NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2011

The IAAF has approved new regulations regarding the eligibility of females with hyperandrogenism to compete in women's athletics.

Iceland's penis museum finally has its featured member.

Animal rights group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), has changed the wording of their vasectomy contest after angering the infertile community.

MONTREAL - Four police officers, two suspects and two bystanders were injured and police opened fire Tuesday morning after a man allegedly tried to run down officers.

A new video showing a U.S. Transportation Security Administration agent patting down a 6-year-old girl at a U.S. airport has been posted to YouTube.

Officials have declared a state of emergency in Riverton, Manitoba, after an ice jam clogged a local river and threatened 200 area properties early Tuesday.

People in the eastern Newfoundland town of Conception Bay South may have won the national Kraft Hockeyville 2011 competition, but if the town's arena doesn't meet the league's standards, the game may have to be hosted in a neighbouring community.

Falling populations of penguins in the West Antarctic Peninsula are being driven by a reduction of their main food source, Antarctic krill, according to a new study.

Pro-government gunmen attacked two villages in northeastern Syria on Tuesday in a move to crush a popular uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime, witnesses said.

Five generals pledged their loyalty to Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara on Tuesday following the capture of his predecessor after a four-month power struggle, as hostilities died down and foreign troops prepared to leave.

The late Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is being honoured around the world Tuesday on the 50th anniversary of his pioneering flight in space.

France and Britain exhorted their NATO allies on Tuesday to step up military action against Libyan ruler Moammar Gadhafi, as his forces bombarded positions in two strategic cities while besieged rebels appealed for weapons and equipment.

B.C. Crown prosecutors have dropped a drunk driving charge against Liberal MLA Jane Thornthwaite, following her arrest at a roadside stop last year during the Olympic Games.

The Canadian robotic arm on one of NASA's space shuttles is heading back north after the shuttles retire.

Canadians are the most tolerant people in the developed world, are terrific readers, enjoy more "positive experiences" than everyone but Icelanders, and don't produce many babies, according to a new report released Tuesday.

An explosion tore through a key subway station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk during evening rush hour Monday, killing 11 people and wounding 126. An official said the blast was a terrorist act.

Canadian consumers could wind up paying $12 billion in higher fuel charges in 2011 if soaring gas prices stay in place for the rest of the year, according to a new report released Monday.

A man is dead after he fell into a machine while working at a Toronto pasta factory on Monday.

Former Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo, who had been trying to cling to power from a bunker in his presidential compound, has been arrested by forces loyal to the country's recognized leader, Alassane Ouattara.

Libya's opposition leaders on Monday roundly rejected a ceasefire plan hatched the day before between ruler Moammar Gadhafi and African Union dignitaries, saying no deal is possible until Gadhafi and his sons surrender power.

Canada's plan to extend the Afghanistan mission by three years in a training support role carries high risks and a low chance of success, says a report released Monday.

Faced with rising costs and residents still without health insurance, Vermont lawmakers are poised to pass a single-payer healthcare plan, which would reshape how the state's doctors are paid and become the first of its type in the US.

Pakistan has demanded that the United States steeply reduce the number of Central Intelligence Agency operatives and Special Operations forces working in Pakistan, and that it put on hold C.I.A. drone strikes aimed at militants in northwest Pakistan, a si

The Conservatives recycled an old comment she made on security spending by a previous Liberal government after the 9/11 terrorist attacks a decade ago.

The auditor general says the Harper government misinformed Parliament to win approval for a $50-million G8 fund that lavished money on dubious projects in a Conservative riding. And she suggests the process may have been illegal. The findings are contain

Brian Mulroney, the most successful Conservative prime minister since Sir John A. Macdonald, was sitting down for a rare television interview the other day in Montreal.

Hockey Night in Canada will be home to both of the Canadian NHL clubs looking to bring the Stanley Cup north of the border in 2011.

The Vancouver Canucks will have a third straight playoff meeting with the Chicago Blackhawks, a result of Sunday's final NHL regular season games.

More than a dozen military hockey teams, including several from Europe, faced off in a tournament in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, this weekend to raise money for charity on behalf of a fallen Canadian comrade.

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team has been called to East Vancouver after a police-involved shooting early Sunday morning.

Mounties in North Vancouver say a harp stolen from an elderly woman undergoing cancer treatment has been returned.

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - YouTube, the video site owned by Google, on Friday unveiled a page highlighting live programing and said users have asked for more live streams.

PARIS (Reuters) - France's ban on full face veils, a first in Europe, went into force Monday, exposing anyone who wears the Muslim niqab or burqa in public to fines of 150 euros ($216).

South African President Jacob Zuma says Moammar Gadhafi has accepted the African Union's "road map" for a ceasefire with rebels trying to depose him, as NATO forces destroyed more government tanks in another day of heavy fighting in Libya.

