NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2012

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency is bringing doping charges against seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong.

An Abbotsford gang associate caught with an AK-47 in the trunk of his car has had four convictions for possessing firearms overturned by the B.C. Court of Appeal.

Scientists studying carnivorous sundew plants in Swedish bogs found that nitrogen deposition from rain reduced how many insects the plants trapped.

Authorities say DNA tests have confirmed that body parts delivered to Vancouver schools last week belong to Jun Lin, the Chinese student killed and dismembered last month.

Vancouver forward Mason Raymond has been an important part of the Canucks for five seasons and the restricted free agent will be back tormenting defences with his speed next season.

Months of dancing came to head Wednesday as Bob Rae effectively ended his aspirations of ever becoming prime minister by announcing he would not be running for permanent leadership of the federal Liberals.

Accounts of unusual sexual activities among penguins, observed a century ago by a member of Captain Scott's polar team, are finally being published

Hundreds of firefighters join efforts to tackle two of the biggest ever wildfires in the US states of Colorado and New Mexico.

Quebec's federation of university students has apologized for the appearance of Nazi salutes at recent demonstrations after prominent Jewish organizations condemned protesters' use of the gesture.

The U.S. space agency launched its newest X-ray space telescope Wednesday on a mission to hunt for black holes and other hard-to-see objects lurking in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

In a surprise find, scientists say they have spotted hints of a methane-rich lake and several ponds near the equator of Saturn's biggest moon.

First responders from across B.C. are expected at a memorial this weekend to honour two Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue members killed in the line of duty.

The Kitsilano Coast Guard station set to be shut down next spring is being credited with responding to a boat collision early Wednesday morning in English Bay in a matter of minutes.

From bacon martinis to bacon doughnuts, adventurous foodies have enjoyed all manner of weird treats on the market in recent years. Now the fast food company Burger King ups the ante with the launch of its new summertime bacon sundae in the United States.

A former Charles Manson follower who was on the brink of release from prison two years ago before then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger intervened goes before another parole board panel Wednesday.

More than a century's worth of matrimony wasn't enough to keep them together. After 115 years as an item, two tortoises at an Austrian zoo have decided to call it quits.

A consortium of scientists has nearly completed cataloguing the 10,000 microbial species living on and in the normal human body, potentially paving the way for research that could illuminate our understanding of how disease may be linked to changes in our

A paleontologist has confirmed that a prehistoric animal left tracks across a rock ledge by Alexandra Falls near Hay River, N.W.T.

A wave of car bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in several cities across Iraq today, killing at least 65 people and wounding more than 200 in one of the deadliest attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from the country.

Consumer advocates say the Competition Bureau should investigate why Canadians are paying thousands of dollars more than Americans for vehicles manufactured here in Canada.

Canadian diver Alexandre Despatie, a medal contender for the London Olympics, is in a Madrid hospital recovering from surgery to close a gash on his head suffered in training for the Spanish Grand Prix.

Berlin police have released photos of an English-speaking teenage boy who wandered into the city nine months ago saying he had been living for the last five years in the forest with his father.

An Edmonton couple are facing charges after two-year-old twin girls were rushed to hospital in critical condition.

A Japanese budget airline has come under fire for putting up notices informing passengers that its flight attendants aren't obligated to be polite or cater to the whims of those on-board.

A Texas father may have been within his rights when he beat a man to death after allegedly catching him in the act of molesting his four-year-old daughter.

The NCAA argue the nickname is offensive to native Americans, but Spirit Lake Sioux are proud of the name

A weekend of storms, hail and even snow, left pools of water, dented metal, soggy campers and flattened flora behind in Manitoba.

A puppy rescued from a Winnipeg dumpster last week is doing well, according to the city's animal services agency.

Canada has come in fourth on an annual ranking of world peacefulness, trailing only Iceland, Denmark and New Zealand.

One of Canada's top rowers has dropped out of the London Olympics just weeks before the Games, citing a lack of chemistry with her partner.

U.S. scientists were stunned to discover enormous blooms of algae growing in an area of the Arctic Ocean that they never thought could support the phytoplankton: underneath the sea ice.

