NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2009

CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden demanded European countries pull their troops out of Afghanistan and warned in a new audiotape of "retaliation" against them for their alliance with the United States in the war.

Smadi was arrested in an FBI sting Thursday. Authorities said the Jordanian, who claimed to be a supporter of al-Qaeda, parked an SUV packed with what he thought were explosives outside Fountain Place, a 60-story office tower at Ross Avenue and Field Stre

The city of Surrey, B.C., wants Health Canada to help municipalities regulate medical marijuana grow-operations, because fire and police officials have no way of knowing when they're dealing with grow-ops that, even when legal, can still be dangerous.

Henry Burris ran for a pair of touchdowns and threw for another to lead the Calgary Stampeders to a 27-18 win over the B.C. Lions on Friday night.

It has emerged that an al-Qaeda bomber who died last month while trying to blow up a Saudi prince in Jeddah had hidden the explosives inside his body.

TOFINO, B.C. - Dozens of Humboldt squid that have washed up on Tofino, B.C., beaches, where an environmental group is warning people to stay away from the creatures during feeding frenzies.

Now that Wayne Gretzky has stepped away from the Coyotes, Hockey Canada president Bob Nicholson is hoping the Great One might be available to take on even more of a role with his organization.

RCMP believe an elderly U.S. woman who disappeared from an Alaskan cruise off the coast of B.C. jumped from the ship and drowned.

ST. JOHN'S - Two experts on Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi say they're skeptical about the chances of Canada's foreign affairs minister lecturing the dictator over the "hero's welcome" given the man convicted of arranging the Lockerbie bombing.

OTTAWA -- Canada is close to signing a deal with India to sell nuclear technology and materials, Trade Minister Stockwell Day said on Friday, adding he was confident that remaining security concerns would be resolved.

Canadian comedian, political satirist and Honorary Colonel Rick Mercer visited 12 Wing Shearwater in Nova Scotia on September 22, 2009.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, the 14th Dalai Lama sits as Guest Editor of The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, September 26.

Iran's newly-revealed nuclear facility is open for inspection by UN experts, the country's president has said.

The RCMP says Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi will need to surrender all security to the Mounties if he wants to visit Newfoundland.

How can you vote for people when you wouldn't even throw them a rope?

HAMILTON -- Avon Cobourne rushed for two touchdowns as the Montreal Alouettes dominated the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 42-8 Friday.

PARIS -- The French prosecutor's office is studying up to 300 complaints linked to noxious green algae after the death of a horse this summer on a beach in Brittany, a judicial official said Friday.

BANGKOK -- A gecko with leopard-like spots on its body and a fanged frog that eats birds are among 163 new species discovered last year in the Mekong River region of Southeast Asia, an environmental group said Friday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called the latest revelation of Iran's nuclear technology a "grave threat to international peace and security."

An Afghanistan-born Colorado man charged with conspiring to explode bombs in the United States made several trips to Canada, U.S. authorities said Friday

Alberta researchers have found a simple way to drastically reduce bat deaths at a wind farm in Pincher Creek

Metro Vancouver's Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been called in to investigate the suspicious death of an unidentified man found in the parking lot of a Maple Ridge, B.C., grocery store Friday morning.

QUEBEC - Former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault has been charged with fraud and breach of trust after a report alleged she misused public funds while in office.

Children who are spared the rod may grow up to have higher IQs than those who are spanked, suggests a study by one of North America's foremost child psychology experts.

MIR ALI, Pakistan -- Pakistan's Taliban movement is stronger than ever despite the killing of its top commander and will stage more suicide attacks if the army launches another offensive against it, a top militant told The Associated Press.

OTTAWA -- Decades of evidence on prison policy is being trumped by ideology and populist pandering, says an independent report on the Conservative government's corrections road map.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Role 3 hospital at Kandahar Airfield is seeing an increase in the number of soldiers and civilians injured by improvised explosive devices.

The lawyer for a Jamaican man who held Canadians hostage last spring aboard a CanJet flight bound for Halifax told CBC News Thursday night that his client didn't feel he was doing anything wrong.

Victoria has failed in its bid to secure $42 million in infrastructure funding to offset the $63-million cost of replacing the Johnson Street Bridge, but the majority of council still seems intent on pushing ahead.

The leaders of the United States, France and Britain have disclosed intelligence information to the UN nuclear watchdog that confirms a second uranium-enrichment site in Iran, and are demanding an in-depth investigation.

EDMONTON -- The cops behind the "racist, discriminatory and disgusting" e-mail that plunged the city police into scandal four years ago have been punished enough, according to the lawyer defending them and their supervisors.

TORONTO -- Four days after joking on the air about being booted off Facebook, that's exactly what happened to Newstalk 1010 CFRB host Ryan Doyle.

Could walk away from hockey

Announced today was news that Canada and South Korea will co-chair a G20 summit in June 2010, over and above the already planned G8 meeting located in Huntsville, Ontario.

