NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2010

Mother Nature has already cost one Canadian contender a chance to win a medal on the first full day of competition at the Vancouver Olympics, and it may do the same for another.

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Archaeologists working under the direction of the Israeli Antiquities Authority have uncovered a 1,500-year-old road running through the center of Jerusalem's Old City.

Authorities say more than 200 protesters, many of them wearing masks, took to the streets at Granville and Georgia Streets before 10 a.m. and began causing damage to private property.

The picture depicts Lohan as a Christ figure, draped in a white robe, posing with her arms outstretched, Crucifixion-style

Fast and frightening, yes. Responsible for the death of a luger, no. Olympic officials decided late Friday night against any major changes in the track or any delays in competition and even doubled up on the schedule in the wake of the horrifying accid

TOKYO - Japan�s Koito Industries has admitted to fabricating safety data for seats in more than 1,000 aircraft used by Air Canada and 31 other carriers, striking another blow to corporate Japan�s image of reliability.

Forget red and blue - colour America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 of the 50 U.S. states on Friday. Hawaii was the holdout.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Carnival erupted Friday in Rio with raucous street parties that brought together cheering, drum-beating locals with sweaty foreigners escaping snowbound cities.

Six dead seals, including one endangered species, have washed ashore near Seattle in less than two weeks. They had all been shot.

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in downtown Vancouver on Friday to protest the opening of the 2010 Winter Games, making a concerted effort to avoid violent conflict and to shed the kill-joy label branded on them by Olympic supporters.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Canadian soldier has been killed during a training accident northeast of Kandahar City

After months of speculation, it was hockey great Wayne Gretzky who lit the outdoor cauldron and officially launched the Vancouver Olympics on Friday night.

Canadian Chinook helicopters touched down Friday in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan's restive south as coalition forces mounted the largest air assault of the nine-year war.

American biologists have found that an unusual snake with short tentacles on its snout uses the appendages to locate its prey, even in the dark.

British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California have signed two agreements aimed at boosting the West Coast economy and protecting the environment.

On the TV in the Vancouver dressing room, the opening ceremonies of their hometown Olympics were taking place.

Alberta rolled out its luxury train on Friday, a key part of a $7-million marketing campaign to promote the province to tourists and business executives during the Vancouver Olympics.

The Canadian military on Friday named Lt.-Col. Dave Cochrane the new commander of CFB Trenton, the base commanded by Col. Russell Williams until he was arrested this week on murder and sexual assault charges.

Anti-Olympic protesters surged briefly against police lines in downtown Vancouver on Friday night as the marchers tried to approach BC Place, where opening ceremonies for the 2010 Games were underway.

Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili suffered a major crash and was hurled off the track at one of the fastest points at the Whistler Sliding Centre on Friday during his second of two training runs.

Drunken troublemakers who get kicked out of one Halifax bar could get banned from them all if a new pilot project gets off the ground.

Some antique planes on display outside Summerside, P.E.I. are at risk of falling apart, unless they're restored.

Health officials in Alberta are urging anyone who received a tattoo or piercing at a home-run parlour in Calgary to get tested for HIV as well as hepatitis B and C.

An Edmonton man has been battling multiple brain tumours for the past 10 years. But now, Kent Pankow says he's going up against the Alberta government because the drug he needs to live is covered for other types of cancers, but not brain cancer.

For the third time, an Edmonton businesswoman who volunteers for the Edmonton Humane Society has organized to fly in dogs from California puppy mills to Edmonton.

Sampson knew something was wrong. The puppy immediately wanted back in the house when his owner, Marie Simon of Saint-Charles New Brunswick, let him outside at about 2:30 a.m. Wednesday.

WINNIPEG - Two children at the centre of a controversial custody case involving allegations of racism and substance abuse will remain in the care of Child and Family Services, a judge has ruled.

