India and Pakistan on Saturday agreed to a ceasefire following U.S.-led talks to end the most serious military confrontation in decades between the nuclear-armed rivals.  The development follows weeks of clashes, missiles and drone strikes across their border that were triggered by an attack on tourists last month in the Indian-controlled section …

When Ayami Sato takes to the mound at Toronto’s Christie Pits park on Sunday, her first pitch will make history. Sato, 35, has come all the way from Japan to play for the Toronto Maple Leafs, one of nine teams in the Intercounty Baseball League (IBL) of southern Ontario. She’ll …

A U.S.-backed mechanism for distributing aid into Gaza should take effect soon, Washington’s ambassador to Israel said on Friday ahead of President Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East, but he gave few details. Gaza’s residents are facing a growing humanitarian crisis with Israel enforcing a months-long blockade on aid supplies to the …

Pope Leo XIV has laid out his vision for his papacy, identifying artificial intelligence as one of the most critical matters facing humanity and vowing to continue in some of the core priorities of his predecessor, Pope Francis. In his first formal audience, Leo repeatedly cited Francis’s own 2013 mission statement, making clear …

Aviation experts say ongoing problems at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport are a sign of an antiquated U.S. system and could become more widespread, but that Canadian airports aren’t facing the same systemic issues. The air traffic controllers directing planes into the airport in Newark, N.J., lost their radar Friday …

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. Despite a rule that requires sex and gender to be considered when funding medical research …

A Tufts University student from Turkey who was held for over six weeks in an immigration detention centre in Louisiana after co-writing an opinion piece criticizing her school’s response to Israel’s war in Gaza was released from custody on Friday after a federal judge granted her bail. U.S. District Judge …

Jenna Kardal was floored by the jaw-dropping initial quote she received when seeking out car insurance — a shock after having driven for years under her parents’ plan and since her car was bought used, already about a decade old. “I was like, ‘You cannot be serious,'” the now 30-year-old Calgary driver …

All signs point to Canada and the United States holding trade negotiations in two separate phases — with some now on immediate irritants, and the rest next year. The process is still taking shape. But the two-step idea is emerging in comments following this week’s meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney …

A Toronto lawyer couple who lived a life of multimillion-dollar homes and high fashion are under investigation for fraud, possession of the proceeds of crime and laundering the proceeds of crime, after more than $7 million of their clients’ money was stolen and funnelled into many of those luxury purchases. …