NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2012

A Norwegian driver on a rural road swerves to avoid a moose and hits a bear instead, officials say.

The super-patriarchal Gulf kingdom is creating a female-only city to finally allow a huge percentage of its educated population to work freely

A group of astronomers have discovered an unusual cluster of far-away galaxies, and a Kingston, Ont., native is heading up the research team.

Blanca Blandon was asleep in her boyfriend's downtown Vancouver apartment when she was awakened by blood-curdling screams outside.

Offshore cod in Newfoundland and Labrador are rebounding in both quantity and quality, but it's too early to increase quotas, a fisheries scientist says.

Two teens will serve another year in custody for their part in a botched carjacking in Sandy Bay near Portage la Prairie in July 2011

One day after hearing NHL commissioner Gary Bettman say a wide gap remained in collective bargaining negotiations, players were still upset the owners quickly dismissed their initial proposal this week.

Joey Elliott came on strong in the second half to lead the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to just their second win of the season 32-25 over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

A family and their dog named Kitty have stumbled upon one of the most significant fossil finds ever in Nova Scotia.

Vancouver police have launched an investigation after one of their officers was caught on video assaulting a handcuffed suspect by kicking him in the chest.

Restoring the prefix Royal to the navy and air force has been a point of pride for the Harper government, but briefing notes show it caused concern for commanders when it was rolled out for smaller elements of the Canadian Forces.

A former Marineland trainer is claiming he witnessed some of the animals endure horrendous suffering during his time at the amusement park.

What would it take to host the Summer Olympic Games here in Vancouver? This is the first part of a 3-part special series.

A seven-year-old boy is recovering from puncture and scratch wounds to his head and shoulder after being attacked by a cougar on Vancouver Island on Wednesday night.

The Department of National Defence will save $30 million by cutting a program that pays for meals and other living expenses to military workers when they are working away from their families.

Peel Regional Police say they've found a severed head in the Credit River in Mississauga, Ont., one day after a human foot with painted toenails was found in the vicinity.

At least seven people are left dead after police in South Africa open fire on striking workers at the Lonmin Marikana mine, eyewitnesses say.

The wreck of the ship that carried Captain Robert Scott on his doomed expedition to the Antarctic a century ago has been discovered off Greenland.

A manhunt is launched as two police officers are shot dead and two others are wounded in an early morning attack in the US state of Louisiana.

The unmanned spacecraft with gather scientific information while orbiting Mars

The province has only had isolated incidents of rat sitings since 1950

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The trial of a US army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting spree at an army base is suspended while judges decide whether his beard should be removed.

(Reuters) - Activist investor Jana Partners LLC, the biggest shareholder in Canadian fertilizer company Agrium Inc (AGU.TO: Quote), chastised the company in a private meeting on Wednesday over a recent change in how it compares its retail performance agai

Defence Minister Peter MacKay says the government is right to take its time in making its choice for the next head of Canada's military.

A five-year-old Victoria girl made a heroic 911 call to police when her mother had an epileptic seizure, police say.

A new study shows that lakes across Canada are playing host to high concentrations of a dangerous toxin that thrives in blue-green algae.

League commissioner Gary Bettman says a wide gap remains between the NHL and its players' association in collective bargaining negotiations. The two sides are expected to continue talking Thursday.

A new report says aboriginal children suffer from unintentional injuries serious enough to require hospitalization at twice the rate of other kids in Canada.

A B.C. government report recommends increasing logging in the province's central Interior, a region hit hard by the pine beetle epidemic and an explosion that demolished the Burns Lake sawmill.

The risks for not wearing a helmet while cycling are high -- depending on your age, location and skill level, a naked noggin could land you anything from a hefty fine to an early grave.

The U.S. Air Force plans a key test of an experimental aircraft designed to fly at six times the speed of sound, or about 5,800 km/h.

A Paradise boy is receiving national attention for giving a medal he won playing soccer to Canadian athletes who were denied a bronze medal at the summer games in London.

A Surrey soccer association is defending its decision to ban a boys' team from playing in its tournament because they don't have enough players who are Indo-Canadian.

Violent clashes broke out between young people and police in the city of Amiens in northern France overnight, leaving 17 police officers injured, officials said.

Gao Shan fled to Canada to evade financial fraud charges connected to his time at Bank of China, authorities say

Plane was travelling from Pentiction to Boundary Bay when it went down around 5 p.m. local time.

Montreal company passed over two francophone candidates before picking American for the CEO's job

Arctic sea ice is melting at a pace so much faster than once thought that the latest projections say it might disappear by as soon as 2022, according to measurements from the European Space Agency.

