NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2013

Gusty, hot winds blow an Arizona blaze out of control in a forest northwest of Phoenix, overtaking and killing 19 members of an elite fire crew.

A man hiking across the country has had a major setback in Saskatchewan after he says his gear was stolen and destroyed on the Onion Lake Cree Nation.

Howard Galganov was one of the more colourful speakers at a downtown rally Sunday, taking aim at Pauline Marois' plans to intensify language laws in Quebec.

Jack Gotta, a former Canadian Football League player, coach and general manager, passed away Saturday at the age of 83.

Shane Victorino's hard grounder eluded first baseman Josh Thole for an error as Jonathan Diaz raced home with the winning run in the ninth inning, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 Sunday.

The Vancouver Canucks provided the first shock of the 2013 NHL draft by dealing goaltender Cory Schneider to the New Jersey Devils in return for the 9th pick.

The girl was arrested after a Muslim cleric accused her of burning the Koran. The cleric was later accused of fabricating evidence, and the girl was acquitted

Activists say rebels defending the old centre of Homs largely repelled ground attack on Saturday but report fresh clashes

The opposition believes that it can pressure Mohammed Morsi to step down - perhaps with the added weight of the military if it signals the president should go

The first of July is full of Canada Day celebrations across the country, but people in Newfoundland and Labrador will remember the sombre anniversary of the province's greatest loss in the First World War.

US opponents of same-sex marriage file an emergency petition to the Supreme Court to try to halt the resumption of gay weddings in California.

A 44-year-old grandmother from B.C.'s North Coast has been in the ocean for over 24 hours, as she aims to complete a 58-kilometre swim to raise money and awareness for the fight against prostate cancer.

Jose Bautista hit a pair of long homers over the Green Monster, starting with the 200th of his career and following with a tiebreaking, two-run drive off Junichi Tazawa in the eighth inning that led the Toronto Blue Jays over the Boston Red Sox 6-2 Saturd

Quarterback Darian Durant passed for three touchdowns as the Saskatchewan Roughriders started off the CFL season in fine form, blasting the Edmonton Eskimos 39-18 on Saturday afternoon.

The shock wave from an asteroid that burned up over Russia in February was so powerful that it travelled twice around the globe, scientists say.

The veteran Voyager-1 space probe is close to making the jump to interstellar space, but no-one can say for sure when it will finally happen.

A California woman convicted of severing her ex-husband's penis and throwing it in a kitchen waste disposal is sentenced to life in prison.

Some residents in the flood-ravaged town of High River began returning home Saturday afternoon, as officials cautioned that it could be at least another month before those in the hardest-hit areas are allowed back in.

Raines and Bell will be officially inducted in the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame on Saturday. The Class of 2013 also includes former outfielder Rob Ducey, former announcer Tom Cheek and longtime minor-league owner Nat Bailey.

One of this country's most notable achievements will be spending Canada Day weekend marking its own milestone anniversary in a unique place, floating up in space. After 10 years in the ether, it remains the world's smallest space telescope. MOST was also

NASA's newest satellite aims to solve a burning mystery about the sun's atmosphere, one that confounds scientists and seems to flout the laws of physics: why the temperature goes up as distance from the surface increases.

It seems the Vancouver Canucks are still interested in dealing one of their goaltenders, but it may not be the one they've been trying to move since the end of the 2011-12 season.

Actor Paul Gross, former P.E.I. premier Alexander Campbell and legendary rocker Ronnie Hawkins are among 74 appointees to the Order of Canada announced Friday.

A Vancouver group is setting up pianos in the city's public spaces and inviting the public to sit down and tickle the ivories as they are passing by this summer.

Four people are dead after a collision involving a glider and a small plane occurred near Pemberton, B.C., north of Whistler, Saturday afternoon.

Turkish government officials are investigating Twitter and similar social media platforms in an attempt to identify and eventually prosecute the organizers of mass demonstrations, Erodgan administration officials said this week.

