NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2011

Australian police say a man who plunged seven floors to his death from an apartment balcony was participating in the internet craze of "planking."

Denmark plans to lay claim to the North Pole and other areas in the Arctic, where melting ice is uncovering new shipping routes, fishing grounds and drilling opportunities for oil and gas, a leaked government document showed Tuesday.

International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, charged with trying to rape a maid at a New York hotel where he was staying, has been placed under a suicide watch in jail, officials say.

United Nations security officials and the Haitian National Police are investigating the armed robbery of three RCMP officers in Haiti's capital.

As Canadians were heading to the polls at the beginning of May, the first soldiers taking part in Canada's new training mission in Afghanistan were already on their way to Kabul.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will unveil his new cabinet Wednesday morning, giving new jobs to at least six members of his majority government caucus.

A Calgary man was handed three concurrent life sentences on Tuesday for killing his two young children and trying to kill his estranged wife almost two years ago.

VANCOUVER - A group of nurses at an old folks home north of Vancouver were shocked last week when a tiny white toy poodle dropped from the sky. The miracle dog was named May because she was turned in to the SPCA on May 2, after she fell from the sky, r

Canada is kicking out five diplomats working at the Libyan Embassy in Ottawa.

Men who drink six cups of coffee a day showed a lower risk of developing a deadly type of prostate cancer compared with nondrinkers, a large U.S. study suggests.

Glenn Healy and Don Cherry of "Hockey Night in Canada" both berated the pair. The NHL told them to dial down their act and cut out Sully's handstands. "The Canucks were really nice about it,'' said Force. "They contacted us and told us the NHL had rece

Word spread quickly about a Los Angeles gas station selling gasoline for about a quarter of the going price, but it wasn't a promotion. The owner says the too-good-to-be-true price was a computer glitch that cost him $21,000.

You didn't have to watch "America's Most Wanted" to be grateful it's there. For 23 years it has resided on Fox, rallying its audience into a nationwide crime watch from which everyone benefited. The viewership was not insignificant: 5 million viewers,

In today's market many independent musicians view the big record labels as a parasitic entity of sorts, exploiting talented musicians, inflating undertalented pop stars and lavishly spending, while crying over "dropping" profits. Of course, not everyone

Unseasonable weather is challenging crews fighting a series of wildfires that sprang up throughout Alberta over the weekend, according to fire officials.

Four Canadian soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, when a Chinook helicopter crashed on landing under moonlight in a remote part of Panjwaii district in southern Afghanistan early this morning.

Libyan rebels said Sunday they have taken full control of the western port city of Misrata, 200 kilometres from Tripoli, the only major city in western Libya with a significant rebel toehold. The rebel claim hasn't been confirmed independently.

The crew of a Canadian warship that returned fire after being shot at by Libyan forces was calm during the incident, the commander of the frigate said.

Finland scored five late goals Sunday to beat Sweden 6-1 and claim a second IIHF World Hockey Championship.

The opening game of the Western Conference final cannot start soon enough for any of the participants, if only to verify San Jose coach Todd McLellan's assertion that "experience starts after Game 1."

When the San Jose Sharks upended the Detroit Red Wings in five games in the second round a year ago, they were jubilant.

A Saudi mother said Sunday she defied a ban on women drivers in the ultra-conservative kingdom by getting behind the wheel for four days without being stopped.

In her 2002 book titled, "Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit," noted author, social activist, and ecologist Vandana Shiva called privatizing water:

Slutwalk Vancouver organizers plan to challenge conventional attitudes about assigning blame in sexual assault in a Sunday march expected to be 5,000-strong.

Breach of trust charges were laid Friday against three British Columbia Mounties and one jail guard accused of watching two intoxicated female inmates having sex in a jail cell last summer.

Speculation is growing that Quebec's right-of-centre factions could soon join forces in preparation for the approaching provincial election.

The family of a Surrey homicide victim is marking the second anniversary of his death with a public appeal for witnesses and a $10,000-reward.

The leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France was pulled from an airplane moments before he was to fly to Paris and was being questioned Saturday by police in connection with the sexual assault of a hotel m

There may be a dusting of truth to allergy sufferers' complaints that this season is, well, a bigger headache than years past.

B.C. Premier Christy Clark has told delegates at a Liberal party convention in Pentiction that she will make changes to the HST by the end of this month.

Sean Bergenheim, Brett Clark and Teddy Purcell scored in an 85 second span for Tampa Bay midway through the first period in Boston on Saturday to give the Lightning a 1-0 series lead in the Eastern Conference final.

While the rest of the world has been thinking about elections, strikes, foreign affairs and the like, a little drama has been unfolding in one southeast Regina neighbourhood.

Sue Paull, owner of Eco Turf Farms in Kelowna, B.C., said that when the weather forced her to incubate 30 chicks inside, the family's 16-month-old Great Dane kept watch over the eggs and began licking the hatchlings.

The Fermi space telescope has yielded the most detailed gamma ray map of the sky - representing the Universe's most violent and extreme processes.

The US has stopped short of recognising Libya's National Transitional Council as the country's legitimate government.

Canadian Coast Guard crew members are calling for a legislative overhaul and reporting-structure reforms to meet a proposed new mandate that would give the civilian agency an armed policing role.

CHATHAM, Ont. -- Two deer that came crashing through the front window of a Chatham home Friday afternoon left behind a bloody mess.

A woman in Langley, B.C., says she has spent five days in agony in a makeshift hallway room at Surrey Memorial Hospital waiting for surgery to mend a broken arm.

Army engineers began to slowly open the gates of an emergency spillway along the rising Mississippi River on Saturday, a move that will divert floodwaters from Baton Rouge and New Orleans, yet also inundate homes and farms in parts of Louisiana's populate

The NHL Western Conference final hasn't even started but Kevin Bieksa has thrown the first hit.

The Canadian Avalanche Centre is warning backcountry users in B.C. and Alberta that slides remain a hazard because of a delayed spring snowpack.

A judicial recount in a Quebec riding has given the NDP their 59th seat in Quebec, while reducing Conservative party holdings in the province to five.

San Francisco authorities are investigating a mother who said on a national television program that she gives her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections.

The video store used to be a buzzing hub of activity, a place guaranteed to be packed on weekends with movie buffs standing elbow-to-elbow casually poring over vast selections of films to take home.

The parents of a toddler who died during a house fire near Hope, B.C. earlier this month had left him alone at home to do a drug deal, according to neighbours who gave a statement to police.

An Edmonton man is putting out a plea to have the stolen urn holding his brother's ashes returned.

Police believe they may have a serial sex assault suspect in custody after DNA linked him to five alleged sexual assault cases dating back seven years.

A family from Wakefield, Que. is on the run, as they embark on an adventure that will see them cover some 17,000 kilometres over 10 months in an effort to raise awareness about health, fitness and turning dreams into reality.

A man died on his second day working at Japan's tsunami-wrecked nuclear power plant Saturday, and the plant operator said harmful levels of radiation were not detected in his body.

Charismatic pop star-turned-president Michel Martelly takes over Haiti on Saturday promising to rebuild its earthquake-devastated capital, develop the long-neglected countryside and build a modern army.

Manitobans near Portage La Prairie are preparing for the worst Saturday morning as the province began the intentionally flooding of more than 150 homes in an attempt to avoid greater, uncontrolled flooding by the Assiniboine River.

A 16-year-old from the Toronto area used a supercomputer system to find a new drug combination that shows potential in treating the genetic disorder cystic fibrosis, and won top honors for his work.

The Hubble space telescope has captured images of dwarf galaxy NGC 4214, located about 10 million light-years away in the Hunting Dogs constellation.

Injured centre Manny Malhotra skated briefly with the Vancouver Canucks during practice Thursday, but team officials quickly dismissed speculation he could return to play during the NHL playoffs.