Crowds gathered at airports across the country Monday to welcome home Canada's Olympians after 16 days of excitement, triumph and heartbreak at the London Games.

Troubled country star Randy Travis allegedly walked into a convenience store in Texas naked and tried to buy cigarettes shortly before his DUI arrest last week.

Results will demote sites with copyright violation complaints lodged against them

Christine Sinclair was chosen Sunday to carry the Canadian flag at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics after leading her women's soccer team to a bronze medal.

Three men were all apparently shot dead over the last day in the Montreal area in separate incidents.

Two strong earthquakes have levelled villages and damaged homes in northwestern Iran, killing at least 180 people and injuring more than 1,350 others, state TV reported.

Scientists who have for years been closely following Voyager 1's slow drift into the interstellar region of the Milky Way had a false alarm last month when the 35-year-old spacecraft measured a drop in solar particles that they were sure was a sign it had

Canada shocked the field of the men's 4x100-metre relay competition by earning an apparent bronze medal on Saturday before being disqualified moments later. The Jamaicans, meanwhile, broke their own world record en route to a gold medal.

An injured sea otter rescued from a beach in Washington State and brought to Vancouver has died at the Vancouver Aquarium.

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The campaign will announce the choice in Norfolk Saturday morning when Romney kicks off his four-state bus tour.

Canadian kayaker Mark de Jonge has won bronze in the K-1 200-metre race Saturday at the Olympic Games. The 28-year-old from Halifax won both his heat and semifinal Friday to advance to today's final on the last day of canoe-kayak competition at Eton Dorne

The Canadian men's 4x100-metre relay team advanced to Saturday's final after a solid run against a strong field. Canada finished second in its heat with a time of 38.05 seconds.

Industry analysts say B.C. gas prices will jump this weekend as part of the fallout of Monday's explosion and fire at a major Chevron refinery in California.

In the wake of the hottest month on record in the continental U.S., excessive drought conditions in the Plains states are contributing to a surge in global food prices.

Canada's Richard Weinberger won the bronze medal in the men's open-water 10km marathon swimming event Friday at the London Games.

Stephenson Clarke Shipping goes into liquidation after nearly 300 years of trading

Two other injured in collision at an uncontrolled crossing near Broadview, Sask.

A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast of New Zealand.

The future of women's soccer in Canada took a positive turn Thursday after the Canadian women's Olympic team, led by Burnaby's Christine Sinclair, beat France to win bronze.

He becomes the first man to ever win the 200 at consecutive Olympics, and is the only athlete to sweep the 100 and 200 events at back-to-back Games.

A provincial judge has found a Penticton man guilty of sexually abusing and pimping out his teenage daughter.

A new project is underway to try to control the number of an invasive crab species in Wilmot River and Bedeque Bay.

There is outrage in Corner Brook after someone knocked over about a dozen gravestones in a local cemetery.

The medal count is respectable but the golds aren't there as in the past, and some are starting to ask if the world is overtaking us at some of our best sports, Tom Parry reports.

Gary Bettman says the NHL will lock out its players if a new collective bargaining agreement can't be reached by Sept. 15. The NHL commissioner delivered that news to the NHL Players' Association during a bargaining session on Thursday and confirmed it wi

Canadian wrestler Tonya Verbeek lost her gold-medal match Thursday to Japanese great Saori Yoshida, but still stood on the podium for the third consecutive Olympics by taking the silver.

Judge vacates $147.2-million (U.S.) jury award in Mformation case

Kaspersky Lab says it found a new cyber surveillance tool in the mode of Stuxnet, Flame, Duqu

A former Vancouver political staffer has admitted to sexually assaulting four girls, one as young as six years old. Ibata Noric Hexamer, 44, who reportedly once worked for the Vancouver municipal COPE party, was picked up by police in 2010 for a series

Canada's women's soccer team has its first medal in Olympic history. Diana Matheson scored the lone goal in the 92nd minute to lift Canada to a bronze medal win over France, Thursday at the London Olympics.

Canada's bilingualism watchdog is going undercover at eight major airports to see if travellers are served equally well in English and French.

A 32-year-old B.C. man is facing charges after allegedly threatening to repeat the Colorado shootings that left 12 people dead last month.

A student protest designed to send an anti-government message in the midst of a Quebec election campaign was broken up by riot police Wednesday.

A former political organizer of several Vancouver City councillors and the federal NDP has pleaded guilty to six charges relating to the knifepoint sexual assaults of four young girls.

Officials with the London Olympics are reportedly investigating after unauthorized brands of condoms were distributed in the athletes' village.

