NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2010

TORONTO - The loonie opened just above parity with the U.S. dollar after hovering below the symbolic number for nearly a week.

Broadcast Date: Jan. 2, 1970 The first game by a Canadian major league team takes place in New York on April 8, 1969 when the Montreal Expos visit Shea Stadium to take on the New York Mets. Then, on Monday, April 14, 1969 at 1:35 p.m., the first Major Le

Quebec police divers are expected to resume search efforts Wednesday morning for a missing boy feared drowned, after one of his boots was found.

MP Helena Guergis says she intends to defend herself "to the fullest extent" against unspecified allegations that forced her to resign from Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet "to ensure that the record is set straight."

WINNIPEG - The victims of a violent home invasion, a western Manitoba couple is accused of taking matters into their own hands and giving the suspects a taste of their own medicine.

TORONTO - You won't know from director Ron Howard's film Apollo 13, but the moon mission's crew have Toronto scientists to thank for their survival.

CALGARY - The widow of a man who committed suicide in a Calgary hospital bathroom is demanding to know why more wasn't done to protect her husband from harming himself.

As commissioner of the upstart Indian Premier League, Lalit Modi has been called a saviour of cricket, a savvy entrepreneur and a nationalist who has reinvigorated Indian pride

The mini trend in food is finally infiltrating fast-food chains.

A series of strong earthquakes struck a far western Tibetan area of China on Wednesday, killing at least 400 people and injuring more than 10,000 as houses made of mud and wood collapsed, trapping many more, officials said.

Fans have a chance to get more intimately acquainted with the late Hollywood icon when an X-ray of her famous chest goes on the auction block in Las Vegas

China is on a roll, with its message aimed mostly at its citizens who will come in droves

At least 67 people have died after a series of strong earthquakes struck China's western Qinghai province Wednesday, toppling buildings and knocking out telecommunications, Chinese media say.

State-controlled Sinopec is spending $4.65-billion (U.S.) to become the first Chinese multinational to buy a direct stake in a major producing oil sands project, paying a rich premium for ConocoPhillips Co.'s 9-per-cent stake in Syncrude Canada Ltd. The d

Trooper, the emaciated golden retriever whose story touched animal lovers across B.C., has been adopted -- and his former owner is facing animal cruelty charges.

Communication in caterpillars evolved from the simple act of walking, according to scientists. A team, writing in the journal Nature Communications, report that hair-like structures that the creatures use to make sound evolved from legs.

The hominid Australopithecus sediba was presented to the world last week. X-rays show in stunning detail the interior of the skull of a new human-like creature found in South Africa.

Hindu caste leaders in the northern Indian state of Haryana have given their backing to six people convicted last month in an "honour killing" case.

Israel has issued an "urgent" warning to its citizens to leave Sinai in Egypt amid fears of a terrorist plot.

Bureau once tapped pin-up queen's expertise during obscenity probe

In what has been described as the largest NATO offensive against the Taliban yet and the largest air assault since the Second World War, Canadian helicopter crews flew aerial assault missions during Operation Moshtarak in February.

Professional eating is coming to Toronto and it's going to be a lot more Canadian in flavour.

A decade-long legal battle pitting Big Tobacco against the federal and provincial governments drew to a close Tuesday, with two cigarette makers agreeing to pay more than half a billion dollars in connection with a massive smuggling operation set up in th

The Edmonton Oilers went from worst to first Tuesday night, winning the NHL lottery and the right to the No. 1 pick in the June draft.

A B.C. snowboarder has been ordered to pay $30,000 in damages for breaking the leg of a five-year-old boy who was skiing at Grouse Mountain, just north of Vancouver.

Vancouver police's gang squad plans to crack down on the Hells Angels after the president of the East End Chapter did nothing to curtail the activities of a renegade member.

A former member of Metro Vancouver's notorious Red Scorpions gang has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for 25 years, after coming forward and pleading guilty to two first-degree murder charges.

A Canadian barge carrying a load of scrap metal capsized early Tuesday off the coast of Oregon.

Several First Nations from British Columbia's Broughton Archipelago have embarked on a court battle against the federal and provincial governments over fish farms.

The question of how to classify Canada's polar bears under species-at-risk legislation is the subject of a three-day public hearing that began Tuesday in Iqaluit.

The radar instrument on Europe's Cryosat-2 spacecraft has been switched on and is reported to be working well.

A leading Russian federal judge has been shot dead as he was leaving his apartment building in central Moscow, court officials have said.

A landslide has derailed a train in north-eastern Italy, killing at least nine people and injuring about 30, Italian media say.

A Chinese coal ship that became stranded near the Great Barrier Reef has been refloated, officials say.

Facebook has been urged to add "panic buttons" to its pages by the head of a British child protection agency at a meeting in Washington DC.

