NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2010

Raging violence in the heart of the Thai capital claimed six more lives Saturday as the embattled premier vowed no turning back and the army threatened a crackdown on thousands of protesters.

A life-long prison sentence for gunning down a Delta, B.C., police officer hasn't reformed Elery Long.

Giant papier mache heads of the G8 leaders will soon be making a long journey from the U.K. to Canada for the international summit -- but they won't quite make it to the G8 itself.

Everyone who knows Jonathan Fader heard about his conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu.

A 16-year-old Australian who spent seven months at sea in her pink yacht sailed across the finish line of her round-the-world journey Saturday, becoming the youngest sailor to circle the globe solo, nonstop and unassisted.

The family of a Winnipeg man fears he was held captive and tortured before being dropped off at a Regina hospital where he remains in critical care.

Marine biologists are scratching their heads this week, trying to figure out how a grey whale, normally found only in the Pacific Ocean, has been spotted off the coast of Israel.

Morning commuters had to be evacuated Friday after an LRT train caught fire while it was in motion in a tunnel.

A young Edmonton family has received more than $10,000 in donations since CTV News introduced their son Maddox to the public. The family has made a plea to the province to help foot the bill of a costly surgery their disfigured toddler needs.

Rabbits may be cute, but they have been an ongoing problem for the University of Victoria. Campus officials said they are going to have to kill some of the 1,600 rabbits at UVic.

The B.C. government has released a complete list of items that will be taxed under the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST). The new list comes after criticism over the government's lack of transparency over the HST.

Another charge has been laid against a B.C. substitute teacher accused of sexual assault against his students.

An Alberta woman who was held hostage for more than 15 months in Somalia has started a foundation to send women in the war-torn country to university.

Canadians' patriotic love of double doubles, timbits and rolling up the rim could find its way to the four corners of the world under a global expansion plan being considered by Tim Hortons.

A pickup truck plowed into a group of cyclists riding along a rural Quebec highway Friday, killing three and leaving three others badly injured.

The Soviet Union was on the brink of launching a nuclear attack against China in 1969 and only backed down after the US told Moscow such a move would start World War Three, according to a Chinese historian.

Up until now most media outlets (including this one) have been reporting that the estimated amount of oil gushing out of the broken BP oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico was about 5,000 barrels a day.

In the roughly six weeks since she was arrested for driving without a license, the case of Jessica Colotl, an illegal immigrant and college student in suburban Atlanta, has become a flashpoint in the immigration debate.

BP Plc, the largest oil and natural- gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico, is trying to insert a tube into a leaking pipe at a well off Louisiana, advancing a plan to divert much of the crude into a ship on the surface.

The head of British Petroleum's Canadian unit offered no assurance yesterday that the company would be able to clean up an oil spill off Canada's Arctic coast.

The US space shuttle Atlantis has launched from Florida on what is expected to be its final outing.

The Harper government and opposition parties have struck a deal that averts a parliamentary showdown and possible election while allowing a select group of MPs to view uncensored Afghan detainee records.

The RCMP and Calgary police are launching a criminal investigation into what could be the biggest mortgage fraud in Canadian history.

A powerful bomb exploded inside a courthouse in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Friday, sending smoke billowing in the building and injuring one person.

The U.S. Coast Guard is just "waiting for word" that a dome designed to contain oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from a broken wellhead is in place, the head of the Coast Guard said Friday.

A spate of recent killings at primary schools in China can be blamed on deep-seated social tensions, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao says.

Canadians travelling to South Africa for the World Cup should be aware of the risk of infectious diseases such as Rift Valley fever, health officials say.

A blind woman from Vancouver Island is not sure she'll ever fly alone again after she was forgotten by flight attendants and locked in a deserted plane at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.

New wireless carrier Mobilicity is announcing details Friday of its launch in Toronto, offering consumers no contracts for cellphone service.

A Winnipeg woman should find out Friday if irreplaceable photos of a daughter she lost to cancer can be recovered from a laptop computer that was stolen in Toronto.

Saskatchewan's top court has begun to hear arguments in a case that pits gay rights against religious freedoms.

A Manitoba father who abandoned his infant daughter in a downtown Winnipeg hotel room for 16 hours to go and drink at a house party has been sentenced to 10 months in jail.

After two hours of closed-door meetings, MPs trying to negotiate the release of documents related to the treatment of prisoners transferred to Afghan custody by the Canadian military emerged Thursday morning looking sombre and without a deal.

Firefighters are bracing for another tough day battling a brushfire north of Edmonton after the blaze doubled in size and destroyed a home.

A Canadian soldier who was scheduled to return home in two days from Afghanistan has been killed by an improvised explosive device.

The operators of the Phil Bouvier Family Centre in Strathcona have said that Vancouver Native Health is evicting them on July 31 to make room for a First Nations-only daycare.

Thorhild County has declared a state of emergency after a massive brush fire has grown out of control.

