NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2010

The June earthquake that shook parts of Quebec and Ontario rattled more than just the ground. Within minutes of the 5.0-magnitude quake, people were furiously posting accounts on Twitter and other social media sites, but official information was imposs

A young Winnipeg man's plot to seek revenge on his ex-girlfriend by posting explicit photos of the teen on Facebook has netted him a six-month jail term for distributing child pornography.

CAIRO - Iran's president offered friendship to the United States but also taunted Washington by saying he does not fear an attack by the U.S. because it could not even defeat a small army in Iraq, according to a television interview with the leader aired

Flooding killed four people and forced the evacuation of 94,000 others in the northern Chinese port city of Dandong after heavy rains caused the Yalu River to breach its banks, state media said Sunday.

The federal government will match, dollar for dollar, money raised by Canadians for relief operations in flood-ravaged Pakistan for the next few weeks, government House leader John Baird said Sunday.

HOWZ-E-MADAD, Afghanistan - The smell of fresh-cut wood permeates the air at this former Canadian strongpoint on the western edge of the troublesome Zhari district of Kandahar province. A year ago, the base near Howz-e-Madad was home to a handful of Canad

OTTAWA - Canada turned down a direct plea from NATO to sent more troops into southern Afghanistan in the run-up to last year's Afghan presidential election, federal documents say.

One person was killed and another 12 injured in southwestern Ontario early Sunday when a bus left Highway 401 and rolled over into a ditch.

RCMP say they have located one of two men reported missing nine days ago and have since charged him with second-degree murder.

VETERANS who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq will soon be able to travel FREE on buses and trains. The plan is part of a package being drawn up by the government to help our heroes settle back into Civvy Street.

A city traffic camera recorded a fatal crash while it happened Friday morning. Traffic officers who had the difficult job of watching the video saw something else they found disturbing. No one stopped.

Rescuers were still searching the areas around Squamish and Coquitlam Saturday for a hiker now six days overdue, according to Sea to Sky region RCMP

Thousands of Canada's veterans marched in the 89th annual Warriors' Day Parade at the CNE Saturday.

Ashley Brown is hoping to change the world -- one smell at a time.

Financial fraud is becoming increasingly more sophisticated in Canada, with criminals making use of popular networking sites, according to a new report on organized crime.

A sexual enhancement pill marketed for both men and women contains the steroid DHEA which can cause higher-than-normal levels of male and female hormones, according to Health Canada.

Canadians are being warned to avoid Goya frozen mamey pulp because it has been linked in the U.S. to a typhoid-causing form of salmonella.

A newborn baby has survived a head-on collision in southern Alberta, but both the child's parents were killed.

A pall of smoke from forest fires burning across much of British Columbia has drifted across the Prairies and into northern Ontario, causing health concerns for people hundreds of kilometers away from the flames.

A British pop singer leapt to his death at a Belgian rock festival Friday, in what police believe was likely a case of suicide.

It could take more than a week to learn who will govern Australia after a cliffhanger election -- the closest in nearly 50 years -- and the winner may have to woo the support of a handful of independent lawmakers in order to assume power.

Swedish prosecutors have quickly withdrawn a warrant for the arrest of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that they say wrongly accused him of rape.

Aid workers say the flooding in Pakistan that has forced millions from their homes will get worse before it gets better.

Montreal Alouettes quarterback Anthony Calvillo was released from hospital Saturday, two days after suffering a bruised sternum in a game against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Lucas Soper pitched all six innings and scored two runs to lead Canada over Panama 4-2 at the Little League World Series on Saturday.

More than a half-billion eggs have been recalled in the nationwide investigation of a salmonella outbreak that Friday expanded to include a second Iowa farm. The outbreak has already sickened more than 1,000 people and the toll of illnesses is expected to

The next big thing in hybrid vehicles may not come from the likes of Toyota or General Motors. Instead, it may come from Charles Samuel Greenwood.

