NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2010

European officials are expressing optimism that more flights could be in the air over the continent Monday, after volcanic ash from Iceland forced five consecutive days of widespread cancellations.

Chinese President Hu Jintao flew to a remote Tibetan region of western China on Sunday to meet with earthquake survivors as the death toll from the disaster rose to more than 1,700.

It didn't take that long for the Senators-Penguins series to get mean. Just ask Andy Sutton.

About 250 people living on Nova Scotia's Canadian Forces Base Greenwood have been without their regular supply of clean drinking water for nearly a month.

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then fast food giant Burger King is paying its longtime industry rival a royal compliment.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck Papua New Guinea Sunday morning

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the leaders of all three opposition parties were forced to cancel their trip to Poland to attend Sunday's state funeral for the country's late president because of the expanding cloud of volcanic ash hovering over much of

An Ontario government plan to slash prices on generic drugs takes a step toward levelling the playing field, says Russell Williams, head of Canada's Research-based Pharmaceutical Companies, an association of brand-name drug companies

Fady Fares runs a pharmacy the size of a shoebox adjacent to a seniors' complex. Fares says his customers can't afford a $2 dispensing fee for prescriptions so he doesn't charge them. He delivers medication for free, prepares nearly 30 packages or "bli

The volcano that has shut down airline traffic over much of Europe for the past three days shows no sign of calming, sparking fears about the long-term economic impact of the eruptions.

A dozen members of a remote First Nations community in British Columbia were asked to leave this week because they had not sought help for their drug and alcohol-abuse problems.

A float depicting controversial Sikh figures as martyrs made a return appearance at Surrey's Vaisakhi parade on Saturday.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell has carried through on his pledge to boycott the annual Vaisakhi parade in Surrey, B.C., on Saturday after one of the organizers failed to apologize for controversial remarks about Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh and B.C. Liberal MLA

LONDON - Thick drifts of volcanic ash blanketed parts of rural Iceland as a vast, invisible plume of grit drifted over Europe, emptying the skies of planes and sending hundreds of thousands in search of hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars.

Anze Kopitar scored in overtime on Saturday as the Los Angeles Kings rallied from a two-goal deficit for a 3-2 road victory over the Vancouver Canucks and a series tie in Western Conference quarter-final action.

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government has appointed a neutral observer to oversee a police review into how a dispatcher and the RCMP handled a 911 call from four people stranded in their car.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada's top military commander says his soldiers did not unlawfully shoot an unarmed Afghan during a night raid in Kandahar almost three years ago.

The Montreal Canadiens had Alexander Ovechkin and the Washington Capitals on the ropes, but they failed to send their opponent to the canvas and take control in Game 2 of the opening-round series on Saturday.

As the federal government prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the Canadian navy next month, the ship seen as the birthplace of the country's maritime fighting force is edging closer to formal recognition and protection as a national historic site -

The province is about to announce a decision on the decades-old proposal to build a massive hydroelectric-generating dam, known as Site C, in northeastern B.C., says Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The commander of Canadian troops in Afghanistan is being investigated after his assault rifle unexpectedly went off at Kandahar Airfield.

Scientists have uncovered the mechanism behind the menacing "hood flare" which cobras use as a defensive display.

After a fabulous evening of dancing in her stilettos, Hailey Coleman trudged home barefoot, hobbling on cobblestone streets in South Bank, London. Nursing her poor, blistered feet, she realized this could be, should be been prevented.

A convicted cocaine smuggler has been arrested for running what authorities say appears to be a bestiality farm in Washington state in which visitors could engage in all sorts of twisted sex acts with animals.

The third-seeded Vancouver Canucks earned a dramatic win in the series opener and will try to claim a two games to none lead in the Western Conference quarterfinals when they host the Los Angeles Kings tonight at General Motors Place.

Ontario's newly streamlined human rights watchdog is swamped with allegations of sex, race and disability discrimination, the Star has found.

The Cassini spacecraft has captured a series of images of lightning on the night side of Saturn, allowing astronomers to create the first video of lightning strikes on another planet.

People with breathing problems should take precautions if air quality worsens across northern Europe from ash particles following the eruption of a volcano in Iceland, the World Health Organization said Friday.

NBC lost $223 million on the Winter Olympics in the first quarter, slightly better than the most recent estimate of $250 million in losses.

B.C.'s measles outbreak appears to have spread to northeastern areas of the province, after doctors confirmed two new cases of the disease in the Fort St. John and Fort Nelson areas on Thursday.

The British Columbia government says the old Worthington pulp mill in Mackenzie, B.C., will soon be restarted, after a deal was reached between the mill's new owner and the union.

The country's top general has fired back at allegations made this week by a former military interpreter that Canadian troops were involved in, and then tried to cover up, the shooting of an unarmed, innocent man in Afghanistan in 2007.

Former vice-presidential candidate says people mistake her for a Canadian...

