NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2013

As the church struggles to adapt to a changing world, is a Quebec cardinal the right man to become the next pope?

Stricken Carnival cruise ship Triumph arrived back in port late Thursday, ending a nightmarish ocean voyage for some 4,000 desperate passengers and crew.

More than 500 people were injured when a meteorite shot across the sky and exploded over central Russia on Friday, sending fireballs crashing to Earth, shattering windows and damaging buildings.

The San Bernardino sheriff's office said Thursday remains found in a burned cabin belong to Christopher Dorner, the ex-LAPD officer linked to four killings who led police on a massive manhunt.

Mexico, a country currently in the throes of an epidemic of drug-related violence, is no longer considered by Canada to be a genuine source of refugees. It was among eight countries added Thursday to a controversial list now used by immigration officials

Several Canadian provinces will soon introduce new area codes due to growing demand from customers using wireless devices.

Canada is extending its support for the French military intervention in Mali by an additional 30 days, Defence Minister Peter Mackay told reporters in Ottawa on Thursday.

Ex-soldier Paul Ravensdale has been found not guilty of manslaughter in a 2010 training incident, but was found guilty of four other charges in a military court.

Police have charged the mother of a seven-year-old boy, believed to have drowned in a south Edmonton apartment Tuesday, with first-degree murder.

Star defenceman Erik Karlsson went down with a left Achilles injury when he was cut by a skate blade late in the second period in the Senators' 4-2 loss to Pittsburgh on Wednesday night.

The case of a very sick puppy from Nova Scotia being nursed back to health in Charlottetown is getting a lot of attention around the world via Facebook.

Yukon Quest musher Susan Rogan of Whitehorse made it into Fairbanks just before 2 a.m. Wednesday after adding kilometres to her journey by taking a wrong turn in the dark.

A Toronto store owner confronted two would-be armed robbers, wrestling a gun away from one of them.

Sweeping cuts may be ahead for Canada Post as the Crown corporation faces a $327 million operating loss, CTV News has learned.

They fight the war from computer consoles and video screens. But the troops that launch the drone strikes and direct the cyberattacks that can kill or disable an enemy may never set foot in the combat zone. Now, U.S. defence officials say, their battlefie

Prominent U.S. environmental leaders, including the head of the Sierra Club, were arrested Wednesday after tying themselves to the White House gate to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

A cruise line company acknowledged Wednesday that its disabled ship in the Gulf of Mexico had mechanical problems weeks before an engine-room fire left more than 4,000 passengers and crew members stranded in the open waters.

Some students in the University of Windsor's human kinetics program are tired of walking 10 minutes to the closest Tim Hortons.

Starting piano or violin lessons before the age of seven appears to cause permanent changes to the brain that are linked to better motor skills. Those changes don't occur in people who learn to play an instrument when they are older, a new study has found

An 87-year-old Toronto woman died in December after waiting three hours with abdominal pain for an ambulance that was delayed due to limited resources, a CBC investigation reveals.

The space rock set to give Earth a historically close shave this Friday, Feb. 15, may be worth nearly $200 billion, prospective asteroid miners say.

Disputes over the value of Attawapiskat's nearby diamond mine provide a lesson for other First Nations considering mining deals, according to the Assembly of First Nations Ontario Regional Chief.

While hockey season is back in full swing after the NHL lockout, longtime Edmonton Oilers fan Edward Wright has nearly abandoned the game he once obsessed over.

IOC leaders dropped wrestling from the program for the 2020 Olympics on Tuesday; an official familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

Someone apparently hacked into the Emergency Alert System and announced on KRTV and the CW that dead bodies are rising from their graves

CBC News has learned that automotive parts suppliers based in Windsor are changing gears and now filling and chasing millions of dollars worth of military contracts for the Canadian and U.S. armed forces.

The case unveiled a tiny sect in thrall to its leader, Sam Mullet, who punished men for ogling non-Amish women by confining them to chicken coops

Mayor Rob Ford gave the soundbite of the week when he railed against revelations of fraud in the civil service

Ontario Provincial Police are now advising drivers to 'stay off the roads completely' in the Toronto area Friday

A mob stripped, tortured and bound a woman accused of witchcraft, then burned her alive in front of hundreds of horrified witnesses in a Papua New Guinea town, police said Friday. It was the latest sorcery-related killing in this South Pacific island nati

The original smaller statue of the iconic raising of the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in 1945 is expected to fetch up to $1.8 million later this month at a New York auction dedicated to World War II artifacts.

On Thursday, Megan and Hope Phelps-Roper announced their exodus from the Westboro Baptist Church.

According to Le Figaro newspaper, the woman wrote "AE911" near the bottom of the canvas

The inability to get oilsands crude to the right markets is costing the Canadian economy dearly, according to a new report paid for by the Saskatchewan government.

Senator Patrick Brazeau has been removed from the Conservative Party's caucus, while sources tell CBC News that he is in a police jail in Gatineau, Que., following an alleged domestic dispute.