An obscure UN board that oversees a $2.7 billion market intended to cut heat-trapping gases has agreed to take steps that could lead to it eventually reining in what European and U.S. environmentalists are calling a huge scam.

A petition signed by more than 700,000 British Columbians angry over the harmonized sales tax is valid, says a judge who urged the province's chief electoral officer to send the matter to the legislature as soon as possible.

Women sex offenders often go unrecognized and unreported, although society is starting to pay closer attention to them, says a university criminologist.

A 16-year-old boy is in critical condition after falling during a car surfing stunt in Montreal.

When it comes to securities fraud, either con men are getting busier or Canadians are getting smarter.

The search continues for a small plane that disappeared with four men on board.

Takeru Kobabyashi has no idea what he is getting himself into.

Six Afghan policemen were found dead Saturday in their station house in southern Afghanistan, where international troops are ramping up operations to take control of Taliban strongholds, an official said.

About 150,000 Pakistanis were forced to move to higher ground as floodwaters from a freshly swollen Indus River submerged dozens more towns and villages in the south, a government spokesman said Saturday.

A Swedish tabloid reported Saturday that an arrest warrant has been issued for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of rape, and officials said they could confirm "media reports."

Australians chose between making a conservative male their fourth prime minister in three years or sticking with their first female leader in tight elections Saturday just two months after she took power.

Swelled by torrential rains, the Yalu river that marks the Chinese-North Korean border breached its banks on both sides Saturday, inundating communities and forcing the evacuation of more than 50,000 people in China.

Hit 111 m.p.h. and the ghost of a dead motorcyclist will appear in your rear-view mirror. At least that's what young people in a small Australian town believe, and are increasingly endangering their lives to prove.

The Conservative government is shifting course in the Artic and embracing a less pugnacious approach when it comes to territorial rivals like Russia.

Lighter winds and cooler temperatures appear to be reducing the forest fire activity across B.C., but thick smoke continues to cause problems right across Western Canada.

B.C. Lions quarterback Casey Printers, sidelined since the third game of the season with a knee injury, spent most of Friday's practice working with the first-team offence. It was a bright light for a team that has been in the dark much of the year.

The federal government will spend nearly $22 million for research in the Beaufort Sea that could help in the debate over offshore oil and gas drilling there.

More than a dozen airplanes searched a large area of the southern Interior Friday for any signs of a missing aircraft with four men aboard, now missing for three days

Ontario's first case of the so-called superbug NDM-1 has been identified at the William Osler Health Centre in Brampton

Iran has begun loading fuel into its first nuclear power station in a ceremony attended by Iranian and Russian officials.

The personal effects of a Canadian soldier who died on a battlefield in France in 1918 were returned to his family at a ceremony in Edmonton on Friday.

An Edmonton man admitted Thursday he was late for an appointment with a probation officer, so he stole a bicycle and rode it to the meeting at the west-end police station.

Abbotsford police are warning people to be vigilant after a bank customer discovered a hidden pinhole camera and secret card skimmer on an Automated Bank Machine, the third such incident this year.

A fire early Friday morning nearly claimed one of the landmarks of the B.C. produced television series Smallville.

Fire officials in British Columbia were hoping for better weather conditions Friday after gusty winds a day earlier fanned already raging wildfires, with smoke causing problems as far east as Manitoba.

PORTIMAO, Portugal - A 14-year-old Dutch girl will set off Saturday on a controversial attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world, her representatives said. Laura Dekker's ambition of completing the yearlong trip has fueled a glob

Byron MacDonald could see it coming. From the moment swimming's governing body FINA banned record-setting bodysuits on Jan. 1, MacDonald knew the unworldly performances during the last two years would give way to significantly slower times, while leaving

The Saskatchewan Health Ministry is warning the public about smoke from British Columbia forest fires. People in western and central areas of the province woke up Friday morning to haze in the sky and the smell of smoke.

In one night, the Toronto Argonauts can accomplish more than a simple victory over their hated provincial rivals. Aside from toppling the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday night, the Argos would once again join Montreal atop the CFL's East Division standings.