After being pushed around and kicked off their land by the Bhutanese government, they appreciate the help Canada has offered.

The Harper government has quietly approved increases in the maximum salaries political staffers are entitled to receive. In addition, suddenly out-of-work staffers could find the blow considerably cushioned if the Tories lose the election.

A YouTube video of a Texas police officer using pepper spray on a baby squirrel has sparked outrage.

Jimmy Howard made 33 saves and the Detroit Red Wings kept defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago from clinching the final playoff berth in the Western Conference, beating the Blackhawks 4-3 Sunday.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in his first speech since his resignation two months ago, denies that he abused his authority to amass wealth and property.

A witness says Syrian security forces have killed four protesters and wounded dozens in a coastal city.

United Nations and French helicopters on Sunday fired rockets on the house of Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo in the country's commercial capital, Abidjan, residents and the UN said.

If Garrett Shakespeare wants to live a full life, the cost will be approximately $500,000 a year.

NATO destroyed 25 tanks belonging to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces on Sunday, as heavy fighting in Libya raged for a second day around a key frontline city.

A group of Edmonton hockey players is raising money for dementia-related research by teaming up with NHL stars. In its second year, the "Scotiabank Pro-Am for Alzheimer's" took place at the Leduc Recreation Arena Saturday, raising $1.2 million to support

STARS - otherwise known as the Shock Trauma Air Rescue Society - will have its medical helicopters based in Saskatoon and Regina. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall made the announcement today in Regina with STARS President and CEO Dr. Greg Powell and private

The BC Civil Liberties Association is renewing calls for civilian police oversight after Mounties used a stun gun to subdue an 11-year-old boy in Prince George.

Jurors deciding the fate of an Edmonton filmmaker charged with murder are faced with a choice between the accused's words and the accused's word.

Canadians travelling abroad are clearly winners as the loonie flies ever higher above parity with the U.S. greenback, but many Canadian companies are feeling the pinch, sometimes in ways that are completely new.

The growing medicinal marijuana business in the United States despite the drug's illegal status has many insurance firms seeing green -- as in money.

The Rural Municipality of St. Andrews has declared a state of emergency due to floodwaters.

About 50 homes north of Winnipeg were evacuated Saturday morning because of rising water levels, as police said the province's flooding was likely responsible for the death of a motorist.

All four Eastern Conference first round playoff series were finalized as a result of Saturday's games

Christian Ehrhoff scored at 2:31 of overtime Saturday as the playoff-bound Vancouver Canucks wrapped up their best regular season in franchise history with a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames.

The Lieutenant Govenor of Alberta was among a number of dignitaries who unveiled Calgary's Soldiers' Memorial Saturday morning on Memorial Drive.

The remains of a Canadian soldier who died 94 years ago during the Battle of Vimy Ridge have been identified as those of Private Thomas Lawless, a relative of the McLaren family of Ponoka, Alta.

New York is a major loser and Reykjavik a winner from new forecasts of sea level rise in different regions.

All the federal party leaders were criticized Friday by Ret. Gen. Rick Hillier, perhaps Canada's best known soldier, for avoiding a serious debate during their election campaigns about Canada's role in the Libyan conflict.

The Canadian women's hockey team downed the United States 3-1 in an exhibition game Thursday at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The White House and congressional leaders have reached a short-term deal to prevent the shutdown of the U.S. government, House Speaker John Boehner said Friday night.

A mass protest calling for sweeping changes in Syria's authoritarian regime turned bloody Friday, with the government and protesters both claiming to have sustained heavy casualties in a restive southern city as the country's three-week uprising entered a

RCMP have used a Taser to subdue an 11-year-old boy in Prince George, B.C.

Users of the Canadian group buy website TeamBuy are being warned that their email addresses and account passwords have been compromised.

Two people have been charged in a fraud investigation launched after the sudden bankruptcy of a Cambridge, Ont., adoption agency two years ago.

High winds forced a student pilot on a solo test flight to crash his plane while landing at the Cooking Lake Airport Friday morning.

The parents of Miranda Friz, Peter and Karen, didn't notice anything was different about their darling baby girl until she took a tumble at a local water park at the age of two.

Family and friends packed a chapel at CFB Valcartier on Friday to bid farewell to Cpl. Yannick Scherrer, remembering Canada's most recent combat casualty as a natural leader who embraced life to the fullest.

A town in southern Manitoba has declared a state of emergency as the region's residents sandbag their homes in preparation for spring flooding.

An unusual, distant triple-star system has been observed in intimate detail with help from Canadian researchers and a B.C. telescope.

