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Boko Haram militants have released dozens of schoolgirls out of a group of more than 200 whom they kidnapped from the northeastern town of Chibok in April 2014, Nigerian officials said on Saturday.

A Canadian detained in Belize earlier this week in connection with the death of an Ontario woman and her American boyfriend has been charged with robbery, police in the Central American country say.

A Canadian detained in Belize earlier this week in connection with the death of an Ontario woman and her American boyfriend has been charged with robbery, police in the Central American country say.

For four days, Argentine climber Natalia Martinez was trapped in her camp on Yukon’s Mount Logan. A pair of earthquakes hit the area and it was too dangerous to leave on her own. But she wasn’t giving up. She knew someone was coming for her.

Could there be a more fitting animal to greet guests at Pearson's domestic terminal than a raccoon? Of course not.

Evacuation orders and highway closures are in place throughout British Columbia's Interior after heavy rains caused flooding throughout the region.

France's election campaign commission says "a significant amount of data" has been leaked on social networks following a hacking attack on centrist Emmanuel Macron's presidential campaign.

Sidney Crosby has passed his concussion baseline test and his availability for the Pittsburgh Penguins will be a game-time decision when they face the Washington Capitals in Game 5. Coach Mike Sullivan says Crosby has had a few good days. He took a hit to the head in Game 3 Monday in Pittsburgh and missed Game 4 Wednesday.

Campaigns matter, and their final days have a way of clarifying things. Or in Christy Clark’s case, crystallizing them.

Five squadrons of Canadian Forces soldiers from CFB Valcartier have been dispatched to help the flood relief effort in Quebec.

The construction cranes dotting parts of Tokyo's skyline suggest a building boom, but scores of empty homes in the decaying suburbs tell a different story, involving the elderly left behind in those depopulated neighbourhoods.

CBC foreign correspondent Margaret Evans talks about the difficulty of reporting on the devastating famine and civil war in South Sudan, where the UN estimates roughly five million people are at risk of hunger.

Hello and happy Saturday! Here’s our roundup of the week’s interesting and eclectic news in health and medical science.

After experiencing the downturn in Alberta's energy sector first hand, a Calgary family has decided to put the job hunt on hold and hit the road. Their goal is to see as much of Canada as they can in four months to mark the 150th anniversary of the country.

Voters appear set to reject the far-right's Marine Le Pen in Sunday's second round of the French presidential election in favour of centrist Emmanuel Macron according to the latest poll numbers.

As rain continues to fall over southern Quebec and the flooding worsens, one expert urges Quebecers to keep an eye out for each other and to offer support.

Canadians love getting a deal, and retailers spend billions of dollars on flyers to alert consumers to the sales of the week. A Kitchener, Ont., company founded by two young entrepreneurs specializes in digital flyers and has already attracted 3.5 million users.

The rise of increasingly severe weather in Canada has made for changes in home insurance that could leave homeowners unprotected if their house is damaged in a flood.

Cute kids, family pranks, toy-unboxing videos: so-called family-friendly content is all over YouTube these days, but the DaddyOFive scandal and allegations of child abuse have unveiled troubling issues in the digital content creation community.

Thankfully, amending the First Amendment is practically impossible, even for Trump Nation. But a president is extraordinarily powerful. Trump can bring other tools to bear.

The Canadian Forces and Veterans Affairs are setting up a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of using medical marijuana to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in military members and veterans.

Environment Canada says a massive system is slowly drenching much of Ontario, the Maritimes and Quebec. Record precipitation levels — with double to triple the seasonal norms for rainfall — have threatened to trigger widespread flooding in those areas.

A 3-0 lead slipped through the Edmonton Oilers' hands with 4 minutes to go in regular time on Friday night's game 5, as a controversial last minute goal from the Anaheim Ducks forced over-time play. Corey Perry scored the winning goal for the Ducks with less than 7 minutes to go in the second over time.

Eliud Kipchoge was 26 seconds from making history on Saturday but in the end the Olympic champion was just short of becoming the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours.

A white former Texas police officer has turned himself in to authorities to face a murder charge in the shooting of a black teenager who was inside a car leaving a party last Saturday.