A youth arm of the Canadian Lung Association is asking the movie industry to eliminate scenes of smoking in youth-rated films, after release of a study indicating that 130,000 teenagers may have taken up smoking because of exposure to it in Hollywood film

Biologist John Supan thinks he has developed what may be the holy grail for oyster lovers: a hardy breed of the delectable shellfish that stays fat enough for consumers to eat throughout the year.

Canada's top soldier, Gen. Walter Natynczyk, says concerns raised by the veterans ombudsman are "absolutely correct issues" and the controversial New Veterans Charter "doesn't work for everyone."

Hayley Wickenheiser already knows what she's going to say. She hopes the power brokers of the hockey world are listening.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has declared the protection and promotion of Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic a "non-negotiable priority." The prime minister's comment came after the federal government announced earlier Friday that Canada will work to cre

Quarterback Anthony Calvillo suffered a bruised sternum when he was sacked in the second quarter of the Montreal Alouettes' 39-17 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Thursday.

One year ago the Grade 5 class at Grosvenor Wentworth Park School in Halifax wrote, shot and directed the stop-motion short film, "The Bright, the Bad and the Ugly."

Two men jailed for their roles in the deaths of four Mounties near Mayerthorpe, Alta., won't be allowed to take part in the fatality inquiry into the shootings, even though neither has ever testified in court about what they know concerning the buildup to

Islamabad has accepted $5 million in aid for flood victims from India, a rare expression of goodwill between the feuding neighbors at a time when Pakistan is reeling from one of its worst ever natural disasters.

The introduction of harmonized sales taxes in several Canadian provinces pushed up inflation in July, though not to the extent that economists had expected.

Threats of gang rape did not prompt Omar Khadr to make any self-incriminating statements and no evidence exists that the Canadian citizen was tortured, the military judge in his Guantanamo Bay war-crimes trial said in a decision released Friday.

Thirteen women disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside after the city's police force first forwarded information about Robert Pickton to the RCMP, according to an internal police review that spreads the blame between both agencies.

After spending two weeks in jail, a woman accused of faking terminal cancer and accepting money raised on her behalf has been granted bail of $5,000.

Wildrose Alliance calls for more private care while New Democrats are urging less

2-year-old boy reported to have been left for two hours in 33 degree heat

The United States Army has given its approval to an explosive device developed by UK defence and aerospace firm BAE Systems that�s considerably safer than TNT.

The courageous piper who played his comrades ashore during the D-Day landings has died aged 88. Bill Millin was ordered to keep playing his bagpipes to boost morale as fellow soldiers were killed around him. His actions were later immortalised in the film

A blanket of thick smoke that enveloped the city on Thursday is expected to linger until Sunday. The haze has sent a number of people with asthma to hospital, say health officials.

The search for an overdue hiker in Squamish, B.C., is focusing on an area near where it is believed he had lunch before heading into the mountains, police said Thursday.

SAN DIEGO - Divers worked through the day Thursday to extract a rare World War II dive bomber from the bottom of a reservoir but were unable to finish removing thick silt and mud from the plane to enable it to be lifted out of the water.

The Montreal Alouettes got a serious scare when Anthony Calvillo was carted off the field and taken to hospital with a rib injury, but it looks like the star quarterback will be fine. Calvillo threw two touchdown passes to S.J. Green to stake Montreal to

Astronomers may be able to get an early warning about where to look for merging black holes and study gravitational waves, thanks a new model created by Canadian and U.S. astrophysicists.

Firefighters in the Cariboo region of B.C. say they managed to stop a wildfire from crossing the Fraser River near Williams Lake, but the danger of the fire jumping the river has yet to subside.

The B.C. Lottery Corporation was set to re-open its online gaming website Thursday evening after a security glitch prompted officials to shut the site down just hours after it was launched in mid-July.

A moving dedication was held in Windsor, Ont., on Thursday to mark the 68th anniversary of the bloody World War Two raid on Dieppe, France.

