NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2009

A British soldier died Saturday from wounds sustained in Afghanistan, bringing the number of British troops killed since operations began in 2001 to 200.

The RCMP are asking for the public's help as they investigate a shooting at a motel in Metro Vancouver.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper heads north Monday for his annual Arctic pilgrimage, a trip that comes as Canada and Denmark begin exploring closer military co-operation in the barren region.

Rescue crews battled difficult terrain as they continued their search for the pilot of a crashed helicopter in the B.C. Interior Saturday morning

A 30-year-old man is dead after diving into a public fountain in downtown Toronto early today.

The Canadians are coming, the Canadians are coming. Canadians aren't just making inroads in Hollywood's dream factory. They're everywhere.

Police in downtown Vancouver watched helplessly from the sidelines Saturday afternoon as an army of the living dead gathered en mass to search for nourishing human brains.

MOSCOW - The workaday cargo ship the Arctic Sea, which for decades plowed the world's waterways in obscurity, just had to disappear to be thrust into a swirling drama of rumours and intrigue. The plot thickened as a Russian maritime expert reported signal

SARNIA, Ont. -- A group of demonstrators descended upon Sarnia, Ont., Saturday to drop their pants and moon the sky to protest a U.S. surveillance balloon that was hovering near the border city recently.

Canadians gathered in Ottawa for a solemn ceremony today, to recognize the nearly 2,000 men who fought to protect Hong Kong during the Second World War.

GLENLEA, Man. -- The federal government's offer of $75 million for hog producers who are struggling leaves them with a tough decision: whether to take loans and restructure or shut their farms down.

Calgary is the heart of Canada's oilpatch, but a Herald examination finds it's not just energy company executives who earn the biggest bucks -- cable TV and fertilizer industries are also rewarding.

SARNIA, Ont. -- An anticipated 1,500 people were expected to drop their drawers Saturday and give a balloon with a surveillance camera trolling the Canada-U.S. border a piece of their derriere.

Stun-gun manufacturer Taser International filed a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court on Friday to try to overturn the recommendations of the Braidwood inquiry, accusing the inquiry of bias.

A Federal Court judge on Friday upheld a deportation order requiring Nay Myo Hein to return to Burma, a country the man fled after being forced into its army while he was a child.

A veteran Edmonton police detective is suing police chief Mike Boyd, two fellow officers and the city for $5.4 million over how an investigation against him was handled.

A Canadian woman stranded in Kenya on charges of identity fraud continued her journey home to Canada on Saturday with her Kenyan lawyer vowing to launch a lawsuit over her three-month ordeal.

A Surrey, B.C., woman says she now has "a beard" after undergoing a series of laser hair-removal procedures, and is seeking damages from the companies that treated her.

MONCTON, N.B. - Note to self.

WINNIPEG - An aboriginal blockade is preventing more than 800 workers at a northern Manitoba Hydro dam construction site from driving away from the area.

'Serious public safety issue' required quick action, official says

TORONTO - A police officer is among the latest to be charged with stunt racing.

MISSISSAUGA - Toronto Police pulled a veteran Mississauga Transit driver off his bus for allegedly driving with at least three-times the legal blood-alcohol limit.

A suicide car bomb exploded near the main gate of NATO headquarters in Afghanistan's capital Kabul on Saturday, killing at least three civilians and wounding 70 others, according to media reports quoting an Afghan security official.

IQALUIT, Nunavut - An Arctic community is angry over photos of two young boys sleeping on a sidewalk, curled up fast asleep in the early morning among cigarette butts and garbage cans outside a grocery store.

Three players took turns sharing the lead with Tiger Woods until he stood alone at the PGA Championship.

Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance, the country's top commander in Afghanistan, says Canada's combat mission here will end just as crucial momentum is building toward a lasting victory against the Taliban.

TORONTO - Jarious Jackson threw two fourth-quarter touchdown passes to rally the B.C. Lions to a stunning 36-28 win over the Toronto Argonauts on Friday night.

Unsettled weather led the skies to open up across southern Manitoba for the second night in a row, with gusty winds, thunder, lightning, rain and, in some areas, baseball-sized hail.

Search and rescue officials have confirmed a firefighting helicopter has just gone down in the Fraser River south of Lillooet, B.C.

Fired by Harper government for raising shipping rates for coal companies, Daniel Veniez hints that he has his eye on Tory MP John Weston's riding.

So how many out there feel real old now LOL

About 40 Egyptian fishermen have escaped from their Somali pirate captors near the northern town of Las Qorey, reports from the region say.

You might want to dig the change out of your couch cushions after reading this.

A Russian-crewed cargo ship that vanished last month in the Atlantic was found Friday near Cape Verde off the coast of West Africa, according to French and Russian officials.

Taiwanese government under fire over belated appeal for international help

A follower of 1960s cult leader Charles Manson has been freed from jail after serving nearly 34 years for trying to kill then-President Gerald Ford.

