NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2010

Wes Werbowy can still see the polar bear's head pressed up against his tent's mosquito netting. "I wish I could find an artist to capture this image in my mind," says Werbowy, who survived a recent up-close-and-personal encounter with a polar bear with th

GALAN VOLCANO, Argentina - A lake in Argentina's remote, inhospitable northwest may offer clues on how life got started on Earth and how it could survive on other planets

HAGATNA, Guam - A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck about 230 miles (370 kilometres) off the southern coast of Guam on Saturday morning but many residents didn't even notice.

Russia will load fuel into Iran's first nuclear power plant next week despite U.S. efforts to prevent the country from obtaining nuclear energy until it proves that it's not pursuing a weapons capacity, officials said Friday.

A new Amazon monkey species has been discovered in Colombia, and researchers said Thursday they believe the small, isolated population is at risk due to the cutting of forests that are its home.

German website Der Spiegel says examination of photographs of eight scorched Kurdish rebels shows Turkey used chemical weapons

Canadian navy vessels off the coast of British Columbia took control of a cargo ship carrying 490 Tamil migrants, including "suspected human smugglers and terrorists," says Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.

Quarterback Darian Durant and running back Wes Cates rushed for two touchdowns apiece to lead the hometown Saskatchewan Roughriders to a 37-13 win over the winless-in-six B.C. Lions on Thursday night.

This year's devastating earthquake in Haiti was caused by a previously unknown fault, according to scientists.

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake has struck about 170km (105 miles) south-east of Ecuadors capital, Quito

The head of a prominent Russian dairy said on Thursday he will fire employees who have abortions or refuse to be married in Russian Orthodox Church ceremonies

A military exercise to gauge how well Russian and North American air forces can work together in the event of a plane hijacking unfolded without a hitch, according to a Canadian commander who participated in the drill.

LONDON - WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said Thursday his organization is preparing to release the rest of the secret Afghan war documents it has on file. The Pentagon warned that would be more damaging to security and risk more lives than the organiz

Wally Buono has seen enough. With his team struggling at the bottom of the CFL's West Division with a 1-5 record, the Lions coach will hand the ball to quarterback Jarious Jackson when B.C. visits the Saskatchewan Roughriders in Regina Thursday night.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced on Thursday infrastructure improvements for the country's military recruit and training centre outside of Barrie, Ont.

Victoria's Secret, a label synonymous with sexy lingerie, has opened its first Canadian outlet at the popular West Edmonton Mall.

This year's Perseid meteor shower peaks on the night of Aug. 12, and should produce a display of at least 80 meteors an hour during that peak, according to NASA.

B.C.'s Animal Health Centre confirms a dead crow from the Central Okanagan has tested positive for West Nile virus.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell denies exerting any political pressure to slow down the province's anti-HST petition.

A baby boy who died at the Alberta Children's Hospital this week was a victim of homicide, Calgary police said Thursday

The Canada Revenue Agency has been ordered to pay more than $200,000 to the United Nations gang after a judge scolded the taxman for demanding information about the earnings of some UN members and associates.

Two grizzly bears have been spotted recently near Strathcona Park, a rare appearance by the big bears on Vancouver Island.

A full-patch member of the Hells Angels died in a shooting near Vancouver City Hall early Thursday morning

Ten vessels, including RCMP craft and a navy ship, have left the B.C. coast headed for a Thai cargo ship believed to be carrying several hundred Tamil migrants.

Prosecutors say the man helped distribute more than one million knock-off condoms that were later found to be defective

Famed French chef turns up dead in freezer The Hotel de Ville (city hall) and the Bartholdi fountain in Lyon, France. Office du Tourisme de Lyon Girlfriend admits beating Jean-Francois Poinard to death and hiding his body for nearly two years

MOSCOW - Russia said on Wednesday it had deployed high-precision air defence missiles in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, sending a defiant signal to Tbilisi and the West two years after a war with Georgia.

NEW YORK, N.Y. - Passengers on a plane on which a flight attendant infamously had a meltdown gasped and then giggled after he dropped the F-bomb repeatedly over the loudspeakers, a traveller aboard the flight says.

CFL commissioner Mark Cohon has Bob Young's back. Cohon threw his support behind the Ticats owner on Wednesday, one day after Hamilton city council voted to build a new downtown stadium for the 2015 Pan Am Games at a site the club opposed.

Saskatchewan has a serious problem with predators eating livestock, but what if ... they simply didn't feel like eating?

A collection of Second World War service medals recovered by police in Surrey one year ago still have not been claimed by their owner.

Workers have misspelled the word school on a road approaching a high school in North Carolina in the United States.