A central Newfoundland man is facing charges after shooting a polar bear to death near Coachman's Cove in April.

Defence spending is under review across the country, but the chief of defence staff says national shipbuilding contracts shouldn't be affected.

Mounties have set up a perimeter around the carcass of a humpback whale found beach south of Vancouver on White Rock Beach to prevent dozens of onlookers from getting too close.

Astronomers are pointing to a hydrogen gas 'bridge' spotted between two neighbour galaxies as strong evidence indicating both gravitionally bound systems had a close brush with one another billions of years ago.

The Falkland Islands government says it intends to send Argentina the message it wants to stay British, after announcing a referendum on its sovereignty.

NASA continues its search to unlock the mysteries of the universe this week, as the space agency makes ready to launch NuSTAR, a revolutionary telescope built to study black holes using high-energy X-rays.

A team of Japanese astronomers using telescopes on Hawaii say they've seen the oldest galaxy, a discovery that's competing with other "earliest galaxy" claims.

Megachurch pastor Creflo Dollar has taken to his pulpit to deny punching and choking his 15-year-old daughter, telling his congregation the allegations made in a police report are nothing but "exaggeration and sensationalism."

CTV Toronto - Less than five days remain before tightrope walker Nik Wallenda attempts to become the first person to cross Niagara Falls on a high wire, but the seventh-generation stuntman says he has managed to remain calm.

The federal government will no longer require veterans to submit receipts when covering their travel costs to medical appointments.

Cocagne fishing captain Gerald Martin was drifting for mackerel in the Bay de Chaleur on Sunday when he woke up to a nine metre shark tangled in three of his nets.

A bear cub that is still recovering after someone tied him to a telephone ground wire will be heading to a cub sanctuary in southern Ontario in hopes he'll be reintegrated back into the wild next year.

A man and woman from Sudbury, Ont., are facing animal cruelty charges after a dog died inside their car at the Vaughan Mills Mall, north of Toronto, Sunday afternoon.

The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have taken a step back from their all-encompassing noisemaker ban, which had raised the ire of fans.

Some Whitehorse stores are slowly being restocked with the help of a Hercules aircraft. Homes in Upper Liard, Yukon, Lower Post, B.C., and Nahanni Butte, N.W.T. have been evacuated this weekend due to flood threats. The flooding has beat the previous floo

Two U.S. students trapped in the New Zealand wilderness by a snowstorm trekked back out to safety after surviving their nine-day ordeal by rationing their meagre supplies of trail mix and warming themselves in hot springs.

Canadian troops quietly stopped handing captured Taliban fighters over to Afghan authorities in mid-2011, almost six months before the Harper government publicly acknowledged the change to the controversial policy.

Settling a notorious 1980 case that split the nation and led to a mistaken murder conviction, an Australian coroner ruled that a dingo took a baby from a campsite in the Outback, just as her mother said from the beginning.

Private jet company NetJets Inc. signed a deal Monday to buy up to 275 Challenger business jets from Bombardier that could be worth up to US$7.3 billion.

A 20-year-old Surrey man with no prior criminal record has been sentenced to one month in jail for his role in Vancouver's Stanley Cup riot.

Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife got home from lunch with friends at a pub in the English countryside to discover they forgot something: 8-year-old daughter Nancy.

Victoria police have arrested an 18-year-old man from Saanich accused of violently robbing an elderly woman in broad daylight over the weekend.

Police officers in Indiana are upset over a new law allowing residents to use deadly force against public servants, including law enforcement officers who unlawfully enter their homes.

Los Angeles ends championship drought with 6-1 Game 6 win over New Jersey

The Canadian government is ignoring U.S. warnings that a flood of bogus military parts from China has been discovered in American-made fighter jets, transport planes, missiles and other weapons.

Two 15-year-old girls in Ottawa are facing a slew of charges, including sexual assault and forcible confinement, in what police say are "shocking" allegations of human trafficking.

Ray Dolin was sitting by US Highway 2 in Montana waiting for a ride on Saturday evening when a man drove up, rolled down his window, shot him in the arm and drove off, Valley County Sheriff Glen Meier said.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson was cited for felony hit-and-run after causing two car accidents in California, police said.

