NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2011

The Vancouver Canucks have announced that centre Manny Malhotra will miss the remainder of the regular season and playoffs with an eye injury sustained during a March 16th game against the Colorado Avalanche.

Colonel Gaddafi suffered a massive personal setback today when one of his sons was allegedly killed in a suicide air mission on his barracks.

Mozilla has quietly released Firefox 4 in advance of an official announcement.

PARIS - France is capable of providing the command and control for the multinational military forces ranged against Libya in support of U.N. resolution 1973, which is aimed at protecting the civilian population and enforcing a no-fly zone, a French defens

President Barack Obama has said the US will transfer its leading role on Libya "within days" to ensure the burden of enforcing a UN resolution against Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is shared.

International forces hammered the Libyan capital from the air for the third straight night Monday, according to reports on state television, though the nature of the targets was not immediately clear.

Liberal Senator Raymond Lavigne has stepped down, more than a week after he was found guilty of fraud and breach of trust.

As talk of a federal election heats up in Ottawa, the federal Conservatives are moving to find candidates in three B.C. ridings created by the sudden resignations of three high profile Tory MPs.

Syria is stable, according to its president. But his regime isn't immune from forces at work across the Arab world

A Commons committee has found the minority Conservatives in contempt of Parliament, essentially charging the ruling party with breaking the rules of government.

Canadian warship HMCS Charlottetown is patrolling the waters north of Libya, as UN-backed airstrikes continue.

Canadian CF-18 fighter jets flew their first mission to enforce a UN no-fly zone over Libya Monday, as debate on Canada's role in the military intervention was expected to get underway in the House of Commons.

The top exec at the Eye network is ready, willing, and able to forgive and forget all of Sheen's recent antics and continue broadcasting the series, with Sheen back in the starring role, a well-placed insider tells us.

Google said Monday the Chinese government is interfering with its email services in China, making it difficult for users to gain access to its Gmail program, amid an intensified Internet crackdown following widespread unrest in the Middle East.

The recent monster quake that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth's surface, geologists say, loading stress onto a different segment of the fault line much closer to Tokyo.

The Conservatives have a strong lead with 39 per cent support ahead of a possible spring election, according to a new poll, despite the opposition parties hammering away at the Tories on ethics issues.

Operators evacuated workers from Japan's tsunami-damaged nuclear plant Monday after gray smoke rose from one of its reactor units, the latest of persistent troubles in stabilizing the radiation-leaking complex.

AFP - Muslim clerics urged Yemeni soldiers to disobey orders and a third minister resigned after the gunning down of more than 50 protesters calling for an end to President's Ali Abdullah Saleh's rule.

Recent earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan offer evidence of what a similar calamity will look like on Vancouver Island

The Canadian pilots about to do battle with Muammar Gaddafi are facing a Libyan enemy with out-dated weaponry and an already battered air-defence system.

Questions are swirling around a theory that might explain the mass mortality of Fraser sockeye, but the only person that can answer them appears to be banned from giving media interviews

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Western powers launched a second wave of air strikes on Libya early on Monday after halting the advance of Muammar Gaddafi's forces on Benghazi and targeting air defenses to let their planes patrol the skies.

Canadian fighter pilots will be helping to enforce a no-fly zone above Libya "within 48 hours," Defence Minister Peter MacKay said on Sunday.

Seismologists say there's nothing to fear after a 4.4-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of Vancouver Island Saturday night.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is taking aim at the Conservatives' ethics and spending habits, as opposition parties prepare for two potential election triggers.

Veterans Affairs examined but rejected expanding a death benefit paid to families of soldiers killed in the line of duty, say documents filed in a human-rights case that alleges discrimination based on marital status.

The bombs went off in the capital early on Sunday as a foreign aircraft flew over the Bab al-Azizia military compound, situated in the southern suburbs of Tripoli.

The Coast Guard is investigating reports of a potentially large oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico not far from the Deepwater Horizon site. According to a knowledgeable source, the slick was sighted by a helicopter pilot on Friday and is about 100 miles long

Police are dealing with a disturbing and mysterious case after a severely mentally handicapped man was found naked in a hotel room bathtub.