With a minute to go and the Eskimos trailing by four, quarterback Ricky Ray connected with slotback Fred Stamps for a 20-yard touchdown pass to lift Edmonton to a 38-35 win over the visiting Calgary Stampeders on Thursday.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says it has placed two employees on administrative leave in connection with last week's deadly collision over New York's Hudson River.

Disturbing footage may shed new light on fatal crash above Hudson River, which left nine dead

SANTA CRUZ, California -- The partial remains of an ancient toothed whale species that roamed the ocean 5 million years ago have been discovered on a California beach.

The father of a five-year-old boy struck by lightning in a Brampton, Ont., park Wednesday said his son is still in critical condition and has been drifting in and out of consciousness.

A former provincial deputy premier has sharply criticized B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell over his plans for introducing a harmonized sales tax.

Disgraced quarterback Michael Vick has secured a spot with an NFL team, signing with the Philadelphia Eagles on Thursday.

Many thousands of years ago, early humans somehow figured out they could make better stone tools by treating the rocks with fire. Evidence of that, dating back 72,000 years, has been found on the southeastern tip of Africa, researchers report in Friday's

A man was wounded in a shooting near the intersection of 20th Avenue and Oak Street on Vancouver's West Side on Wednesday night.

Vancouver police say they have made two more arrests in an operation they call Project Rebellion, aimed at taking the city's most violent gang members off the streets.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Canadian environmentalists are headed to court to try and stop a U.S. seismic research vessel from blasting powerful air guns into West Coast waters, which they say will harass whales.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Acting on a tip from the Afghan National Police, Canadian soldiers advance on a compound on the outskirts of Kandahar city, looking for a weapons cache and a Taliban bomb maker who may be hiding out there.

Robert Latimer's request to spend five days a week of his day parole at a private residence, instead of a halfway house, has been turned down.

The display of an 18th century French coat of arms at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is insulting, and the artifact should be returned to Quebec City, says a French Canadian heritage group.

RCMP shut down a portion of the Trans-Canada Highway just east of Charlottetown on Thursday while they dealt with some World War II-era explosives found in a home.

Like a starlet plucked from anonymity, like the moment Norma Jean became Marilyn, an Alberta ground squirrel who has languished in obscurity in Banff National Park has finally found its moment in the sun.

Les Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the course of music with the electric guitar and multitrack recording and had a string of hits, many with wife Mary Ford, died on Thursday. He was 94.

Figure skaters Jamie Sale, Shae-Lynn Bourne, Isabelle Brasseur and Barbara Underhill are among the former Olympic and world champion stars who will pair up with former NHLers in an elimination-style dance competition coming to CBC-TV this fall.

A Saskatoon bus driver who was worried a mandatory background check with a U.S. security firm would result in a loss of her privacy has scored a victory.

International Olympic Committee leaders met Thursday and decided to recommend golf, rugby and women's boxing for inclusion in the Summer Olympics.

Scotland's government denied it has already decided to release Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi on compassionate grounds, saying that decision hasn't yet been made

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A 34-year-old man is in custody after authorities say he gave a teller his account number and showed her his picture ID before robbing an Anchorage bank.

EDMONTON -- An Edmonton man is shocked that police have fined him $250 for dangerous operation of his electric bike.

WINNIPEG -- He stabbed and beheaded a man on a Greyhound bus last year. But Vince Li is a good person -- really.

Surveillance photos have been released of a look-alike fraudster who police say has been cashing bad cheques from Kitchener to Durham.

TORONTO -- A Brampton principal's scrapping of the American classic To Kill a Mockingbird is a chance to replace it with a book by a Canadian author, Education Minister Kathleen Wynne says.

LONDON -- Tammy Kelner doesn't look that tough. But she sure can handle the bad guys

EDMONTON -- Kevin Spaans wonders who would be dumb enough to overturn his Smart car.

CALGARY - A woman in her 30s has died in what police are calling a "freak and unfortunate" accident after she became pinned between her SUV door and a post while leaving a downtown parking garage.

Environmentalists want Ottawa to set caps on emissions from Alberta's oilsands that are likely responsible for acid rain falling over northern Saskatchewan's pristine rivers and lakes.

Ontario's idled Chalk River nuclear reactor will not be able restart producing medical isotopes until at least next spring, Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. officials said Wednesday

WASHINGTON -- NASA is charged with seeking out nearly all the asteroids that threaten Earth but does not have the money to do the job, a U.S. government report says.

TORONTO -- Polar bear populations in Ontario's north are on the decline, turning cautious concern for the animal's survival into planned action.

TOKYO -- A magnitude-6.5 earthquake hit off Japan's eastern coast early Thursday, the country's Meteorological Agency said.

CISHAN, Taiwan - Rescuers have found nearly 1,000 people alive in the area around three remote villages devastated by Typhoon Morakot, which pummeled the island over the weekend, Taiwan's military said Wednesday.

