NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2014

Irving Oil Ltd. has announced plans to voluntarily convert its DOT-111 tank railcars to meet higher standards by the end of April.

An Italian passenger says the man who hijacked an Ethiopian Airlines jet threatened to crash it if the pilot kept trying to get back into the cockpit.

Hundreds of shipping containers filled with expensive and important military equipment used in the Canadian combat mission in Kandahar were stranded in Afghanistan for years and are only now finally finding their way back to military storehouses in Canada

The investigation into human remains found in Abbotsford on Sunday has been taken over by B.C.'s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team.

Candies containing THC oil, the active ingredient in marijuana. were seized by police during a traffic stop outside Edmonton last month

Should Quebec's national assembly pass its new death with dignity law, it will be enacting legislation that has more in keeping with Europe's "unbearable suffering" approach to physician-assisted death than with what U.S. states have done.

U.S. Secretary of State to make the case that cost of inaction far outweighs expenses of reducing greenhouse gas emissions

Max Price from Walsall is a healthy, happy one-year-old who revels in playing with his collection of toy cars while wearing one of his favourite dresses.

A total of 175 householders in Longtown, Cumbria, received the new system from Warmer Energy Services, financed by Riverside Housing Association.

Olympic gold medal winners will receive a second medal this Saturday that contains a piece of the large meteorite that lit up the skies over Russia a year ago. Meanwhile, the United Nations is calling for efforts to ramp up preparations for the next objec

The giant $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar-power project opening this week in the California desert is the first of its kind, and it may be among the last, because of growing evidence that the technology is killing birds.

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty told a Vancouver audience today that the announcement of a tax break for volunteer search and rescue workers in the 2014 budget was a way for the government to say thanks.

As the meat it ate came in bigger and bigger packages, an ancient predator armed itself for the challenge, a Canadian study has found.

The federal government has helped secure a $10-billion US deal for a Canadian company to sell armoured vehicles to Saudia Arabia, a country widely condemned for its human rights abuses.

A billionaire venture capitalist suggested Thursday that wealthy Americans should get more votes. Asked for an idea that would "change the world" at a speaking engagement in San Francisco, Tom Perkins said: "The Tom Perkins system is: You don't get to vot

The Obama administration gave banks a roadmap for doing business with legal marijuana sellers without getting into trouble, another step by the federal government toward enabling a legalized marijuana industry to operate in states that approve it.

A 19-year-old Sarnia, Ont., man has been arrested and charged in the case of a cat that survived getting shot in the head 17 times.

Incredible footage reveals the moment a woman in Haiku City, China, was grabbed by her boyfriend and stuffed down a manhole - umbrella and all - where she remained stuck for 60 hours until her cries for help alerted passers-by.

Plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land and at sea, can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, researchers report. The conversion produces significantly more energy than it requires and results in tr

Researchers at the University of British Columbia warned scientists Thursday they had found evidence that an infectious form of a cat parasite had spread through Arctic waters and has begun to appear in Beluga whales. Michael Grigg and Stephen Raverty att

A cellphone video of a moose attacking a woman in Smithers, B.C., is generating concern on Facebook, but conservation officers say the animal will not be put down.

A 55-year-old rabbit hunter from Nova Scotia's Digby County is recovering from an attack by a cranky owl on Tuesday night.

Police arrested the man's alleged accomplice after a video posted online showed her helping him hold open the Peak 2 Peak Gondola doors

Belgian lawmakers voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to extend the country's euthanasia law to children under 18.

Homosexuality is only partly genetic with sexuality mostly based on environmental and social factors, scientists believe.

Scientists have moved a step closer to achieving sustainable nuclear fusion and almost limitless clean energy

Carbon capture is yet to become energy-efficient, but uses of CO₂ are growing. In the new research, published in the journal Angewandte Chemie, Soon Hong and colleagues from the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea have caught CO₂ from e

Comcast Corp. agreed to acquire Time Warner Cable Inc. for $45.2 billion in stock, a surprise deal that combines the two largest U.S. cable companies and creates a bulwark against competition from phone and satellite providers.

The Minnesota-based Sheerwind turbine directs wind through a funnel. It is passed through a tube to the turbine's generator to create a so-called 'jet effect'.

Sid Caesar, whose clever comedy on such programs as "Your Show of Shows" and "Caesar's Hour" helped define the 1950s "Golden Age of Television," has died.

