NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2010

Israel will liberalize the system under which humanitarian goods are transferred into the Gaza Strip, according to a security cabinet decision Thursday morning.

The provincial government has launched a sweeping administrative review of its persons with developmental disabilities program that clients and service providers recognize is necessary, but fear will erode care and centralize decision making.

More than one hundred thousand have fled to camps in neighboring Uzbekistan, where horrifying stories are emerging of abuses and crimes.

First nations leaders are ready to roll out blockades across Ontario even as they expect to reach an accord by Friday with Ottawa and the province to award their communities a major break under the new harmonized sales tax.

But some militants are calling for a splinter confrontation at the security fence. One of the biggest protests against the G20 summit will either be a peaceful family affair or kick-start a militant confrontation at the security perimeter. It all de

NASA's Kepler orbiting telescope has found more than 700 objects in a far-off region of our galaxy that could be planets, the space agency has announced.

Russia has begun its previously stated plan to buy Canadian dollars, adding credence to the loonie's status as a second-tier reserve currency.

Three large asset managers announce they will vote against proposal to buy out founder Frank Stronach

The Public Prosecution Service in Northern Ireland has said it is seeking advice about how to respond to the findings of the Saville Report.

RCMP told province that hikers noticed dam erosion, but no warning was issued

An 11-year-old boy stole the spotlight at the opening day of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings into the tragedy of Canada's residential schools.

The first pill designed to boost the female sex drive failed to make a significant impact on libido in two studies, federal health regulators in the U.S. say.

A Vancouver Island city is suing the company that built the troubled Olympic Village in Vancouver for failing to build a hotel next to its new convention centre.

A Vancouver Island principal is defending a decision to cut a Grade 10 student out of the high school yearbook because of what he said about her in his write-up.

Twelve current and former members of the military stationed at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in eastern Alberta have been charged with 70 drug offences.

Canada's national security adviser should be given sweeping new powers to resolve disputes between the RCMP and CSIS, the head of the Air India inquiry will recommend.

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said an agreement has been reached between all federal parties to pass a bill that would prevent notorious offenders like Karla Homolka from applying for a pardon.

Aqsa Parvez's father and her brother have been sentenced to life in prison for what the judge called the "twisted and repugnant" murder of the 16-year-old.

As BP struggles to get its oil spill under control in the Gulf of Mexico, some B.C. residents are up in arms over the company's plans to drill here at home.

A woman suing Rogers over claims a cellphone bill ruined her marriage says at least a dozen other people are claiming the company breached their privacy.

The B.C. government has implemented a dam check process in the aftermath of a landslide that destroyed five homes in southern B.C.

SEATTLE -- Seattle police are investigating what they call an assault of an officer in South Seattle. However, a police officer is seen punching a 17-year-old girl in the face during the incident captured by a video camera on Monday.

Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart have tied the knot -- in a wedding presided over by New Mexico's governor.

Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett was backpedalling Wednesday after his disparaging comments about the quality of Canadian television sparked an outcry.

In yet another nod to the protection of fledgling self-esteem, an Ottawa children�s soccer league has introduced a rule that says any team that wins a game by more than five points will lose by default.

The long-awaited report from a public inquiry into Robert Dziekanski's death will be released Friday, offering what will likely be the most complete public accounting of what happened the night Dziekanski died on the floor of Vancouver's airport.

A small group of comrades from the regiment of Capt. Robert Semrau attended his court martial Wednesday at Kandahar Airfield in what his lawyer described as a show of support.

At least 19 people were killed in flash floods that hit the back hills of the French Riviera on Wednesday and turned streets into rivers of surging, muddy water, officials said.

Nearly nine out of every 100 Canadians will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes over 10 years, leading to nearly two million new diabetes cases in Canada by 2017, new research finds. That's on top of the two million Canadians who are currently living with t

BP has agreed to budget US$20 billion for a fund that will be used to pay back the victims of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the company's chairman has apologized for the disaster.

Scientists have, for the first time, identified the symptoms of 'male menopause,' noting it's nowhere near as common as popular culture would have us believe.

Three people were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a United Express plane with more than 30 people on board slid off the runway at Ottawa's Macdonald-Cartier International Airport Wednesday afternoon.

The government and opposition parties have reached a deal to keep convicted sex killer Karla Homolka from receiving a criminal pardon.

GENEVA - Muslim states said on Wednesday that what they call �Islamophobia� is sweeping the West and its media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher action against it

Military police have released the names 12 current and former soldiers charged over a drug lab connected to CFB Wainwright.

Celebrity blogger Perez Hilton is creating a stir after he posted photos of pop singer Miley Cyrus that allegedly showed her vagina.

RCMP suggests Montreal advertising firm Groupe Everest committed $1-million in fraud and bribed Chuck Guit� and his wife

Harper government to allow exemptions at point of sale over threats to �shut down the country� during G8, G20 summit

A six-storey-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.

