NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2011

Sony's next-generation portable game machine, the PlayStation Vita, won't be available in the U.S. or Europe in time for Christmas -- a crucial sales period for game console makers.

Health Canada is warning that popular medications used to treat baldness and enlarged prostates may put men at a slightly increased risk of breast cancer.

Edmonton Police have identified the burnt remains found inside a vehicle on an abandoned rural property back in late July.

A sentencing hearing is underway in Ottawa for Jack Tobin, the son of former Newfoundland premier Brian Tobin, in connection with the death of his good friend.

A disgraced Roman Catholic bishop betrayed little emotion Thursday as a court was told his laptop contained hundreds of pornographic images of young boys -- including photos of torture.

The Toronto stock exchange took it's steepest nose-dive in more than two years Thursday after Japan invested heavily in U.S. dollars and gloomy economic sentiments emerged from Europe.

Even the human bloodstream isn't safe from computer hackers

A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new U.S. nutritional guidelines, according to a study published Thursday that says the government should do more to help consumers eat healthier.

Thylane Loubry Blondeau, a 10-year-old with stunning good looks, seems destined for a wildly successful modeling career. But photos of the preteen in this month's issue of French Vogue are reigniting a debate over the sexualization of young girls.

Observations from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars.

More than 800 Shriners are in town this week for a convention that happens here once every 14 years. With an aging membership and service clubs shrinking everywhere, it may be the Khartum Shriners' last big hurrah in Winnipeg.

Protesters cover themselves in plastic and fake blood to raise a squawk about the killing of animals for food

A northern Vancouver Island First Nation shut down Western Forest Products' log sorting yard in Port McNeill Wednesday and protesters from the band are planning to block the ferry at the Port McNeill dock Thursday.

Prosecutors finished presenting their sexual assault case against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs on Wednesday by playing a recording of his alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl for jurors.

A man found guilty of biting off the entire nose of his girlfriend when she refused to have sex with him in November 2009 has been sentenced to eight years in prison, a judge has ruled.

A U.S. judge has sentenced a Mississauga father of five daughters to 30 years in jail after he was convicted by a jury of travelling to Atlanta to have sex with an 11-year-old girl.

Research In Motion Ltd. (TSX:RIM) on Wednesday unveiled five new BlackBerry phones with touch screens, as it hopes to revive the line's dwindling appeal in the face of competition from the iPhone and Android smartphones.

Earth once had two moons, until one of them made the fatal mistake of smacking into its big sister in what is being called the "big splat," some astronomers theorize.

An American computer scientist says too much time is being wasted looking for information on the Internet while users sort through endless data streams that are not relevant to their queries.

Highly publicized research that found Internet Explorer users tend to have a lower IQ than those who use other browsers, has turned out to be an elaborate hoax.

Three Canadian navy ships and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter are being outfitted in St. John's for an extended mission to the Arctic.

Film preservationists said Wednesday they've found the first half of the earliest known surviving feature film on which Hitchcock has a credit: a silent melodrama called "The White Shadow."

The budget for B.C.'s anti-human trafficking office has been reduced to the same amount a trafficker earns selling a single victim, according to a University of British Columbia law professor who works with the organization.

Family and friends of a young Surrey woman who was brutally stabbed to death in front of her colleagues have organized a memorial in her honour.

The province is investing an additional $189 million to rebuild Slave Lake after a devastating fire ripped through the town more than two months ago.

Police are still investigating what caused an explosion and fire at a seniors facility that left two people dead.

A woman who has lived far longer than her doctors had predicted plans to hang on until her right-to-die case is hurried through a B.C. court, her lawyer says.

A frail but defiant former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak denied the serious charges against him as his trial got underway in a Cairo court on Wednesday, before he was taken to a hospital on the outskirts of the city.

Computer security company McAfee has issued a report detailing a five-year hacking scheme that targeted countries, companies and numerous organizations.

WARNING: This story contains graphic content. An unspecified number of Canadians are among 72 people charged with participating in an international child pornography network, U.S officials announced Wendesday.

Dawn Black is retiring from politics after a long career as a federal and provincial New Democrat. The MLA for New Westminster says she won't run again in the next B.C. election, although she will continue to serve until the province goes to the polls.

Twenty-seven people, including several children, were taken to hospital after a hay wagon overturned on the outskirts of Sherbrooke, Que.

Veteran receiver Arland Bruce is heading west. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats sent Bruce to the B.C. Lions on Wednesday for a third-round draft pick in 2012 and an additional conditional selection.

The B.C. government has declared open season on wolves in the Cariboo region to benefit cattle ranchers, a move that critics contend is unjustifiable and based on politics, not science.

KIEV - A Ukrainian zookeeper plans to spend five weeks living in an enclosure with two lions to raise funds for the zoo.

A B.C.-based medical journal is calling on Health Canada to follow the lead of European countries that have passed laws governing maximum volume levels for iPods and other personal listening devices.

Argentina has announced it is developing a nuclear-powered submarine, leading to fresh warnings that Britain would face an "insurmountable" task if the country invaded the Falkland Islands again.

Environment Canada has severe thunderstorm watches and warnings across much of the Maritimes Tuesday evening.

Vancouver Canucks center Ryan Kesler has had hip surgery, the team said on Tuesday. The Selke Trophy winner is expected to make a full recovery in 10 to 12 weeks.

A child is recovering hospital after suffering a gunshot wound in Richmond, B.C., Tuesday.

A University of Alberta professor is hoping her research could lead to a breakthrough in treatment for a difficult condition that affects thousands of young Canadians.

In just one month, the province's distracted driving legislation is set to get underway. But with only weeks to go until its enforcement, hands-free device sales appear to be flat.

Two men being sought on Canada Wide warrants in connection to a homicide in Cold Lake were arrested in Edmonton Tuesday afternoon.

A Canada-wide warrant remains in effect for a suspect in the beating of a 22-year-old woman in Penticton, B.C.

Members of a union within Canada's largest union have delivered a strong vote in favour of strike action.

Authorities say a piece of the space shuttle Columbia may have been found in a drought-stricken Texas lake.

A group that believes all Canadians should have the right to end their own lives will argue its case at the B.C. Supreme Court this week after the province refused to allow the group to incorporate as a non-profit business.

Academics who lend their names to medical and scientific articles that they didn't actually write are doing little more than prostituting themselves, according to two law professors at the University of Toronto.

Two massive bronze statues sculpted by a celebrated Quebec artist and worth about $1 million were retrieved in a wooded area near Montreal on Tuesday after going missing a day earlier.

Pockets of lethal levels of radiation have been detected at Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a fresh reminder of the risks faced by workers battling to contain the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl. Plant operator Tokyo Electric