NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2012

A Canadian who was killed in Florida on Thursday was gunned down after he failed to produce a cellphone for the man who shot him, according to a local news report.

The Taliban says it is gunning for Prince Harry just days after Britain's defence ministry confirmed that the 27-year-old royal will redeploy to Afghanistan.

Iran will soon unveil big new nuclear achievements, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has vowed while reiterating Tehran's readiness to revive talks with the West over the country's controversial nuclear program.

Whitney Houston, Superstar of Records, Films, Dies

A 35-year-old man has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of his mother and two young nieces in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

Environment Canada issued weather warnings early Saturday afternoon across much of Atlantic Canada and Quebec.

Army vehicles will be moving through downtown Yellowknife on Sunday for winter driving training as part of exercise Arctic Ram.

An avalanche hit a village in Kosovo's mountainous south Saturday, killing a married couple and their 17-year-old son and leaving nine others missing, police said, as heavy snow and freezing temperatures continued to blanket much of Europe.

First-nation students who earn scholarships to Pearson College forced to play catch-up due to inferior education at home

For the first time since the 2011 federal election the New Democrats have fallen into second place in Quebec, according to a new poll by Forum Research.

After nearly two decades as a fugitive, a British man suspected of driving off with an armoured car loaded with cash worth about $1.5 million has been captured in southwest Missouri.

RCMP say they may never know what caused an SUV carrying five people from Prince George, B.C., to crash head-on into a semi-trailer five kilometres outside McLeese Lake on Thursday.

The NDP's Brian Masse is scouring international law in search of a way to put a stop to the mysterious rumbles and hums that have plagued Windsor, Ont. for more than a year.

The Winnipeg group that sent a mosque to Inuvik, N.W.T., in 2010 is planning to send another one to Iqaluit.

At least 30 people were injured, some seriously, when a Red Arrow passenger bus rolled over Friday afternoon near Redwater, Alta.

MONTREAL - Mark Lafleur, the troubled son of hockey legend Guy Lafleur, has been arrested for the second time in six months for violating a court order not to frequent bars.

In an isolated country where there's only a population of about 300,000, it seems necessary to have a database to make sure a love interest isn't of any family relation.

A North Carolina father is being hailed as a parenting hero and derided as a bully, after trying to teach his daughter a lesson by shooting up her laptop.

Snow, ice and bone-chilling temperatures are in store for the Greater Toronto Area this weekend.

A former Catholic priest is sentenced to three years in prison for sexually assaulting more than a dozen boys in his care during the 1970s and 1980s.

The federal minister of fisheries has no discretion when it comes to protecting the critical habitat of B.C.'s southern resident killer whales, the Federal Court of Appeal has ruled.

A crane tipped off its tracks on the Port Mann bridge construction project east of Vancouver on Friday morning and dropped a segment of the bridge into the Fraser River.

A senior officer at Russia's Plesetsk space station is jailed for 13 years after being convicted of selling missile test data to the CIA.

Group of Torontonians has formed a team called the Toronto Terror, despite the fact that the small stun-guns are illegal in Canada

Toronto police are investigating two of their own amid questions about money intended for Sergeant Ryan Russell's memorial trust fund

Sailor at centre of furor will appear in court in just over two weeks

The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.

For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.

Britain's defence ministry says Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache attack helicopter pilot, graduating as the best co-pilot gunner in his class after 18 months of training.

Defence Department rules are catching up a bit with reality after a decade when women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

A senior Mountie has been reprimanded and will lose 10 days pay for having a sexual relationship with a fellow officer, but the head of an RCMP disciplinary panel suggested he could have faced much worse.

Female footballers will be stripping down and strapping on helmets this summer in Abbotsford as the Lingerie Football League kicks off a 12-week season in Canada.

Canada could support two new NHL clubs in Hamilton and Quebec City, bringing the country's total to nine teams, the Conference Board of Canada said Thursday in a new report.