SARNIA, Ont. - A 48-year-old Wallaceburg, Ont., woman is facing two counts of first-degree murder and a count of attempted murder after her car plunged into a southwestern Ontario river killing her two grandchildren on Dec. 3.

The man who invented the Frisbee, one of the world's most popular toys, has died at his home in Utah aged 90.

When The Colbert Report is in Vancouver next week for the 2010 Olympics, the show will be taping interviews in a public park on False Creek, and host Stephen Colbert is extending an invitation for the north-of-the-border contingent of Colbert Nation to sh

Researchers in the US say they have detected two signals which could possibly indicate the presence of particles of dark matter

With their awkward, lumbering gait, elephants moving at high speed are not the most graceful of animals - but are they walking or running?

TEHRAN, Iran - The Iranian security forces unleashed a crushing sweep against opposition protesters on Thursday as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad used the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution to defy the West and boast his country was now a "nuclear

Forensic specialists with the Ontario Provincial Police have arrived at the Ottawa home of Col. Russell Williams, the former CFB Trenton commander accused of murdering two women and sexually assaulting two others.

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - South African lawmakers sang Nelson Mandela's praises Thursday as the anti-apartheid icon settled into parliament's public gallery for a State of the Nation address scheduled in tribute to his 20 years of freedom.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Expect to see some Canadian swagger at the Winter Olympics on Friday night. The last of more than 80 participating countries to march into B.C. Place during the opening ceremonies (9 p.m. ET), Canada has never been this prepared to win m

VICTORIA, B.C. - Canadians should drop their normally quiet nationalist ways during the Winter Olympics to loudly and proudly cheer on Canada's Olympic athletes, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.

Liberal MLA Abel LeBlanc was expelled from the New Brunswick legislature Thursday for extending his middle finger at an Opposition MLA.

Some northern residents are becoming worried about the impact of a caribou meat shortage on their health.

Roberto Luongo made 31 saves for his fourth shutout of the season in the Vancouver Canucks' 3-0 victory over the Florida Panthers on Thursday night.

Concerns about a suspicious object found in the Lonsdale Quay area of North Vancouver on Thursday proved unfounded after police detonated the package and discovered it had contained a fishing rod.

Investigators and workers with CN Rail were kept busy Thursday after a 56-car train derailment in western Manitoba, RCMP said.

The B.C. government is going ahead with plans to wind up BC Rail and fold the remains of the crown corporation into the Ministry of Transportation.

A new poll says the world thinks a lot less highly of Canada than last year, thanks in large part to our poor showing at the Copenhagen climate change conference and a problematic prime ministerial trip to China.

A major transit hub connecting Vancouver's North Shore communities was shut down Thursday afternoon as police investigated reports of a suspicious package.

OTTAWA - Canada is prepared to impose tough new sanctions against Iran to persuade the defiant nation into halt its nuclear program.

A grassroots organization in Newfoundland and Labrador has a simple solution to cutting down on moose vs. vehicle collisions - shoot the moose.

LONDON, Ontario - While London officials debated how to disclose results of restaurant inspections, diners unknowingly ate at places last year where inspectors found horrors from flies to feces.

MONTREAL - The patriarch in Canada's most notorious Mafia clan pleaded guilty to tax evasion, settled his debts with the tax man, and strolled out of a courthouse wearing a smile and a fedora hat.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The Saudi religious police launched Thursday a nationwide crackdown on stores selling items that are red or in any other way allude to the banned celebrations of Valentine's Day, a Saudi official said.

No Canadian has ever won an Olympic gold medal on home soil, not even at the Winter Games, where one would think Canadians might have a bit of an advantage.

Four youths who pleaded guilty to assaulting and beating a Toronto teen to death have been sentenced to time served, put on probation and allowed to go home.

Mother Nature played havoc with the Olympic downhill training schedule for the second straight day in Whistler on Thursday. Only one skier made it down the hill before fog brought the women's session to a halt.

