NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2009

This article was written by six officers from the Directorate of Army Doctrine of Land Force Doctrine and Training Systems in Kingston, Ontario at the end of a battlefield study across Italy

Security has been tightened across Germany after the emergence of al-Qaeda videos threatening attacks if troops are not withdrawn from Afghanistan.

Australia's biggest city, Sydney, has been shrouded in red dust blown in by winds from the deserts of the outback.

The Quebec coroner's office vehemently denies a report that it has concluded boxer Arturo Gatti committed suicide.

United States counterterrorism officials have advised nationwide police that terrorists could have interest in attacking the country's stadiums, entertainment complexes and hotels.

Authorities are on alert after an Internet poster called for the death of the Dalai Lama, days before the spiritual leader is due to visit Vancouver.

NEW YORK - Prime Minister Stephen Harper defended Canada on Tuesday against accusations from a growing chorus of international critics that the country is lagging behind on climate-change efforts

It may sound counterintuitive, but new research suggests that people may be less likely to die following a brain injury if they have been drinking before the accident.

OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Stephen Harper is off to New York City and Pittsburgh this week to hobnob with world leaders, but he won't address the opening of the United Nations general assembly.

A group of retailers in downtown Vancouver is accusing the B.C. government of hurting their businesses by putting homeless drug addicts in hotel-style rooms above their stores. "They just want these people off the streets for the Olympics," said clothin

BC Hydro is defending its decision to rent a corporate suite at GM Place and buy thousands of Olympic and Paralympic tickets, saying they are going to be used as prizes in an energy conservation program.

OTTAWA - The redesign of the navy's new generation of supply ships is completed, but it will still be next year before the Conservative government is ready to talk to industry about building them.

A significant percentage of the population of the province of Saskatchewan is headed here to be part of the largest crowd in the CFL this season.

Officers ordered him to put up hands and drop to knees; he put hand in a pocket before complying, says man who was with him

Winnipeg police are investigating a bizarre incident in which a man was set on fire outside his house early Tuesday.

The fate of a Whitehorse dog that came close to being euthanized last month remains uncertain, after an independent assessment concluded that Trevor poses a danger to the public, but did not say whether he can be rehabilitated.

May have been assaulted over theft of a $1.49 can of food

A retired Winnipeg police officer has turned pot crusader, calling for marijuana to be legalized.

The Saskatchewan NDP recaptured two seats in the provincial legislature by winning two byelections Monday, including one that will send Opposition leader Dwain Lingenfelter back to the legislature for the first time in eight years.

WALDOBORO, Maine - Seven years into his tenure as a furniture mover for a bedding retailer, Gary Nisbet was joined by a new colleague, Randy Joubert, who looked so much like him that customers asked whether they were brothers.

Cemetery suspect is youngest female in 32-year database to be charged with first-degree murder

WINNIPEG -- Garron Scott hung his head in his hands as a judge refused to accept -- at least for now -- a recommended seven-year prison sentence for a violent sexual assault outside a downtown shopping mall.

A federal magistrate set bail at $50,000 Monday for one of the three men charged with lying to federal agents during a wide-ranging terrorism inquiry, as the men made their first appearances in courtrooms in New York and Colorado.

Georgians waited for floodwaters to recede Tuesday after a deluge flooded streets and homes, killing at least six people Monday.

A proposed law that would give the B.C. government the power to force people into homeless shelters has civil liberty activists crying foul

Vancouver Canucks forward Kyle Wellwood kicked off the scoring on a penalty shot and teammate Daniel Sedin completed it in similar style.

After losing his son in Afghanistan, Raynald Bouthillier felt nothing less than a grand gesture would be a fitting tribute to the young soldier.

WINNIPEG -- A father is facing numerous charges after his eight-month-old son was seriously assaulted Saturday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Canada is firm in its commitment to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2011, even as a report from the mission's NATO commander says more resources are needed in the war-torn country.