Henrik and Daniel Sedin both scored against Minnesota for the first time in their careers to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 5-2 win over the Wild on Thursday night. Henrik played in his 553rd consecutive game, the second-longest active streak in the NHL.

The International Luge Federation (FIL) is arguing that the British Columbia Information and Privacy Commissioner should refuse to release documents about the Whistler Sliding Centre where a 20-year-old Georgian luger was killed at the 2010 Winter Olympic

Canada is pulling out of a NATO project 20 years in the making that will use unmanned aerial vehicles to collect surveillance.

As many as five people have died after a tractor-trailer and a passenger vehicle collided outside the town of McLeese Lake, about 350 kilometres north of Vancouver.

The chief issue with the legislation is a clause that would make it illegal to break digital locks on electronic content or devices.

The Catholic church has placed an ad in Montreal newspapers today encouraging people to pray for an eight-place finish -- and a playoff spot -- for the Montreal Canadiens.

The trio was caught in a violent storm in the Pacific Ocean before being rescued by U.S. freighter ship Horizon Reliance

Court says Internet service providers just a mode of transmission, not subject to same rules and levies as content originators

For the past several years, the Chandra telescope has detected X-ray flares occurring about once a day from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. These flares last a few hours with brightness ranging from

Move comes months before Ottawa drafts legislation requiring domestic carriers to market full fares to customers

From Yahoo! News: YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co is on track to be the most profitable of Japan's three big automakers this year, after record car sales last year and improved market share in every major region pushed up quarterly operating p

A federal judge for the first time in U.S. history heard arguments Monday in a case that could determine whether animals enjoy the same constitutional protection against slavery as human beings.

A Newfoundland teacher who sprayed one of her students with air freshener has been suspended with pay from her job, according to a statement from the school board responsible for Twillingate Island Elementary School.

Two RCMP officers were shot and wounded near Killam, Alta., Tuesday afternoon.

Hacktivists affiliated with Anonymous uploaded what they claim is the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere software early on Tuesday, following the breakdown of negotiations between the hacking group and "a federal agent posing as a Symantec employee".

Migrant workers travelling in van on Highway 107 near Stratford killed when vehicle T-boned by flatbed truck

Scientists believe that dust has profound and somewhat mysterious influences on atmospheric chemistry, solar heat exchange and nutrient supply to the oceans and rain forests. What those influences are, exactly, is the subject of much study and is still so

A tsunami is not expected after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, about 170 kilometres west of Ucluelet.

Kevin Bieksa tied the game with 34.1 seconds remaining in regulation and Mason Raymond scored the lone goal in the shootout as the Vancouver Canucks rallied for a 3-2 win over the struggling Colorado Avalanche on Saturday.

There's nothing like a massive earthquake, a three-storey tsunami and a nuclear crisis to whet the appetite for Canadian cuisine.

Vancouver police say two men have been arrested and charged after 34 bank robberies in and around the city.

Ben Gazzara, whose powerful dramatic performances brought an intensity to a variety of roles and made him a memorable presence in films, on television and on Broadway in the original "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," has died at age 81.

Several science policy experts say the former House speaker's ideas are based in mainstream science. But somehow, Gingrich manages to make them sound way out there, taking them first a small step and then a giant leap further than where other politicians

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University are studying how butterflies flutter to help design bug-size airborne robots that can mimic these manoeuvres to carry out reconnaissance, search-and-rescue and environmental monitoring missions without risking human l

A team of NASA scientists has discovered two new planets, each of which revolves around its own double suns.

Police are seeking the public's help in locating five men who went missing in separate incidents in Vancouver in 2011.

Death threats have been made against anti-racism 'flagger' who monitors Craigslist's Vancouver site and reports especially threatening racist posts to police.

Father's notice of appeal argues the trial judge erred in admitting evidence from an honour killings expert.

Iran's supreme leader pledged Friday to aid any nation or group that challenges Israel and said any military strikes over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program would damage U.S. interests in the Middle East 10 times over.

A new school in Calgary is being named for Capt. Nichola Goddard, the first female Canadian soldier killed in combat.