China will launch three astronauts this month to dock with an orbiting experimental module, and the crew might include its first female space traveller, a government news agency said Saturday.

Lewis Hamilton drove his McLaren to victory at the Montreal Grand Prix on Sunday afternoon. He became the seventh winner in seven races on the Formula One circuit this season.

The price of crude oil, Canada's number one commodity export, continued its descent Friday on the prospect of weak economic growth with no immediate assistance from the U.S Federal Reserve.

Premier Alison Redford defends the industry but pledges her government would take action if necessary to deal with latest incident

Going off to camp for the first time can be a scary time for a youngster. But parents who tuck cellphones into their children's backpacks aren't doing them any favours, says a clinical child psychologist.

The population of a once near-extinct whale is on the rise, partly because of an unlikely collaboration between a Canadian oil company and an aquarium.

Hockey Newfoundland and Labrador has slapped a junior hockey coach with a one-year suspension for allowing his players to study for exams instead of attending the opening ceremony for a recent tournament.

A shotgun that once belonged to Western sharpshooter Annie Oakley sold for more than $143,000 US an auction in Dallas on Sunday.

Bobby Stoddard of Barrington was fishing off of Cape Sable Island when he discovered an electric-blue lobster in his trap in May.

More than half of federal Liberal and NDP supporters back the idea of their parties merging into one with the aim of of defeating Stephen Harper's Conservatives

Preston Manning is calling out hypocritical federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair for preaching to Alberta while turning a blind eye to energy problems in Quebec.

Dean Obeidallah says liberal critics of President Obama ignore the fact that he needs Congress to cooperate in making laws

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Less than a mile off a county road in Ivanhoe near the Black River, federal drug agents and local authorities found exactly what their informant had promised.

A Somali terror group with links to al Qaeda offered camels as a reward for information on the whereabouts of President Barack Obama.

Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based quarterly focused on clean capitalism, released its Green Provinces 2012 survey today, and it shows B.C., Ontario and PEI leading the country in environmental stewardship.

Travellers on the Alaska Highway are stranded in a few Yukon communities due to road closures in two locations from washouts, flooding and mudslides.

A high school in Cincinnati, Ohio, held onto four graduates' diplomas and required community service as punishment for what it describes as overly boisterous cheering by their families during the graduation ceremony.

China moves to shore up ties with Afghanistan, signing a joint declaration pledging wide-ranging co-operation and laying the groundwork for enhanced influence with Kabul after the departure of most foreign troops at the end of 2014.

A flood threat has caused Prince George to declare a state of local emergency. The city says 17 residences near the Fraser River are being evacuated because of rising water levels.

A gold medal awarded by the U.S. president to a former B.C. man who helped rescue crew from a burning ship off Vancouver Island's west coast in 1899 has been repatriated to Canada.

The woman who became the iconic image of the Vietnam War was reunited with the photographer who made her famous at a dinner held in her honour in Toronto Friday.

Manitoba gets a highway of heroes today. Premier Greg Selinger is set to unveil a billboard this morning designating a big stretch of the Trans-Canada Highway west of Winnipeg with the name.

A group of B.C. teens and young adults who dressed as super heroes to target Internet predators has seen their efforts pay off after charges were laid against three men.

Biologists in Burnaby, B.C., have captured a snakehead fish that had been lurking in a lagoon, as the province's environment minister vows to push for a ban on the live importation of the invasive species.

A Royal Canadian Navy commander says he believes drug traffickers arrested by a Royal Canadian Navy vessel in the Gulf of Aden had links to terrorist organizations.

Defence secretary Philip Hammond said he was not abandoning regimental system

New laws are to be introduced for England and Wales by the home secretary to jail parents who force their children to marry.

The makers of the massive Flame computer virus unleashed against Iran, Israel and other countries and made public last week by cybersecurity experts have deployed a suicide code intended to wipe it from some infected machines.

An oil pipeline leak in west-central Alberta has spilled up to 3,000 barrels of crude oil into a tributary of the Red Deer River in an area considered to be pristine wilderness.

