NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2013

Residents of Beijing and many other cities in China were warned to stay inside in mid-January 2013 as the nation faced one of the worst periods of air quality in recent history. The Chinese government ordered factories to scale back emissions, while hospi

The BBC News website compares Egypt's suspended and draft constitutions, which has been approved by the constituent assembly.

The US calls on Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi to clarify 'deeply offensive' anti-Semitic remarks he made during TV interviews in 2010.

New car registrations in the EU fell by 8.2% in 2012 and the UK was the only major market to grow, carmakers say.

A number of foreigners are abducted by Islamist militants in eastern Algeria, reports say, in what UK officials say is a terrorist attack.

Two people are killed and nine are injured when a helicopter crashes into a crane at the top of a building in Vauxhall in central London.

Boeing Co.'s 787 planes were grounded for safety checks Wednesday by two major Japanese airlines after one was forced to make an emergency landing in the latest blow for the new jet.

Unseasonably warm weather in parts of Alaska has complicated training for some mushers already signed up for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

A computer scam that uses malware to freeze your screen and then demands a $100 ransom to unlock it has prompted Vancouver police to issue a warning.

New York state enacted the nation's toughest gun restrictions Tuesday and the first since the Connecticut school massacre, including an expanded assault-weapon ban and background checks for buying ammunition.

Horse DNA has been found in some beef burgers being sold in UK and Irish supermarkets, Ireland's food safety body confirms.

President Barack Obama will reveal the details of how the U.S. will address gun violence on Wednesday, the White House says, while New York's lawmakers agreed to pass the toughest gun control law in the nation and dared other states to do the same.

British Airways employee Nadia Eweida suffered discrimination at work over her Christian beliefs, European judges rule, but three others lose their cases.

The Canadian-built robot handyman aboard the International Space Station is attempting to demonstrate for the first time that a machine can carry out the delicate task of refueling a satellite in orbit.

The flu is so bad in Metro Vancouver this year that officials in one area have declared it a public health hazard and are invoking special measures to fight its spread.

About one in three adults in the U.S. have used Dr. Google or other search engines to try to figure out a medical condition, according to a new report.

A professor at Memorial University said her students desperately need to brush up on their world map skills.

A cleaner stole an empty commuter train from a Stockholm depot today and drove it to a suburb where it derailed and slammed into an apartment building, officials said.

President Francois Hollande says 750 French troops are now in Mali to counter an Islamist insurgency and more are to be deployed.

The Vancouver Canucks have signed veteran defenceman Jim Vandermeer.

Before Ottawa goes full steam ahead with an idea to power Canada's navy ships with biofuels, it wants to know if the cost of doing so will sink the plan.

The federal government is ordering cutbacks of Defence Department civilian workers at the same time military responsibilities are being expanded, forcing the army in Ontario to lay off public servants only to have to rehire them later, according to a docu

A Canadian warship will leave Halifax Monday morning and head for the Arabian Sea on a lengthy deployment that will see them join an international security mission.

A German student "mooned" a group of Hell's Angels and hurled a puppy at them before escaping on a stolen bulldozer, police have said.

A California boy who was 10 when he shot his neo-Nazi father dead at point-blank range as he slept is found criminally responsible for murder.

Canada will provide one RCAF C-17 transport aircraft in a non-combat role to support the operations of its allies in Mali for a week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced. On Sunday, a tweet from Mali's president previewed Canada's support.

Prime Minister has stated that British troops will not go onto the ground in Mali, despite the UK offering logistical support to France.

Bullets are fired at the Athens headquarters of Greece's ruling New Democracy party, but nobody is hurt.

The NHL players' assocation voted to approve a new collective bargaining agreement with the NHL, but the agreement isn't final until the two sides agree to a memorandum of understanding.

A group of astronomers say they've discovered the largest known spiral galaxy, spanning more than 522,000 light-years.

Scientists at NASA have found a total of 461 new planet candidates and one in particular, KOI-172.02, is being described as the most similar to our home planet yet.

A computer virus impersonating law enforcement and using scare tactics to scam people out of their money is attacking hundreds of computer users in the Central Okanagan.

The Port Coquitlam bus company involved in a fatal crash in Oregon last month has been suspended by the B.C. government for failing to properly track driver hours and pre-trip inspections.

Six people have been charged in a brutal attack in northern B.C. that sent one young man to hospital, where he remains in serious condition.

The top U.S. gun lobby rejected Obama administration proposals to reduce gun violence today, saying it expects to have enough support in Congress to fend off bans on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines.

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald was found vandalized on the former prime minister's birthday today, and police in Kingston, Ont., are saying it may have been politically motivated.

A judge has given a two-year prison sentence to a Dartmouth, N.S., foster mom who starved a girl in her care.

Eastern Newfoundland was pounded by a raging blizzard Friday that knocked out power for much of the island and forced much of the daily activity in the province to grind to a halt.