A new $10-million bike and pedestrian route linking Richmond and Vancouver will open Friday, three days ahead of the grand opening of the Canada Line, Metro Vancouver's new rapid-transit route.

Residents of Cudworth, Sask., aren't happy that the town's name has been linked to a YouTube video showing three men shooting ducklings on the water.

Police say a shortage of witnesses has left them unconvinced that the Newfoundland boys accused of chasing a young moose to exhaustion in Deer Lake, N.L., on Monday actually did it.

Scientists and others are scrambling to determine what happened to millions of sockeye salmon that defied their predictions and failed to return to the Fraser River this summer

Steffan D'Alessandro and his wife Magdalena Tarczynski returned from their 11-day honeymoon in Jamaica last month eager to tell their families about their trip. But shortly after doing so, the newlyweds were asked to watch a bizarre video that showed a

BERLIN -- A 90-year-old former German army officer convicted of Nazi-era war crimes said Wednesday that the verdict against him was a "swindle."

The Conservative government will spend nearly $1 million to ensure that Canadian businesses are prepared for the next wave of the swine flu, regardless of how severe or innocuous it turns out to be.

Three people are in critical condition after being struck by lightning at a soccer field in Brampton, Ont., including two children.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has slammed the federal government for failing to come to the aid of a Toronto woman who was marooned in Kenya for nearly three months.

LONDON - First the ship reported it had been attacked in waters off Sweden. Then it sailed with no apparent problems through one of the world's busiest shipping lanes. And then it disappeared.

Majority of the 11,338 filings in June by consumers with jobless the most vulnerable, new report shows

If UFO sightings statistics are anything to go by, the skies over Canada in 2008 must have looked like an extraterrestrial parking lot.

A major price cut by the Loblaw grocery chain on thousands of food items has shoppers hoping for a price war that could led to major savings for recession-weary Canadians.

PHOENIX - Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie's bid to buy the bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes and move them to southern Ontario suffered a setback Tuesday when a rival group reached an agreement in principal with the franchise's largest secured creditor.

TORONTO -- An American war resister one step away from being extradited to the United States has learned she'll get to stay in Canada a little longer.

Drivers in Alberta may soon have to hang up their phones and stop doing other activities they shouldn't be doing while behind the wheel.

A top government official in the Alberta Children and Youth Services Department was sentenced Tuesday to eight days in jail for contempt of court.

A Catholic congregation in southeast Calgary has been reunited with a statue of the Virgin Mary, but it has been badly damaged.

The forest fire situation in B.C. continues to improve as cool weather and rain quench the flames of hundreds of blazes once burning across the province.

WINNIPEG -- A Winnipeg grandmother was found not guilty yesterday in the 2006 stabbing death of her husband of nearly 40 years.

Death threats are part of the job for any American president, but Barack Obama has reportedly had more levelled against him than any commander-in-chief in history.

VANCOUVER -- Police stumbled upon an eight-month-old baby while raiding a derelict drug house in the 15000 block of 88th Avenue in Surrey Friday.

BRANTFORD -- Bill Sunstrum is one happy guy. His twin beauties are back home with him after a day at the pound

About 700 people feared dead following a mudslide in Taiwan have been found alive, officials reported Wednesday.The mudslide engulfed several remote villages after Typhoon Morakot pummelled the island with more than two metres of rain over the weekend.

Vladimir Putin celebrated a decade in power yesterday, and it appears the former KGB strongman may maintain his grip on Russia's government for years to come.

The stranding of hundreds of giant squid on beaches near Tofino last week was the latest indication that warm-water species are pushing north on the Pacific Coast, perhaps as a result of global warming.

A hardy C-23 Sherpa aircraft, reputed to be a stellar workhorse of the U.S. military in Iraq, will try to penetrate NORAD defence forces Wednesday in simulation of possible threats to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver in February.

Leader Elizabeth May has lost in Ontario and Nova Scotia, but thinks Saanich will be third-time lucky

Canada buys 15 large transport helicopters, but years of delays mean the CH-147F won't enter service until 2013

Advisers fear Liberal Leader hasn't offer voters sense of who he is, how he diverges from Harper

Peel regional police are starting an investigation after 60 young hockey players paid $3,500 each to take part in a hockey tournament in Europe that went horribly wrong.

BOSTON - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the presidential sister who founded the Special Olympics and helped demonstrate that the mentally disabled can triumph on the field of competition and lead productive lives outside the walls of institutions, died Tuesday a

The average Canadian cellphone user is paying among the highest bills in the developed world, according to a new international study.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli signed a free trade agreement in Panama City on Tuesday, the eighth such deal Canada has signed in the last year

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan police officers in blue uniforms rush from their green Toyota pickup truck and take position kneeling on the ground, braced for an onslaught with their blue plastic AK-47s at the ready.

OTTAWA - The air force has sent a surveillance plane to keep tabs on two Russian attack submarines cruising off the East Coast in a patrol that harkens back to the Cold War.