PARIS - Auto racing's governing body has ratified its calendar for the 2010 season and reinstated the Canadian Grand Prix, provided contract negotiations with Formula One management and Montreal organizers are completed.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper kicks off a string of international meetings Tuesday that will address climate change, trade relations with New York, peace in Pakistan and recovery from the global financial crisis. But before he can launch into one of his f

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Dave King's path back to the NHL is taking him to the desert.

"We'll open the books and find out where we really are," Ignatieff said in a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade on Monday.

He�s becoming a kind of rash, this audacious little beggar. And those inside the Calgary Flames� family who figured the Theo Fleury experiment was nothing more than an annoying lark, a stunt, a PR nuisance destined to quickly run its course, are start

MONTREAL -- The Calgary Stampeders acquired receivers Romby Bryant and Arjei Franklin from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in a blockbuster deal Sunday for receivers Jabari Arthur and Titus Ryan, plus defensive lineman Odell Willis.

PARIS - The Renault team have been given a two-year suspended ban from the Formula One world championship after admitting to race-fixing, the governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) said on Monday.

Father was under court order not to be alone with daughter: reports

A recent series of bombings aimed at oilpatch sites in northeast B.C. near the Alberta border has once again raised questions about how safe people feel with pipelines and well sites operating near their homes.

Surrey truck driver Avtar Singh Grewal is hoping he's Canadian enough to avoid a date with death in the United States.

OTTAWA -- Running on two artificial legs, Master Cpl. Jody Mitic crossed the finish line in Ottawa on Sunday into the embrace of his wife and baby daughter.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday he was proud his denial of the Holocaust had enraged the West, as the controversial leader geared up for a United Nations trip to stress what he said would be a message of "peace and friend

A Moncton man has lost his $1,000 disability supplement from the New Brunswick government because his federal disability pension is $1.76 a month above the provincial cut-off.

Toronto police will be attending two assemblies at Toronto's Forest Hill Collegiate on Monday, hoping for some new clue to explain the disappearance of 17-year-old Mariam Makhniashvili.

Half of Canadians surveyed want their soldiers to return to a "peacekeeping only" role in the world, according to a public opinion poll conducted for National Defence.

NATO must change its strategy in Afghanistan and add more resources to the fight or risk defeat in the war-torn country, according to a report written by the mission's NATO commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal.

CALGARY -- Poor Winnipeg. You can promote arts, culture and the local pickerel industry all you want -- all it takes is one tourist being smashed in the face with a billiard ball in a sock, and then having their truck and priceless photos stolen, and i

TORONTO -- Ontario's only gay strip club is allowing women inside its doors for the first time in the establishment's 16-year history -- but only during certain hours.

CALGARY -- Anniversary celebrations turned tragic for a Saskatchewan couple working for a charity in Honduras after the husband was shot dead by thieves.

There's a thin line of defence between this area of the sparesly populated Panjwaii district and the wild, wild west where the Taliban are pretty much free to roam at will.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers offered almost no resistance to the host Montreal Alouettes on Sunday afternoon at Stade Percival Molson, falling 33-14 to a club that seemed to shut it down pretty much at halftime.

There was nothing new under the leaden prairie sky Sunday afternoon as the Edmonton Eskimos and Saskatchewan Roughriders put on yet another Western Conference CFL classic.

Mexican police say they have a man in custody who claims to have killed the Montreal woman found stabbed to death in her apartment on an island off the Cancun coast on Thursday.

An international border crossing at a Cornwall, Ont., bridge between Canada and the United States was shut down for about five hours Saturday afternoon amid ongoing tensions between the Canada Border Services Agency and area Mohawks.Cornwall police were c

Thousands of taxpayers angry about the introduction of the harmonized sales tax rallied throughout British Columbia Saturday.

The Taliban fight against American and NATO troops in Afghanistan "is forging ahead like a powerful flood," according to a purported online message posted Saturday by the Taliban's elusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar.

Government lawyers urged a federal court judge late Friday to reject a proposed settlement which would allow Google to digitally scan massive libraries of books and place them online

Seven suspects arrested in Pakistan in connection with the Mumbai, India, attacks of last year will be charged in their next court appearance September 26, Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Saturday.

