NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2010

Doctors are reporting unusually high success rates from early tests of an experimental lung cancer drug.

The lone Canadian in the U.S. national spelling bee was eliminated Friday night on a word that might have left a sour taste in her mouth.

Get a fresh pair of earplugs ready and prepare yourself for throngs of shrieking girls, because the Biebs is coming to Vancouver!

A 28-year-old North Vancouver man has been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly having unprotected sex without revealing that he is HIV-positive, and police are warning other potential victims.

The parents of a 16-year-old girl murdered outside a house party in Peachland, B.C. Wednesday night say they hope her death sounds a warning to teens about weapons.

Enforcing the Canadian military's blanket ban on soldiers engaging in intimate relationships in a war zone is an unwinnable fight against human nature, some experts say.

Canada has won a key battle against a global bank tax as G20 finance ministers came to an agreement to allow countries to deal with the issue as they want.

Israel says its troops will board an Irish-owned aid ship attempting to break the blockade of Gaza if it does not change course.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Militants fired rockets at NATO's main base in southern Afghanistan for the second time in less than two weeks and caused minor injuries, a U.S. military official said Friday.

The first of 17 new CC-130J Hercules tactical airlift aircraft landed at 8 Wing Trenton, Ont. today, contributing to the modernization and strengthening of the Canadian Forces.

A major international study of Arctic sea ice has concluded that the recent, record-setting retreat is the worst in thousands of years -- a conclusion that challenges skeptics' claims that the meltdown being witnessed in Canada's North is probably just th

Jupiter has gotten whacked again. An amateur astronomer in Australia peering at the giant gas planet Thursday reported witnessing a bright flash from an object hitting Jupiter and apparently burning up in the atmosphere.

The longer a series has gone for the Philadelphia Flyers in their playoff run this spring, the tougher they have become to beat.

A multimillionaire's test rocket blasted off on its maiden voyage Friday and succeeded in reaching orbit in a dry run for NASA's push to go commercial.

McDonald's is recalling 12 million "Shrek"-themed drinking glasses in Canada and the U.S. because of cadmium in the painted design.

Waves of gooey tar balls crashed into the white sands of the Florida Panhandle on Friday as BP engineers adjusted a sophisticated cap over the Gulf oil gusher, trying to collect the crude now fouling four states.

Winnipeg police say a mother will be charged with the attmpted murder of her two young sons after a violent incident at an apartment in a public housing complex.

The Canadian military is capable of training Afghan security forces past 2011, but it could be a challenging task depending on the number of experienced personnel required, the leader of Canada's mentoring teams in Afghanistan said Friday.

A shipping company is baffled by a bogus entry in the government's polluter database that blames one of its tankers for a monster offshore oil spill.

For the second day in a row, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has found himself in disagreement with a European ally on the contentious bank tax issue.

The Canadian figure skaters who won the world's heart at the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics are getting a divorce.

"Sure, it looks a lot like a sinkhole," geologist Sam Bonis told Discovery News from his home in Guatemala. "And a whale looks a lot like a fish, but calling it one would be very misleading."

The Red Planet harbours rocks rich in carbonate minerals, suggesting there was more water there in the past than previously thought

Russian authorities are preparing to remove a huge arsenal of shells from a sunken German World War II barge off the Baltic coast.

Deep sea fish species found in the north Pacific Ocean have mysteriously been caught in the southwest Atlantic, on the other side of the world.

The Harper government has quietly affirmed that it isn't legally bound to maintain a moratorium on oil drilling off the coast of British Columbia.

An Australian kookaburra bird is undergoing personal training after growing too fat to fly because she ate too many sausages.

BP has placed a funnel-like cap on the well spewing hundreds of thousands of litres of oil daily into the Gulf of Mexico but it's still too early to determine whether it will slow the flow.

Armando Galarraga squeezed the ball in his mitt, stepped on first base with his right foot and was ready to celebrate.

A Memorial University professor says migratory birds that return to Newfoundland and Labrador each year are being killed by oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.

The Alberta government has designated grizzly bears a threatened species in an effort to better protect the animals and maintain the overall provincial population

Defence Minister Peter MacKay on Thursday laid out Ottawa's $35-billion plan to reinvigorate Canada's moribund shipbuilding industry.

An Edmonton couple has been convicted of assault for spanking their 14-year-old daughter with a belt after she admitted she was sexually active with her boyfriend.

A lottery player in Newfoundland voided a ticket that would have been worth $30 million. A person purchased a Lotto Max ticket that contained the winning numbers for the $30-million May 31 jackpot but then had the retailer void the ticket

Maytag Corp. is recalling about 1.7 million dishwashers because of a fire hazard, including about 160,000 units in Canada. Canadian and American officials say the company has received 12 reports of electrical failures in the heating element that led t

A devastating fire raced through several apartment complexes in the Bangladesh capital, killing more than 100 people and injuring 100 others, local media reported Friday.