A federal watchdog says Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency, CSEC, did not invade the online activities of Canadians during a controversial study of wireless communication at airports.

After seven years of litigation, two trips to a federal appeals court and $3.8 million worth of lawyer time, the public has finally learned why a wheelchair-bound Stanford University scholar was cuffed, detained and denied a flight from San Francisco to H

Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is convicted on charges that he accepted bribes, free trips and other gratuities from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work while he was in office, including right after Hurrica

Canada used three third-period goals to rally and beat Team USA 3-2 Wednesday in an Olympic women's hockey preliminary match at Shayba Arena in Sochi, Russia.

Why does smoking pot often lead to compulsive snacking? A new French study on mice appears to have sniffed out the answer.

Royal Barnes, 23, recorded and uploaded three videos shortly after the murder in Woolwich, south London, in May 2013.

American scientists say they've taken a key step toward harnessing nuclear fusion as a new way to generate power, an idea that has been pursued for decades.

Business is the solution to environmental progress, not its enemy, said the head of one of the world's largest corporations. Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever, accepted the 2013 Commitment to Development "Ideas in Action" Award from the Center for Global Deve

Shannon Bowley, from Nottingham, was due to have a life-changing operation this Friday which would have loosened her muscles to help her walk independently.

Scientists at Kings College, London, have found the first gene which appears to be directly linked to intelligence

Conservative Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul top the biggest Tea Party presidential poll yet, while moderates New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush are dumped at the bottom, undermining their hopes of being 2016 crossover candidates

'Mahatma Gandhi, Rosa Parks and the Magna Carta are all alien to our culture,' says education ministry spokesman

Three-month-old Della Wolf Kangro Wiley Richards is the first baby in B.C. with three parents listed on a birth certificate. With the enactment of B.C.'s new Family Law Act last year, more kids with more than two parents are sure to follow.

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was forced into an Islamic marriage with a western Sydney drug gang member who raped and beat her and later physically abused their daughter.

Canada is off to its best Winter Olympic start ever, with nine medals at the end of Day 4. That eclipses the country's previous best four-day showing, five medals (two gold, two silver, one bronze) at Vancouver 2010.

Omar Khadr has moved from a maximum-security prison in Alberta to a medium-security prison in the same province.

Northern wildlife officials will meet in Quebec's arctic region Wednesday to discuss quotas on the world's last unregulated polar bear hunt.

Parks Canada's crumbling forts, historical houses and other heritage structures are in much poorer shape than the agency estimates.

Germany has ambitious renewable energy goals, but its reliance on coal is also growing. Towns like Atterwasch face relocation to feed demand for cheap brown coal.

Robyn Benson, the Victoria woman who was declared brain-dead in December, underwent surgery on Saturday to deliver a healthy baby boy before she died the next day.

Scientists say a recently located fossil site in B.C. and west of Calgary is already yielding major new discoveries about early animal evolution.

A tiger prowling near villages in northern India killed its 10th person in six weeks, a day after eluding a trap set by hunters with a live calf as bait.

A Montreal woman who survived a polar bear attack in Manitoba last year is warning others not to assume their provincial or territorial health plan will fully cover them while travelling within Canada.

Canadians' consumer debt load continued to snowball last year, rising nine per cent to more than $1.4 trillion, according to a new survey from the credit rating agency Equifax Canada.

Why pay $4 for a grande caramel macchiato when you can pay the same $4 for a "dumb" one?

A couple from Ontario were beaten and stabbed to death during an incident in which their home was looted and their two vehicles stolen over the weekend, Mexican authorities say.

A Camrose dentist, who alleges an Alberta sheriff assaulted her during a routine traffic stop last year, has launched a formal plea to see charges laid against him.

At least 21 insurgents are killed in central Iraq after a car bomb was detonated accidentally, officials say.

Khurram Syed Sher, a doctor of pathology from London, Ont., is to be tried by judge alone in an Ottawa courtroom

Adriana Ferreyr, 30, got violent during Tuesday's deposition and struck Soros, 83, in the head and was about to slap him again but his lawyer was able to grab her arm before she landed another blow, Manhattan Supemre Court papers alleged.

Saying it needs to prevent inbreeding, the Copenhagen Zoo kills a two-year-old giraffe and feeds its remains to lions as visitors watch, ignoring a petition signed by thousands and offers from other zoos and a private individual to save the animal.