Richard Heene, known as the father of Balloon Boy, says he has proof there is life on Mars, and he's using NASA photos to prove it.

Two months after the University of Waterloo suspended its entire football program due to a steroid scandal, Canadian Interuniversity Sport announced new drug-testing measures in conjunction with the CFL and the Canadian Centre for Ethics and Sports.

Volcanic rocks made of 4.5-billion-year-old material from the inner Earth have been found on Baffin Island in Nunavut. The discovery, published online Wednesday in Nature, suggests previous theories about exactly what the Earth was originally made of aren

Elections BC has verified the official anti-HST petition submitted by the province's Fight HST campaign, according to former premier Bill Vander Zalm.

TORONTO - With help from the Queen, the CBC is jumping ahead in the 3D race. The public broadcaster has announced that it will show "Queen Elizabeth in 3D" on Sept. 20 at 7 p.m. ET.

A controversial exhibit of the dead is bringing new life to a long vacant building in downtown Winnipeg

HALIFAX - At four times the size of Manhattan, it's easy to understand why a gargantuan island of ice drifting toward Canada's east coast is considered a looming threat to transatlantic shipping and offshore energy platforms.

A Windsor man is charged with torching a Toronto Police cruiser during the G20 summit, police said Wednesday.

A large chunk of ice about four times the size of New York's Manhattan Island broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier and is making its way to Canada.

An explorer has described the moment he was attacked by a polar bear - waking up to find the animal's jaws around his head.

A Massachusetts man who was rushed to hospital with a collapsed lung came home with an unusual diagnosis: a pea plant was growing in his lung.

CALGARY - The July storm that hammered the Calgary area with golf-ball-sized hailstones has been deemed the costliest in Canadian history.

For your inconvenience: car gadgets we could do without

A day after Hamilton city council voted to build a new stadium for the 2015 Pan Am Games at a West Harbour site that the Tiger-Cats opposed, the CFL team has said that they are not willing to talk to the city about playing games at that site.

A breath test could one day be used to detect four of the most common types of cancer, scientists believe.

The Edmonton police bomb squad dismantled what they believe was an explosive device in a car in east Edmonton on Tuesday afternoon.

They�re just a few distinctive markings on some fossilized antelope bones. But they add an astonishing million years to the origins of our humanity.

Desire to travel to Alberta plummeted after potential tourists watched a short video depicting jarring images of toxic tailing ponds, oil-covered ducks, and aboriginals worried about their health as result of oilsands activity, a new survey reveals.

Third embarrassing incident in recent months involving Forces' top officers

British scientists have revealed details of a new test which could diagnose autism in children in just 15 minutes.

Former world 400 metres champion Antonio Pettigrew has been found dead, and authorities are reportedly unsure if his death was accidental or a suicide.

The B.C. government says drought conditions in the northern half of the province could put fish stocks at risk and lead to water shortages.

A new satellite communications station in Inuvik, N.W.T., that officially opens Tuesday is expected to boost satellite observation of the Arctic region.

A Lower Mainland municipality is being advised its prisons could be used to house Sri Lankan migrants on a Thai cargo ship believed to be headed to B.C.

Volume of arsenic, lead increased 26 per cent in last four years, Environment Canada says

A linguistic mystery has arisen surrounding symbol-inscribed stones in Scotland that predate the formation of the country itself.

On July 16th, 2010, a search and rescue (SAR) CC-130 Hercules aircraft (Rescue 336) from 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron based at 8 Wing, Trenton, Ont., was tasked by Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC) Trenton to search for an overdue float plane i

Defence Minister Peter MacKay suggested Tuesday that the Harper government is open to extending the Canadian military mission in Afghanistan beyond July 2011, if agreement can be reached with the opposition.

U.S. students are being taught to memorize math formulas, instead of understanding them, which has led to confusion about what the equal sign means, a new study says.

A terrorism expert says the cargo ship carrying an estimated 200 Sri Lankans toward British Columbia is being managed by the Tamil Tigers, and may be carrying a number of its members.

Japan apologized on Tuesday to South Korea for its colonial rule over the country, seeking to strengthen ties ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Japanese annexation of the Korean peninsula.

A Merritt-area man is facing a charge of animal cruelty after allegedly tying his dog to the back of a truck and dragging the animal behind the vehicle.

Anthrax has killed a third of a bison herd in southern Saskatchewan, provincial officials confirmed Tuesday. As of Friday, 30 bison from the 90-animal herd at a Weyburn-area farm were dead, officials said.