Joe West caught two touchdown passes and Jon Cornish ran for two more as the Calgary Stampeders opened the 2013 CFL season with a 44-32 win over the visiting B.C. Lions on Friday.

Lightning sparked 23 new forest fires in Yukon Thursday, causing the territory to request additional help from B.C. firefighters.

Over the course of two years, Anne-Barbara Forgues embezzled $160,000 from her employers and two scientific research centres, spending the money on furs, jewelry, watches, designer shoes, clothes, bags and perfume.

A man has been charged with murder in Petawawa, Ont., after a multiple stabbing left one man dead and two females critically injured on Friday.

Laval's interim mayor, Alexandre Duplessis, has resigned in the wake of a scandal allegedly involving prostitutes and extortion.

A scared and injured deer was euthanized in a downtown Kitchener parking garage on the corner of Benton and Charles streets.

Some flooding on city streets and at Union Station has already been reported in Toronto as the long weekend gets underway, with Environment Canada forecasting about 40 millimetres of rain Friday in southern Ontario.

Officials in the mining town of Wabush in western Labrador have declared a state of emergency as forest fires and smoke surround the community.

Jonny Gomes broke a tie with a seventh-inning single and the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-5 after squandering a five-run lead Friday night.

Ricky Ray threw four TD passes to rally the Toronto Argonauts to a wild 39-34 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Friday night in the CFL season opener for both teams.

A US court lifts a ban on same-sex marriage in California, leading immediately to a Lesbian couple involved in the case marrying in San Francisco.

For the second time in a week a family in Mississauga says it has been hit by poo from the sky.

The federal government will decide this fall which ships will get built first: Navy resupply ships or coast guard icebreakers. Government officials say the decision means the schedule for one type of ship will get pushed back so the other can be built fir

Earlier this week, it emerged RCMP were also seizing guns that had been left out in the open, saying they were doing it out of safety and that the guns would be returned. Many residents, however, complained that RCMP were seizing their property. RCMP o

To celebrate the upcoming Canada Day, Apple has launched a

The Toronto Blue Jays have placed outfielder Melky Cabrera on the 15-day disabled list with left knee tendinitis. Cabrera irritated the knee during Thursday night's 7-4 loss to the Red Sox.

Jon Lester pitched into the eighth inning before leaving with an apparent injury, and Dustin Pedroia homered in a seven-run second to help the Boston Red Sox beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-4 in the opener of a four-game series Thursday night.

The NHL is threatening to relocate the Phoenix Coyotes if Glendale city council doesn't approve a new arena deal for the franchise by July 2.

The Montreal Alouettes were impolite guests at the official opening of Investors Group Field on Thursday, defeating the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 38-33 to open the CFL season.

The first of Canada's new Chinook military transport helicopters has been unveiled at a ceremony in Ottawa.

B.C.'s soggy weather will come to a dramatic end as the first heat wave of summer washes over the province during the upcoming long weekend, Environment Canada is forecasting.

Scores of twitchers flocked to the Outer Hebrides to see a bird that has been recorded just eight times previously in the UK in nearly 170 years - only to see it slain by a wind turbine.

Canadian children may already be carrying environmental toxins in their bodies even before they are born, an environmental group says.

Just days before his retirement, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has received a special honour for his exceptional accomplishments during his last space mission.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's 30-count indictment also includes the charge of bombing a public place, resulting in death

The nanny said she called 911 for help after a fight over the type of milk she fed the children turned physical and the man pushed her

Quebec's Court of Appeal has sided with the federal government's argument that the national long-gun registry information shouldn't be handed over to the province to create its own database.

By framing euthanasia as a medical, not criminal, matter, Quebec brings the debate into provincial jurisdiction

A train carrying what emergency officials say could be diesel fuel has derailed on Calgary's Bonnybrook Bridge over the Bow River.

Emergency crews are at a failing rail bridge in southeast Calgary where a train possibly carrying dangerous materials could potentially fall into the Bow River.

