NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2010

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says a former adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper should face criminal charges for suggesting that the Australian whistleblower should be killed.

Police have charged the son of a man killed in a bizarre and fatal crossbow shooting at a Toronto library with first-degree murder, authorities confirmed Friday.

The cost of electricity is going up as BC Hydro is forecasting a rate increase of about 10 per cent a year in each of the next three years.

Canada has again contributed to important multinational fisheries enforcement activities in the North Pacific Ocean to protect high seas fish stocks from illegal fishing activities.

The planet, GJ 1214b, is three times larger than Earth and about seven times heavier, and is the first planet of its kind known to have an atmosphere.

The Harper government and the opposition parties have agreed to quietly sink legislation that would have given Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta more seats in the House of Commons. As a result, urban and visible-minority voters will continue to be dis

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Crows, chickadees and other birds living year-round in Alaska are suffering an epidemic of beak deformities that is confounding scientists.

Birds exposed to mercury in their diet have a significantly higher chance of being gay, scientists in Florida suggest.

LONDON - Archaeologists believe they have found evidence of the first use of firearms on a British battlefield after fragments of shattered guns were unearthed on a site that saw one of the bloodiest battles ever fought on English soil.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Airport security agents got a surprise on Tuesday when a woman in a wheelchair approached a checkpoint in Oklahoma City, took off her trench coat and was wearing only a black lace bra and panties.

BELLEVILLE, Ont. - A 15-year-old girl arrested for the thefts of numerous Remembrance Day poppy boxes should publicly apologize to veterans if found guilty, say members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 99 in Belleville.

Ahh, the holidays ... a time for merry-making, gift-giving ... and noose-wielding KKK snowmen? That's what residents of Hayden, Idaho, found in one neighbor's yard. In addition to the noose, which was later removed, the 10-foot-tall snow sculpture was als

The public outcry over the heartless theft of hockey treasures from NHL coach Pat Burns' car after his funeral has produced results.

One man is in custody after an attack with a crossbow left a man dead Thursday in the city's east end.

Canada's military ombudsman says the Canadian Forces must do a better job getting information to the surviving families of fallen soldiers, who often spend years trying to obtain details about their loved ones.

Up to 40 people are dead after a bus fleeing a massive forest fire in northern Israel overturned and went up in flames, killing dozens of prison guards.

Researchers have discovered a strange microbe that can use arsenic as a nutrient, a finding they say could change how scientists search for new life forms on Earth and elsewhere.

Mason Raymond scored three times, including a pivotal short-handed goal, and added an assist as the Vancouver Canucks routed the Calgary Flames 7-2 Wednesday.

Canada's new special adviser on human smuggling and illegal migration says he expects the RCMP will soon make arrests on Canadian soil of those involved in human smuggling to this country.

TORONTO - Neophyte Toronto Mayor Rob Ford may be facing a brand new headache of a moniker on only his second day in office: Mayor of Sex City.

The Burns family received help from both the public and the Montreal Canadiens on Wednesday in the effort to recover items stolen from them on Tuesday.

There are calls for public oversight of an elite military unit amid allegations that a Canadian soldier was involved in an unlawful killing of an Afghan.

The night sky may be a lot starrier than we thought. A study suggests the universe could have triple the number of stars scientists previously calculated. The new estimate is 300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. That's 300 sextillion.

Japan, South Korea and the United States will hold high-level talks to plot a joint strategy on dealing with North Korea after its deadly artillery bombardment of the South, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is warning that his country will find it necessary to build up its nuclear forces if the United States doesn't ratify a new arms reduction treaty.

QUEBEC - The Edmonton Oilers met with the mayor of Quebec City on Wednesday to compare notes on arena funding but not, says the president of the NHL team, to discuss relocating the franchise.

The new posters bear the slogan: "Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence" with "Allah, Big Foot, UFOs, Homeopathy, Zeus, Psychics, Christ" listed below.

For centuries, Nottingham residents have taken advantage of the stable yet pliable sandstone beneath the city, carving everything from holding pens to World War II air raid shelters to beer cellars (some still in use).

The leaked US cables on the Pakistani nuclear arsenal reveal a serious and growing threat of nuclear terrorism that has been deliberately played down by western governments, counter-proliferation experts said yesterday. They argued there were political

Canada has entered a 1920s-like Gilded Age, where the super-rich consolidate their wealth while the middle class stagnates. The richest one per cent of Canadians took home 13.8 per cent of all incomes claimed in 2007