NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2011

Devan Dubnyk made 26 saves as the last-place Edmonton Oilers played giant killers once again, defeating the first-place Vancouver Canucks for the second consecutive game with a 2-0 victory on Tuesday

A rebel military leader lashed out at NATO Tuesday, saying the alliance was falling short in its mission to protect Libyan civilians while embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces position heavy weapons in populated areas, preventing some airstrikes.

A leak of highly radioactive water from a damaged nuclear reactor in Japan has been stopped from reaching the ocean, says the plant's operator.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is accusing Conservative Leader Stephen Harper of performing more rigorous background checks on people showing up at his campaign events than advisers he hires in the Prime Minister's Office.

There might have been some hangover from winning the Presidents' Trophy for the Vancouver Canucks in their last game. They will try to avenge a loss to the league-worst Edmonton Oilers when the Northwest Division rivals meet Tuesday night for the second t

A recent child pornography investigation in which seven men were arrested has lead to additional charges of sexual assault, when an adult male recognized his alleged attacker from news reports, police said on Tuesday afternoon.

New research suggests changes in the Arctic Ocean could affect the climate of coastal Europe. "Large regional changes could be in store if the ocean circulation changes," said Laura de Stern of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research.

Winnipeg is kicking its flood preparation into high gear as the rising Red River is expected to begin flowing into the Floodway within the next two days.

The three astronauts aboard the International Space Station no longer have to worry about the threat of space junk colliding with the space station.

A gun battle between tribesmen loyal to Yemen's president and those supporting a military commander siding with the opposition left three dead in the suburbs of Sanaa Tuesday, tribal elders and military officials said.

The number of victims of a suspected serial killer on New York's Long Island has doubled in the past week following the discovery of three more corpses along a remote beach highway.

Fast-moving spring storms packing high winds, hail and lightning blew through the U.S. South, uprooting trees, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands and killing at least nine people.

Ivory Coast's strongman leader Laurent Gbagbo holed up in a bunker inside the presidential residence Tuesday, defiantly maintaining he won the election four months ago even as troops backing the internationally recognized winner encircled the home.

The B.C. man who was found not criminally responsible for murdering his three children wants to be allowed supervised visits away from the hospital where he has been under psychiatric care since his trial.

Gold prices rose to a record Tuesday as investors looked for safe havens amid worries about risks ranging from political turmoil in Libya and the nuclear crisis in Japan to the threat of sovereign debt default in Europe.

Libyan government forces unleashed a withering bombardment against rebels outside a key oil town Tuesday, as Gadhafi's regime showed signs of changing tactics to fend of airstrikes from NATO jets.

Tim Hortons said it will raise the prices of some items on its menu next Monday.

Meanwhile, compelling video of a grandmother being evicted from her home by a SWAT team last week suggests the banks aren't slowing down their rush to foreclosure and eviction.

Two weeks since a surveillance camera at an Oregon gas station captured the last known images of Al and Rita Chretien, the B.C. couple's family is appealing to the public for help.

Canadians in relationships with multiple partners shouldn't be turned into criminals because of alleged abuses in a small, isolated community in British Columbia, says a lawyer arguing against the anti-polygamy law.

The fragile ozone layer shielding our planet from ultraviolet rays has deteriorated to unprecedented lows over the Arctic, the UN weather agency said Tuesday.

Laval police hope the sister of a three-year-old autistic boy can provide them with information that will help them find her missing brother.

The Green Party of Canada will be in court Tuesday to fight against a decision to exclude leader Elizabeth May from the televised election debate.

The parents of a Victoria teen who was tortured and murdered by two classmates say they never want to see the killers released from jail.

Alberta researchers say the destructive mountain pine beetle has infested a different type of tree that could allow the pest to spread eastward across Canada.

That means Saturn will be especially bright, because it will be the closest to Earth it will get for 2011, making this an ideal time to take a gander at the gassy planet. During opposition, the lord of the rings rises in the east at sunset and sets in

French and UN helicopters have fired on military camps operated by Ivory Coast incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo, in an effort to halt attacks on civilians.

Newser) � It seems like only yesterday that Microsoft released Windows 7�and indeed, most of us haven't gotten around to upgrading to that version�but already, Windows 8 is nearly upon us. Web forums were filled with news and rumors last week after

The benefits offered by Canada's government pension plan are inadequate to keep people living in comfort in their old age and must be increased, the New Democrats say

CALGARY � Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff was accused Sunday of hatching plans that could kill Canada�s golden goose � the Western oil patch. Ignatieff proposed a new, national cap-and-trade scheme to reduce carbon emissions that economists say wil

Undersea robots have located bodies, motors and a �large part� of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009, but haven't yet found its black box flight recorders, French officials said Monday.

The Conservatives have opened up a 14-point lead over the Liberals, according to a Nanos daily tracking poll, and start the second full week of the election campaign sitting firmly above the 40-per-cent mark � the kind of support that typically leads to

Corporations and the rich to pony up the $8.1 billion in Liberal Family Pack

As his severely injured son recovers in hospital, a city father is outraged his boy was dragged seven metres by a car and left for dead -- all over a cellphone.

It could take several more months to bring Japan's tsunami-ravaged nuclear plant under control, a safety agency spokesman said Sunday as engineers tried to find a way to stop highly radioactive water from pouring into the Pacific.

It could get harder to indulge in a double cheeseburger and fries without feeling guilty.