NASA has successfully launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a satellite that will take ultra-high-resolution pictures of the sun and help predict solar storms.

Stephen Harper became Canada's first prime minister to address the B.C. legislature in Victoria Thursday afternoon, and as expected, his was an apolitical salute to Vancouver, Whistler and B.C. for putting on the Winter Olympics.

Scientists studying the history of sea levels in Spain say they've found evidence that glaciers can form and melt faster than previously thought.

Rescue teams in Afghanistan near the end of the search for survivors after avalanches on a mountain pass left 167 people dead, including two women from Hamilton, Ont., according to reports.

Murder and sexual assault charges against the former commander of CFB Trenton have sparked worries of an anti-military backlash in the area.

The Vancouver Canucks' epic run of road games has become a problem, especially on offence. A meeting with the struggling Florida Panthers could solve their scoring issues.

With just one day to go until the opening of the 2010 Winter Games, the Olympic torch relay was winding through Metro Vancouver on Thursday and excitement continued to build among crowds on the streets.

Vancouver poet laureate Brad Cran has announced he will not participate in the Cultural Olympiad accompanying the 2010 Games because of rules he claims muzzle artists.

A Manitoba judge has granted permanent custody of two children of alleged white supremacists to the province, effectively vindicating Manitoba Child and Family Services' controversial decision to seize the children because of their parents' beliefs...

More than 30 athletes who were expected to compete in the Vancouver Games were banned from competition after failing pre-Games drug testing, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) said Thursday.

Montreal born Dave Sheskin was a super spy. A retired officer (Major) he spent 19 years in Mossad in virtually every country in the world, but primarily in the European theatre of operations. His expertise is in radical Islam, Sharia law and the tracking

A primary school in Weston-super-Mare has been criticised for banning Valentine cards to save pupils the "emotional trauma" of being rejected.

More than 16,000 police officers and military personnel will be out in full force Friday for the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver.

More than two years ago at the construction site for the Olympic long-track speed skating venue, as many as 100 Vanoc organizers, Vancouver and Richmond city officials, architects and construction crews stood in front of the north-facing windows at the ed

The helicopters and trucks ferrying precious snow to Vancouver's winter-starved Cypress Mountain venue will have only a negligible impact on projected carbon emissions, say organizers aiming to host the greenest Games ever.

The airspace above Olympic venues will be off-limits during the Games and authorities will be watching closely for anything suspicious in those restricted zones

Gen. Walter Natynczyk, the Chief of Defence Staff, said he is proud of Canadian Forces members at CFB Trenton as they continue their work following the arrest of former base commander Col. Russell Williams, who is accused of murdering two women and sexual

A month after Southwold resident Norman Buwalda, 66, was mauled to death by his pet tiger, the big cat is nowhere to be found.

B.C.'s Liberal government has announced plans to ban all mining and oil and gas development in the Flathead Valley, located in the southeastern corner of the province.

The International Olympic Committee says that admission to steroid use shouldn't stop California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from carrying the Olympic flame.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper had to postpone a visit to a Vancouver Chinese community centre Wednesday because protesters had surrounded the building and sealed its doors.

HMCS Fredericton intercepted a suspected pirate skiff January 28 while conducting counter-piracy patrols as part of NATO Operation OCEAN SHIELD in the Gulf of Aden.

An interview with Paul Telner, a growing comedian both online and on TV. He's got a new project starting up tomorrow, find out about it here.

In a commentary to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in April, experts say there's a possibility that the more bored you are, the more likely you are to die early

NEW YORK - The Harlem Globetrotters have found a new way to beat the Washington Generals - on ice.

OTTAWA - Canada's veterans living in long-term care facilities will be feeling the love from across the country with the delivery of special valentines created by fellow Canadians.

Looking at these images never gets any easier. The photos that follow depict the horrible images of the September 11, 2001 attacks and the aftermath of the recovery efforts where some 2800 innocent people died, including those aboard hijacked flights Amer

Lebanon's prime minister voiced concern Wednesday about "escalating" Israeli war threats, and said his government will support the Shia Muslim group Hezbollah if a new war breaks out with the Jewish state.

