny that the Massachusetts mother killed her children, but is arguing she shouldn't be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill — in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis. Prosecutors say she plotted to get her husband out of the house so she could carry out the murders.

Ottawa's plan for a state-of-the-art lab to help tackle emerging health threats is commendable on paper. But top health researchers say long-term funding gaps, recent staff cuts and red tape could threaten its real-world success.

Hamilton Mayor Andrea Horwath says she has sent letters to local businesses about an anti-immigration group that could be renting space in the city for a conference. Horwath says people are free to promote their views, but wants the community to be informed.

A Metro grocery store in Ottawa's South Keys neighbourhood will be replaced by a Food Basics this fall, costing dozens of employees their jobs.

Four people were initially hurt in the blaze, but only one had to be taken to hospital with injuries that weren't life-threatening, according to paramedics.

Skywatchers can look forward to a partial eclipse during the day Wednesday and a meteor shower overnight.

Sports and summer camps help kids develop the independence and cooperation skills they need to thrive.

In all, 128 communities across Canada will receive funding for various climate resilience projects.

Jays are closing out the season the way they started: with a talented, injury-depleted staff barely holding it together.

The CEO sparked outrage by suggesting seniors and poor Canadians — more than 12 million people — shouldn't be able to vote.

Tenants argue that the money announced by Mark Carney to support rental housing enables developers to redevelop a rent-controlled building.

Adam White, a former president of the York Region Law Association, was suspended by the Law Society Tribunal in 2023 and his licence was revoked the following year over the forgeries.

If the U.S. gets effective control of Greenland, Baffin Island will be next. Then they will attempt to control the North West Passage. And it will all happen fast, writes John Ralston Saul.

$1.7B program announced by Carney government questioned as successful applicants face months-long security screenings.

The consortium aims to establish scientific evidence about both potential benefits and harms of cannabis

For the first time in more than a century, a total solar eclipse is coming to mainland Spain. Daytime darkness will descend Aug. 12 across the Iberian Peninsula close to sunset — plus slivers of Greenland and Iceland — as the sun, moon and Earth align perfectly in the sky.

A Syrian court has handed former president Bashar al-Assad a death sentence in absentia, the first conviction against the leader ousted in 2024 after more than two decades in power. But who is Assad, what crimes was he convicted of, and how are Syrians reacting to the landmark ruling?

U.S. accuses Iran of failing to honour an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, while Tehran says Washington has reneged on its commitments

Residents in San Juan lined up at community wells and water distribution points this week as a deepening drought and government rationing program left thousands of households struggling to obtain enough water for daily needs. This comes as Puerto Rico recently began a rotating water rationing program in response to severe drought conditions, forcing tens of thousands of residents to go without running water for up to 48 hours at a time.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan won the Minnesota Democratic Senate primary in the latest victory for an insurgent progressive over the party’s establishment.

Beijing declared its second-highest rainstorm warning, suspending 250 bus routes and shutting 150 tourist attractions, while 10 subway lines ran at reduced speed

Chemical producers, utilities, steelmakers and agricultural traders warn of higher costs, transport bottlenecks and curbed production

A woman identified as Daniela Largo Sanchez was rescued alive in Pereira on Tuesday night after spending 36 hours trapped under the rubble, the Bogota Fire Department reported. Elsewhere in the city, rescue crews also pulled a kitten out of a collapsed building, drawing cheers from the crowds.

Disaster has tested Colombia’s new government as it scrambles to provide aid to the vulnerable communities most affected by the quake

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.

The brunt of the typhoon hit just north of the main island of Okinawa with maximum winds of 144 kph (89 mph) as of Friday afternoon, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

U.S.-based oil company Greenland Energy is preparing to drill for oil in Greenland, having moved drilling equipment to the island’s east coast.

Authorities described the wreck as 'a significant underwater archaeological site' and said it was first reported by private citizens.

The president has not been looking well. Americans should get answers to these seven questions.

A moderate won the closely fought Democratic primary for governor in Wisconsin, the latest contest between the party’s progressive and moderate wings.

The latest Consumer Price Index report helped to reinforce the patient approach adopted by many officials at the Federal Reserve about raising rates, but it has not resolved the debate altogether.