The Trans-Canada Highway through much of southern Manitoba is closed overnight due to a winter storm.

Charges for growing pot against a B.C. man convicted of feeding two dozen black bears have been thrown out of court.

Vancouver Canucks coach Alain Vigneault is glad to be back, but along with everyone else, he also knows he has work to do winning back fans disillusioned by the four-month-long NHL lockout.

'A step closer to war.'

Upon further review, a big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says.

A boy abducted 19 years ago in northeastern Indiana by his paternal grandparents has been found living in Minnesota under a different name, police said Thursday.

A meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Assembly of First Nations chiefs is in question amid demands that the Governor General be present at the gathering.

A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 115 people today, including 81 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said.

In Kaziranga, a refuge to more than 2,200 endangered Indian rhinoceros, poachers are laying siege sheer off the animals' horns.

Six people in B.C. including four youths have been arrested in connection with what RCMP are calling a 'horrific sexual assault' on a young male who police believe was lured to a Prince George apartment earlier this week.

Canadian children need better access to dental care regardless of where they live or their family's income, say pediatricians.

Astronomers peering near a known large galaxy are shocked to find that it is in fact much larger - five times wider than our Milky Way.

A dozen killer whales trapped under sea ice with only a single breathing hole reach safety in Canada's Hudson Bay, local villagers have reported.

US Vice-President Joe Biden says his task force on gun control will make its recommendations to President Barack Obama as early as Tuesday.

A defence contractor whose subsidiary was accused in a lawsuit of conspiring to torture detainees at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq has paid $5.28 -million to 71 former inmates held there and at other U.S.-run detention sites between 2003 and 2007

A massive blizzard could dump as much as 100 cm of snow on parts of Newfoundland overnight, according to meteorologists, leading local residents to start stocking up on supplies.

Some of the weirdest gadgets at the International CES show are designed to solve problems you never knew you had. Of course, not all of the prototypes introduced at the annual gadget show will succeed in the marketplace. But the innovators who shop their

A man accused of keeping bomb-making materials in his apartment in New York's Greenwich Village district told acquaintances late last year that he planned to blow up the Washington Square Park arch, police said Thursday.

Despite repeated government denials, CBC News has confirmed that some of Canada's new Hercules military transport planes have counterfeit Chinese parts in their cockpits that could leave pilots with blank instrument panels in mid-flight.

Astronomers around the world will be keeping a close watch as the menacing asteroid Apophis begins a sweep past the Earth later today.

The fears of major health organizations have come true: Gonorrhea that is immune to the last remaining effective oral antibiotic has been detected in at least nine North American patients, meaning the era of "incurable" gonorrhea could be close.

Canadian Foreign Affairs is investigating the death of a Canadian man in Mexico who friends say is a 21-year-old University of Alberta student from the Edmonton area.

Australia has sweltered through its hottest day since records began a century ago, with the mercury hitting 47 degrees in one area.

The Federal Court has ruled that Metis and non-status Indians are indeed Indians under federal jurisdiction as defined by a section of the Constitution Act.

Is a trillion-dollar coin the solution to the next fight over the debt ceiling?

A team from Japan's National Science Museum has captured what's considered to be the first ever film footage of a giant squid in its natural habitat.

The head of the African Union is set to visit Ottawa this week. Thomas Boni Yayi's meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper could bring a request for Canadian troops to be involved in an international mission in Mali.

Ottawa is extending an auto sector fund the provides a $250-million pool of investment cash over five years for car companies and their suppliers.

Scientists are learning how to interrupt the chemical process used to recall memories, CBC's Kelly Crowe reports in Part 4 of the series Inside Your Brain.

An Ontario man who says he has been cleared of charges stemming from an attack on his home says he is proud of the precedent the case sets with regards to Canadians' right to armed self defence.

Tsunami warnings and advisories along coast of British Columbia following a strong earthquake off southeastern Alaska have now been cancelled.

Canada fails to wins the bronze medal match at the world junior hockey championship after losing 6-5 to Russia in overtime.

A tsunami warning has been issued for the north and central coast of B.C. after an earthquake struck off southeastern Alaska just before midnight local time.

B.C.'s Transportation Minister says the icy mayhem on the Port Mann Bridge on Thursday morning was not due to negligence or a design flaw, but because drivers failed to slow down and adjust to the conditions.

A court in Drummondville, Que., has found Sonia Blanchette, charged with three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her children, is psychologically competent to proceed with the court process.

Christine Nesbitt took home gold in the 1,500 metres at the Canadian single distance long-track speedskating championships on Friday. Tyler Derraugh was the men's champion in the 1,000 metres, while Lucas Makowsky beat the field in the men's 5,000 metres.