Targeted killings, where lethal force is intentionally used against perceived enemies of states, sometimes using drones, blur the line of international law when carried out on foreign soil, a UN independent human rights expert says

The municipal employee at the centre of abuse allegations in the Transportation and Works Department in Mississauga, Ont., earned a higher salary in 2009 than the city's mayor.

A group of MPs visiting Afghanistan has left the door open for an agreement in Parliament to keep some Canadian troops in the country after the current mission ends next summer

The oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico from that massive BP spill could be along the Atlantic coast and into the open ocean within weeks, according to computer simulations carried out by the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research.

Hockey Night in Canada fixture Ron MacLean was part of a heroic river rescue in the City of Brotherly Love on Thursday.

British Airways say a mockup in an employee magazine that shows a boarding pass with Osama bin Laden's name on it is "no laughing matter."

Scratch-poor towns in the Mississippi Delta once shared more in common with rural Iran � scarce medical supplies, inaccessible health care and high infant mortality rates � than with most of the U.S.

The Gulf of Mexico oil well that has been leaking since April-- and already dubbed by President Barack Obama as the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history --could continue gushing until December.

The Liberals should support new legislation that will reform Canada's beleaguered refugee determination system, introduce a new appeal process and hasten the removal of rejected claimants

British Prime Minister David Cameron hinted he might support Canada's bid for a seat on the coveted UN Security Council.

Actress Rue McClanahan died early this morning: she was 76.

A former banker at a Manhattan branch of Citibank is suing parent company Citigroup, alleging she was fired for being too hot, reports the Village Voice.

A senior Israeli official tells Jerusalem Post that "his is a definite possibility that we need to prepare for." How will Israel prepare for such an event is not elaborated. Hopefully things won't get to that level of escalation.

Canadian-born director says �those morons don�t know what they�re doing�

MONTREAL - The bill aimed at modernizing Canada's Copyright Act is shaping up to be a love-it-or-hate-it affair. Reaction to the proposed law came fast and furious after it was tabled in the House of Common on Wednesday.

Would you volunteer to be locked away for 18 months in a sealed container with no windows and have only e-mail contact with the outside world?

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have managed to measure the motion of stars in a stellar cluster.

Sherpa mountaineers in Nepal say a rise in the rate of snow and ice melt on Mount Everest has exposed bare rock faces and made it dangerous to climb.

June 2 marks the 93rd anniversary of the daring mission that earned First World War flying ace Billy Bishop the Victoria Cross. Let's go back in time to that historic event. Quotes are from the Canadian hero's air combat classic, Winged Warfare.

Centre Claude Giroux redirected a shot at 5:59 of overtime, sending the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-3 win over the Chicago Blackhawks Wednesday night in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final.

The Vancouver Canucks have re-signed goaltender Cory Schneider, it was announced on Wednesday

Provincial funding for the Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve's has been stopped, forcing the nature preserve to curtail education and research activities, operators say.

The construction logjam of tens of billions of dollars in new Canadian navy and coast guard ships is finally expected to break Thursday with the announcement of Ottawa's long-anticipated shipbuilding strategy.

The NHL's 30 general managers are backing a rule that would see players receive a five-minute penalty and a game misconduct for hits to the head.

Five families in Calmar, Alta., are being forced out of their homes because of a leaking natural gas well. After the leak was discovered in 2008, the more than 50-year-old well owned by Imperial Oil was temporarily sealed.

TORONTO - Say hello to Frankenfish. How'd you like that thing biting your ass? It can grow to 1.8 metres. The fish, I mean.

A Red Deer lawyer has begun a lengthy legal challenge that could assist in the defence of people charged with drunk driving. Defence lawyer Kevin Sproule wants to take Central Alberta cases as far as the Supreme Court

A 24-year-old Vancouver woman has been charged in connection with the deaths of her two newborn sons, born 11 months apart.

Joran van der Sloot, the 22-year-old Dutch playboy twice arrested in the mysterious disappearance of American Natalee Holloway, has been named the prime suspect in the death of a young Peruvian woman found dead in a Lima hotel today, five days after she d

Sometime this afternoon Ford Motor is expected to kill the Mercury brand. This has been rumoured for quite a while, and it's evoked no end of hand-wringing among the American cognoscenti who believe nothing ever should change in the car business. Ever.

The Canadian bureaucrat who paid more than $2-million in public money to settle a lawsuit with Brian Mulroney says he expects the Oliphant inquiry�s criticism of the former prime minister�s testimony to spur the government to explore how it can recove

Body of alleged gunman, 52-year-old Derrick Bird, was found in woods near the Lake District village of Boot

The family of a missing Burnaby, B.C., man hope time -- and a significant reward -- will unseal the vital information need to find their loved one.

Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, shaken by a spate of suicides at its China plants, said Wednesday it is raising the pay of workers by 30 percent, a greater increase than first planned.

The guys who became an online sensation by creating geysers from soda and Mentos candies have discovered it's not just entertainment. It can propel vehicles, as well.

How much money would it take to get you to lose some serious weight? $100? $500?

Toronto Police say they have been told of two more cases of kielbasa, a Polish sausage, with a needle embedded in the meat.

Israel intends to deport hundreds of pro-Palestinian activists by the end of Wednesday, while scrapping plans to lay charges against anyone who participated in an aid flotilla that was headed for the blockaded Gaza Strip.

With no end in sight to the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S. government is seeking a blockbuster solution, recruiting "Avatar" and "Titanic" film director James Cameron's help.

Two British Columbia men have been arrested in the United States after a high-speed boat chase in Washington state that ended with the seizure of hundreds of kilograms of marijuana.

Thailand's beleaguered prime minister survived a no-confidence vote Wednesday called after months of anti-government protests crippled the capital and street battles left nearly 90 people dead.

The Taliban made good on its threats to attack a national peace conference in Afghanistan on Wednesday, as suicide attackers descended on the conference on its opening day.

BP's latest, and possibly last-ditch, attempt to stem the flow of oil from its crippled Gulf of Mexico well ran into another snag Wednesday, even as the expanding slick of crude oil from the spill drifted closer to previously untouched beaches in three mo

From 2 p.m. through to 6 p.m. the Eskimos sold about $2 million dollars in tickets. On June 1, they reached the $8 million mark in ticket sales.

Although Israel has a naval base on the Red Sea, Egypt had, until recently, had not allowed Israeli subs to use the Suez canal. So the Dolphins were modified to go around Africa, if they had to. But now the Egyptians, who are also feuding with Iran, regul

The USS George Washington will leave its base in the Japanese port of Yokosuka around Saturday and arrive in the Yellow Sea early next week, Yonhap news agency quoted a military source as saying.

Canadian army, navy and air force chiefs gave starkly different reports to a Senate committee Monday on public enthusiasm to join their ranks.

GUATEMALA CITY - A cavernous and almost perfectly round sinkhole swallowed an entire intersection in Guatemala City during a tropical storm, spooking people in the neighbourhood but exciting geologists.

Iran has amassed more than two tonnes of enriched uranium, the UN nuclear watchdog says in a report that has heightened Western concerns about the country developing the ability to produce a nuclear weapon.

From last week's snowfall in Calgary to record rains in Saskatchewan and a heat wave in Toronto, Canada has had a week of wacky weather.

The provincial government, along with representatives from the retail industry that account for account 90 per cent of stores is set to announce a plan that could see the use of plastic bags cut in half in the next five years.

Surrey RCMP are asking the public for help in finding a missing 57-year-old woman.

Police have arrested a man in connection with the death of Abbotsford resident Angela Crossman last year, CTV News has learned.

SaskPower spokesman James Parker isn't sure what survival equipment the stranded man had with him in northern Saskatchewan last week -- except, of course, for his axe.

Several thousand Gaza Strip residents have attempted to cross into Egypt after being given a rare opportunity to leave the area that has been blockaded for the past three years.

TORONTO (Reuters) � Pressured by an aging population and the need to rein in budget deficits, Canada's provinces are taking tough measures to curb healthcare costs, a trend that could erode the principles of the popular state-funded system.

The winner of a $16 million lottery jackpot in Brazil escaped his own father's plot to kill him after police caught two contract killers supposedly hired to carry out his murder, local media reported on Friday.

Two RCMP officers were stabbed Tuesday in a downtown office, leaving one in stable condition in hospital and the other with superficial hand injuries.

After forty years of marriage, Al and Tipper Gore are separating, the couple announced in an e-mail to friends Tuesday morning...

Those peaches at the grocery store might look nutritious, but they might also be loaded with pesticide residues, suggests a new report from the Environmental Working Group.

Independent scientists and government officials say there's a disaster we can't see in the Gulf of Mexico's mysterious depths, the ruin of a world inhabited by enormous sperm whales and tiny, invisible plankton.

Parts of Ontario and Quebec are getting new area codes to help meet the demand for more phone numbers, especially on mobile phones.

Surveillance video from a stolen Calgary bus taken for a joyride shows two men chuckling and yelling as they zoom around corners and consider cutting across someone's lawn.

The days of record low interest rates in Canada appear to be coming to an end, as the Bank of Canada announced Tuesday its first interest rate increase in three years.

Seven-month tour ends for Land Force Western soldiers

A Utah woman is suing Google after Google Maps on her BlackBerry allegedly gave her walking directions that led her to a highway where she was struck by a car, CNN reports.

A controversial mouth-shaped urinal in the men's room of a downtown bar has been removed.