Many people with a bad aortic valve may soon be able to avoid open-heart surgery and have a new one placed through a tube in an artery instead.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is promising to immediately double the children's fitness tax credit to $1,000.

For Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, the biggest challenge of this election campaign may not be about driving home his election promises, discrediting his opponents or winning the battle of the polls.

Charlie Sheen and his "goddesses" took the stage to thunderous applause Saturday night for the first leg of his "Torpedo of Truth" tour. The 70-minute show hadn't even ended when the first reviews were in, and they were brutal.

Two weeks after a dark-of-night barrage of mostly U.S. missiles and bombs opened the international air assault on Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, the American combat role is ending, the rag-tag rebels are reeling and the Pentagon is betting its European allies c

The Japanese utility company that oeprates the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant is releasing details on two workers it says were killed when the wave swept ashore more than three weeks ago.

Protests against the burning of a Qur'an in Florida that have already seen 20 deaths in Afghanistan have entered their third day.

Kurtis Foster scored a power-play goal and assisted on another Saturday as the last-place Edmonton Oilers surprised the Vancouver Canucks 4-1.

Google captured first place among smartphone platforms by moving from 26.0 percent to 33.0 percent of US smartphone subscribers, RIM fell to second place by going from 33.5 percent to 28.9 percent market share of smartphones, and Apple slipped to third

Sensing an imminent victory, the government recognized by the international community as the rightful ruler of blood-soaked Ivory Coast said Saturday the other side has committed atrocities, is losing its top generals to defections and is looking for "can

On an island chain located halfway between Africa and Argentina, local authorities say a massive penguin rescue operation is under way.

Mounties say the last trace of Albert and Rita Chretien, who disappeared last month en route to Las Vegas, is a credit card purchase in Oregon state.

Jack Layton appeared in one of his largest crowds of the election campaign to announce plans to earmark $103 million for retired and disabled soldiers on Saturday, while his competition spent the day away from the campaign trail.

Violent protests over the burning of a Qur'an by a Florida preacher rocked Afghanistan for a second day. At least 20 people have been killed in the violence, including seven people affiliated with United Nations.

The image of a target has been spray-painted over the face of a Liberal candidate on more than 100 of his campaign signs in an Ottawa-area riding

Bill McCreary's career as an NHL referee comes full circle on Saturday night. It began on Nov. 3, 1984, when McCreary officiated a game between the Washington Capitals and the visiting New Jersey Devils. More than 27 years later, McCreary will call it a c

Even as rebel forces closed in on his palace and defeat seemed inevitable, embattled Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo was still talking tough on Saturday -- calling on everyone from the police to forest rangers to come to his defence.

A storm in northern Idaho and Montana is moving across Canada and dumping wet snow and causing traffic accidents in portions of southern Alberta and B.C.'s southeastern Interior.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon gave assurances Saturday that Canadian civilians working in Afghanistan are well protected amid a wave of protests, touched off by the burning of Islam's holy book at a Florida church.

Thousands of New Brunswickers were without power Saturday after Friday's storm. NB Power spokeswoman Marie Lyons said a lot of equipment had been damaged when heavy snow and strong winds knocked trees into power lines, leaving 7,300 customers without elec

The Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers have little to play for Saturday night, although for vastly different reasons.

TOKYO -- A Japanese nuclear official says highly radioactive water is leaking from a damaged nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean. Nuclear safety spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama says the air above the leak contains 1,000 millisiverts of radioactivity. Exp

"The family is the basic unit of our society, and has been since Adam and Eve (were) created," Kruse says. "Marriage is, and should be, the union of one man and one woman."

MIAMI (Reuters) - An American Christian preacher who caused an international uproar last year by threatening to burn the Koran has put himself back in the spotlight after incinerating Islam's holy book -- again with deadly consequences.

Seven civilians died and 25 were hurt in a coalition air strike on a pro-Gaddafi convoy in eastern Libya, a doctor there has told the BBC.

The broadcast consortium that barred Elizabeth May from participating in the televised leaders debates said it will not back down on its decision, despite tens of thousands of letters from angry voters and a last-ditch court challenge by the Green Party.

Hunters in Quebec have killed 12 times the usual number of polar bears they harvest in southern Hudson Bay this winter, leading a Canadian polar bear researcher to wonder if soaring prices for polar bear hides are to blame.

Laurent Gbagbo's 10-year grip on the Ivory Coast seemed to be in its final hours Friday after fighters encircled both his residence and the presidential palace and battled to unseat the man who has refused to recognize his defeat in last year's election.

Perched on the roof of a house which was swept into the water after the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11, he was rescued by the Japan Coastguard. Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/04/02/japan-tsunami-d

The Quebec College of Physicians has suspended and fined a psychiatrist and radio host who once told listeners blacks have low IQs and people with Down syndrome are lesser human beings.

The season looks to be crashing down on the Montreal Canadiens but the message among the players on Friday was: relax, don't worry.

The B.C. man who dragged his golden Labrador retriever behind his truck for exercise until it was "half dead" has been given a conditional sentence and is banned from owning animals for the next five years.

Thousands of Syrians shouting "We want freedom!" took to the streets around the country Friday, defying security agents who tried to beat them back with gunfire, tear gas and batons, witnesses and activists said.

The Canadian commander of the NATO mission in Libya says forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi are clashing with rebel fighters in a "chess game" involving innocent civilians.

Radiation exceeding government safety limits has seeped into groundwater under a tsunami-crippled Japanese nuclear plant, according to the operator, but experts say it's unlikely to contaminate drinking supplies.