Mexican authorities deployed more than 1,000 additional police officers to reinforce security at the capital's 175 subway stations on Saturday, a day after a shooting inside a station left two people dead and eight injured at the height of evening rush ho

Muslims around the world woke up Sunday and welcomed the end of a long month of fasting with hearty greetings of "Eid Mubarak," or happy festivities.

AURORA, Colorado (CNN) -- Federal agents have charged a 24-year-old Colorado resident, his father and another man with making false statements as part of an extensive terror investigation that stretches to Pakistan.

A giant white surveillance balloon will bob thousands of feet above the Edmonton Garrison in the coming weeks as soldiers learn how to use it to save lives in Afghanistan.

The B.C. Lions added some suspense to head coach Wally Buono's record-setting 23-17 win on Saturday over the visiting Toronto Argonauts.

North America and Europe face a new health threat from a mosquito-borne disease far more unpleasant than the West Nile virus that swept into North America a decade ago, a U.S. expert said Friday.

Searchers looking for a missing North Vancouver man on Cypress Mountain found a body Saturday afternoon.

A second autopsy report on the death of late Canadian boxing champion Arturo Gatti reportedly says that he died by hanging, not from being strangled by another person.

Police got a 911 call Saturday about a baby with serious injuries outside on a street in front of a Manitoba Housing Authority complex in Winnipeg's north end.

The head of track and field in South Africa issued an official apology Saturday for consistently denying knowledge of gender tests conducted on runner Caster Semenya in South Africa.

The federal government has established a collaboration protocol to better communicate information about the swine flu virus to First Nations communities.

VICTORIA, B.C. - Brigette Horvath knew she saw something strange in Cameron Lake on Vancouver Island two years ago and a team of researchers say she might be right.

U.S. President Barack Obama will hold a joint meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to try to restart peace talks between the two sides, the White House said.

Canada's military scrapped its scheme Friday to erect a mock Afghan village in the courtyard of the Canadian embassy in Washington, ending an effort to stoke U.S. awareness of Canada's combat role in Afghanistan by staging IED blasts.

The Taliban's reclusive leader said in a Muslim holiday message Saturday that the U.S. and NATO should study Afghanistan's long history of war, in a pointed reminder that foreign forces have had limited military success in the country.

MOSCOW - Russia said Saturday it will scrap a plan to deploy missiles near Poland since Washington has dumped a planned missile shield in Eastern Europe

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has won her party's nomination to run in the B.C. riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands in the next federal election.

Leonard Cohen collapsed onstage in Spain last night and was rushed to a hospital with stomach pain, the CBC reports. The 75-year-old singer, who fainted while singing "Bird on the Wire," suffered from stomach cramps and vomiting before losing consciousnes

As the International Space Station passes over Calgary tonight, hundreds of people will be assembled on the ground, ready to send a message to its crew.

Iran, Israel and the five permanent Security Council members that have nuclear weapons are part of a network to detect signs of testing of a new atomic bomb, a positive sign of co-operation in the bid to halt the spread of such weapons

Henrik Sedin scored twice and added two assists, while brother Daniel had three points as the Vancouver Canucks breezed to a 6-2 road victory in pre-season action in San Jose on Friday night.

The Iranian president's latest denial of the Nazi Holocaust has drawn strong condemnation from Western powers.

The USGS put the quake's magnitude at 5.8, while Indonesia's Meteorological and Geophysics Agency said it was a more powerful 6.4 magnitude.

B.C.'s striking ambulance paramedics are stepping up job action, saying they will no longer work any extra hours outside of their regular shifts

Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson says tolls on major highways and bridges in the Lower Mainland could be the key to TransLink's funding crunch. TransLink, which operates public transit on B.C.'s South Coast, needs an additional $450 million per year to

Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Quinton Porter rebounded from an awful first half and had some help from his backup in the second to post a 24-17 win over the Calgary Stampeders on Friday in Hamilton.

Air Canada says it has reached a deal with the U.S. Department of Transportation that will allow the resumption of NHL sports charter flights for the 2009-10 season.