The former band member died Thursday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said. He was 65.

Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae will be permitted to run in his party's leadership race and he is expected to enter the race, CBC News has learned.

Suicide is on the rise in the US military, averaging almost one every day, according to statistics.

Nashville police say Bob Welch, a former member of Fleetwood Mac who also had a solo career, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was 65.

Several days of heavy rain has washed out roads and is now threating to flood several communities across the Interior of B.C.

Bob Mills joins other Conservatives in speaking out against decision to kill NTREE

Ilias Kasidiaris, a high-profile member of the neo-Nazi party, lashed out at two prominent leftwingers, then went on the run

An Alberta man says he was beaten by three men and three women at Wabamun Lake Provincial Park early Sunday morning after he called to report a suspected drunk driver.

The RCMP is reviewing who does what within its ranks to see if some jobs could be filled by civilians instead of officers.

CTV Toronto - A concussion-related lawsuit bringing together scores of cases has been filed in federal court, accusing the NFL of hiding information that linked football-related head trauma to permanent brain injuries.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says UN monitors were shot at trying to get to the scene of the latest Syrian massacre.

A Minnesota high school student who wears rosary beads to school in support of his cancer-stricken grandmother was ordered to pocket them by school district officials, who said the beads could be a symbol of gang membership.

One day before Montreal comes alive with the sound of revving engines and cheering fans during the Grand Prix, police carried out a series of raids targeting 11 key suspects believed to have been involved in vandalism.

A mother forced to walk for more than an hour to Shea Heights carrying her two-year-old son in her arms wants an apology from Metrobus.

The Los Angeles Kings will have to wait at least three more days for another shot at becoming true hockey royalty after Adam Henrique kept New Jersey alive in the Stanley Cup final. His late goal secured a 3-1 victory for the Devils in Game 4 on Wednesday

A nearly 21-metre long dock that floated ashore on an Oregon beach was torn loose from a fishing port in northern Japan by last year's tsunami and drifted across thousands of kilometres of Pacific Ocean.

Some parents are furious after learning their children were tricked by school leaders into chewing moose droppings on a class canoe trip in Manitoba.

The Vatican has sharply criticized a book on sexuality written by a prominent American nun, saying it contradicted church teaching on issues like masturbation, homosexuality and marriage and that its author had a defective understanding of Catholic theolo

Luka Rocco Magnotta's German court-appointed lawyer says her client is "afraid he will be attacked by other prisoners" inside a Berlin jail because media reports make him out to "really, really bad person."

A member of the Quebec legislature was caught in a police dragnet Tuesday night as student protesters were surrounded and detained in the provincial capital.

With World War II-era military planes darting overhead and Normandy's Utah Beach visible in the distance, a bronze statue emerged from beneath a camouflage parachute, in tribute to a man whose quiet leadership was chronicled in the book and television ser

A major public health crisis is emerging, in the form of a sexually-transmitted disease that doesn't respond to antibiotics, World Health Organization officials said Wednesday. Gonorrhea is one of the most common sexually-transmitted infections. It i

An alleged criminal network smuggled cocaine from Puerto Rico to the continental United States aboard commercial aircraft, officials said.

Meghan Vogel, pictured, a junior at West Liberty Salem High School in western Ohio, is being praised for her sportsmanship after helping an opponent cross the finish line at a Columbus track meet over the weekend.

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The 46% of Americans who today believe that God created humans in their present form is essentially the same as it has been over the past 30 years. Highly religious Americans and Republicans are most likely to hold this view.

Google said Wednesday that it has added a feature to warn users whose accounts it believes are targets of "state-sponsored attacks," but the Internet giant did not cite a specific government.

Ray Bradbury, the science fiction-fantasy master who transformed his childhood dreams and Cold War fears into telepathic Martians, lovesick sea monsters, and, in uncanny detail, the high-tech, book-burning future of "Fahrenheit 451," has died. He was 91.

The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that it will become the first major media company to ban junk food ads on its TV channels, radio stations and websites intended for children.

A former doctor who stabbed his two children to death will remain at a psychiatric hospital but will be allowed some escorted outings.