No criminal charges will be laid in the fatal mauling of a four-year-old boy by three loose sled dogs in Pangnirtung, Nunavut, last year, according to RCMP.

A former Newfoundland man is trying to market a device that he claims will warn drivers when a moose is nearby.

A teenager who admits he fired the gun that left a young Saskatoon woman dead in 2009 has been convicted of manslaughter.

Eight members of the Canadian Forces failed drug tests and were kicked off HMCS Charlottetown prior to the ship's deployment to the waters off Libya in March, a navy spokeswoman said Friday.

Sweden and Finland will square off for the gold medal at the world hockey championship in Slovakia.

The City of Vancouver and the CBC have teamed up to answer calls from Canucks fans for a public place to gather and watch the opening game in the semi-final series against the San Jose Sharks.

The Crab Nebula has shocked astronomers by emitting an unprecedented blast of gamma rays, the highest-energy light in the Universe.

Nato air strikes have again hit the compound of Col Muammar Gaddafi, hours after Libyan state TV showed footage purportedly of the leader in Tripoli.

A bank cashier fired for stealing money threw a gasoline bomb inside the bank Friday in northwestern China, injuring dozens of people, some of whom jumped from a fifth-story window to escape, the local government said.

The Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility for twin blasts at a security force training centre that killed at least 80 people, many of them new recruits.

The Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks are picking a fine time for a first ever playoff meeting.

Syrian soldiers rolled into flash-point cities in tanks and set up sand barriers topped with machine-guns Thursday, on the eve of another round of large protests.

Endangered whooping cranes are expanding outside Wood Buffalo National Park, another sign that their population is recovering.

The Saskatchewan Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says animal protection officers have removed 29 dogs from a rural property near the village of Bulyea.

A crude oil spill from a northern Alberta pipeline has so far cost the pipeline's owner $11 million in cleanup costs.

An ocean of magma sloshes beneath the crust of Jupiter's moon Io, and that is why active volcanoes erupt all over its surface, a new study suggests.

On their fourth try, the San Jose Sharks finally eliminated the Detroit Red Wings with a 3-2 win at home in Game 7 of their Western Conference semifinal on Thursday.

A pivotal moment in the long, tortuous quest to find Osama bin Laden came years before U.S. spy agencies discovered his hermetic compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Rapidly rising waters on several rivers around the Interior of B.C. have forced the declaration of one local state of emergency and number of warnings for other areas.

Federal Industry Minister Tony Clement said Thursday he wants the petroleum industry to explain how it sets gasoline prices.

As Canada made its second straight quarter-final exit from the IIHF World Hockey Championship at the hands of Russia, the only similarity was the sight of players walking off the ice with heads bowed in disappointment.

Perjury charges have now been laid against the four Mounties who confronted Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver's airport and repeatedly stunned him with a Taser in October 2007.

The case was launched in 1999 by a former Reform party researcher, Laurie Throness, who now serves as the top adviser to a senior federal Conservative cabinet minister.

Sailors aboard a Canadian warship helped thwart an attack by Libyan forces in the port of Misrata, according to NATO, firing back after coming under fire.

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant says rods inside one of the reactors have most likely melted after being fully exposed. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has reported a leak from the reactor vessel and another spill of c

Premier Christy Clark is now a sitting member of the B.C. legislature after winning a nail-biter byelection in Vancouver-Point Grey.

A group of killer whales made a surprise appearance in Burrard Inlet Wednesday morning, jumping and splashing in the water for enchanted onlookers in Stanley Park.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Canada's Leona Aglukkaq and other world leaders are gathering in Nuuk, Greenland, for what observers are calling a historic meeting of the Arctic Council.

While the rest of the world may have been quick to react to the death of terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, the Quebec legislature was not to be rushed.

The smell of spring wasn't so sweet for residents in Canada's largest city Wednesday as they woke up to a foul stink in the air.

Abdelhamid remained on the run until August 2010 when authorities arrested him at an airport in Greece, though a Canadian legal expert questioned whether he'd set foot on Canadian soil again given an outdated extradition treaty.

Racial profiling should be outlawed in Quebec and public institutions must address the phenomenon through hiring practices, recommends a long-awaited report from the province's human rights commission.

There's a brewing legal battle over publication of 5-year-old photographs of bridesmaid Pippa Middleton sunbathing topless, and anger about gruesome photographs of the late Princess Diana in the moments after her 1997 car crash appearing in a documentary

Drinking more than five cups of coffee a day? You might be jittery, but you might also be reducing your risk for a certain type of aggressive breast cancer, new research suggests.

Voters in the Vancouver-Point Grey byelection will decide today if they will send another B.C. Liberal premier to Victoria.

As if bedbugs aren't icky enough in their own right, researchers now wonder if the pesky little critters might also be a means of spreading so-called superbug infections.

Osama bin Laden kept pressing followers to find new ways to hit the U.S. while he was deep in hiding and his terror organization was becoming battered and fragmented, officials say, citing his private journal and other documents recovered in last week's r

Hikers are often taught to be wary of the mother bear protecting her cubs, but new research shows that lone male black bears are more dangerous than their female counterparts.

Elusive NDP rookie Ruth Ellen Brosseau has finally visited the Quebec riding she will represent in the House of Commons and, while she's being kept away from the media, she appears to be making a few new friends.

Clean-up of the massive oil spill in northern Alberta is on hold after a distress call came over the workers' radio system at 9:30 Wednesday morning.

A Syrian human rights group says the country's security forces have killed 18 people, including an eight-year-old boy.

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has made a short television appearance after weeks of absence.

Greenpeace New Zealand's political activities mean it cannot register as a charity, the High Court has decided. Greenpeace appealed against a 2010 ruling by the Charities Commission which found its promotion of "disarmament and peace" was political rat

Former NHL star Jaromir Jagr scored a hat trick Wednesday to lead defending champion Czech Republic to a 4-0 win over the United States in the quarter-finals of the ice hockey world championship.

More than 22 earthquakes struck Italy by noon on Wednesday, as is normal for the quake-prone country but none was the devastating temblor purportedly predicted by a now-dead scientist to strike Rome.

A Quebec judge has ordered a family to send their two youngest children to state-run daycare for "socialization."

At least 10 people are dead after a pair of earthquakes hit southeastern Spain in quick succession Wednesday.

Drivers should hold off on filling their gas tanks because prices at the pumps are expected to drop at midnight, gas-price watcher Dan McTeague said.

The Canada-U.S. border will once again be under intense scrutiny in the United States as a congressional hearing aims to push for tighter security measures along the much-maligned boundary.

If the signs are to be believed, the end of the world as we know it starts on May 21.

A Saskatchewan father fired 10 shots at his daughter's boyfriend, killing him right in front of the teenage girl, the Crown said in its opening arguments at the man's retrial.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is to travel to Manitoba's flood zone Wednesday, a day after the federal government committed more troops to the stricken area.

At least 23,000 file sharers soon will likely get notified they are being sued for downloading the Expendables in what has become the single largest illegal-BitTorrent-downloading case in U.S. history.

The Detroit Red Wings forced a seventh game in their Western Conference semifinal against the San Jose Sharks after a dramatic 3-1 win in Game 6 on Tuesday.

A frontal system approaching Metro Vancouver is expected to usher in up to 50 millimeters of rain in some areas by Wednesday.

Ice Edge Holdings has withdrawn its minority interest in the proposed purchase of the Phoenix Coyotes ahead of a Glendale City Council vote that would put off finalizing any deal by as long as a year.

The Vancouver Canucks will host Game 1 of the NHL's Western Conference final series on Sunday, starting at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT.

The Sharks traveled back to Detroit, trying to ignore the three most burning issues on their agenda: