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A Syrian court sentenced in absentia ousted Syrian president Bashar Assad along with his younger brother to death on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria’s 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead.
A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly sucker-punching a 61-year-old woman while she walked down a street in Miami.
The first — and only — person to break the sound barrier in a car hits the track in Utah this week with new wheels and his eye on another record.
A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 111 people, damaging hundreds of buildings and leaving many trapped under debris while their loved ones and rescue workers searched through rubble.
As scorching humidity made sightseeing a little more uncomfortable in Washington D.C., a number of American tourists told CTV News they wished Canada-U.S. relations weren’t as heated.
A Russian attack in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia killed five people and wounded 20, regional authorities said Tuesday, as explosions rang out in Kyiv during what officials called a ballistic missile strike.
A former leader of a Northern Arizona University fraternity pleaded guilty Monday to hazing and causing a pledge’s death by making him drink excessively at an off-campus rush event.
Jackie, the bald eagle who became an internet sensation and a symbol of the species’ recovery in California, died Monday after being treated for an illness at a veterinary facility, her caretakers announced.
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer probed her psychiatrist’s expertise, prescribing decisions and overall treatment as the defence sought to suggest that the mental health-care system mishandled the mother’s decline in the months before she killed her three young children.
The captain of a boat that capsized Saturday night in the busy waters near the Statue of Liberty, killing a young mother and her 5-month-old daughter, faces two federal counts of misconduct or neglect of a ship officer resulting in death.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held belief that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.
Defence Minister David McGuinty has acknowledged that the procurement review of F-35 fighter jets is a 'point of debate or dialog' as tense trade negotiations with the United States continue.
U.S. President Donald Trump extended a waiver for 90 days for foreign ships to transport goods, including oil, fertilizers and other fossil fuel products.
Iran has imposed an effective blockade of the strait since the United States and Israel attacked in late February, and wants to charge tolls for passage, striking ships it accuses of attempting to circumvent its preferred route.
A yacht owned by Mark Zuckerberg didn’t respond immediately to a call for help from a small skiff that ran out of fuel off the coast of Alaska, but a maritime law expert said Monday they may not have been obligated to after the Coast Guard determined the boat wasn’t in distress.