The Real IRA has admitted it was behind a car bomb which exploded outside the army base which houses MI5's Northern Ireland headquarters.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ice deposits at least 6 feet (2 metres) thick can be found in some small craters on the moon, researchers reported on Monday in one of two studies showing more evidence of water on the moon and Mars.

Vancouver police are preparing for the Canucks' playoff run, warning fans Monday to keep their drinking and horn-honking under control. "I think we're all hoping for a long playoff run," Const. Lindsey Houghton told reporters at a press conference.

Almost 300 B.C. government employees are out of work after the province's latest round of job cuts.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada and the U.S. will work together to keep spent inventories of highly enriched uranium, which could be used for a nuclear or crude dirty bomb, out of the hands of terrorists.

Who knew birds could be so bad? A new book from Bridget Stutchbury shows they cheat on each other, and their relationships often end in divorce. As well, some parent birds favour one offspring over another.

SEATTLE - Whale watchers in Puget Sound caught a rare and dramatic sight from their tourist boat: a pod of orcas speeding by in attack mode and then ramming a grey whale under water.

A Florida-based Navy plane crashed in the north Georgia woods on Monday, killing three crew members, and authorities were looking for a fourth person believed to be aboard, officials said.

The B.C. government plans to shift the province's 23 largest hospitals to a per-patient funding model that is intended to reduce surgical wait times.

Children playing road hockey games have been benched in Enfield, a small community just east of Halifax, because neighbours complained to police.

With no clear-cut favourite entering the 2009-10 NHL post-season, the playoffs should be a wide-open affair this spring. It takes 16 victories to hoist the Stanley Cup in celebration, so here are 16 storylines to follow.

The Canadian Forces will be ready to immediately deploy more than 800 troops to a new international mission of the government's choosing.

CAIRO, Egypt - Egyptian archaeologists discovered an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a newly uncovered complex of tombs at a remote desert oasis, Egypt's antiquities department announced Monday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - There was mayhem Monday in the streets of Kandahar as three suicide bombers staged a failed attack on the city's intelligence headquarters and NATO troops opened fire on a passenger bus, killing four civilians.

More than 1,500 Canadian and NATO soldiers attended a ramp ceremony for Pte. Tyler William Todd on Monday morning at the Kandahar Airfield in southern Afghanistan.

Children who are spanked when they are three years old are more likely to have screaming tantrums, get into fights, hurt animals and refuse to share by the time they are five, a new study in the medical journal Pediatrics suggests.

The sting of a fifth consecutive spring without playoff hockey at Toronto's Air Canada Centre might pale in comparison with the pain that Maple Leafs fans could feel Tuesday evening.

Scientists using a remote-controlled submarine have discovered the deepest known volcanic vent and say the superheated waters inside could contain undiscovered marine species and perhaps even clues to the origin of life on Earth.

Pierce signed with the Bombers today after spending his entire five-year CFL career with the B.C. Lions, racking up a 21-12-1 record as a starter in the CFL.

For the second time in the space of a few months, a Quebec woman has been thrown out of a French-language course after she refused to remove her Muslim veil.

The housecleaning is underway in Tampa Bay. After missing the playoffs for the third straight year, the Lightning have fired both General Manager Brian Lawton and head coach Rick Tocchet.

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake has struck the southern medieval city of Granada in Spain, the US Geological Survey says.

President Barack Obama has said the biggest threat to US security is the possibility of a terrorist organisation obtaining a nuclear weapon.

CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- Another men's championship curling showdown with Norway, another gold medal for Canada.

This week marked the 50th anniversary of one of the most ambitious, far-fetched and (at least so far) spectacularly unsuccessful undertakings in the history of science: the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI project.

Gazing past the rolling whitecaps in the middle of San Diego's whale-watching season, boat captain Bill Reese was dismayed by what he wasn't seeing. "Where are the whales?" said Reese. "Where are the whales?"

General Walt Natynczyk says he is "shocked" by recent anti-Western rhetoric from Afghan President Hamid Karzai -- including a threat to join the Taliban -- but maintains Canadian soldiers are more concerned with improving the lives of Afghan civilians.

Holocaust Remembrance Day was marked by solemn ceremonies in Canada and abroad just as a report was released showing that violent attacks against Jews worldwide more than doubled last year.

Phil Mickelson claimed his fourth major professional golf title Sunday, winning the U.S. Masters.

The Vancouver Canucks have known for more than a week they would be starting their post-season journey towards a Stanley Cup at home as the third seed, but only found out this afternoon that they would face the Los Angeles Kings in the first round.

Henrik Sedin became the first Vancouver Canucks player to win the Art Ross Trophy as the National Hockey League's regular-season scoring champion on Sunday.

Philadelphia goalie Brian Boucher made the biggest save of his season, stopping New York Rangers forward Olli Jokinen in a shootout, as the Flyers eked out a 2-1 victory, Sunday afternoon at the Wachovia Center.

