Hong Kong pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai is facing a life sentence for allegedly conspiring with foreign forces and publishing seditious materials. His son, Sebastian Lai, says Canada has an ongoing role in supporting his father and reminding others what democracy looks like in the region. Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/1.7388163

An Israeli airstrike on a car in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday killed five people, a Palestinian health official said.Some were reportedto have been employees of the charity World Central Kitchen.

Managing money online is becoming increasingly widespread in India as more people use digital apps and QR codes for large and small transactions, including giving money to transgender people who resort to begging. Some trans people say digitalization helps them earn more and keeps them safer.

Thousands of civilian cars were fleeing the Syrian city of Aleppo from the main Khanasir Athriya intersection out of the city hours after insurgents overran main neighbourhoods, according to residents.

Syrian authorities closed Aleppo airport and cancelled all flights on Saturday, three military sources told Reuters, as rebels opposed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said they had reached the heart of the city.

Ukraine's energy grid has undergone 11 major attacks since March, and one thermal power plant was deconstructed before Russian forces moved in.

Two girls and a woman were crushed to death waiting in a crowd of people outside a bakery in the central Gaza Strip Friday as Palestinians in the war-torn enclave face an increasing threat of famine amid a worsening food crisis.

By labelling protestors as mentally ill, the Iranian government aims to delegitimize demonstrators and discourage other women from taking similar actions, according to human rights experts.

Its not the tastiest gingerbread, but with structurally sound icing its built to last at least as long as the Recycled City exhibit is up at Londons Museum of Architecture. Dozens of architects designers andengineerscontributedto the exhibit, which runs through December.

Fighting in northwestern Syria over the last three days has killed 27 civilians, including eight children, a United Nations official said on Friday, in some of the worst violence in years between Syrian government forces and rebels.

More than 100 serving Georgian diplomats have signed an open letter criticizing the new government's suspension of EU accession talks, a diplomat said on Friday, and a protest against the move led to overnight clashes on the streets of the capital.

French President Emmanuel Marcon, his wife and a select number of people were given a tour of Notre-Dame Cathedral on Friday, as it is set for a grand reopening to the public next week after hundreds of millions were poured into a renovation following a devastating early 2019 fire.

In a time of growing climate anxiety, some operators are beginning to see great potential in the idea of night trains and resurrecting a mode of travel that, less than a decade ago, seemed destined for the history books.

Emily Beckman believes snow days are the greatest invention ever created by humans." So when shelearned that her Colorado school district changed its weather cancellationpolicy during the pandemic, she decided to fight back.

Australia on Thursday passed into law a social media ban for those under 16 years old, setting a benchmark for jurisdictions around the world with one of the toughest regulations targeting Big Tech.

Israel and Hezbollah traded accusations that their ceasefire had been breached on Thursday, a day after atruce went into effecthalting more than a year of fighting inLebanon.

Russia carried out its second big attack onUkraine's energy infrastructure this month on Thursday, cutting power to at least 1 million people across three western regions of the country, officials said.

As nations negotiate a binding global treaty to tackle plastic pollution, the pressure from industry is to focus more on recycling. But with some figures estimating only nine per cent of plastic is recycled, what are the solutions?

British lawmakers are set to vote on an assisted dying bill that many say could turn out like Canada's medical assistance in dying program, for better or for worse.

Preliminary findings from a randomized trial of 300 patients across seven countries shows that used pacemakers, when properly sterilised and implanted, work just as well as new ones, and pose no greater risk of infection.

Amid renewed interest in the killing of JonBent Ramsey triggered in part by a new Netflix documentary, police in Boulder, Colo., refuted assertions this week that there is viable evidence and leads about the 1996 killing of the six-year-old girl that they are not pursuing.

South Korea's capital was blanketed on Wednesday by the heaviest snowfall in Seoul during November on record, with bad weather snarling traffic, knocking out power and grounding hundreds of flights as authorities braced for more snow in coming days.

Sweden is asking a Chinese vessel to return to Swedish waters to help facilitate an investigation into recent breaches of undersea fibre-optic cables in the Baltic Sea, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday, but stressed he was not making any accusations. German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said he assumed it was sabotage.