A Moncton woman is travelling to Poland to take a chance on an experimental medical treatment that she hopes will stop the progression of her multiple sclerosis.

Apple is trying to go where Google failed by selling unlocked phones directly to customers in Canada through its website.

An official investigation into the collapse of sockeye salmon stocks in B.C.'s Fraser River is expected to get underway in Vancouver on Tuesday morning.

U.S. President Barack Obama is vowing to support individuals and businesses that are suffering financially because of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

A former convenience store owner in Toronto who stole a winning lottery ticket worth $5.7 million has been sentenced to one year in jail.

North Korean military forces will respond if the UN Security Council questions or condemns the country over the sinking of a South Korean navy ship, the country's UN ambassador said Tuesday.

The father and brother of Aqsa Parvez have pleaded guilty to killing the Mississauga, Ont., teenager.

It had all the makings of a perfect crime.

The author of a popular children's book about a character named "Sir Fartsalot" had a reading at an Ottawa public school cut short on Thursday over language the principal found objectionable.

A 22-year-old Victoria woman claims she was misled by a man from India who, she says, married her to get into Canada and dropped her after he obtained his visa.

A Toronto mother has been charged with street racing on Highway 401 with her four young children in the car.

Scientists have developed a method for detecting and tracking carbon dioxide deep underground, giving the federal government an important tool as people look for ways to keep carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from crowding the atmosphere.

Canada's final summer of combat in Kandahar will be marked by intense fighting, the commander of Canadian Forces overseas said Tuesday, striking a markedly different tone from the one he gave just over a month ago.

Nelson City Police Inspector Hanry Paivarinta confirms the body of Joshua Evin was pulled out of the Kootenay canal in southeastern B.C., late Monday afternoon.

The company that provides the broadcasting feed for the World Cup is doubling its audio filters to reduce the constant blaring buzz of vuvuzelas.

The deadly unrest that has killed 171 people in Kyrgyzstan in recent days must not derail a pair of key upcoming votes, the United Nations and European Union said Tuesday.

A group of extremist Muslims prompted violent clashes at a homecoming parade for British troops today after they heckled soldiers and called them 'murderers.'

The people whose relatives were shot dead during the infamous "Bloody Sunday" protest have been given advance viewing of a much-anticipated report that will seek to explain the cause of the 1972 massacre in Northern Ireland.

A train and a garbage truck collided in the RM of Ritchot on Monday morning and 12 train cars derailed in the crash, said RCMP.

A bizarre incident at the team�s hotel in Sun City saw the team�s entire kit of jersey, shorts, socks and sweat suits covered in a disgusting mess after a sewage drain overflowed and flooded the storage room where the uniforms were being kept.

The 1,100-mile journey of a diver's camera lost in the Caribbean has been revealed with the extraordinary help of a sea turtle who switched it on and filmed some of the epic adventure.

Tim Bachman, a founding guitarist of iconic Canadian rock band Bachman-Turner Overdrive, has been charged with sexually assaulting an underage girl

Odd work hours, increased caregiving responsibilities are to blame for unhealthy, rushed lifestyles, report says

Broadcasters need to switch from analog to digital TV by 2011, and the regulator suspects they won�t be ready

Papers are pointing to breakup with Toronto-area catwalk queen as possible reason for Robert Green�s calamity

American armed with a pistol, night-vision equipment, a book of Christian verses and a 40-inch sword

A rise in immigration has been linked to a rise in hate crimes across Canada, but not here in Friendly Manitoba. In Manitoba, the number of newcomers has doubled in the last five years but malevolence-based crimes towards them hasn't.

Barack Obama's head has arrived in Canada ahead of the G8 and G20 summits -- minus part of his ear.

The cleanup of a massive landslide has begun in a southern British Columbia community, the day after five houses were wiped out in a few minutes of sudden destruction.

The federal government will offer cash incentives to civil servants who find ways to reduce the cost of providing public services.

FIFA is defending the use of vuvuzelas at World Cup games despite repeated calls from players, broadcasters and even some fans to ban the plastic horns from stadiums.

Microsoft has unveiled an advanced new technology to compete with Nintendo's Wii, that allows gamers to interact with their television screens and Xbox 360s with little more than their own body and voice.

A Republican running for a congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary.

A Canadian was killed and another seriously injured in Mexico last week when a teenager opened fire on them in an attempted car jacking.

The University of Waterloo has suspended its football program for one year in response to a steroid scandal that has been dubbed "the most significant doping issue" in Canadian university sports history.

Dion Phaneuf was introduced as the new captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Real Sports Bar & Grill at Maple Leaf Square on Monday. He becomes the 18th captain of the Maple Leafs and the 22nd in the long history of the Toronto franchise dating back t

An eight-year-old boy in central Newfoundland has admitted to using a barbecue fork to beat a neighbour's dog to death, in an incident that the SPCA said is exceptionally disturbing.