Lisa J. Murphy doesn't make ordinary books. Most books are meant to be looked at, read only with your eyes. Hers are meant to be touched.

A Canadian soldier has been killed by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol in the Dand district of Afghanistan.

Altering the way criminal pardons are doled out in Canada so that sex offenders can't readily get them would be relatively easy, a legal expert said Thursday.

Bright lights, angelic visions products of too much CO2 in the blood, study says.

A group of Canadian women have launched two separate class-action lawsuits against Bayer Inc. and the company's birth control pills Yaz and Yasmin.

Under the shade of a lush green palm tree, a hefty Liberian man sells pineapples and tries to escape the muggy tropical heat. All the while, he proudly sports a long-sleeved heavy-knit Toronto Maple Leafs hockey sweater

Accused killer and rapist Col. Russell Williams continues to collect a paycheque to the tune of nearly $12,000 a month while he sits in a jail cell.

Thai soldiers and police fought pitched battles Saturday night with anti-government demonstrators in streets enveloped in tear gas, but troops later retreated and asked protesters to do the same. At least 18 people were killed and more than 650 wounded in

"Ludicrous, ridiculous and idiotic" were just a few of a barrage of angry comments directed to Stephen Harper from everyday Canadians after his government opened the door to changing the lyrics of "O Canada," documents reveal.

Just like the bible, a storm of debate swirls around interpretations of the Sikh scripture

Designing Women star Dixie Carter, whose Southern charm and natural beauty won her a host of television roles, has died. She was 70.

The body of President Lech Kaczynski has returned to Poland. His twin brother met the plane and will accompany the body to the presidential palace.

The Sutter family was built around the farm. As a general manager, Darryl Sutter can, at best, receive a barely passing grade building his farm. However, as we know from his own words, OK is not OK.

It all seemed so perfect. Heading into this season, the Calgary Flames supposedly had the perfect core. They had a group of high-end NHL players which many teams envied.

Police say Melody Lui, 16, is going through a very emotional time and left a note at her home suggesting she might not come back.

President Obama has waded again into America's uncomfortable race debate, this time taking on a persistent view of the Civil War: that slavery was not what primarily caused it.

Daniel Sedin scored three goals while his brother Henrik collected four assists to take over the NHL scoring lead as the Vancouver Canucks ended their regular season with a 7-3 win over the Calgary Flames on Saturday at GM Place.

TORONTO - Somewhere in Canada, a rat hides in fear he will be murdered for doing the right thing.

In the house of the broken-hearted the Polish ambassador is standing in the foyer waiting for the prime minister of Canada to arrive and sign the book of condolence.

While the Montreal Canadiens didn't make it easy on themselves, the team finally secured a playoff spot in their final regular-season game.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski is dead, along with his wife, the head of Poland's central bank and other senior government officials, after the plane they were in crashed Saturday in western Russia in thick fog.

A Montreal woman is launching a complaint against her local police department after she was hit with a hefty fine for placing her grocery bags on a city bench.

France is one of several European countries considering a ban on the Islamic veil, and some restrictions on the niqab could become law within weeks. Claire Bolderson reports on how the debate plays into a broader struggle over French identity.

AL-QAEDA have vowed to bomb the World Cup - with England players top of their hitlist.

The landing gear failed on a tactical fighter jet Thursday at Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake in Alberta. But the pilots saved the plane by hooking an arrestor cable that ran across the runway.

A day after meeting with Afghanistan's defence and interior ministers in Kabul, then flying to Kandahar Airfield, Canadian Defence Minister Peter MacKay travelled 35 kilometres west by helicopter Friday to this fortified Canadian outpost a short distance

Canada's role in Afghanistan beyond next year's combat deadline is beginning to come into focus, with Defence Minister Peter MacKay hinting Saturday that a police training force will stay in the country after Canadian troops leave.

Henrik Sedin will try to put himself into position to win his first-ever scoring title tonight when his Vancouver Canucks host the Calgary Flames at GM Place in both team's regular-season finale.

For the second time in less than two months, a skip from Edmonton is set to match wits with a rival from Norway in a battle for world domination in men's curling.

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. - The wreck of a British warship the American revolutionary Paul Revere eluded before his famous ride to warn American patriots the British were coming has resurfaced in shifting sands off Massachusetts.

The Shroud of Turin, believed by many Christians to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, went on public display Saturday for the first time in a decade.

Souvenir hunters and tourists who were taking pieces from a dead grey whale beached in a park near Sooke, B.C., have forced the removal of the mammal.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Twenty-two people who came to Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics have made refugee claims in Canada, seven of them members of the "Olympic family."

Inuit hunters are helping scientists understand an essential fact of Arctic climate change - the weather's not just getting warmer, it's getting weirder.