ABC's 20/20 broadcast a segment including courtroom details about the ongoing murder trial of Mark Twitchell, the amateur filmmaker who allegedly killed his victim the same way outlined in his movie plot.

The families of 10 Canadians killed in Afghanistan paid tribute Sunday to their loved ones in what could be the last ceremony of its kind before combat operations end in the war-torn country.

One candidate is a musician with a bad-boy past. The other is a former first lady with a long political resume. Haiti's voters will choose one of them Sunday to lead a country where anger with the government runs deep and nearly a million people are livin

For more than a decade, art historians and archeologists at Montreal's Concordia University have been puzzling over the origins of a mysterious Egyptian statue.

An 80-year-old woman and her teenage grandson were rescued Sunday in northeastern Japan, joining the slim number of survivors who have recently been pulled from the rubble after the devastating earthquake and tsunami.

Moammar Gadhafi promised the international community a "long war" as an international military coalition prepared to launch another round of air strikes on Sunday.

Two reactors at a crippled Japanese nuclear plant are safely under control after their fuel storage pools cooled down, officials on Sunday told a devastated region that has been holding its breath for good news.

Venezuela, Russia, China and the African Union are among the countries and organizations to come out against the Western attacks in Libya.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the pilots of six Canadian fighter-bombers dispatched to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya are prepared to engage the Libyan air force.

A tourist community in southeastern B.C. has again been invaded by pigs.

Dozens of young teenagers and pre-teen children in Vancouver Island's Cowichan Valley have ended up in the emergency room after overdosing on cold medications.

An escaped prisoner considered by police to be armed and extremely dangerous faces more charges, Alberta RCMP said Friday.

Travis Vader, a suspect in the disappearance of Alberta couple Lyle and Marie Ann McCann, was denied bail Friday.

The Canada Safeway Ltd. grocery chain is warning customers in Western Canada about a phone scam that targets Safeway Club Card holders.

After a fifth doctor came forward on Friday with allegations of being muzzled, Alberta Health Minister Gene Zwozdesky said there is still no evidence of intimidation of doctors in the current health system, and that he isn't going to launch a public inqui

Minuscule amounts of radiation from Japan's stricken nuclear plant have reached the U.S. West Coast but federal and state officials say it poses no health risk.

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The idea of smothering and sealing Japan's overheated nuclear reactors in sand or concrete to stop the crisis is appealing. But experts say that it's too early for something that desperate and that it could be a big mistake that could make matters worse.

Stephen Harper says he still doesn't know all the facts about the scandal that's erupted around his former top adviser, Bruce Carson.

Stargazers will be treated to a bigger and brighter full moon Saturday when it gets closer to Earth than it has been in the last 18 years.

Berlin's beloved polar bear Knut, an international star who as a cuddly, fluffy cub graced magazine covers, movies and merchandise, died Saturday. His death at the young age of four took zookeepers and animal experts by surprise.

A radiation leak at a Japanese reactor has tainted spinach and milk at nearby farms and spread radioactive iodine in drinking water as far away as Tokyo, placing fresh pressure on emergency teams scrambling to restore cooling systems and bring dangerously

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has endorsed regime change in Libya while acknowledging the world needs to be careful not to get caught up in an Iraq-style quagmire.

Hours after French, British and American military forces unleashed cruise missiles and fighter jets, a defiant Moammar Gadhafi said Libya will fight back against undeserved "naked aggression."

It was originally meant to fight forest fires, but an innovation from a B.C.-based company is being used by the Japanese military to douse water on the country's dangerously overheated nuclear reactors.

Stephen Harper is giving fighter pilots a green light to fire when necessary against Moammar Gadhafi's regime. The sanction comes as a coalition of countries started using force to prevent the North African dictator from killing more of his people.

[3:45 p.m. ET, 10:45 p.m. in Libya] The U.S. military has launched its first missiles in Libya against Moammar Gadhafi's forces, a senior Defense Department official said Saturday.

Scientists with the National Research Council in Saskatoon have helped create genetically engineered yeast that will be used to make an effective anti-malaria drug artemisinin.