A giant mass of floating debris swept out into the ocean by the Japanese tsunami could reach the West Coast in three years, researchers at the University of Hawaii are predicting.

The Red and Assiniboine rivers could crest at the same time this spring in Winnipeg, flood officials say.

Jack Layton says the NDP would prioritize investment in naval ships over new fighter jets as part of a broader plan to refocus Canada's defence policy.

Sher-Wood, the legendary Quebec maker of hockey equipment, is moving what remains of its stick production to Asia.

A distinctive tuberculosis was unintentionally left by 18th-century Voyageurs in remote aboriginal communities along their trade routes and still plagues those communities today, new research shows.

A U.S. man whose company organizes goose-hunting trips in the Wadena, Sask., area has been fined $4,200 for wasting edible game.

Islamist group Hamas says it has brokered a deal for Gaza's militant groups to stop firing on Israel, after another day of violent exchanges.

Scientists who predicted a few years ago that Arctic summers could be ice-free by 2013 now say summer ice will probably be gone within this decade.

Ryan Kesler scored three goals, Mason Raymond had two, Roberto Luongo made 29 saves and the NHL-leading Vancouver Canucks closed out their regular-season home schedule with a 5-0 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.

The animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is once again raising more than a few eyebrows, this time by giving away a free vasectomy to any man who's recently had his pet neutered.

Search and rescue teams performed a dramatic helicopter rescue Thursday to save a missing and stranded puppy -- 15 days after the beloved pet went missing in B.C.'s North Shore mountains.

Police on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast have rescued three children they believe were victims in a child pornography ring.

The Conservative government says it will not allow command and control of the navy's Pacific fleet to move from Esquimalt, B.C., to Halifax.

Perhaps the reason that liberals and conservatives have such a hard time seeing eye-to-eye is because when they're compared brain-to-brain, they're built quite differently.

A woman who faked cancer has been sentenced to 10 months of house arrest followed by a five month curfew, two years probation and 100 hours of community service.

A magnitude-6.5 earthquake shook a wide swath of southern and central Mexico on Thursday, prompting people to flee into the streets in the country's capital.

Rebel fighters in Libya claim NATO airstrikes hit their forces on the front lines and touched off a retreat from the outskirts of the oil port of Brega.

The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa has acquired an Albert Medal for Saving Life at Sea earned by a Canadian naval volunteer who was killed trying to prevent the Halifax explosion of 1917.

NASA astronomers think they have figured out the cause of what they had deemed "one of the most puzzling cosmic blasts ever observed."

Vancouver Canucks forward Raffi Torres was suspended for four games on Thursday by the NHL in response to an incident in the team's game against Edmonton earlier this week.

Japan was rattled by a strong aftershock and tsunami warning Thursday night nearly a month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami flattened the northeastern coast.

Authorities in several U.S. states are fighting countless wildfires after a drought across much of the region has made the entire area a tinderbox.

Court officials have released more evidence from the trial of the two Victoria-area teenagers who killed Kimberly Proctor.

OTTAWA - Canada has boosted the number of personnel involved in the NATO-led mission in Libya by nearly 200, the military said Wednesday.

The next Winter Olympics will feature women's ski jumping after the International Olympic Committee approved its inclusion for the 2014 Sochi Games.

Embattled Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi reached out to the U.S. on Wednesday, sending a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to halt the NATO military campaign in his country.

President Barack Obama says late-night budget talks with the leaders of Congress have helped to narrow the issues, but there is no deal yet to avert a shutdown.

Vancouver captain Henrik Sedin for one welcomes the pressure of trying to become the first Canadian club to win the Stanley Cup in 18 years, and the first Canucks team in 40 years of existence.

Jarome Iginla scored a hat-trick in Calgary's dominating 6-1 victory Wednesday night over the Edmonton Oilers, but the Flames were still officially eliminated from the NHL Western Conference playoff race.

Canada�s navy is embarking on a controversial plan that would see it switch control of its ships on the West Coast to the naval-service headquarters in Halifax. The plan is already meeting with internal resistance from some officers, who question the

A Liberal candidate in Quebec is being investigated by the party for alleged racist comments, Leader Michael Ignatieff said Wednesday morning.

Doug Brown will acknowledge it may already be too late for him. Having played more than a decade of professional football, most of it with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, the 36-year-old defensive lineman figures he has taken more than 12,000 hits to the head.

Canada's new fleet of stealth jet fighters will cost almost double what the Conservative government is projecting, a U.S. defence analyst says.

In a sure sign of spring, wildlife cameras across B.C. are catching bald eagles in the act of nesting, and eggs are expected to start hatching within days.

A plan to study the Chicxulub crater by boring 1.5km into the sea bed is among the highlights of ocean drilling projects proposed for the next decade.