NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2011

Rainfall, snowfall and winter storm warnings are in effect from Ontario across to Atlantic Canada Saturday, calling for 24 hours of messy weather that may make travel dangerous.

Ten years after Taliban fanatics blew up two gigantic Buddha statues that had looked out over the Bamiyan valley since the 6th century, a conference to be held in Paris next week will try to come up with a plan for their future.

Although the Vancouver Canucks still lead the overall NHL standings, they've been a .500 team for a full month.

Little Maddox Flynn has been released from a New York hospital Friday after undergoing another round of surgery the day before. He is now resting comfortably in a New York City hotel room with his parents.

Nine-year-old Ethan suffers from Job's Syndrome, a condition that doctors say affects a few hundred people worldwide. It's a condition that causes extremely painful skin infections.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office is apologizing for hustling journalists out of an event just as Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff was about to speak.

Parents who say their kids bring them untold happiness may be idealizing parenthood to feel better about the costs of parenthood and the fact that they could've been a whole lot richer if they had just stayed child-free.

Friday was Day 8 for the Space Shuttle Discovery's mission to the International Space Station. In its last flight, Discovery is proving that even though it is NASA's oldest and longest-serving shuttle, it remains an impressive workhorse.

Environment Canada has issued a rainfall warning for Toronto this weekend, while parts of Southern Ontario prepare for up to 50 centimetres of rain before Saturday night.

It has just been revealed that wreckage from a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine was found in Swedish waters, off the coast of Gotland in 2009.

A 36-year-old Charlottetown man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail, to be served on weekends, for stealing a poppy can from a video rental store last November.

A case of mad cow disease has been found in a dairy cow in Alberta, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) confirmed to CBC News on Friday.

(CNN) -- A video posted online documents in chilling, graphic detail the transformation Thursday of a peaceful demonstration in the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan to a slaughter by what appear to be forces loyal to self-proclaimed President Laurent Gbabgo.

Vancouverite Alanna Fero went to Egypt for two weeks with her iPhone. Prior to leaving, Fero says she spoke with Telus to ensure she was on the right plan. When she got home, she was shocked to receive a monthly bill of $37,694.53.

A laser can act as a "tractor beam", drawing small objects back toward the laser's source, scientists have said.

Orcas avoid being overheard by their prey by hunting in "stealth mode", according to researchers.

Caches of tools and animal remains from around 12,000 years ago, found on islands off the California coast, have given remarkable insight into the lives of the first Americans.

A fierce battle has been raging in the key Libyan city of Zawiya, after loyalist forces launched an operation to retake it from rebels, reports say.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is in the hot seat today, as opposition MPs demand his resignation the day after he was accused of using his official MP letterhead to solicit funds for a pre-election ad campaign.

Just two weeks after a planned recall against an Interior BC Liberal was called off, anti-tax activists have won approval to attempt to unseat another Liberal politician.

Inmates at a B.C. prison are in the final stages of applying to create a labour union, saying the historic event would be a first in Canada.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is being called on to resign by the NDP after his office sent out a letter to Conservative MPs asking for fundraising help to mount an ad campaign aimed at bolstering support among ethnic communities.

Unusually low sunspot activity in the past solar cycle may be due to changes in the flow of plasma deep below the sun's surface.

A former Manitoba RCMP officer will spend nearly the next two years in jail for sexually exploiting and forcibly confining a young girl on a reserve community.

A new study from the University of Calgary suggests you might be saving an animal's life when you take a walk in the woods.

A raid on a military surplus store in New Wesminster has police sounding the alarm over starter's pistols that are being converted into real firearms.

EDMONTON - The tiny mountain pine beetle has cost taxpayers $225 million since 2005 and another $8 billion is on the line.

HMCS Charlottetown departs Halifax today to take part in the Canadian operations already under way in the region of Libya. The ship should take approximately seven days to reach its destination in the Mediterranean Sea.

The head of a private security company says his guards retook a yacht from Somali pirates after the Dutch couple on board locked themselves in a safe room.

A directive went out to public servants late last year that "Government of Canada" in federal communications should be replaced by the words "Harper Government."

Hugo Chavez is pushing a vague plan for peace in Libya.

The graying bear is getting a make-over. Russia's military is launching its biggest rearmament effort since Soviet times, including a $650 billion program to procure 1,000 new helicopters, 600 combat planes, 100 warships, and 8 nuclear-powered ballistic m

American adults have a significantly higher rate of obesity than their neighbors to the north, a new study says.

A Pennsylvania woman on vacation in Florida took a tip from two dolphins to save a lost Doberman Pinscher that got stranded on a sandbar.

A politician running to lead the B.C. New Democrats says he is refusing to comply with a requirement of leadership hopefuls to hand over the passwords to their social media accounts.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Libya's embattled leader Muammar Gaddafi have discussed plans for an international peacekeeping mission to mediate the crisis in Libya, say officials.

Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume says the federal Conservatives are taking a suicidal position by refusing to help finance a new sports arena for his city.

Steven Dornan served two terms in Bosnia while in the Canadian military, but is now fighting a different kind of battle on two fronts.

The government's plan to keep 1,000 Canadian troops near Kabul after their mission in Kandahar ends this year is looking increasingly unlikely after comments from the military's second-in-command last week.

HADLEY, Mass. - The eastern cougar, a large and elusive tawny wild cat that once prowled over wilderness in 21 states, is now extinct, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday.

TORONTO - The Ontario government is not prepared to risk lives to wire the last two towers on a major upgrade of a Niagara Falls-Caledonia, Ont., hydro corridor, Energy Minister Brad Duguid said.

Make the easy and quick choice, your brain is telling you. But wait, what's that? Your bladder wants you to think again.

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that members of a fundamentalist church have a free-speech right to hold anti-gay protests at military funerals to promote their view that God hates America for tolerating homosexuality.

Rebel forces routed Moammar Gadhafi's loyalist troops in a battle over an oil port Wednesday, and have asked for outside air strikes to help them oust Libya's embattled leader.

An unexpected influx of patients to a B.C. hospital forced administrators to open a temporary emergency ward at an on-site Tim Hortons coffee shop earlier this week.

Wind warnings remain in effect for parts of southwestern British Columbia after an intense low-pressure system hammered the region with hurricane-force winds that knocked out power to tens of thousands of residents.

The obesity crisis is worse in the United States than in Canada, a new study of rates in both countries shows.

Premier-designate Christy Clark has committed to moving the referendum on the harmonized sales tax up to June 24 from the original date of Sept. 24.

Mounties across British Columbia caught more than 3,000 drivers using handheld electronic devices during February's distracted driving campaign.

The North American oil benchmark price closed above $102 US a barrel Wednesday and gold reached record highs amid continuing unrest in Libya.

The International Criminal Court will open an investigation Thursday into alleged crimes against humanity in Libya, the chief prosecutor's office has announced.

New arena or not, the National Hockey League isn't any closer to returning to Quebec City, says league commissioner Gary Bettman.

An Ottawa man is furious after an unknown criminal hijacked his email and Facebook accounts in an attempt to scam his friends and his family.

BC Ferries is resuming service on many of its routes but thousands of people are still without electricity after severe winds hammered many areas of the West Coast.

Canada will provide $5 million in humanitarian aid to the people of Libya and send a warship to waters near the strife-torn North African country.

A recent look at the data has found one system that could have two planets in the same orbit. A second system has a group of planets in resonance, and the third has planets that all orbit their star in less than a week.

The United Nations General Assembly voted Tuesday to suspend Libya's membership in the Human Rights Council in the latest international effort to isolate Moammar Gadhafi's government for its violent attacks on civilian protesters.

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing Libya as clashes continue between longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi and anti-government rebels, but aid workers say their ability to feed and shelter them along border nations is being pushed to the breaking point.

Raffi Torres scored the winner in the eighth round of the shootout Tuesday to give the Vancouver Canucks breathing room atop the NHL standings with a 2-1 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets.

A day after Hollywood's biggest show, the troubled actor dominated the headlines with threats of a lawsuit, two riveting morning show interviews, and a rambling live stream on an internet website.

Two Canadian Air Force pilots walked away after the training jet they were flying in made a crash landing at 15 Wing Moose Jaw on Tuesday.

Oetzi the Iceman has reappeared looking fighting fit - as a new model on show in the Italian Alps, where he died from an arrow wound some 5,300 years ago.

Two objects believed to be time capsules have been discovered in the aftermath of last week's ruinous earthquake in New Zealand.

The first day of March has brought wind and blowing snow warnings for most of the island of Newfoundland.

The Vancouver Park Board has approved a monument at Harbour Green Park in Coal Harbour that will commemorate a dark period in the city's history.

Travel to Alberta remains sketchy as another ferocious winter storm makes its way through southeastern B.C.

A storm that roared across the south B.C. coast Monday knocking down trees, power lines and ferry service may also have claimed a life.

B.C. Health Minister Colin Hansen says the system worked just the way it's supposed to when emergency patients at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster ended up in a Tim Horton's next door to the ER.

Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, said Muammer Gaddafi should be prosecuted for the Lockerbie bombing.

Archeologists have found new clues about the music early Klondike stampeders were listening to during the Yukon Gold Rush, thanks to recordings found aboard a 110-year-old shipwreck.

A Class 1 hurricane-strength windstorm is expected to slam into the entire B.C. coast Wednesday morning.

An increase in extreme rainstorms brought on by climate change could set the stage for a return of cholera to North America, according to a world-renowned water scientist.