OTTAWA�The top job in the Green party isn�t up for grabs � yet. The party will not hold a leadership race at its convention in Toronto later this month. Green party members overwhelmingly approved a motion delaying a leadership review until after th

Canada has secured a berth in the semifinals after posting its second straight lopsided win at the Memorial of Ivan Hlinka under-18 hockey tournament in Slovakia.

Arbitrator Richard Bloch's ruling to side with the NHL on voiding Ilya Kovalchuk's contract on Monday could affect other such front-ended hockey contracts.

Legalized online gambling is coming to Ontario and the cash-strapped Liberal government is betting it could mean an additional $400 million a year in revenue.

It was the third time in two weeks that police had raided Al-Araqib village in the Negev desert and levelled everything, refusing to recognise claims by the Bedouin that they own the land there

Technology allows researchers to monitor brain-cell activity in powerful detail over several days

BOISE -- Anxious family members watched today from a nearby hill as dive teams searched an Idaho reservoir for four missing men who may have gone overboard during a prank gone awry. The men were feared drowned during a boating trip, leaving five young ch

Analyst warns underreported 'terrorist' threat to the Strait of Hormuz could have detrimental effect on oil prices.

The man tasered near Parliament Hill on Sunday is an off-duty Ottawa police officer who has been disciplined by the force five times in three years.

Iran has dug mass graves in which to bury U.S. troops in case of any American attack on the country, a commander of the elite Revolutionary Guard said Tuesday, warning that a military strike would spark an "extensive war" in the region.

For the second time in less than a month, racist graffiti targeting Chinese people has been found scrawled on the walls of a shopping centre in Richmond, B.C.

RCMP in High Prairie, Alta., say they have busted a marijuana grow operation that would have yielded enough pot to roll more than two million joints.

A 21-year-old woman accused of being an organizer of G20 violence is due in court today for a bail hearing.

The number of civilians killed in the Afghan conflict rose 25 per cent in the first six months of the year, with insurgents responsible for the spike, the United Nations said in a report Tuesday.

More than 150 police officers faced off against several hundred protesters at the entrance to the Frontenac Prison in Kingston, Ont., Monday morning, as the demonstrators tried to prevent trucks from removing a herd of cattle from the prison farm there.

HERAT, Afghanistan - Taliban insurgents publicly flogged and executed an Afghan woman for alleged adultery, a police official said on Monday, in a reminder of the era when the militant Islamist group ruled Afghanistan

More than 6,000 troops sifted through mud-drenched villages and towns Monday in a desperate search for survivors of a series of flash floods and landslides in northwestern China.

A teenaged girl was attacked by a coyote while sleeping at a campground in Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Highlands National Park early Monday

Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster have announced they are expecting their second child -- and the 65-year-old rocker's seventh.

Ottawa is concerned about who is on a B.C.-bound ship that may be carrying Tamil Tigers, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Monday.

Authorities in the United States have caught one of two escaped inmates 10 days after they broke out of an Arizona prison. The other fugitive and his suspected accomplice remain on the loose, and authorities say they may be trying to reach Canada.

Thousands of summer travellers could see their plans dashed if a lockout of about 500 Greyhound Canada employees goes ahead later this week.

Tiger-Cats owner Bob Young has pulled out of stadium negotiations in Hamilton, leaving the CFL team's future in southern Ontario in doubt.

A flight attendant became so angry at a rude passenger upon landing Monday that he cursed out 100 travellers on the plane's PA system and then escaped by activating -- then using -- the jet's emergency slide, police said.

A blaze that claimed the life of a 90-year-old man in Winnipeg Beach is now being investigated as a case of arson and homicide, said RCMP.

The NBA will play two regular season games in London next March, part of a push to bring professional basketball to the city before it hosts the 2012 Olympics.

The human race must colonise space within the next two centuries or it will become extinct, Stephen Hawking has warned.

Archaeologists working on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in northwestern Montana say they have uncovered a vast former hunting complex where bison were stampeded over a cliff at least 1,000 years ago.

He fought tropical disease and deadly snakes, was held captive at one point and collapsed just short of his goal.

The search for survivors in northwestern China is growing desperate in the wake of flash floods and landslides that have killed hundreds and disrupted the lives of millions more across Asia.

Ilya Kovalchuk is an unrestricted free agent for the second time this summer.

Actress Mia Farrow and another witness testified at Charles Taylor's war crimes trial on Monday, contradicting supermodel Naomi Campbell's statements about a gift of purported "blood diamonds" from the former Liberian President 13 years ago.

Confessions that Omar Khadr made under interrogation are admissible as evidence in the Toronto native's war-crimes trial in Guantanamo Bay, a military judge has ruled.

Females appear to be hitting puberty earlier, perhaps due to rising obesity rates and common chemicals found in plastic, a new study suggests.

Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports