NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2010

More than 5,000 people have shed their clothing on the steps of the Sydney Opera House to pose for a photograph by the American artist Spencer Tunick

The Russian army is embroiled in an embarrassing scandal after 200 of its tanks were found abandoned near a forest in central Russia, unguarded and unlocked.

Despite numerous environmental and health claims in favour of buying organic produce, independent CTV News testing reveals that they may not be any more nutritious than regular produce.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper called Thursday's budget the toughest of his career, and said he got lots of practice saying "no."

A number of world-class athletes will be subpoenaed in the performance-enhancing drug case against a Canadian doctor, Sports Illustrated is reporting

Oil giant Syncrude failed to install noise making cannons near one of its toxic tailing ponds two years ago, leading to the death of more than 1,600 migratory birds, prosecutors told an Alberta court Monday.

Figure skater Joannie Rochette, who won a bronze medal at the Vancouver Olympics despite losing her mother days before she was scheduled to compete, arrived in Montreal to a cheering throng of adoring fans early Monday evening.

Six NATO service members died Monday in separate attacks across Afghanistan, including a suicide car bombing that targeted an international military convoy as it crossed a bridge in the Taliban-dominated south, the coalition said.

Rescue workers in France searched along the country's Atlantic shore for survivors on Monday after a storm smashed sea walls, damaged homes and killed at least 62 people across western Europe.

A decades-long study of fossils found in India in 1987 has revealed how ancient snakes ate newly hatched dinosaurs while still in their nests.

Polar bear DNA from a partially fossilized jawbone found in Norway shows that the species is relatively young and adapted quickly to the arctic environment.

When the 2010 Winter Olympics were officially declared closed, the near-capacity crowd at the ceremony reacted in a way completely unheard of in Vancouver for almost three weeks.....They booed!

As the 2010 Olympics closed, the world's commentators were giving Vancouver mixed reviews and looking ahead to the next Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Here is a sampling of some of their comments.

It's cleanup time in Vancouver as the city winds down from the two-week Olympic Games and thousands of Olympic athletes and spectators pack up to leave town.

For the second time in a month, the RCMP on Vancouver Island have alerted police in the U.S. about a shooting plot uncovered over the internet.

A Calgary woman with a severe peanut allergy is upset that she was asked to leave a flight from Mexico last month after asking the flight attendants not to serve the snack to passengers.

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