Documents show Queen Elizabeth was "very keen" that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the former prince, be given the job of U.K. trade envoy, as the U.K. government on Thursday released the confidential papers related to his appointment in 2001, which later proved controversial due to his links to American sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Gaza flotilla activists who were detained by Israel and later pinned to the ground to the taunts of Israel's far-right police minister have been released from prison and were being deported to their countries of origin on Thursday.

A couple is calling for change after they were diverted from their local hospital in Waterville to Fredericton, and their child was born on the side of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Molly Johnston, 14, is now recovering from spinal surgery that will help treat her scoliosis. She received care at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, and in the process, became the first patient in Canada to undergo surgery that used an improved 3D imaging machine, according to a news release from the children's hospital.

U.S. President Donald Trump is celebrating back-to-back victories in his push to oust his critics from the Republican Party, but there are clear signs that his revenge campaign could come back to bite him.

Former Cuban president Raúl Castro will be "keeping his head down," experts say, as questions swirl over whether the U.S. plans to take him by force and bring him to American soil to face charges over an incident from three decades ago. Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges against Castro Wednesday in the 1996 downing of two small planes flown by Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue.

Washington’s decision to suspend a symbolic Cold War-era defence body may have been meant to pressure Canada on military policy. Instead, experts say it risks reinforcing Canadians' distrust of the United States, complicates the politics of NORAD and missile defence, and makes future purchases of American military equipment even harder for Ottawa to sell domestically.

London's Metropolitan Police are trying to crack down on sophisticated criminal networks that are snatching phones off the streets of London and exporting them in bulk to China.

As the federal government finishes its delayed national AI strategy, some technology leaders in Canada are hopeful the new policy will resemble an industrial blueprint that illustrates Ottawa is serious about rolling up its sleeves to help the sector build in expedient fashion.

An Edmonton prison for men is being turned into a women's institution, as the number of incarcerated women in Canada has risen and there's an expected shortfall of more than 300 beds over the next five years.