R.A. Dickey baffled the Tampa Bay Rays again. Dickey pitched a two-hitter for his first complete game of the year, Jose Reyes went 0 for 4 in his return from a two-month layoff and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Rays 3-0 Wednesday for their 12th win in 14

Some 20 tourists and their guides who had been stranded on an ice floe off Baffin Island in Nunavut were all airlifted to safety Wednesday night after spending much of the day waiting to be rescued.

Two children have been removed from harm and 22 men arrested in Atlantic Canada as part of an investigation by police forces across the region that found millions of pornographic images of children.

Because hockey's over and we have no idea what to do with ourselves, here are a bunch of completely made-up awards for the 2013 season.

People in southern Alberta communities where boil-water advisories have been issued face a threat of illness from microbes and parasites if they don't follow recommendations, health officials say.

The N.F.L. player Aaron Hernandez was charged on Wednesday with the murder of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old semipro football player who was found dead on June 17.

Canada's Eugenie Bouchard earned one of the biggest wins of her career Wednesday by upsetting No. 12 seed Ana Ivanovic 6-3, 6-3 in second-round play at Wimbledon.

A 700,000-year-old horse bone found in the permafrost of a Yukon gold mine has yielded a complete genetic profile, breaking scientific records and revealing many new insights about the evolution of horses.

Tests on the cord blood of a small group of newborns is raising fears Canadian children already carry environmental toxins at birth

Statistics Canada released the second batch of figures Wednesday from its voluntary National Household Survey, looking at labour, education, workplace, commuting, work language and mobility and migration.

Canada continues to top the list of most educated countries in the world but it is falling short when it comes to public funding for post-secondary institutions, according to a report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The

Leaders in the Northwest Territories signed a final devolution deal with the federal government Tuesday to transfer authority over land, water and resources to the territory.

New research is raising even more questions about the fate of the sailors on Sir John Franklin's doomed 19th-century quest to discover the Northwest Passage.

The Canadian Forces have dropped off emergency supplies to tourists stranded on an ice floe drifting in Admiralty Inlet near Arctic Bay, Nunavut, while a group of 11 hunters who were stranded on another floe nearby have made it back to shore.

The decades-long project to replace Canada's 50-year-old Sea King helicopters has hit another snag, with the government now hiring an independent expert to study whether helicopter-maker Sikorsky is even capable of delivering a replacement as promised.

The parents of a 16-year-old Ontario hockey player who was repeatedly punched in the face and head by another player have been told by police that charges will be laid in the case after they came forward to CBC News Go Public with video evidence.

John Tortorella feels privileged and honoured to have the opportunity to be an NHL head coach in Canada and become the 17th bench boss in Vancouver Canucks history.

MANCHESTER, England - A statue in a museum in England has created a buzz after it was captured on video rotating on its own.

German police are reported to have raided an Islamist terror network which planned to use model aircraft to carry out an attack.

Leaked documents suggest the US is able to access details of internet activity. But what can be found out about users in the UK?

Gunmen reported to be from the Taliban kill 10 people, including at least nine foreign tourists, at a mountain base camp in northern Pakistan.

The ex-wife of a convicted Quebec mobster has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the deaths of her two daughters.

States of emergency have been issued for some Manitoba communities as levels of local rivers rise as a result of heavy rain and floodwaters from Alberta.

Boat docks, walkways and a part of Spadina Crescent along the South Saskatchewan River is underwater, signs of the high river levels.

As a wall of water approaches from the west, people have been leaving Cumberland House, Sask., in droves.

A float plane bound for Vancouver from Powell River lost its propeller mid-flight and was forced to make an impromptu water landing in Halfmoon Bay Monday afternoon.

A distressed baby moose was transported from the Trans-Canada Highway to a temporary home in central Newfoundland via police car this weekend.

A fiery crash on Highway 63 in northeast Alberta killed the occupants of a small car Monday, but the explosion and fire prevented police from knowing how many people have died.

Calgary Stampede officials plan to hold the city's annual event, sticking to its July 5-14 schedule, despite devastating floods that washed out the grounds.