The Ontario Fire Marshal is investigating a fire at a dollar store in Listowel, in southwestern Ontario, that claimed the lives of two volunteer firefighters.

Scientists filmed sharks off the coast of the Philippines visiting a tropical seamount - or undersea mountain. This is a habitat for cleaner fish, which nibble off parasites and dead skin.

Adult monkeys recognise photographs of their friends, according to scientists. In an experiment, untrained Barbary macaques showed interest in the photos and spent more time scrutinising pictures of unfamiliar animals.

US President Barack Obama has said Libyan government forces must end their offensive against rebel-held towns and pull back - or face military action.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper headed to Paris late Friday to attend a summit with other world leaders to discuss the ongoing crisis in Libya, hours after announcing Canada would deply CF-18s to enforce a UN no-fly zone.

Radim Vrbata and Shane Doan scored 1:18 apart on the same power play late in the third period, backup Jason LaBarbera made 46 saves, and the visiting Phoenix Coyotes beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-1 on Friday night.

Fans of the Saskatchewan-based comedy series Corner Gas can soon own a piece of the now-defunct show.

Police and dozens of firefighters stood at attention Friday afternoon as the bodies of two fallen volunteer firemen were removed from a burned dollar store in Listowel, Ont.

An NHL sponsor says it approves of the league's new safety directives, but that there's still work to do.

Utah has become the first US state to designate an official state firearm.

The Vancouver Canucks have already clinched a third consecutive Northwest Division title, and have their sights set on loftier achievements.

With news of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, B.C.'s First Nations people are recounting 300-year-old stories about the last giant wave to hit this side of the Pacific.

The nuclear crisis in Japan has led many to flee the country, and Vancouver International Airport was full of arrivals with stories of a quiet panic spreading across the country.

Nineteen competitors are braving Arctic conditions as they run through northern Yukon and the Northwest Territories in the 6633 Extreme Ultra Marathon this weekend.

Earth's closest celestial neighbour will appear to loom larger and brighter than usual on Saturday night, as astronomers anticipate a cosmic event called an "extreme supermoon".

A huge transformer fire near Toronto's Pearson Airport snarled Friday afternoon rush-hour traffic and sent black smoke billowing overhead.

Hundreds of former patients of a retired Quebec radiologist suspected of erroneously reading mammograms will have to take additional breast-cancer tests.

A Via Rail train travelling from Montreal to Toronto with more than 400 passengers has collided with a truck near Belleville, Ont., killing the truck driver.

Border officials have deported a convicted criminal from the country.

The federal government will open nine extra monitoring stations in B.C. to check for radiation from crippled nuclear plants in Japan, but it still insists there's no danger to Canada. Word of the extra stations came after B.C. health officials were swa

One week after Japan was rocked by a powerful earthquake and tsunami, the toll from the twin disasters has soared to more than 6,900 people dead and 10,700 missing.

The third day of the trial for Edmonton filmmaker Mark Twitchell, who is charged with first-degree murder in the alleged life-imitates-art murder of Johnny Altinger, kicked off with continued testimony from a forensics investigator who was responsible for

(Reuters) - Gunmen on rooftops shot dead up to 42 protesters at an anti-government rally in Sanaa after Muslim prayers on Friday, enraging the opposition and prompting President Ali Abdullah Saleh to declare a state of emergency.

It wasn't photographer Steve Gong's first trip to North Korea. But on this trip, putting his life at risk, he practiced for months to capture secret video footage in the notoriously clandestine country. And he pulled it off.

Were you raped? Was it incest? And other questions the government's tax cops would have to ask women who've terminated pregnancies.

A former senior advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper was lobbying Indian Affairs to land water contracts potentially worth millions of dollars for an Ottawa-based water company that employed his fiance who was an escort.

Canada will contribute six CF-18 fighter jets to help enforce a no-fly zone in Libya, sources have told CTV News.

According to court records, 26-year-old Dora Tejada told police that she shoved a rose down her daughter's throat to rid the child of demons

After losing his mate and offspring to a young man on a bender last season, it looks as though Nick the swan might be on his way to finding love again.