The world's largest and most powerful atom smasher goes into a 2-year hibernation in March, as engineers carry out a revamp to help it reach maximum energy levels that could lead to more stunning discoveries following the detection of the so-called "God p

A University of Alberta scientist has found that some dinosaurs could really shake a tail feather. Scott Persons says that at least one species of the long-extinct animals had strong, flexible tails tipped with large fans of feathers "built for flaunting.

A sergeant in Saudi Arabia's air force was jailed in Las Vegas on charges that he pulled a young boy into a hotel room and sexually assaulted him the morning of Sin City's big New Year's Eve fireworks extravaganza.

The arrest of a man accused Friday of seeking to pay $5,000 to a New York City police officer to kidnap a Manhattan woman that he intended to rape and kill drew claims from a defence lawyer that the government was trying to prevent him from testifying abo

Canada's chances for a gold medal at the 2014 world junior hockey championships could be affected by a four-game suspension to defenceman Griffin Reinhart.

Flu season has arrived early this year, causing a dramatic spike in the number of influenza cases across the country.

Canada is holding back aid to Haiti over concerns about mismanagement of funds in the Caribbean country, International Cooperation Minister Julian Fantino said on Friday to a Canadian paper.

The call is out for five American and European fighter jet manufacturers to polish up their sales pitches and give the Canadian government a ring.

When Chinatown grocer David Chen caught and tied up a repeat shoplifter with twine and tossed him in a delivery van to await police three years ago, he never expected to one day receive a Diamond Jubilee medal from the Prime Minister.

Genetically engineered salmon created in Canada are getting closer to becoming the first transgenic animal to make it onto a menu, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found the fish will have no significant environmental impact.

Canada's women's soccer team will soon find out of it can score without Christine Sinclair.

An on-again, off-again program to replace the military's aging trucks is back on. A series of meetings are scheduled later this month between government officials and companies vying for a contract for a fleet of new medium-sized logistics trucks for the

Scientists are abuzz about a coal-colored rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert: A yearlong analysis revealed it's quite different from other Martian meteorites.

A parent who was All Shook Up about Elvis Presley songs in a high-school drama prompted educators to cancel the musical, deeming it too sexual. But, the decision was reversed Thursday by administrators at the high school south of Salt Lake City.

Nearly two years after being critically wounded in a mass shooting, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords on Friday met with families of the victims of a shooter who killed students and teachers at a Connecticut elementary school.

New York City's mayor criticized the top U.S. gun lobbying group after three police officers were shot in separate incidents that left one suspect dead and four under arrest.

Facebook's new Messenger app for Apple mobile devices enables voice-over-Internet protocol phone calls, which use data instead of eating into the minutes in a mobile plan.

The federal government's mandatory-minimum sentence of three years imprisonment for the possession of a loaded and prohibited firearm is unconstitutional, says a provincial court judge in Surrey, B.C.

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence says she will join a working meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and a delegation of First Nations chiefs but will not yet end a hunger strike that is now in its 25th day.

Data centres are relocating to cold-climate countries, such as Canada, where cooling these heat-generating operations is part of our nature

At least 146 military families have suffered severe financial hardship because National Defence and the federal Treasury Board differ in their interpretation of an assistance program, federal documents show.

A YouTube video showing an apparent elk hunt in Manitoba has triggered a provincial investigation into alleged poaching.

Just one day before last month's elementary school massacre in Newtown, Conn., Canada offered its gun merchants "new market opportunities" to export banned assault weapons to Colombia, ...

The hull of the Royal Canadian Navy ship HMCS Athabaskan was damaged when it broke loose from its tow line last week and went adrift off Scatarie Island in Cape Breton, CBC News has learned.

A sperm donor in Kansas is fighting a state effort to force him to pay child support for a child conceived through artificial insemination by a lesbian couple.

The United Nations gave a grim new count Wednesday of the human cost of Syria's civil war, saying the death toll has exceeded 60,000 in 21 months -- far higher than recent estimates by anti-regime activists.

Patti Page, the "Singing Rage" who stumbled across "Tennessee Waltz" and made it one of the best-selling recordings ever, has died. She was 85.

Canadians who are already struggling under a record mountain of debt and are awaiting those Christmas credit card bills are being socked with more bad financial news: They will have to open their wallets wider in 2013 as payroll taxes, grocery bills and o

As the penny is set to begin retirement next month, there are already calls to put the nickel out to pasture as well.

A U.S. Coast Guard flight over a Shell drilling rig that ran aground off a small Alaskan island found no signs of a fuel spill, officials said Tuesday, but they had to wait until daylight to better assess its impact on the environment.

Doctors treating U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton for a blood clot in her head said blood thinners were being used to dissolve the clot and they were confident she will make a full recovery.

Probably the last gas pump in Canada to issue fuel by the gallon still stands guard in a business whose owners were threatened with jail for refusing to convert to metric.

Disclosing details of behind-the-scenes discussions about tales of melting banknotes could endanger national security or international relations, says Canada's central bank.