A three-year-old girl from the Grande Prairie area remains at the Stollery Children's Hospital Thursday after she was attacked by a Rottweiler earlier in the week. Her family is now calling for dogs to be banned from public places.

An Edmonton family is hoping the province will help to foot the bill of a costly surgery their disfigured toddler needs. An American surgeon is scheduled to operate on the little boy next week, but if the funds aren't approved, the surgery will be postpon

A new analysis of seafloor video indicates that nearly 70,000 barrels are gushing out every day, NPR reports. That is at least 10 times the U.S. Coast Guard's original estimate of the flow, and "the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez tanker every four days."

A website in Britain called crabrevenge.com says it sells pubic lice. While the disclaimer says the website creators "do not endorse giving people lice," and the lice are for "novelty purposes only," the website talks about using them for revenge.

They're not your usual suspects... RCMP helped corral six loose cows along a Winnipeg highway Wednesday morning.

Canada's Penn West Energy Trust said it agreed with a wholly owned unit of China Investment Corporation (CIC) to form a joint venture to develop the trust's bitumen assets at the Peace River area of northern Alberta.

Porn actress Mary Carey shows off her ballot before she casts it in the California Recall Election October 7, 2003 in North Hollywood, California. No word whether Carey will be in Vancouver on June 9 for the The Naked Truth Adult Entertainment Awards.

Support for the Conservatives edged up in an opinion poll released on Thursday, but remains below the level that would win them an election.

Canada plans to beef up measures to protect its massive stores of fresh water, unveiling legislation on Thursday that would strengthen prohibitions on bulk water removal, particularly on rivers that cross into the United States.

It remains unclear what rights, if any, people have to virtual property, like Zed Drebin's space-themed island in Second Life.

The Los Angeles City Council overwhelmingly approved a boycott of Arizona-based businesses and governments Wednesday unless the state repeals a new law giving police the power to question a detainee's immigration status.

Lead singer of Newfoundland folk-pop group soaks up the atmosphere in Cannes thanks to his pal Russell Crowe

Hopeful family members rushed to a Libyan hospital Thursday to reunite with the Dutch boy who was the only survivor of a plane crash that killed 103 people and doctors said the 9-year-old was out of danger after surgery on his shattered legs.

Sex offender and former hockey coach Graham James is living in Mexico, apparently unremorseful for his crimes.

You can expect to pay more to drown your sorrows over the 13 per cent harmonized sales tax this summer.

A Toronto Transit Commission bus driver was charged with impaired driving Wednesday night after a citizen called in a complaint to police.

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When their teacher backed one of their classmates into a corner, students at a Houston-area charter school thought it was a joke - but it allegedly turned into a shocking and brutal beating that was caught on tape.

A group of Somali pirates seized by Russian forces and then freed never made it to land and are probably dead, according to Russian authorities. The pirates, captured after the Russian navy freed a hijacked oil tanker last week, were released hundreds of

Eight is enough, when it comes to the number of hours in a workday, according to the results of a long-term study released Tuesday.

When the paramount concern is death by Taliban suicide attack, the little things go unnoticed.

Some eight years after world leaders pledged to reverse an alarming decline in biodiversity by 2010, the losses keep mounting across the globe, according to a new United Nations report.

Arizona's $18.6 billion travel industry could take a big hit if a boycott announced last week in response to a new immigration law gains momentum.

Seven children have been hacked to death in an attack at a kindergarten in northwest China, the official Xinhua news agency has reported, citing local officials.

The Afriqiyah Airways flight from Johannesburg crashed at Tripoli airport. It is thought the flight was to continue to Gatwick Airport.

Lenny Kravitz, Ani DiFranco and Mos Def are among the headliners for a benefit concert to support relief efforts for those affected by a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Archeologists said Tuesday they have uncovered a 14th-century aqueduct that supplied water to Jerusalem for almost 600 years along a route dating back to the time of Jesus -- but unlike most such finds, this time the experts knew exactly where to look.

A huge clinical trial studying the diabetes medication Avandia is putting patient' lives at risk and should be stopped, says a prominent Canadian scientist and a U.S. advocacy group.

VANCOUVER -- If General Motors Place served as the neutral venue for the rest of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, Chicago officials could start planning for a Stanley Cup parade down Michigan Avenue right now. It doesn't, but the Blackhawks will happily leave Va

Canada's spy agency is investigating more than 200 Canadians for possible terrorist links, CSIS director Richard Fadden told MPs on Tuesday.

A prominent environmental group says perfume makers stink when it comes to divulging the potentially dangerous chemicals in their products.

Conservative leader David Cameron was named Britain's new prime minister late Tuesday, less than two hours after Gordon Brown announced his resignation.

Authorities have located the bodies of four family members whose home was destroyed in a landslide northeast of Montreal.

Marine biologists are trying to figure out why eight harbour porpoises have washed ashore near Victoria in the past week.

