NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2010

Al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group Al-Shabab has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on Thursday at Mogadishu airport. At least 13 people were killed and scores were wounded when two explosives-filled vehicles blew up at the gates of Aden Internationa

Nunavut health officials are warning residents of Sanikiluaq that they may be at risk of contracting a potentially deadly parasite after trichinella worms were found in the meat of two walruses hunted this month.

An oil spill at Barneys River may have led to a massive fish kill downstream, Nova Scotia's environment minister says.

B.C. Liberal cabinet ministers rallied around their leader as they headed into their first meeting since the summer break, after some party members called on Premier Gordon Campbell to resign over his handling of the Harmonized Sales Tax earlier this week

A black bear in Whistler, B.C., was so intent on getting at a few tomatoes growing in a window box that he climbed a three-storey condominium building to get them.

The minister of a Florida church said he is now rethinking his earlier decision to call off plans to burn copies of the Qur'an.

OTTAWA - A Canadian general is defending dealing with Afghanistan's notorious intelligence service, describing it as a "highly thought of organization," despite widespread reports of torture.

A box unearthed near the Northwest Passage this week likely does not contain documents linked to Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition of the 1840s, according to two people who are familiar with the case.

A disturbing collection of discarded animal parts has been found in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on the west coast of Vancouver Island near Tofino.

Mounties in two Vancouver suburbs say that teen parties in their cities spiralled out of control over the long weekend, and they're linking the problem to social networking.

While not big enough to ruffle your hair, an unexpected near-miss by two asteroids speeding past Earth earlier this week shows our planet spins in a precarious position, a top NASA official warns.

Taliban leader Mullah Omar says his fighters are winning the war in Afghanistan and that the Nato-led campaign has been "a complete failure".

Researchers say they may have found further evidence for the existence of an unusual type of black hole.

The next generation of telescopes could reveal the presence of oceans on planets outside our Solar System.

A chronic shortfall of generic drugs could compromise the health of patients, Quebec's Order of Pharmacists warns.

The B.C. government has ordered a full public inquiry into the flawed police investigation that allowed serial killer Robert Pickton to continue hunting sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

The NDP is unveiling its television ads that are accusing the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives of pushing New Brunswick over the debt cliff.

Canadian attitudes toward immigration are hardening as debate over the fate of a shipload of Tamils continues to make headlines, a new survey suggests.

CALGARY -- Former Edmonton Oilers captain Jason Smith faces charges of domestic assault and confinement after an incident in Calgary earlier this summer.

The designers offered a sneak peek at the ads with new mini clips that are just as (if not more) drool-worthy than the duo's previous ad campaigns.

The imam and developer behind a plan to build an Islamic center near ground zero are denying reports that there is a deal to move the facility.

Canada�s trade deficit unexpectedly widened to a record in July as exports to the U.S. fell, government figures showed, adding to evidence the country�s economic recovery is being crimped by its southern neighbour

Donald Trump is offering to buy out one of the major investors in the real estate partnership that controls the site near ground zero where a Muslim group wants to build a 13-story Islamic center and mosque.

A Florida pastor said today he would cancel plans to burn a Koran on September 11 as the proponents of an Islamic centre in New York City had agreed to move it away from Ground Zero.

Alberta Premier also 'excited' as U.S. Speaker stops short of backing activist bid to curb oil-sands expansion

Apple has said that it will publish the guidelines it uses to determine which programs it will sell in its App Store to appease critical developers.

Former Canuck Trevor Linden is making his start in a different kind of arena with his new health centre, Club 16: Trevor Linden Fitness.

Millions of monarch butterflies have begun their epic migration from the Great Lakes down to Mexico for the winter, and Point Pelee, Ont., Canada's southernmost landmass, is once again a focal point for fluttering orange-and-black wings.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell says he has no intention of resigning. The premier responded Wednesday afternoon to calls from some senior Liberals for him to step down over his government's handling of the HST.

A B.C. man says he saved himself from serious injury or even death when he knocked out a charging black bear with a well-aimed rock.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper offered a rare glimpse into his own religious beliefs Wednesday when he spoke out against a church in Florida that plans to burn 200 copies of the Qur'an on Sept. 11.

Millions of dollars in taxpayer stimulus cash doled out by the Harper government was conditional upon project managers putting up federal promotional signs, The Canadian Press has learned.

The Colorado Avalanche confirm that backup goalie Peter Budaj has swine flu.

Diabetes could soon cost Ontario $7 billion a year if action isn't taken now to slow the number of new diagnoses, the Canadian Diabetes Association says in a new study.

A first-year running back at the University of Waterloo has received a three-year ban from football after becoming the first North American athlete to test positive for human growth hormone.

Doctors in B.C. want to completely change the way that hysterectomies are performed, in hopes of preventing more women from dying from ovarian cancer.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay has joined the growing chorus of those in opposition to a plan by a firebrand Florida preacher to burn copies of the Qur'an on Sept. 11.

