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A man was arrested by British police on Tuesday after he approached the gates of Buckingham Palace and threw items "suspected to be shotgun cartridges" into the grounds of the palace, London's Metropolitan Police said.

Police arrested a man outside Buckingham Palace on Tuesday — for throwing what they believe were shotgun cartridges onto the grounds — and carried out a controlled explosion in the area, days before King Charles's coronation ceremony.

A day after raging floodwaters swept through Baie-Saint-Paul, Que., one resident says a sense of sadness is starting to set in as people wrap their heads around the extent of the damage caused to their homes and businesses.

Crews continue to battle wildfires west of Edmonton, but Highway 16 has re-opened and hundreds of residents who were under evacuation orders are now allowed to return to their homes.

Jessica Leeds joined other witnesses who supported the testimony of E. Jean Carroll, a longtime advice columnist who publicly aired her claims that Trump raped her in 1996 when she published her memoir in 2019. Trump has repeatedly denied the claims, saying Carroll lied to sell books and disparage him.

Two Canadian men, Kyle Porter and Cole Zelenco, were killed in the fight for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Humanitarian worker Paul Hughes has helped to retrieve the remains of one of the men.

Australia said on Tuesday it will ban recreational vaping and tighten other aspects of e-cigarette laws in the biggest crackdown on the tobacco industry in more than a decade to try to stop an alarming rise in teenage vaping.

Atlantic fishers are feeling the pinch as Japan brings in cheap Russian product rather than Canadian snow crabs. Federal ministers and provincial premiers now say they are raising the issue with Japanese officials.

Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski is guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue blocking the Canada-U.S. border crossing during a protest that lasted more than two weeks in 2022, a Lethbridge judge has ruled.

Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski is guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue blocking the Canada-U.S. border crossing during a protest that lasted more than two weeks in 2022, a Lethbridge judge has ruled.

Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski is guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue blocking the Canada-U.S. border crossing during a protest that lasted more than two weeks in 2022, a Lethbridge judge has ruled.

Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski is guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue blocking the Canada-U.S. border crossing during a protest that lasted more than two weeks, a Lethbridge judge has ruled.

The Conservative Party raised $8,306,535 in the first quarter of 2023 — more than double the amount the Liberals collected.

The mystery surrounding Paper Excellence, the country's biggest wood-pulp producer and one of its biggest logging companies, is only growing. The company says it is independent of a controversial Indonesian conglomerate, but CBC has found new information suggesting otherwise. MPs will have a chance to question company executives today at a hearing in Ottawa.

Sudan's warring military factions agreed in principle on Tuesday to a seven-day ceasefire, South Sudan announced, as more airstrikes and gunfire in the Khartoum region disrupted the latest short-term truce.

Sudanese fleeing the fighting between rival generals in their capital are flooding an already-overwhelmed port city on the Red Sea and their country's northern borders with Egypt.

Amani Sloley, a music composition student at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ont., has won a scholarship to study in Italy, the heart of Western classical music. He picked up his instrument and showed us what he can do ahead of his life-changing trip.

Baie-Saint-Paul and Saint-Côme could see more rain Tuesday, as the municipalities grapple with infrastructure damaged by the flooding.

After dealing with bouts of severe weather, an Abbotsford, B.C., strawberry farmer says he and his family are looking at vertical farming as a solution. 

Six years ago, Jennifer Douma of Woodstock, Ont., moved into the apartment building next to her grandmother. As luck would have it, the women's balconies faced each other and they would regularly greet each other with enthusiastic waves from across the parking lot. But now that Douma's grandmother has passed it's her viral Facebook post that is helping her grieve.

International recognition of Surrey's burgeoning food scene is long overdue, say local foodies.

Late-night TV shows including The Tonight Show and The Daily Show will begin airing reruns Tuesday as unionized screenwriters soured by diminished pay in the streaming era went on strike for the first time in 15 years.

Television and movie writers declared late Monday that they will launch a strike for the first time in 15 years, as Hollywood girded for a walkout with potentially widespread ramifications in a fight over fair pay in the streaming era.

The Mass Casualty Commission recommended all of Canada's police forces — not just the RCMP — look to Finland for its policing model, which has a three-year degree program.

The Mass Casualty Commission recommended all of Canada's police forces — not just the RCMP — look to Finland for its policing model, which has a three-year degree program.

An obstetrician and gynecologist from Iran is calling on the province to make it easier for internationally trained doctors to practise in New Brunswick.

A small community just north of Thunder Bay, Ont., dreamed big and it paid off. Residents are receiving a grant from the Jays Care Foundation to build a new baseball diamond. It's one of 15 communities and organizations across Canada benefiting from the MLB team's charitable program.

CBC News gained access to records through access to information and with an appeal to privacy commissioner — but there are still big gaps in the data.

CBC News gained access to records through access to information and with an appeal to privacy commissioner — but there are still big gaps in the data.

Data obtained from Statistics Canada on incidents where someone has allegedly failed to follow bail or peace bond conditions and committed a violent crime show that the numbers are up across Ontario and in the Greater Toronto Area over five years.

The RCMP's recruitment situation can be described accurately as a crisis, says the force's independent advisory board — one that could threaten its ability to serve as Canada's national police force.

The Pope is getting involved in widespread efforts to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table. People on all sides of the conflict want peace. But many Ukrainians, and some of their supporters in the West, regard the timing of such pleas for negotiations with deep suspicion.

Every year movie theatre owners gather in Las Vegas to see what the studios have to offer. CBC's Eli Glasner takes you there to run down which exclusive sneak peeks worked best.

More than a half dozen homeowners in the Ottawa area say they’re out thousands of dollars after a landscaping company announced it was going out of business, telling clients it was “unable to complete” projects and “unable to return” deposits.

Details and inclusion reign over simplicity and branding in a phenomenon that has roots in culture, language and history that are as complex as the names and initials they produce.

Permanent residents are affected by government decisions but barred from taking part in the electoral process. Gurpreet Kaur Bolina is looking for politicians who will change that in Alberta. Her opinion piece is part of a series of personal essays the CBC is running ahead of the Alberta Election.

In the first of political scientist Lisa Young's flow-chart breakdowns of the provincial campaign, she wonders what zaniness might come in the next four weeks.

While Queen Elizabeth’s 1953 coronation became an iconic representation of royal pageanty, other efforts to put British sovereigns on their thrones have had their own controversial or unseemly moments.

The British Columbia Hockey League says it is breaking away from Hockey Canada and will be an independent league.   

Legendary signer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot has died at the age of 84, according to his longtime publicist.

The jury at a coroner's inquest into the death of Myles Gray has classified his death as a homicide, becoming the first official body to designate his death as such since he was beaten by police nearly eight years ago.

The worlds of fashion, celebrity, business and sports will collide tonight at the 2023 Met Gala, where attendees pay tribute to late German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. The theme has received backlash due to Lagerfeld's history of bigoted remarks.

The worlds of fashion, celebrity, business and sports will collide tonight at the 2023 Met Gala, where attendees pay tribute to late German fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld. The theme has received backlash due to Lagerfeld's history of bigoted remarks.

Anne Thompson can’t remember if she’s been to more than one Toronto Maple Leafs game, but it would be impossible for her to have picked a better game than the one she does recall.

The Liberal government is introducing a revised set of amendments to its pending gun legislation after dropping some initial changes that sparked outcry from firearm owners.

Senators heard from a witness Monday night who called the Canadian Human Rights Commission discriminating against Black and racialized employees a national "disgrace."

Auto body shops on the Island are still dealing with damage from post-tropical storm Fiona, and some say it could take another year to get through the massive backlog of repairs.