A Christian group is calling for the removal of an elephant statue, modeled after a Hindu god, from the Calgary Zoo calling it "selective religious partiality."

Sex trade workers are decrying a Salvation Army campaign against human trafficking that depicts them as slaves and victims of brutal violence.

The tiny Pacific nation of Palau is creating the world's first shark sanctuary, a biological hotspot to protect great hammerheads, leopard sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks and more than 130 other species fighting extinction in the Pacific Ocean.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Construction projects should soon be springing up across the province now that British Columbia has finally inked a deal with Ottawa to get more than $1 billion in stimulus funds.

A Burnaby, B.C., toddler is credited with helping prevent the spread of an apartment building fire after she woke up her parents by imitating the beeping sound of a smoke alarm.

In 1759, Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000-year lease on a brewery. Centuries later, his eponymous dark stout is one of Ireland's best-known exports.

TD Bank Financial Group is now expecting that the global economic growth in 2010 to come in a full percentage point stronger than previously forecasted.

Canada's top-ranking military official says he agrees with recent warnings about setbacks in NATO's mission in Afghanistan, but believes there are some signs of progress on the ground against the Taliban.

On September 19, 2009, CanWest newspapers ran a series of articles on the CF response to the alleged sexual abuse of Afghan boys by Afghan authorities. The Chief of Defence Staff has responded publically to these articles, and his response is re-printed h

Russia's richest man has reached a deal to buy the New Jersey Nets - one of America's elite basketball franchises.

Ownership of Hudson's Bay Co., Canada's oldest retailer, could be returned to Canadians as soon as the first half of 2011 through a public stock offering, the American owner of the company said yesterday.

There's not enough money in Ottawa's plan for the lobster industry, say P.E.I. fishermen, who call it "totally insufficient."

The Vancouver Police have issued an unusual public safety warning about former BC Lions player Joshua Boden.

Millions of Monarch butterflies migrate to Mexico for the winter and scientists have long speculated on how the insects find their way. Turns out, their antennas are the key.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution Thursday calling on states with nuclear weapons to rid themselves of their deadly stockpiles.

Pittsburgh is in a state of virtual lockdown as U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have arrived to kick off a two-day summit with leaders of the G20 nations.

Vancouver Canucks head coach Alain Vigneault signed a three-year extension with the team Thursday, a deal that will keep him with club through the 2012-2013 season.

TORONTO - An unpublished Canadian study that suggests seasonal flu shots raise a person's risk of catching swine flu is causing a lot of concern internationally, a senior official of the World Health Organization said Thursday.

After enduring an unusually cold spring and a less than summery summer, Saskatchewan is experiencing record-setting highs for September.

The Bathurst caribou herd in the Northwest Territories has shrunk drastically to one-quarter the size it was only three years ago, according to the latest survey by the N.W.T. government.

Master Cpl. Paul Franklin, the Edmonton soldier who lost both his legs in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan and who has since become a nationally known advocate for amputees, is leaving the Canadian military

Ignatieff and Kennedy released their report among an old soy bean field in Burlington where they say no progress has been made on the creation of the New City Park.

A metal detectorist finding just one of these objects would consider it the find of their life. To find 1,500 is bizarre and it would blow the average person's mind.

The Phoenix Coyotes saga took another dramatic turn on Thursday, as Wayne Gretzky has stepped down from his post as the team's head coac

In the heaviest fine it has recommended in a racism case, the Quebec Human Rights Commission has called on a Montreal manufacturer to pay a total of $164,000 to 15 Chinese workers. The case stems from July 11, 2006, when 30 Chinese immigrant workers we

Quebec Health authorities have cancelled a series of breastfeeding gatherings across the province fearing the H1N1 virus could pose too much of a health risk to mothers and babies.

Experts are calling it a major breakthrough in the fight against AIDS. Scientists are reporting that an experimental vaccine prevents some infection with the AIDS virus.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Coalition forces in Afghanistan face a difficult year in 2010: that's the blunt assessment delivered Thursday by the commander of Canadian soldiers stationed overseas.

A Halifax-area community centre that housed the local fire department was badly damaged in a blaze that broke out just before midnight Wednesday.

A Montrealer stranded in Sudan for six years because the Canadian government refused to issue him a new passport is suing Ottawa for $27 million.

The Conservative government plans to bring in an American-style prison system that will cost billions of taxpayer dollars and do little to improve public safety, according to a report to be released Thursday in Ottawa.

TORONTO -- A St. Catharines mom who videotaped a neighbour in a sex act in her backyard, only to see a criminal harassment charge withdrawn by the Crown, says she feels let down by the attorney general.

The smiles aren't as quick in the Edmonton Oilers dressing room anymore. Instead, brows are furled, jaws are clenched and the body language looks borrowed from an army unit preparing for deployment.

There's unclogging sewers, gutting chickens and cleaning up after elephants. And then there are really brutal jobs, like working for the Detroit tourism authority: Imagine trying to lure visitors to a town rich in culture and history, yet tainted with a b

The EKOS poll, DONE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE CBC and released Thursday, shows the Tories with 37 per cent support, followed by the Liberals with 29.9 per cent. The New Democratic Party followed with 13.8 per cent, the Green Party with 10.2 per cent and the Blo

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Masked gunmen used a stolen helicopter and explosives to engineer a spectacular raid on a cash depot in Stockholm on Wednesday, breaking into the building through the roof and flying off with bags of cash

JERUSALEM -- Israeli archaeologists say they have uncovered a ritual bath in Jerusalem that was likely used by Jewish pilgrims coming to the temple two millenia ago.

UNITED NATIONS -- After 40 years of shunning UN appearances, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi evidently had a lot to get off his chest.

OAKVILLE, Ont. -- The repatriation of the Timbit was held up by Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Tim Hortons executives Wednesday as a shining example of low corporate tax rates luring business to Canada.

Under increasing attack over Iran's suspected nuclear weapons program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that Tehran was ready to meet conciliation with conciliation.

NEW YORK - With a diplomatic wink and nod, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev opened the door Wednesday to backing potential sanctions against Iran as a reward to President Barack Obama's decision to scale back a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe.

A career diplomat was installed as the new representative of Canada in Kandahar during a ceremony Wednesday in Afghanistan.

Canada boycotted a speech by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday evening, protesting his denial of the Holocaust and verbal attacks on Israel.

Thanks to Mason Raymond, the Vancouver Canucks remain perfect in the pre-season.

Unlike the iconic fictional figure on the First World War U.S. recruitment poster, Andre Sheppard is a real-life recruiter and he's currently working his way down the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes in a unique mission on behalf of the Canadian Na

The federal government and two chemical companies went to court Wednesday in a bid to stop a class-action lawsuit launched by people who claim they developed cancer after being exposed to Agent Orange at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown in New Brunsw

TORONTO - For East Coast ex-con ne'er-do-wells, The Trailer Park Boys come across as type-A ambitious sorts.

Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie agreed on Wednesday to keep the Phoenix Coyotes in Arizona for this season, should his bid be accepted to purchase the bankrupt NHL team.

The city of Edmonton and possibly both the provincial and federal governments would have to provide money if a new downtown arena is going to be built, says Andrew Huntley, chairman of Northlands.

A debate over civil liberties is brewing inside a Montreal taxi. Cab driver Arieh Perecowicz has been handed six tickets totalling $1,400 for failing to remove family photos and religious paraphernalia from his cab.

The battle for control of the Phoenix Coyotes continues in court today, when a bankruptcy judge will hear arguments on whether the NHL and Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie should be sent into mediation.

Ford Motor Co. of Canada Ltd. faces a pension shortfall of $1.8 billion, according to reports, which say the company is asking workers to help alleviate the problem by making pension concessions in ongoing talks to reduce costs and save jobs.

A Nova Scotia father is fighting the Canadian military over the treatment of his son, who he says is likely suffering from post traumatic stress disorder as the result of his service.

A Cougar helicopter carrying 17 people to an offshore oil rig off Nova Scotia's coast lost an engine on Wednesday, but landed without incident at the Halifax airport just before 11 a.m.

An internal election to replace the head of Quebec's most powerful construction union was manipulated with the help of the Hells Angels, according to an investigative report by CBC's French-language service.

CALGARY -- The city's top cop says the case of an officer accused of trying to lure a minor over the Internet is one of those rare scenarios which demand public condemnation.

SARNIA, Ont. -- A little boy with a terrible facial deformity in India and an Ontario plastic surgeon are the unlikely stars of a feature-length movie receiving accolades from around the world.

Canada should be doing much more to tackle climate change, and consider closing down the controversial oilsands projects in northern Alberta, the head of an international scientific panel on climate change said yesterday.

Top U.S. general tables report on failing Afghan mission but sees glimmer of hope with Canada's inroads at one small village, calling them 'more powerful than any round we can shoot

Calling UN presentations by Beijing and Washington 'pivotal,' Canada's Environment Minister notes binding targets for emissions reduction have not yet been set

As host of next year's meeting, Prime Minister will have a chance to influence the composition of geopolitical summits to come

Canada must overhaul its foreign policy as it relates to genocide abroad, warns a new report, which says such atrocities should be considered a risk to national interests.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - Alleged terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed calls the Sept. 11 attack a "noble victory" and President Barack Obama a liar in a letter released by the military's war crimes court Tuesday.

U.S. President Barack Obama urged world leaders at a climate-change summit in New York to work together on a new carbon emissions treaty.

Instead of 100 percent conventional fossil fuel, the engine is powered with a 50/50 blend of fossil fuel and synthetic fuel, produced from natural gas and coal. The rigorous regimen of tests to which the NRC is subjecting the engine will determine whether