A Swedish artist who angered Muslims by depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog was assaulted Tuesday as furious protesters interrupted his university lecture about the limits of artistic freedom.

Labour's Gordon Brown has resigned as UK prime minister after three years. Mr Brown officially tendered his resignation to the Queen at Buckingham Palace, with Conservative leader David Cameron set to succeed him.

A new report concludes that Canadians are among the most indebted people living in advanced countries

The death toll from a Siberian coal mine disaster at the weekend rose to 52 on Tuesday and dozens of workers were still missing in a maze of tunnels threatened by flooding, emergency officials said.

The much-maligned Newfoundland and Labrador seal hunt has been extended until the end of May, the federal government announced Tuesday.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the good, old-fashioned copy machine. But, as Armen Keteyian reports, advanced technology has opened a dangerous hole in data security.

New research suggests that babies as young as six months have already developed a sense of right and wrong.

Vancouver commuters should brace for another afternoon of traffic headaches on the city's east side. Protesters plan to rally at a key eastside intersection during the afternoon rush hour.

If Quebecers are turning away from politics in disgust at the ethical lapses of their politicians, blame Canada. At least that's what Bernard Landry seems to do. The former Parti Qu�b�cois premier implied on the weekend that Quebec doesn't feel

Canadian chefs: Mark McEwan is ready to judge you before a national television audience.

A Mazda dealer, who fired his general manager for allegedly selling a car for $25,000 more than its value, owns an area Suzuki store where the same former senior employee is a partner

Hundreds of animals have been sentenced to death following a ringworm outbreak at the OSPCA shelter in Newmarket.

Amid complaints about high taxes and calls for a smaller government, Americans paid their lowest level of taxes last year since Harry Truman's presidency, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data found.

(CNN) -- A man who was arrested at an airport in Pakistan with shoes that contained batteries, a circuit board and an on/off switch said Monday that he did not know the materials were in his shoes.

In sports, when life throws you a curve ball you just hit it. Right? What if you're a football player?

Mining companies are set to invest twice as much in the Northwest Territories this year as they did last year, but some industry officials say the territory still lags behind the rest of Canada in mineral exploration spending.

Campers are banned from possessing or drinking alcohol in Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks this May long weekend.

The Alberta government announced Monday it is spending $6.4 million to build 62 affordable rental units in the city. The province said an estimated 160 tenants will be housed in the units that will be rented at below market rates.

A Saskatoon software developer is using his knowledge of the digital world to explore new ways of giving to charities.

Four bald eagles found poisoned near the Campbell River, B.C., landfill last week have been released back into the wild, but a fifth more seriously ill bird is still in treatment.

Fisheries officers plan to conduct a necropsy on a killer whale calf that washed up on a Victoria-area beach last week.

Chevron Canada Ltd. has begun work on the deepest oil well ever drilled in Canadian waters.

Canwest Global Communications said Monday it has approved the sale of its newspapers to a group led by National Post president Paul Godfrey in a deal worth $1.1 billion.

An Ontario woman who says she was the victim of a sexual attack by accused murderer and former CFB Trenton commander Col. Russell Williams is suing him and his wife for $2.45 million.

A Vancouver property company under fire for trying to evict an 82-year-old cancer patient says its decision was "purely business" -- but the agency is also evicting another tenant in the same building.

The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) and B.C. forestry officials are bracing for what they say could be a tough year for fires in extremely dry forests in the province's interior.

The chief judge of the B.C. Provincial Court and others are concerned that a shortage of provincial court judges could lead to more accused criminals walking free without a trial.

The Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) accepted Israel into its ranks Monday during a vote, as its 32nd member.

Nostalgia�s not what it used to be? No one told the quintessential seventies band, or the audience

Groundbreaking singer and actor Lena Horne died on Sunday at the age of 92.

Colin Yarmie pulls the little spout from its water-filled growing tray and gestures toward the thousands of other tobacco plants crammed into two steamy greenhouses on his family farm. By the end of May, Yarmie says, all will be planted in nearby fields,

The fire is the second blaze to hit the vessel. It first caught on fire before it even left its shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, last year.

Ontario Provincial Police in Essex County are now enforcing a provincial curfew, which states that children under the age of 16 found in public between midnight and 6 a.m. without an adult will be picked up by police and held until a parent can retrieve t

A depleted Vancouver Canucks blue-line replenished the team's hopes of a comeback in their second-round series against the Chicago Blackhawks.

Gary McPherson, a 63-year-old polio survivor who once took a shot at the Alberta premier's job, has died.

After rebuilding his life following a severe brain injury Jason Gaudet now longs for a job and his own home -- if only there was a place he could go.

A member of the Canadian Forces has been charged with four counts of sexual assault in connection with attacks on women at CFB Petawawa in Ontario.

Some nudist resorts are closing and membership numbers declining, but those who drop their clothes say that's no reason to go undercover.