NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2011

Canada has the technological ability to build its own rocket to launch small satellites, a top priority for future research at the Defence Department and a capability also being studied at the Canadian Space Agency.

LONDON, Ont. - Dozens of largely middle-aged veterans in Southwestern Ontario are battling homelessness after years of valiantly fighting to stay off the streets.

Anne Francis, who costarred in the 1950s science-fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and later played the title role in "Honey West," the mid-1960s TV series about a sexy female private detective with a pet ocelot, died Sunday. She was 80.

A lack of sea ice in parts of Canada's eastern Arctic are contributing to unusually mild temperatures in Nunavut, according to scientists.

A historic building in downtown Toronto will have to be "systematically dismantled" after sustaining massive structural damage in a major blaze early Monday, fire officials say.

BEEBE, Ark. - New Year's revelers in a small Arkansas town were enjoying midnight fireworks when they noticed something other than sparks falling from the sky: thousands of dead blackbirds tumbling out of the darkness to the ground.

The last batch of recruits have been drafted to do their military service. From July, conscription will be officially suspended and the German armed forces will become a professional army.

Sarah Palin's recently televised caribou hunt has raised questions about whether the former Alaskan governor may have violated state regulations by taking only some of the meat.

A federal seal researcher says the early birth of seal pups in Labrador may be an indication the area's seal population has grown too large.

FREDERICTON - A young amateur astronomer from Fredericton has become the youngest person to ever discover a supernova. The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada says 10-year-old Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton made the discovery on the weekend under the

Environment Canada has issued several snowfall warnings for much of B.C.'s coastal region, including Metro Vancouver and the Sunshine Coast.

Many Maritimers were cleaning up Monday from another winter storm.

After revealing thousands of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in November that he was set to expose as "ecosystem of corruption" at a major U.S. bank.

Roberto Luongo made 31 saves, Alexandre Bolduc and Mason Raymond scored and the streaking Vancouver Canucks beat the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 in a penalty-filled game Sunday night.

Arnold Schwarzenegger steps down as California "Governator" Monday, defending his record to the last -- and keeping fans and others guessing about his next move.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have shot down two "Western spy drones" in the Gulf, a senior Iranian commander has been quoted as saying.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay returned from Christmas in Kandahar bearing gifts for a charity fundraiser last week.

BRANTFORD, Ont. -- About a dozen Hamilton police officers converged on a farm property Sunday between Brantford and Brant County, searching for clues in the vicious sex slaying of an Ancaster, Ont., woman.

Four crew members of the MV Sun Sea that arrived off the coast of B.C. last summer are alleged to be Tamil Tigers operatives who helped organize the high-seas smuggling trip

OTTAWA - Members of Canada's Senate are once again looking to make spanking illegal.

Roads and highways around the Capital Region turned treacherous for motorists around noon Sunday, with falling temperatures and heaps of snow leading to a number of minor collisions.

Pengrowth Energy Corporation has stemmed the flow of oil in one of its pipeline systems after an explosion rocked the Swan Hills area New Year's Day.

Floodwaters are still rising in parts of Queensland, Australia, and water levels are not expected to peak until mid-week, officials said Sunday.

A 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck central Chile on Sunday afternoon, sending tens of thousands of people near coastal communities for higher ground over concerns it would generate a tsunami.

A man has been arrested in Victoria after a three-month-old pit bull was severely beaten and killed in a hotel room early Saturday.

Wildlife officials are scratching their heads after more than 1,000 dead blackbirds fell from the sky this weekend, leaving the roads and lawns of one small Arkansas town littered with their remains.

Canada survived early-game jitters Sunday to advance to a much-anticipated semifinal against the United States at the world junior hockey championship.

Whether it's the epic Trans-Canada journey from Newfoundland all the way to Vancouver Island, Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula or the Banff-to-Jasper mountain sojourn, this country has great roads that beg to be used.

Retailers have been handing out plenty of plastic bags during the busy holiday shopping period -- though likely not as many as before.

Authorities reviewing a death by stoning sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery could still halt the punishment, a senior judiciary official said Sunday as Iran struggles to mute an international outcry over the case.

Canadian pilots will be able to drop cargo to troops on the ground with far greater accuracy now that a new Hercules aircraft has arrived in southern Afghanistan.

A flood that has consumed much of northeastern Australia and been described as reaching "biblical proportions" is now also a killer, after a woman drowned while trying to cross a flooded causeway this weekend.

Police have charged a New Jersey woman who allegedly set her boyfriend on fire causing third-degree burns.

The Canadian Forces are proud to welcome today their first deployed CC-130J Hercules tactical aircraft into operational service at Kandahar Airfield in support of our UN-mandated, NATO-led mission to Afghanistan.

A New York City woman accused of abducting a baby girl in Toronto has been denied bail.

They came wearing Viking costumes, itty bitty bikinis and cave men attire before leaping into the icy waters of English Bay and ringing in the new year in Vancouver.

Someone Ontario has beaten the 28 million-to-one odds of winning Friday's massive Lotto Max jackpot.

A 23-year-old man is dead and another man is recovering in hospital after shots rang out at an inner-city bar just hours into the New Year.

Toronto's New Year's celebration was marred by the city's first homicide of 2011, after a man died following an early-morning knife fight.

Residents of Rockhampton, Australia, joined a growing number of evacuees on Saturday as floodwaters threatened to sink the coastal city as the water spread across the country.

Calgary police have a couple of suspects in custody after the city's first homicide of 2011.

As temperatures dropped below freezing in Vancouver on New Year's Eve, the city's homeless shelters struggled to keep up with the demand for space.

A new green initiative taking effect Saturday in British Columbia will mean residents of the province will soon say goodbye to some incandescent light bulbs.