Bryan Bickell and Dave Bolland scored goals 17 seconds apart late in the third period Monday to give the Chicago Blackhawks the Stanley Cup in an amazing 3-2 last-minute comeback win over Boston in Game 6.

Jeremy Hellickson allowed one hit in seven shutout innings and rookie Wil Myers homered in his home debut, helping the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Blue Jays 4-1 on Monday night to end Toronto's 11-game winning streak.

Thanks to the telltale traces of cellphones and social media, retailers, political parties and government spy agencies all have easy access now to enormous amounts of your personal data. Is this cool, or creepy? Ira Basen asks.

The navigator of the sunken Queen of the North ferry has been sentenced to four years in jail, more than seven years after the ship went down off the central coast, taking two passengers with it.

Greedy shoe companies making select sneakers needlessly exclusive paired together with consumer exuberance, desperation, and American gun culture on Saturday long enough to cost one would-be alleged robber his life.

Indian authorities scrambled to rescue thousands of people trapped after floods and landslides ravaged the Himalayan region, leaving up to 1,000 feared dead.

Israeli aircraft pounded targets in the Gaza Strip early Monday after rockets were fired at Israel from the territory, the military said, unsettling a tenuous ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

A plane took off from Moscow today headed for Cuba, but the seat booked by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden was empty, and there was no sign of him elsewhere on board. His whereabouts are unknown.

A rare orange lobster was trapped in the Bay of Fundy on Friday and is now on display in Alma.

Two former interns have filed complaints with government against Bell Mobility, alleging the telecom giant broke labour laws by not paying them for work they did for the company.

A Milan court has convicted former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of paying for sex with an underage prostitute during infamous bunga bunga parties at his villa and then using his influence to try to cover it up.

Quebec cabinet minister Maxime Bernier was completely unaware his driver's licence had been suspended until he was stopped for another traffic ticket on June 16, his office says.

One of the suspects in the murder of Phillip Boudreau told police the victim was shot and then run down as he sat helpless in a stalled motor boat, documents obtained by CBC show.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) says banks have done their bit to help economic recovery and governments must do more.

A former Alberta MLA who headed up a flood mitigation task force following the 2005 floods says new development should not have been allowed to spring up in the flood zones.

A tiny town in Labrador has joined famed sites like Machu Picchu and the Taj Mahal as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Approximately 90 members of the Canadian Armed Forces returned home to Quebec City on Saturday, after a nine-month deployment in Afghanistan where they trained and advised Afghan security forces in Kabul.

Andretti Autosport has long been the team to beat at Iowa Speedway. On Sunday, Canada's James Hinchcliffe put an exclamation point on Andretti's dominance there with perhaps the best race of his career.

Robyn Gayle and Diana Matheson, veterans of Canada's bronze medal winning Olympic soccer team, are part of an innovative social experiment with senior citizens.

A man accused of plotting to derail a Via passenger train between Toronto and New York has sharply criticized the Canadian government for its military involvement in Afghanistan, labelling it a deadly and wrong form of colonization.

Gunmen storm a hotel in a remote part of northern Pakistan and kill nine foreign tourists.

Edward Snowdon, a former National Security Agency contractor wanted by the United States for revealing highly classified surveillance programs, is headed to Ecuador according to WikiLeaks officials.

Former South African president Nelson Mandela is in critical condition in hospital, according to a government website.

The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Baltimore Orioles 13-5 on Sunday to tie a franchise record with their 11th straight victory.

The Toronto Maple Leafs acquired goalie Jonathan Bernier from the Los Angeles Kings in a trade on Sunday that sent goalie Ben Scrivens, forward Matt Frattin, and a second round draft pick to L.A.

The largest iceberg cluster in recent years is drifting south of Labrador near the Strait of Belle Isle through transatlantic shipping routes, says the coast guard.

Efforts are underway to move more than 2,000 people from their homes in a flood-prone part of northeastern Saskatchewan because of rising water.