As the Trump administration sends a growing number of immigrants to countries they have no connection to, some find themselves imprisoned with no way out.

With temperatures set to soar as high as 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) this week, Europeans and tourists say that summer in Europe has lost its appeal.

If President Trump moves ahead with 50 percent tariffs on a wide range of Canadian products later this month, some companies may only survive by relocating to the United States.

I, like many a young woman, was once wildly judgmental about plastic surgery. Now I’m not so sure.

Francesca Hong’s defeat in the Democratic primary for governor defied expectations and may have shown the democratic socialist wave cannot reach beyond urban centers.

We look at President Trump’s exit from Turkey after last month’s NATO summit.

As a vice premier and then premier, he helped transform China into the world’s leading manufacturing power and led his country into the World Trade Organization.

Tech leaders say AI will drive down costs. But slow corporate adoption and the data center build-out create inflation pressures that complicate the Fed’s job.

The consumer price index was expected to increase 0.1% in July, with an annual rate of 3.4%.

AI cloud giant CoreWeave jumped in premarket trading after reporting that its second-quarter revenue doubled on surging AI demand from hyperscalers.

India's inflation rises for the ninth month in a row, raising the odds in favor of a rate hike later this year.

Google is launching the Pixel 11 lineup weeks before Apple rolls out a rebuilt Siri powered by Gemini AI models.

Eclipse demand pushed some Spain and Iceland stays above $1,000 a night, while Iceland hotels cut prices sharply closer to Aug. 12.

Tencent stock was down 26% so far in 2026 as the company faces intense competition in China in AI and investors grow jittery about its rising spending.

China’s C919 has made its first scheduled international commercial flight, a milestone in COMAC’s bid to challenge Boeing and Airbus globally.

A cargoship and containership have been hit in the Red Sea and Gulf of Oman as the war inflicts a toll on the world's critical shipping lanes.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the largest of its kind, is an investor in around 1.5% of the world's listed companies.

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

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

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 former agent Tim Ballard 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.

The bill would make life sentence with hard labor the highest penalty that can be imposed.

Assad, who has been living in exile in Russia since his 2024 ouster, was sentenced for crimes against humanity and war crimes during the country's years-long civil war.

Vice-chancellor Deborah Prentice acknowledged the "anger and anxiety around this damaging and difficult case".

The president boarded a different plane in Turkey during a Nato summit to evade an Iranian threat.

Simon Levy, from Tottenham, will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of two women and rape of a third.

The conflict in the Middle East has pushed up oil and fuel prices, and also disrupted supply chains.

New Test captain Joe Root abolishes the midnight curfew imposed on the England team under predecessor Ben Stokes.

Israeli security forces have reportedly withdrawn and about a dozen settlers are said to remain at the site where two families have been besieged since Sunday.

Lionel Messi says he is unsure how much longer he will continue playing football in an emotional tribute after his father's death.

Lionel Messi says he is unsure how much longer he will continue playing football in an emotional tribute after his father's death.

Estonia's justice minister rules out a deal with the UK after Reform and the Conservatives suggested renting prison space abroad.

The PM wants the public to avoid using single-use grills during the current spell of extremely dry weather.

European states are considering stricter measures to target vessels believed to be avoiding sanctions against Russia

The ferry is believed to have capsized while carrying at least 114 adults and five crew members

Hong, who in the past had called for the national holiday to be canceled, failed to draw socialist-leaning Democratic icons like Bernie Sanders and AOC, writes John Bowden. And her defeat shows that there could be limits to how far left progressives will go

A queue outside a shop in George’s Street snaked for hundreds of yards.

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

The MyPillow founder and election conspiracy theorist did not explain the alleged ‘anomalies’ that his team found in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary

Experts have warned that the ‘flash droughts’ caused by a series of heatwaves and lack of rainfall have led to reservoirs struggling

Several rare cancers and genetic disorders are being added to the list, bringing the total number of conditions on the CAL to 314

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy cheers hiring spree but others more skeptical: ‘They can’t just restart a new game’

Don’t look at the eclipse with your eyes unless you want to risk permanent damage