Astronauts at the International Space Station unpacked Robonaut on Tuesday, 2 1/2 weeks after its arrival via shuttle Discovery. NASA broadcast the humorous unveiling ceremony Wednesday.

Canada's doctor shortage is bad and is only going to get worse, concludes a new report from the B.C.-based think tank The Fraser Institute.

In the new book, "Spousonomics: Using Economics to Master Love, Marriage, and Dirty Dishes," authors Paula Szuchman and Jenny Anderson offer up an unusual take on managing a modern marriage.

On the same day Canada called for Canadians to stay 80 kilometres away from Japan's damaged nuclear power plant, Ottawa announced it is sending two buses to help earthquake- and tsunami-affected Canadians to evacuate.

A florist in Riverview, N.B., is refusing to provide wedding flowers to a same-sex couple, according to the event's planner.

This hungry heron clearly got more than it bargained for after snatching a baby alligator from its nest. The vulnerable reptile was grabbed by the large wading bird which then ran off with its lunch held in its beak.

The province says university and college students in B.C. just need to buy fewer coffees in order to pay for tuition increases.

The unstable nuclear threat in Japan has forced a Canadian Medical Assistance Team from B.C. to return home, just three days after flying in.

Officials have repeatedly reassured Canadians that airborne radioactivty from the Japanese nuclear crisis poses no danger to this country. But the same can't be said about Canada's seafood supply.

SANTIAGO - A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck the central region of Chile on Wednesday, seismologists said.

Alex Burrows tied it midway through the third period, Henrik Sedin put Vancouver ahead 2:18 later and the Canucks came from behind to clinch a playoff spot with a 4-2 victory over the Colorado Avalanche on Wednesday night.

The Israeli military displayed mortar shells, ammunition and surface-to-sea missiles in Ashdod on Wednesday, ordnance that officials said was seized from a ship bound for Gaza.

Norway joined Canada on Tuesday in asking the World Trade Organization to establish a dispute-settlement panel to consider a challenge to the European Union's seal products ban.

With billions of dollars promised to the navy in the form of combat, patrol and support ships, the federal government pledged last June to form a "strategic partnership" with two Canadian shipyards to help carry these promises to fruition.

British Columbia's 113-year-old legislature building would need a $250-million seismic upgrade to withstand a major earthquake, according to a five-year-old report released by the Speaker's office on Wednesday.

An escaped murderer who police say is armed and extremely dangerous may be in British Columbia. William Bicknell, who was serving time for the 2001 murder of Maple Ridge resident Angela Steer, was on a temporary absence pass from the Drumheller Institutio

The National Hockey League's reluctance to take major steps to reduce on-ice violence may be costing the league some fans, according to a new poll obtained by CBC News.

Canadian citizens are going to be advised to evacuate farther from the site of a potential nuclear meltdown in Japan, CBC News has learned.

Ontario Power Generation has notified Canada's federal nuclear regulator about the release of 73,000 litres of demineralized water into Lake Ontario at the Pickering A nuclear generating station.

Japanese officials have rejected a dire appraisal of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility by the head of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, who says water is absent from a reactor's spent fuel pool, raising the potential of a meltdown.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's operator says it is nearing completion on a new power line to the complex that would revive electric-powered pumps, allowing officials to maintain a steady water supply to troubled reactors and spent fuel pools. Meanw

The trial for Edmonton filmmaker Mark Twitchell, who is charged with first-degree murder in the alleged life-imitates-art murder of Johnny Altinger, began Wednesday afternoon in an Edmonton courtroom. During opening statements, the Crown warned jurors the

The siblings of serial killer Robert Pickton have been granted more time for their lawsuit against the B.C. government over damage to their farm during the RCMP's search for bodies.

Three stem cell researchers have been awarded the annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research for their pioneering work in human stem cells.

Thousands of seabirds were killed when the tsunami generated by last week's massive earthquake off Japan flooded Midway, a remote atoll northwest of the main Hawaiian islands, a federal wildlife official said Tuesday.