A methane leak in a Polish coal mine set off an explosion Friday that killed 12 miners and left dozens injured, 15 of them in critical condition, officials said.

The high-scoring forward, acquired in a trade with the Ottawa Senators last week, practised with his San Jose teammates and met the media for the first time Friday but won't be in the lineup for a home pre-season game against Vancouver.

New York Islanders rookie Pascal Morency was suspended indefinitely by the NHL on Friday for leaving the bench to go after Calgary defenceman Dion Phaneuf during Thursday's pre-season game.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Next month, Canada will ask the United Nations to pass a resolution that calls for all nations to "promote the ideals of peace" during the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Manitoban Cameron Dueck has just sailed the Northwest Passage to draw attention to climate change in the Arctic.

LOS ANGELES - Music producer and convicted murderer Phil Spector says life behind bars is driving him "insane."

MOSCOW - Russia on Friday unloaded evidence from the Arctic Sea ship onto a Russian warship, as mystery still surrounded the identity of its cargo one month after it was recovered from alleged pirates.

In the event a hijacked aircraft threatening the Vancouver 2010 Olympics needs to be shot down, it will be the prime minister of Canada who will give the order, a NORAD spokesman said Thursday.

LONDON - Giving contraceptives to people in developing countries could help fight climate change by slowing population growth, experts said Friday.

KABUL, Afghanistan - A deadly bombing caused Italy to become the latest nation to question its role in Afghanistan on Friday, highlighting the pressure facing dozens of militaries confronting a protracted war

Stampeders quarterback Henry Burris can pass Doug Flutie for the team record in touchdowns when Calgary visits the resurgent Hamilton Tiger-Cats Friday at Ivor Wynne Stadium.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il reportedly said Friday his country was willing to engage in multilateral talks to resolve his country's dispute with the U.S. and regional powers over its nuclear program.

Scientific efforts are underway in Nunavut to develop less invasive ways of surveying polar bears, addressing Inuit concerns about the physical handling of bears.

Students whose parents have died in Afghanistan as members of the Canadian Forces will receive full tuition to Brandon University.

Thirty years of conservation efforts in the Bay of Fundy appear to be paying off for the North Atlantic right whale, one of the rarest large mammals on earth, scientists say.

Vancouver police say they have foiled an alleged plot by a Surrey, B.C., woman to hire two people to kill her ex-husband.

Capt. Robert Semrau will face a second-degree murder charge over the 2008 death of a wounded, unarmed Taliban insurgent

MONTREAL - A Quebec junior hockey player has been found guilty of assault with a weapon after cross-checking an opponent in the face last fall.

LONDON - The freed Lockerbie bomber released documents online Friday which he said support his claim that he is innocent of the 1988 bombing of a plane over Scotland, which killed 270 people.

LONDON - In the past two days, one U.S. and three British generals have laid out their thinking on Afghanistan, and in doing so have revealed just how complex and even muddled the effort to defeat the Taliban has become.

EDMONTON - Fans packed Edmonton's Rexall Place on Thursday night at a makeup concert for the wind-ruined Big Valley Jamboree in Camrose, Alta.

A Regina teenager who tried to alert police to a theft in progress is upset that the culprits who stole his bicycle got away while the officers advised the boy to phone the police station.

A Montreal woman has been found stabbed to death in her Mexican apartment on an island off the Cancun coast.

Canadian phone customers will get partial rebates worth hundreds of millions of dollars after the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed high-profile appeals Friday, one from Bell and Telus and the other from consumer groups.

The House of Commons has passed a crucial ways-and-means motion that has saved Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government from potentially facing an election campaign

Police are at a loss to explain why a group of males armed with a hammer set upon two men in brutal attacks in Winnipeg's downtown Wednesday night.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has welcomed as "positive" the US decision to shelve controversial missile defence bases in Poland and the Czech Republic.

Nato's Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has called for a new strategic partnership with Russia.

At least 25 people have been killed and many injured in a suicide car bomb attack at a village market in north-west Pakistan, police say.