Men hoping to impress women on the dance floor now have science to help them. A European study has found that men who move their necks and trunks more to the beat are most likely to attract women.

A Russian passenger plane carrying 81 people made a "miracle" crash landing at a deserted air strip deep in the Siberian taiga after a complete mid-flight power failure

TORONTO - A 2 1/2-year-old boy survived a potentially deadly weekend Ecstasy overdose after ingesting what he most likely thought was candy.

The weird world of dinosaurs has just gotten more bizarre. Scientists found a nearly complete fossil of a new dinosaur in Spain that sports a noticeable hump, maybe as possible advertising.

Buck Pierce is still waiting to find out whether a dislocated elbow will mean the end of his CFL season.

The Manitoba government says the final round of structural upgrades to the holding facility for polar bears that persistently wander into the northern coastal town of Churchill is now complete.

Alberta First Nations and environmental groups are going to court to force the federal government to protect northern Alberta caribou herds.

Another boatload of Tamil migrants could soon be headed to Canada, but this time the federal government might head them off

Another round of detention reviews got underway on Wednesday for the 492 Sri Lankan migrants who arrived in B.C. by boat last month.

People in Baker Lake, Nunavut, are enjoying an economic boom these days, but they can't take their money to the bank, as there is no branch in the community.

The sentencing of Capt. Robert Semrau, a Canadian soldier found guilty of disgraceful conduct in the death of a wounded insurgent in Afghanistan, has been postponed until Sept. 21.

One transport truck-sized asteroid passed the Earth Wednesday morning and another will soar by in the afternoon, with both far closer to the planet than the moon.

Oil giant BP isn't the only company to blame for the massive oil spill that has polluted waters off the Gulf of Mexico, according to an investigation by the organization.

Two suspected U.S. missile strikes hit militant targets in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, officials said, bringing to six the number of such attacks in the region in less than a week. At least 10 suspected members of a group attacking NATO forces in

Spiral galaxies are known to grow by swallowing their diminutive neighbours; as this process occurs, the dwarf galaxies become severely distorted.

MEXICO CITY - Former federal Liberal leader Stephane Dion is in a Mexican hospital with a severe case of food poisoning. Local media in Mexico report that Dion was attending a climate conference at a university in suburban Mexico City on Monday when he st

Hundreds of people lined the streets of a western Newfoundland city on Monday as the body of a soldier killed by a bomb in Afghanistan was brought home.

A new study says birds are likely dying in Alberta oilsands tailings ponds at a rate that is at least 30 times higher than that suggested by the oil industry.

Kyle Wellwood has been invited to the Phoenix Coyotes' training camp on a tryout basis, the team announced Tuesday

An Inuit family says a box that was hidden for over 80 years in the Arctic contains logbooks linked to the doomed Franklin Expedition. Over the weekend, the Porter family in Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, dug up the small box with the help of an archeologist.

A new study of Canadian university students suggests Facebook is a magnet for narcissists and people with low self-esteem.

A Christian minister vowed Tuesday to go ahead with plans to burn copies of the Quran to protest the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks despite warnings from the White House and the top U.S. general in Afghanistan that he would endanger American troops overseas.

A new road safety campaign in Vancouver uses a 3D image of a young girl chasing a ball to jolt drivers into slowing down.

A proposed conservative television network that has touched off online protests and a war of words between Ottawa and a Canadian literary luminary is now starting to make a splash south of the border.

The federal Conservatives have lost another key NDP vote in their bid to scrap the long-gun registry. Sudbury MP Glenn Thibeault says he will no longer back the Tory private member's bill that has pitted urban voters and politicians against their rural co

A girl as young as 12 was attacked, and possibly raped, in a northeast schoolyard just before the supper hour Monday as a group of youths looked on and took photos.

Civil servants across Canada were ordered by the Harper government to document every single sign posted anywhere promoting the federal economic stimulus plan, The Canadian Press has learned.

An Edmonton family is pushing for the government to fund more gene therapy and stem cell research, in the hopes it will bring a cure for the genetic disease affecting their young daughter.

The Balzan Foundation says its prize for the biology of stem cells has gone to a Japanese researcher for discovering a way to transform adult cells into cells with the characteristics of stem cells.

Edward Nino Hernandez is in many ways a typical 24-year-old Colombian male. He loves to dance reggaeton, dreams of owning a car -- preferably a Mercedes -- and wants to see the world.

With a game console motion-control revolution on the horizon and the emergence of social games, it's undeniable that the videogame world is changing, but Tokyo-based game developer and publisher Konami is changing with it.

Searchers on Monday pulled five more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and then the people trying to save them. The deaths raised the confirmed toll from mudslides in Guatemala to 45 as torrential rains

The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of

Swaths of Mexico and Texas are bracing for downpours and floods as tropical storm Hermine heads towards the northwestern Gulf coast.