Afghanistan has nearly one trillion dollars in mineral deposits, according to a US study, but there are doubts the war-torn and graft-prone country can manage the windfall offered by the untapped riches.

Speaking in advance of formal meetings Monday with his provincial counterparts in Charlottetown, Flaherty said that under the current system, too many Canadians could end up with small pensions.

Four "sound cannons" Toronto police purchased for use during the G20 summit will not be used against demonstrators as weapons, Chief William Blair says.

Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty said Friday his government will wait to see how General Motors prices its public share offering before deciding whether to sell its stake in the company.

All residents of a southern B.C. community hit by a mudslide Sunday afternoon have been accounted for with no deaths or injuries, officials say.

Mayor Larry O'Brien wants a plan for handling wildlife incursions in the city, after police shot and killed another wayward moose within Ottawa's city limits

Armed riot police charged into hundreds of security stewards at a World Cup stadium, using tear gas and firing rubber bullets to break up a protest over low wages just hours after Sunday's match between Germany and Australia.

A trio of Canadian men who were aboard the flotilla of aid ships raided by Israel last month are condemning the Canadian government's response to the incident.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has come out strongly in favour of the NATO campaign to defeat the Taliban in Kandahar, the city where the militant movement began.

Insurgents wearing military uniforms stormed Iraq's central bank on Sunday during an apparent robbery attempt, battling security forces in a three-hour standoff after bombs exploded nearby in a co-ordinated daylight attack that left as many as 26 people d

Two explosions ripped through a park in Kenya's capital during a packed political rally late Sunday, killing five people and wounding 75, officials said.

A Montreal mother will be charged with attempted murder after her teenage daughter was hospitalized with stab wounds in what police are calling a "crime of honour."

A team of scientists flew to the Australian Outback on Monday and recovered a Japanese space capsule that they hope contains asteroid samples providing clues into the evolution of the solar system.

WASHINGTON - The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to sen

The next owner of the Dallas Stars will be a Canadian, according to an NHL source familiar with the sale negotiations.

Police say all residents accounted for; at least five houses destroyed, vineyards uprooted

Country music legend Jimmy Dean, who sang the country crossover hit "Big Bad John" and later became known for his sausage brand, has died, according to The Associated Press. He was 81.

Canadian fertility specialists have agreed they should slash the number of multiple births triggered by reproductive treatments, citing the serious medical problems and steep costs associated with twins and other multiples.

The cigarette industry is facing a novel new claim for compensation over its 1990s smuggling spree, which has already led to heavy civil and criminal penalties against four tobacco companies.

Saturday it was the big navy ships that drew crowds. Sunday it was identical ships, but one-hundredth the size, that attracted dozens of people to Harrison Pond on Dallas Road for the Victoria Model Shipbuilding Society's Salute to the Navy.

A boy with eight limbs whose veneration as a god propelled him in to the public spotlight has been operated on to give him the chance of a normal life, his father said Wednesday.

The names on stage were different, but the painful memories held by the parents of a murdered girl still flooded back

China has cancelled a controversial visa restriction on bald Taiwanese visitors amid discrimination concerns, travel agents and local media said Thursday.

Insurgent rockets fired at Canadian soldiers over the walls at Kandahar Airfield are often poorly wired or wildly off target. But there have been casualties.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are about 500,000 centenarians in the world, and almost 100,000 in the United States. And the population is rapidly growing. The agency projects by 2050 there will be 1.1 million centenarians in America alone. Me

"The Karate Kid" has won a 1980s showdown at the box office against "The A-Team."

Vancouver's sole NPA city councillor is calling for a public inquiry into what went wrong when a planned building demolition toppled two separate walls onto busy streets on Thursday.

The federal government is trying to come up with ways to protect millions of dollars worth of vulnerable infrastructure and coastline, years after it was urged to adapt to the effects of climate change.

Polesitter Lewis Hamilton regained the lead on the 50th lap and cruised to his second straight Formula One victory at the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday.

The Liberal party is playing on public outrage over the estimated $1.1 billion price tag of the upcoming G8 and G20 summits in a series of new radio ads.

Two Canadians killed in a Swiss bus crash have been identified as a married couple from Ontario.

A landslide near Oliver, B.C., has closed a major highway and displaced as many as 20 homes.

A 12-year-old Calgary boy is back on Canadian soil after being shuffled through a series of foster homes in the U.S. for nearly two years.

The B.C. Supreme Court has issued a ruling that could bring Canadian chocolate lovers a step closer to compensation from the country's major candy manufacturers.

A new study suggests snake populations are decreasing in different parts of the world, though scientists cannot pinpoint the cause of what they say is an "alarming trend."