Canadians are gravitating more towards convenience foods when they eat at home but are still concerned about the nutritional aspects of ingredients

An international team of researchers has sequenced the genome of a human who lived 4,000 years ago in Greenland.

CBC has obtained a copy of the search warrant executed last month on Wiebo Ludwig's farm near Hythe, Alta., in connection with the investigation into the bombing of natural gas pipeline sites in B.C.

Heavy snowfall in southwestern Ontario delighted children on the tobogganing hill but infuriated adults stranded at an airport as the first major snowstorm this winter hit Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent.

OTTAWA - Canada's spy agency is pulling out all the stops to block the release of decades-old intelligence on socialist icon Tommy Douglas.

OTTAWA - Almost a year ago, Conservative party strategists were already musing about the political springboard that would be offered if Prime Minister Stephen Harper could only maintain his minority government until the XXI Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

A Quebec senator is calling on Nunavut to sign on to a proposed international declaration on ethical seal hunting, which she says could help Canada challenge the European Union's trade ban on seal products.

It is not enough to ban drivers from using hand-held cellphones, says the Canadian Automobile Association, because research shows hands-free devices are just as dangerous.

Jenn Heil is too focused on the present to care about the past -- or for that matter, get too amped about the future. But with an anxious country celebrating the start of these Vancouver Games, she may be among the minority of her compatriots in that reg

Two Mounties from Prince Edward Island and Alberta are facing assault charges after a fight in Kelowna, B.C. with several people who police say were wearing Hells Angels and other biker clothing

Three days to go and the Canadian hosts of the Winter Olympics have been given clear instructions to receive the world with a smile. Yet as the competitors flock through Vancouver airport, the charm offensive may be lost on them because Canadian Olympic h

Col. Russ Williams was one of the Canadian military's "shining stars" and as part of his job as one of the top pilots in the country met the Queen, greeted the Olympic torch and flew the prime minister and other Canadian VIPs.

Early Sunday morning, for reasons that are still not known, 26-year-old Squamish, B.C., resident Alexander Borgen Larsen was lying in the middle of the slow lane on the Sea-to-Sky Highway.

Athletes training on snow-challenged Cypress Mountain praised Olympic organizers Tuesday for making the best of the situation.

At least 157 people have been killed in a series of avalanches that blocked a mountain pass north of Kabul, trapping hundreds more in their snowbound vehicles, Afghan officials said Wednesday.

A dope-testing lab considered the most sophisticated in the world is up and running for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

The Vancouver Canucks played well enough to win Tuesday night, but fell victim to a pair of red-hot hockey players in Antero Niittymaki and Martin St. Louis.

A snow emergency was declared in Chatham-Kent Tuesday and Windsor-Essex remained under a snowfall warning as the region weathered the first major snow storm of 2010.

Potentially explosive ammonium nitrate fertilizer that seemed to disappear on the eve of the Vancouver Olympics was not stolen, the RCMP say.

Metro Vancouver has started a campaign to encourage Olympic tourists to drink the region's tap water instead of buying bottled water, creating a potential conflict with Coca-Cola Ltd., one of the Games' biggest official sponsors.

Harris' kids, Jake and Josh, tell TMZ, "It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to our dad, Captain Phil Harris. Dad has always been a fighter and continued to be until the end. For us and the crew, he was someone who never backed down. We will remem

Italy's agriculture minister is defending his sponsorship of McDonald's new all-Italian burger amid criticism that he is selling out to a multinational corporation and sacrificing Italy's culinary reputation in the process

David Braley is officially the new owner of the Toronto Argonauts. The move was approved by the Canadian Football League's Board of Governors on Tuesday as Braley took over the franchise from former owners David Cynamon and Howard Sokolowski.