A rare 148-year-old baseball card discovered at a rummage sale has been auctioned for $92,000.

Mexican authorities say a 9-year-old girl has given birth in western Mexico and they are looking for the purported father, a 17-year-old.

They have formed Eagle Spirit Energy Holdings Ltd., a company quietly working to create a first nations-owned energy corridor across northern B.C. that could serve as a physical line across the province to move natural gas, electricity and oil.

Tunisia's prime minister has announced the formation of a new government of technocrats to guide the country to elections later this year. The announcement follows the assassination of prominent leftist politician Chokri Belaid, gunned down as he left hom

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird confirmed today that a Canadian dual-national was a suspect in a Hezbollah bombing of a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year.

Senators who studied why Canadians pay more than Americans for many products are calling on the government to review the taxes on imported goods.

People at a Manitoba Hutterite colony are shocked after conservation officers shot a deer they had adopted.

You know you're a geek if you felt all warm and fuzzy inside when you read that headline. If you got here by accident, here's the news: The biggest prime number yet has been discovered. It is indeed massive, more than 17 million digits long.

The billionaire real estate mogul is suing millionaire comedian Bill Maher for $5 million.

An Edmonton company believes it's one step closer to changing the world - after receiving a big funding boost from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for its work in developing a urine test that can detect HIV in its early stages.

The deadline for comments on Industry Canada's draft anti-spam regulations passed earlier this week with a group of 13 industry associations - including the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian Marketing Association, the Canadian Wireless Telecommun

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says it's not surprising that Quebec has pulled out of a national health care working group set up by provincial premiers. Nor will it hinder progress.

People die every year in crashes involving moose, and now the University of Saskatchewan is putting GPS collars on 50 of the large mammals to see if anything can be done about it.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says a 8.0-magnitude earthquake in the South Pacific has generated a tsunami that may be destructive near the epicentre.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad becomes the first Iranian president to visit Egypt since the Islamic revolution in 1979, as he arrives in Cairo for a summit.

A prominent anti-Islam Danish writer and scholar has dodged an assassination bullet outside his Copenhagen home.

A Chinese vessel locked its weapon-targeting radar on a Japanese ship near disputed islands, Tokyo says, amid mounting tensions over a territorial row.

Bulgaria blames Hezbollah for killing five Israelis and a bus driver in 2012, prompting the US and Israel to call for action against the Lebanese group.

An examination by The Canadian Press reveals ad budgets geared to promoting economic success have ballooned under the Conservatives since the 2008 global downturn.

B.C. New Democrat energy critic John Horgan is warning B.C. residents to brace for what he's calling rate shock under an NDP government when it comes to their electricity bills.

Chris Tanev couldn't have had much better timing in scoring his first-career NHL goal. Tanev scored with just 19.3 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 come-from-behind victory over the Edmonton Oilers on Monday for their seas

Can football and other sports staunch a seeming spike in head injuries with helmet sensors and help from the military?

Some university and college students are turning to a potentially dangerous prescription stimulant to gain a competitive edge over their peers.

Some microwaves could be turning on by themselves and catching fire, according to a Consumer Reports investigation.

Seven people were killed and dozens injured Sunday in the accident 129 kilometres east of Los Angeles. On Monday, families from Tijuana anxiously sought loved ones in hospitals and investigators searched the scene for evidence and scrutinized the company'

Lake Winnipeg has earned a disturbing new title from the Global Nature Fund, as the most threatened lake of 2013.

Scientists say they have found the 500-year-old remains of England's King Richard III under a parking lot in the city of Leicester.

Chris Kyle, a former US Navy seal and Iraq veteran known as the deadliest sniper in US history, is shot dead on a Texas shooting range, police say.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he will abolish an unpopular local property tax if he wins this month's elections.

A Somali-American man is found guilty of plotting to bomb a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in the US state of Oregon.

Andre Cassagnes, the inventor of the Etch A Sketch toy that generations of children drew on, shook up and started over, has died in France, the toy's maker said.

The suicide bombing in Ankara Friday is a reminder to counterterrorism agencies that it's not just jihadist groups who threaten Western governments and their interests overseas. Pockets of the extreme left and extreme right still consider political violen

The federal government is firming up its support of two projects that would see oil from Alberta piped to Atlantic Canada.

French President Francois Hollande met Mali's interim President Dioncounda Traore and spoke to French troops on Saturday, after landing in Timbuktu, making a triumphant stop, six days after French forces parachuted in to liberate the desert city from the

Wiarton Willie and his American groundhog counterpart Punxsutawney Phil have both predicted spring will come early this year, but other furry forecasters signal six more weeks of winter.

Russians are celebrating 70 years since the Battle of Stalingrad, a key point in World War II, with President Vladimir Putin to lead tributes later in the day.

Proposal would open up rape, incest victims seeking abortion to felony charges for "tampering with evidence".

A suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital on Friday, killing himself and one other person, officials said.