Newfoundland police have arrested a 39-year-old man in connection with the discovery last week of Anne Marie Shirran's body.

A British Columbia man accused of training more than a dozen bears to guard his marijuana grow operation says the allegations are "a total fantasy."

Two monuments will be unveiled in the High Arctic this week to recognize Inuit who were forced to live in Canada's most northerly settlements in the 1950s.

Blue Bombers starting quarterback Buck Pierce is back on the sidelines, and it looks as if he'll be there for a while.

The weather may have been cool and wet, but the annual Calgary Pride parade managed to generate some political heat.

Henry Burris threw for three touchdowns then took the rest of the night off as the Calgary Stampeders pounded the Edmonton Eskimos 52-5.

About 100 parents and students rallied in East Vancouver Monday in a bid to save three schools facing possible closure

CHICOUTIMI, Que. - A family spokeswoman has confirmed the death of Gervais Munger, an administrator with a Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team. Dominique Savard said police divers found his body in a lake about 250 kilometres northwest of Quebec City o

HADASHVILLE, Man. - An 86-year-old man who went missing last week after setting off alone on a hike in eastern Manitoba has been found alive. RCMP searchers on all-terrain vehicles located Joseph Kuz on Monday morning in a heavily-wooded swamp within the

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Transportation Safety Board probe into a deadly helicopter crash off Newfoundland is flawed and unfair, say lawyers for the victims of Cougar Flight 491

LONDON - Snowboardcross was the most hazardous sport at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, with nearly 75 per cent of female athletes sustaining injuries during the rough-and-tumble races, according to a medical study.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Department of National Defence paid just over $650,000 during the course of two years to compensate Afghans for damages and deaths resulting from Canadian operations.

OTTAWA - Ottawa was so embarrassed by the "catch-and-release conundrum" involving Somali pirates last year that it ordered the navy not to take any prisoners unless they had an iron-clad case that would stand up in court, say federal documents.

Kevin Glenn threw for over 300 yards and a touchdown as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats took advantage of the mistake-prone Toronto Argonauts for a 28-13 win in their annual CFL Labour Day clash on Monday afternoon.

When Parliament returns in mid-September, sitting MPs will be asked to act on new legislation aimed at deterring and disrupting human smuggling operations

You wouldn't have known by looking at Lindsay that she was a prostitute. And when Geoffrey's Lincoln pulled up to her St. Catharines, Ont., apartment building to take Lindsay for her first weekend of work, in her eyes, she wasn't one.

Darian Durant showed himself to be one tough son of a gun on Sunday afternoon. The Saskatchewan quarterback was officially sacked three times but spent all day bobbing and weaving and rolling out of trouble as he led the Roughriders to a 27-23 victory ove

The vehicles of the future are coming to Manitoba and the people who make the rules of the road in this province want to make sure they're ready for the arrival.

The search for a senior who disappeared after visiting friends in Jasper, Alta., continues -- but is challenging since crews have to work in a massive area that stretches over 400 km, say Mounties.

A mosque being sent to the Northwest Territories from Winnipeg is stuck in Edmonton for the long weekend.

The past successes of a provincial policing group in fighting organized crime are a proof unified efforts can bring gangs to their knees, says a Calgary alderman.

A long-time supporter of the B.C. Liberal Party is calling on Premier Gordon Campbell to resign because of the way the government handled introduction of the controversial HST.

VANCOUVER - The banner year West Coast salmon run isn't done yet, but the race is just about over for British Columbia fishermen to haul in as many wild sockeye as they can muster from the biggest return in nearly a century.

Wherever there�s a deep hole somewhere in the world, there is a physicist down it trying to shed light on the shadowy secrets of the universe, says Nigel Smith, the director of the deepest hole physicists have yet burrowed into.

The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to spare the life of an Iranian widow sentenced to be stoned for adultery.

What would you do if your entire city was taken over by flesh-eating zombies and communist leaders insisted it was nothing but a plot by U.S-backed dissidents to destabilize the government?

The Basque separatist militant group ETA declared a ceasefire in a video statement issued on Sunday, suggesting it might turn to a political process in its quest for independence.

IT took only a day for a massive exercise in unity to become the latest salvo in the culture wars.

A professor at the University of Guelph in southern Ontario is developing a series of peach varieties that could continue to be available into late September.

Edmonton-based BioWare is doubling the number of employees at its Montreal offices, with the ultimate goal of creating an autonomous studio that will design its own video games.

An Alberta man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his father, the RCMP said Saturday.

Nervous Afghans pulled more deposits out of the nation's largest bank on Saturday despite assurances from government leaders that their money was safe.

One hospital in Quebec's Charlevoix region will be demolished and another will undergo major renovations after a study for the provincial government determined they don't meet standards to withstand earthquakes.