The provincial NDP says the ruling Liberals are politicizing the Grey Cup, as the Canadian football champion B.C. Lions tour the trophy around the province.

Susan Campbell is afraid to look in her mailbox.

NATO is moving to shore up troop security in Afghanistan after a series of deadly attacks by Afghan forces on its soldiers.

A Calgary imam will take the bold step of issuing a fatwa ? an official religious edict pronounced by a scholar of the Muslim faith ? against honour killings and domestic abuse on Saturday

Iran successfully launched a new small satellite into orbit early Friday, state media reported, the latest in the country's ambitious space program that has raised concerns because if its possible military applications.

The operator of Japan's crippled nuclear power plant says more radioactive water has leaked at the seaside complex.

Beef and pork prices have risen dramatically in recent years and meat lovers can expect to pay even more for their favourite choice cuts as ethanol policies and rising export demands put pressure on the market.

Tears flowed in a St. John's courtroom on Friday as a woman whose drunk driving injured a family of four was led away to jail.

British Columbia is putting its energy future into exports of liquefied natural gas to Asia, Premier Christy Clark announced on Friday morning.

At least 175 people have died as a result of a cold snap that has been battering Europe, as temperatures in some areas plunge to -38 C.

The dangerous manoeuvre that caused the Costa Concordia cruise ship to crash into rocks off the shore of the Italian island of Giglio last month was likely the result of a rivalry between its captain and that of another ship to see who could get closest t

Phone recording purportedly a sensitive conference call between the U.S. and British authorities was allegedly recorded by the very people they were trying to catch

Police hold man on suspicion of stealing five tonnes of ice from the Jorge Montt glacier in Patagonia to sell as designer ice cubes

Experimental treatment with ultrasound is the latest step in a decades-long search for the male contraceptive

Edmonton forward has four goals and four assists to equal franchise mark in 8-4 victory over Chicago

A top defence department official says the federal government has launched an investigation into a search that recovered the body of a 14-year-old Labrador snowmobiler who was missing since Sunday.

LOS ANGELES -- A Southern California woman took Honda to small-claims court and won in a big way. Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Douglas Carnahan ruled Wednesday that the automaker misled Heather Peters about the potential fuel economy of her hyb

Projectile packed with electronics will be able to make 30 corrections per second in reaching a laser-directed point

Mr. Hockey about to embark on another series of fundraisers to support research

Large numbers of mammals living in Florida's Everglades are being wiped out by massive pythons, a phenomenon scientists fear could disrupt the food chain and upset the ecosystem, says a new study.

The U.S National Archives has released long-lost audio recordings of conversations that happened on Air Force One during the flight back to Washington, D.C., following the assassination of John F. Kennedy while he was president.

Parks Canada is stepping back from plans to create a controversial national park in the South Okanagan-Lower Similkameen, which has been hotly debated by environmentalists and hunters for almost a decade.

Rescue helicopters evacuated dozens of people from snow-blocked villages in Serbia and Bosnia and air-lifted in emergency food and medicine as a severe cold spell kept Eastern Europe in its icy grip, with the death toll climbing to 79.

Most Canadians across the country can look forward to a warmer-than-normal winter, right through until spring, according to Environment Canada's latest forecast.

The Egptian parliament has scheduled an emergency session on Thursday following a riot at a soccer game that left more than 70 people dead and 1,000 injured.

A group of treasure hunters based in Stockholm, using sonar, has found a strange disc-shaped object on the floor of the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. From above, it looks a bit like the Millennium Falcon of Star Wars" fame. It's large -- 197 feet

Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, who sits on the committee studying the omnibus crime bill, says he is against the death penalty but that convicted killers have a right to have a rope in their cells.

Pfizer says 1 million packets of birth control pills may not contain enough contraceptive to prevent pregnancy

Protests are planned across the province today to mark the National Student Day of Action. Thousands of students are expected to turn out to demand the Liberal government apply money in a new grant scheme to reduce tuition fees for all students.