The cloud of volcanic ash that continues to wreak havoc on civilian air travel to Europe is also affecting the plans of Canada's military and the country's political leaders.

On Wednesday, April 14 a CC-177 Globemaster III of 429 (Transport) Squadron conducted its first flight to CFS Alert, the most northerly, permanently inhabited location in the world.

Billy Talent, Nikki Yanofsky, Shiloh and country singer Johnny Reid are among the performers who are having trouble getting to this weekend's Juno Awards in St. John's due to bad weather.

Marley, a seven-month-old Husky cross, is a very lucky puppy. Late last month, after wandering away from her owners' Mount Currie property, Marley came home with a hunting arrow sticking out of her body.

Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby scored and set up Kris Letang's winning goal late in the third period for a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators in Game 2 of their Eastern Conference quarter-final on Friday.

Matilda was just a newcomer to Alberta, but the rat quickly found herself on the wrong side of the law and could have paid the ultimate price.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The more often the Taliban targets civilians, the faster skeptical Afghans will side with the government, the commander of Canadian troops in Kandahar said Friday.

Tibetan monks prayed Friday over hundreds of bodies at a makeshift morgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the remote mountain town of Jiegu in western China and left at least 1,144 people dead.

A Spanish military helicopter crashed in rugged terrain in Haiti on Friday, killing the four soldiers on board, the United Nations said.

A section of Yonge Street in downtown Toronto remains closed after a part of a wall collapsed Friday afternoon, sending a shower of bricks to the sidewalk but miraculously leaving no one with major injuries.

A Quebec City man who snatched an eight-year-old boy off his bike in broad daylight, sexually assaulted him and then locked him in an oil drum was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday.

A Canadian search and rescue team plucked Australian adventurer Tom Smitheringale off an ice pan in the High Arctic Thursday evening, just six hours after receiving his distress call.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says he won't attend a Sikh parade in Surrey on Saturday unless there is a formal apology from organizers for a perceived threat against two other politicians.

For nearly two years, 12-year-old Noah Kirkman has been shuffled through Oregon foster homes as his family in Calgary fights through the U.S. court system to bring the youngster back to Canada.

One of Quebec's cultural symbols has been called everything from disgusting, to heart-attack inducing, to delectable.

A new species of leech, discovered by an international team of scientists, has a preference for living up noses.

An "external explosion" probably sank the South Korean naval vessel which went down near North Korean waters last month, an investigator says.

Russia says it has halted adoptions of Russian children by US citizens, after a boy of seven was sent back to Moscow alone by his adoptive American mother.

Islamist militants al-Shabab have banned teachers using bells to signal the end of class in the town of Jowhar, 90km (56 miles) north of Mogadishu. Al-Shabab said the bells sounded too much like Christian church bells.

Chilly financial markets have frozen a trust fund intended to compensate the "human flagpoles" who marked Canadian Arctic sovereignty in the 1950s.

A bill that would bar a woman wearing a face veil from receiving government services is an attack on women's rights in the guise of defending equality of the sexes, say the Anglican diocese of Montreal and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.

While provinces like Ontario have made it illegal to dial a cellphone behind the wheel, the Alberta government is proposing to take distracted driving laws a step further

Toronto may have the tallest towers, Bay Street money, and one of the hippest music scenes -- but let's face it, when it comes to sports, it's a city for losers.

Canada's food watchdog is exploring possible links between a spate of food-tampering incidents in Alberta and a piece of metal a Vancouver man found in a store-bought sandwich.

Mikael Samuelsson scored his second goal of the night at 8:52 of overtime as the Vancouver Canucks edged the Los Angeles Kings 3-2 in Game 1 of the Western Conference quaterfinals. Full story still to come.

CAIRO, Egypt - The elaborate tomb of an ancient royal scribe has been unearthed in a discovery that will help illuminate the relationship between Egypt and its eastern neighbours

SYDNEY, Australia - Australian authorities signalled their seriousness about protecting the Great Barrier Reef with a court issuing fines Friday for a ship that entered a restricted area a day after a coal carrier ran aground and tore a huge gash in the r

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI broke his recent silence on the clerical abuse scandal Thursday, complaining that the church was under attack but saying that "we Christians" must repent for sins and recognize mistakes.

TILLSONBURG, Ont. - Construction ground to a halt in a small Ontario town Thursday when crews unearthed human bones adjacent to a cemetery.

Costly silver dressings should not be routinely used on wounds until there is better evidence to support their use, say British researchers. But some experts insist silver dressings are essential in treating burn wounds

SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea lifted part of a warship from the sea, nearly three weeks after it mysteriously exploded and sank with dozens of sailors trapped inside. Salvage workers found the bodies of 36 crew members in the retrieved vessel.

WASHINGTON - There's little place for Canada in U.S. President Barack Obama's plans for space exploration in the coming decades until Ottawa shows a commitment to science and the Canadian Space Agency, says the head of a Canadian space advocacy group.

A suicide bomber targeting a compound shared by foreign companies set off a massive explosion late Thursday in the southern city of Kandahar, blowing out windows across the city and killing at least six people, the president's half-brother said.

A fresh look at the oldest known meteorite from Mars has given scientists more clues about the Red Planet's wet, volcanic past.

A troublesome ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano has grounded flights across Europe and elsewhere, leaving tens of thousands of passengers stranded in what has been called the largest disruption of flights since the 2001 terror attacks.

A Whitehorse avalanche expert is looking into how a snowslide in Kluane National Park and Reserve killed a 29-year-old backcountry skier this week.

The City of Vancouver spent nearly as much on the Olympic and Paralympic Games as it needs to run the city for an entire year, but a staff report says the money was well spent on infrastructure that provided a sustainable legacy for residents

It's only mid-April, but already, the wildfire season in the B.C. Interior has begun, with six forest fires spotted between Prince George, the Cariboo and the Kootenays.

Tomas Plekanec backed up his critical words with an overtime winner for the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday.

Canada has escaped the global recession relatively unscathed, concludes a study by Statistics Canada released Thursday.

A northeastern B.C. newspaper has received another letter claiming to be from a bomber who has targeted EnCana facilities, with an ominous warning that "a long hot summer is coming."

The federal government is increasing inspections of gas pumps and substantially hiking fines for service station owners whose pump readings are inaccurate.

For the mother of a 3-year-old who was mauled by the pit bull-Lab cross, it was the end of 6 1/2 years of torment. For the Toronto Humane Society, it marked a symbolic conclusion of an era: the death of the poster dog for the controversial reign of for

With news that University Ave. is poised to become the next major route to get a cycling makeover, the bike lane battle has again taken over election chatter.

As several countries bordering the Pacific Ocean were hit with massive earthquakes in recent weeks, Metro Vancouver schools were still struggling to complete the seismic upgrades promised by the province five years ago.

Helena Guergis, the former minister of state for the status of women, was expelled from caucus and is being investigated by RCMP over allegations of partying with cocaine and prostitutes

Hundreds of people have left their homes in south-western Iceland because of fears of a volcanic eruption under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier. Several earthquakes have been registered in the area and geologists are warning of destructive floods. The volcan

The valley in Kunar province is a Taliban stronghold where Nato argues that continued military operations only serve to fuel their insurgency.

The UK and continental Europe could be gripped by more frequent cold winters in the future as a result of low solar activity, say researchers.

China has been sifting rubble for survivors of the deadly quake which hit the remote Qinghai region and left thousands of people homeless.

The South Korean navy has begun to raise the stern section of one of its warships which sank after an unexplained explosion last month.

Vancouver Canuck coach Alain Vigneault can talk X's and O's any time, but was caught off guard Wednesday by a question about the birds and bees. A health reporter from one of the city's newspapers asked Vigneault about the daily routine for the NHL team a

A Canadian researcher is among a group of scientists who have discovered the only known living population of Sibree's Dwarf Lemurs in eastern Madagascar

NASA is considering whether an emergency spacewalk by the crew of space shuttle Discovery is needed to clear a stuck valve in a critical cooling loop at the International Space Station, officials said Wednesday.

A volcano under a glacier in Iceland erupted Wednesday, melting ice, shooting smoke and steam into the air and forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes.

All season long, the Vancouver Canucks have managed to outscore their mistakes. If goaltender Roberto Luongo had a bad night, if the defence was limping with injuries, the Canucks fixed the problem by scoring goals.

Oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill is still being ingested by Alaskan wildlife more than 20 years after the disaster, says a team of international biologists.

Two students have been expelled from a prestigious Winnipeg private school for allegedly assaulting fellow students and threatening to sodomize them with a walking stick.

Just one hunter has been charged in the illegal slaughter of about half of a protected caribou herd in Labrador, CBC News has learned.

The Ottawa Senators made a smashing return to the playoffs on Wednesday, shaking off some early jitters to pull out a 5-4 road victory over the defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins.

Gene Kiniski, a former professional wrestler and member of the Edmonton Eskimos, died Wednesday morning.

A former senior officer with the Vancouver Police Department will be sentenced May 5 after pleading guilty to committing incest in an incident involving his sister.

A parliamentary committee has heard stunning allegations from a former translator who claims the Canadian military tried to cover up the fatal shooting of an Afghan man in October 2007.

BRAMPTON -- Peel Police say "foul play" is behind the strange disappearance of pregnant Poonam Litt and that family secrets within the home from which she vanished have prompted the homicide squad to take over the case, the QMI Agency has learned.

Right now, some 3,999 people in Saskatoon are ready to cheat on their spouses.

Police in Britain have issued a nationwide appeal for tips and witnesses after the body of a Canadian man was found floating in a Manchester canal, his death the result of a mysterious puncture wound in his chest.