Salah Salahadyn, 41, and Universal Knowledge Allah, 36, arrested earlier this week, are expected to make initial court appearances later Friday.

Riot act: A sharia police officer censures a group of girls caught wearing tight pants in public in Banda Aceh on Wednesday. The Aceh Legislative ...

Vigilantes who have driven a quasi-religious drug cartel from a series of towns in western Mexico entered a gang-held city on Saturday and were working with government forces to clear it of cartel gunmen, a leader of the movement said.

Former American Idol star Clay Aiken is officially running for Congress. The season two runner-up announced his candidacy in a video posted on Wednesday. Aiken is running for the House of Representatives seat in North Carolina's second district, looking t

Dwayne Ferguson spent more than a decade advocating for nonviolence and peace in the streets of Buffalo.He was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act, the state law that made carrying a gun on school property a felony. He was also a familiar p

A new bill introduced by Republican lawmakers would put an end to the Environmental Protection Agency issuing regulations without revealing all the scientific research used to justify the new rules.

A leading politician for Norway's Centre Party has stepped up calls for a ban on ritual male circumcision, or failing that up to 10 years in prison, for those w

Iran's female footballers are to be given mandatory exams to prove that they are real women

Empowered by social media, feminists are calling one another out for ideological offenses. Is it good for the movement? And whose movement is it?

British bobsledder Rebekah Wilson was greeted with an empty elevator shaft when she attempted to leave her room in the Olympic Village on Saturday morning.

The Pentagon is exploring the development of implantable probes that may one day help reverse some memory loss caused by brain injury.

Ice continued to build this past week on the Great Lakes due to the cold air and temperatures staying below freezing, and Lake Superior's new record shows it.

There were naked photographs in the bathtub, sexual text messages and furtive kisses exchanged during a Lincoln High School assembly.

Animal rights group says its doing what's best for the animals in its Virginia shelter but critics point to their 82 percent euthanasia rate.

Imam Syed Mohammed Rizvi was a key figure in an Islamic school that used teaching materials that disparaged Jews and encouraged boys to keep fit for jihad

The Wellesley College sculpture is a 'source of apprehension, fear, and triggering thoughts regarding sexual assault' the petition says

The Canada Revenue Agency is currently conducting extensive audits on some of Canada's most prominent environmental groups to determine if they comply with guidelines that restrict political advocacy, CBC News has learned.

An angry crowd killed and mutilated a man who fell from a truck filled with Muslims fleeing the capital of Central African Republic on Friday, witnesses said, while an international court said it would investigate alleged crimes committed there. The attac

A Saskatoon woman who was shocked to see a pickup truck driving through town last weekend, its bed filled with dead coyotes, says she wants new legislation to keep such grisly displays out of sight.

In the 1993 blockbuster movie "Jurassic Park," a sleazy scientist played by Jeff Goldblum quips that "life finds a way." For real biologists, climate change is like a massive, unplanned experiment, one that may be too fast and strange for some species to

The federal government said late Thursday it will investigate a claim that Canadian workers were replaced with temporary foreign workers at the Kearl oilsands expansion project north of Fort McMurray. Following a complaint from the Alberta Federation of L

A cat that was shot 17 times in the head in Sarnia, Ont., is now recovering after surgery.

When Canada won 26 medals at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, some doubted it could match or even improve on those results heading into the Sochi Games.

Max Pacioretty scored a hat trick to give the Montreal Canadiens a 5-2 victory over the Canucks on Thursday, extending Vancouver's losing streak to six games.

A Sydney man will face court today accused of living with a 13-year-old girl in a sexual relationship. Police say the 26-year-old man and the girl were illegally married in a religious ceremony earlier this year and were living together in Sydney's west a

Prime Minister Stephen Harper will make a major First Nations education funding announcement Friday in Alberta.

Leonard Nimoy says he has developed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

It is now almost impossible to buy toys for girls which are not plastered with princesses and fairies, Parliament was told.

The Vancouver Canucks captain announced Thursday he will not play for Sweden in the Winter Olympics due to a rib injury.

Wildlife photographer Thomas Kokta, from Washington, captured these images while tracking polar bear families in Manitoba, Canada.

Wednesday, a member of PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, filed an application with GDOT to have a memorial placed at the Hall County site where a truck hauling live chickens overturned on Jan. 27.

A western Quebec couple says a deer got its head stuck in a bucket last weekend and the pair, plus government officials, can't catch the animal to remove the container.