Ash from wildfires in B.C.'s Cariboo region is falling like snow in Williams Lake, where the Environment Ministry has rated the air quality the poorest in the province.

Before Pte. Kevin McKay left for basic training, he started building a studio for his mom to work on her quilting and stained glass.

The family of an Edmonton man left paralyzed after a brutal beating is making a desperate plea to anyone who may have information on the crime.

The war to create the least-healthy sandwich legally available in a restaurant is heating up, with Burger King launching the NY Pizza Burger in Times Square Thursday.

People who have recently purchased washers or dryers from Kenmore may have bought a new feature they didn't even know existed: an appliance that can talk on the phone.

As fires move across large swaths of British Columbia's dense forests, there are new warnings about air quality in communities as far away as Alberta.

WASHINGTON -- Seven-time Cy Young Award winner Roger Clemens was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for allegedly lying to Congress about using steroids and growth hormone. The criminal case writes a new chapter in one of Major League Baseball's w

Robert Latimer has won a partial victory in his bid for looser parole conditions. The National Parole Board has been ordered to immediately revisit its decision denying an expansion of parole.

A 35-kilometre-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months or more, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill.

Putting the name of Hollywood star Cameron Diaz into a search engine can be downright dangerous according to security company McAfee.

Search and rescue teams in Squamish, B.C., are searching for a missing man who was last seen leaving on a five-day hike alone through the Coast Mountains without food, shelter or wilderness experience.

Coming off their worst loss of the season, the Montreal Alouettes suddenly have some issues to deal with as the CFL season creeps closer to the halfway mark.

A European Union ban on seal products has been suspended, federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said in St. John's on Thursday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the federal government will create 550 jobs by establishing a payroll centre in Miramichi, N.B.

Human beings have finally been exonerated in the until-now unsolved disappearance of the woolly mammoth.

New research indicates cracks in the moon's crust that have formed as the interior has cooled and shrunk over the last billion years or so. That means the surface has shrunk, too, though not so you'd notice just from gazing at it.

As if the mosque controversy could not get any weirder, it turns out the person who found the site two blocks from Ground Zero was a teenage reality show contestant from Queens.

Broadcast Date: Aug. 20, 1970 "My house is blowing away, my house is blowing away," a hysterical female voice over the phone shouted, then the line went dead. That call to a Sudbury radio station was the first hint that a summer thundershower had turned

Ninety-pound birds that once lived in South America wielded their giant, sharp beaks in quick jabs, much like the boxing tactics of Muhammad Ali, according to a new study.

At least two carriages of a passenger train fell into a river Thursday after floods knocked out a bridge in southwestern China, but there were no fatalities, state media reported.

A cold front has hit western Russia,ending the exhausting two-month heat spell and clearing skies over Moscow from suffocating smog.

With high winds Thursday expected to fan more than 270 wildfires burning across B.C., fire officials are bracing for another day of difficult conditions.

After his 2006 election loss he was mocked by local media and counselors. Now he's back with the purse strings to the city's precious O-Train funding. Opppps, time to pucker up and start some major ass kissing! A good example of Karma.

the blaze started when a leaf blower was left unattended in the mansion�s garage. A man, whom fire officials would only identify as the homeowner, had been using it to dry the seats of a Porsche convertible that had gotten wet from rain.

A bull leapt into the packed grandstands of a Spanish bullring and ran amok, charging and trampling spectators and leaving 40 people injured, regional officials said Thursday.

The doctor's satchels contained the mummified remains of two babies. ... The other baby appeared to be a newborn. Detectives from the Los Angeles Police ...

The multibillion-dollar plan to buy new armoured vehicles for the military, which the federal government launched with much fanfare last year, has already run into a roadblock, with every vehicle offered now being rejected by Public Works and the Defence

On the first day of the NHL's research and development camp, hockey certainly looked different. But there's no reason for fans to expect any drastic change to the game. There wasn't exactly a flood of support for having just one faceoff dot in the cent