An Australian rescue team is heading to Antarctica to bring back an American expeditioner experiencing a medical emergency.

Interpol has issued an arrest notice for the Sea Shepherd Society's Canadian founder, who skipped bail in Germany last month over fears of retribution for his ongoing clashes with Japanese whalers.

Fossils from Northern Kenya show that a new species of human lived two million years ago, researchers say.

A farm for homeless and drug addicted people on Vancouver Island has been told to evict its residents or face fines or legal action.

She couldn't defend her gold, but Canadian wrestler Carol Huynh still repeated as an Olympic medallist on Wednesday by defeating Senegal's Isabelle Sambou in a bronze-medal match in the women's 48-kg division.

A FIFA spokesman said Wednesday that further investigation will be needed into remarks made by members of the Canadian women's soccer team following their controversial Olympic semifinal loss to the U.S., and that no decision will be made before the bronz

Canadian kayaker Adam van Koeverden won silver in the men's K-1 1,000-metre final at the London Games on Wednesday and teammate Mark Oldershaw followed that up with a bronze in the men's C-1 1,000m canoe final.

Drought conditions in the U.S. are expected to boost Canadian food prices by as much as four per cent next year.

People slowly came outside despite the cold wind across South Africa today, pointed their mobile phone cameras to the sky and opened their mouths to taste a rare snowfall that fell on much of the country.

The father of the Norwegian referee who made controversial calls during the Canada-U.S. match at the Olympic women's soccer semifinal is asking Canadians for understanding.

Rising cost from dwindling supply could have an impact on areas ranging from clinical trials and MRIs to satellite operations and party balloons

Marvin Hamlisch, who composed the scores for dozens of movies including The Sting and won a Tony for A Chorus Line, has died in Los Angeles at 68.

Canada's Simon Whitfield was forced to withdraw from Tuesday's Olympic triathlon in London after a bike crash, requiring stitches to close a wound on his left foot.

Canada's Derek Drouin captured an Olympic bronze medal in the men's high jump event on Tuesday in London, the first podium finish from a Canadian man since Greg Joy in 1976.

A volcano in New Zealand dormant for more than a century has erupted, sending ash clouds over the North Island, disrupting flights and closing roads.

A St. John's man who tried to rescue a seagull that had been impaled on top of a church is disgusted no one would rescue the bird.

Nearly 200 people will mark the 70th anniversary of the Alaska Highway this week with a drive up the highway in a convoy of World War II vintage military vehicles.

Police say a shooting along the Detroit riverfront has left seven people injured.

In the aftermath of what some are already calling the best game in a generation, it's a shame that Canada's 4-3 extra time loss, to the heavily favoured Americans, will largely be remembered for what a referee did.

Mike Reilly's one-yard touchdown plunge in the fourth quarter was the difference, as the visiting BC Lions used a great defensive effort to down the Argonauts 18-9 on Monday night at Rogers Centre.

The attention is always on the gold medal performances, roaring comebacks and agonising defeats, but what about all the little details?

A spectacular image of the Curiosity rover descending to the surface of Mars on its parachute has been obtained by an overflying satellite.

The gunman who killed six people over the weekend inside a Sikh temple near Milwaukee and was later shot dead by police was a 40-year-old army veteran, officials say, and a civil rights group identifies him as a frustrated neo-Nazi who led a white suprema

American judoka Nicholas Delpopolo is disqualified from London 2012 after testing positive for a prohibited substance.

A Christine Sinclair hat trick was not enough to lift the Canadian women's soccer team to the Olympic final, as they dropped a 4-3 decision to the U.S. on Monday in extra time in their semifinal at Old Trafford Stadium.

Japan marks the 67th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, amid growing anti-nuclear sentiments.

A 21-year-old woman with special needs who went missing three days ago has been found by searchers.

Canada will have a crack at earning up to three boxing medals over the next two days, but the expectations differ for the fighters involved.

A group of campers and a dog had a scare Friday night when a group of coyotes surrounded their tent near Baddeck, N.S.

But Morality in Media's Patrick Trueman had to draw it out of Romney's legal policy director

Canada has won bronze in the women's team pursuit at the Olympic Velodrome. Tara Whitten of Edmonton, Gillian Carleton of Victoria and Jasmin Glaesser of Coquitlam, B.C., defeated Australia to place third.

Victoria swimmer Ryan Cochrane has earned his second career Olympic medal. The Canadian captured silver in the men's 1,500-metre freestyle at the London Games on Saturday, improving on his bronze-medal performance from four years ago.

Canada's Rosannagh MacLennan won the nation's first gold medal at the London Olympics on Saturday, finshing first in women's trampoline.