NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2014

Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards hit trigger switch of suicide bomber whose device then exploded, Telegraph learns

Reshuffle comes after Socialists suffer losses in nationwide elections seen as referendum on President Francois Hollande's leadership

Stakes are high for LNG export plan. Richmond, Va.-based Dominion Resources now wants to turn its entire Cove Point operation around, reversing the flow so it can liquefy the natural gas now pouring out of Pennsylvania wells and load it onto tankers bound

France's governing Socialists sustain substantial losses in local polls, as the centre right claims victory and the far right makes big gains.

The deadliest outbreak of the Ebola virus in seven years has killed 70 people and infected as many as 111 in Guinea, causing neighboring Senegal to close its border with the country.

Chauffeurs, photographers and caterers could have to pay thousands of pounds in damages if they refuse to provide services to a same-sex wedding

The minority Muslim Tatar community in Crimea have taken the first steps toward seeking autonomy. An assembly vote follows Crimea's annexation by Russia.

When Marie was two years old, a woman in her village in Africa cut off her clitoris and labia. Now 34 and living thousands of miles away in New York, she is ...

An additional 180 paintings in Salzburg and an overlooked third house near the Austrian salt mines of the 'Monuments Men' massively increase potential holdings

Abbas rejects offer of 400 more freed Palestinians to continue negotiations, hands counteroffer to US mediators

Darth Vader wants to be the next president of Ukraine.

Authorities say the number of missing from the deadly Washington state landslide has plummeted to 30 after many people were found safe.

A moderate earthquake that rattled a swath of Southern California forced several dozen people in one community out of their homes after firefighters discovered foundation problems that made the buildings unsafe to enter, authorities said Saturday.

A Manitoba man who has spelled his name the same way for 61 years, has discovered a big problem caused by one little space on his birth certificate.

A Maine man in search of a valuable mineral cut open a dead porcupine on the side of the road and unexpectedly pulled out its baby.

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Canadians are being asked to turn off their lights for an hour tonight as part of a global and symbolic stand against climate change.

With Canada's mission in Afghanistan finally in the past, former defence minister Peter MacKay has acknowledged the government could have done more for its soldiers.

Russian President's ex-adviser makes bold claim about Putin's desire to regain Scandinavian nation.

The Graff Hallucination (pictured), designed by London jewellers Graff Diamonds, is a 110-carat watch coated in colourful rare diamonds.

Roy, a 26-year-old Congo African Grey, was driven to near-insanity and pecked off all his feathers while locked up in a dog cage with little food or water in the garage of a southern England home.

In The Wall Street Journal, Matt Ridley writes that even while it exaggerates the amount of warming, the IPCC is becoming more cautious about its effects.

The federal government has unveiled a massive piece of budget legislation that critics say is chock full of things that have nothing to do with the budget. Read more and follow our live blog as CBC Parliamentary bureau reporters tweet details from the bil

Guinness World Records has recognized a munchkin cat from Kitchener as the shortest living cat on the planet.

Criminals prowling for victims in Detroit are instead finding armed citizens willing to open fire. A northwest Detroit homeowner on Tuesday fatally shot two men he said were trying to break into his west-side house.

Alanoud AlFayez, 57, appealed to Obama on Thursday as he prepares to visit Saudi Arabia and King Abdullah for just the second time.

Bill HS60 awaits signature from Governor Nathan Deal as state chiefs of police join anti-gun groups in opposition

Six franchisees will pay $448,000 to hundreds of workers after attorney general's investigation found widespread violations

Visit by prime minister to Ukraine, the first by a G7 leader since crisis began, reveals his final transformation into the Hawk of Sussex Dr.

A Transcona pet store that went 32 days without running water now faces animal abuse allegations and will close March 31, its owner said on Facebook.

In 2007, the IPCC predicted that rising global temperatures would kill off many species. But in its new report, part of which will be presented next Monday, the UN climate change body backtracks. There is a shortage of evidence, a draft version claims.

Fargo, ND - Local resident Todd Fox has been detained for "reckless endangerment" and "illegal use of high-powered fire-breathing weaponry" for attacking snow

On Tuesday, Laura Levites, the liberal comedian who recently said she wanted to "rip out" Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodger's uterus, proved yet again that liberalism

The greatest threat to Japan's whaling industry may not be the environmentalists harassing its ships or the countries demanding its abolishment, but Japanese consumers. They've lost their appetite.

A Saskatoon mom has filed a human rights complaint over the province's requirement for sex to be listed on birth certificates.

American academic sidelined, as Arab pressure reportedly gives high-level Palestinian rights post to Indonesian envoy

Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty's ex chief of staff is accused of giving a third party access to computers in the premier's office, which resulted in sensitive information about the cancellation of gas plants being removed from hard drives.

Some Conservatives want draft proposals from a German government panel over the removal of migrants to be adopted by Britain

A new study released Thursday highlights the fact that people in Nunavut have the highest food insecurity rate for any indigenous population in a developed country at 68 per cent.

A mother's invention that gave her wheelchair-bound son the chance to walk has been launched onto the worldwide market.

A counterpuncher almost always wins. So Rob Ford won. Whatever you think of him, his politics, his personal habits, his taste in ties, he won. TKO. Count to eight. How many fingers ya see, chumps?

A man charged in a vicious assault on the 50 year old, female owner of a Vancouver tattoo parlour is back on the streets, despite being wanted in connection with a series of other recent crimes.

Former Conservative cabinet minister Stephen Fletcher says he plans to introduce two private member's bills that would allow assisted suicide in some cases.

The RCMP has arrested six people in Toronto in a financial scam involving an illegal tax shelter that defrauded individual Canadians and Revenue Canada of millions of dollars.

David Cameron has said the crisis in Ukraine was a 'wake up call' for Europe over it's reliance on Russian energy, and has vowed to make Britain more self-sufficient.

Osama bin Laden's son-in-law was found guilty Wednesday of conspiring to kill Americans and of providing material support to terrorists.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which has labeled several Washington, D.C.-based family organizations as hate groups for favoring traditional marriage, has been dumped as a resource on the FBI's Hate Crime Web page, a significant rejection of the influen

With Russian forces in firm control of the Crimean peninsula, a group of Ukrainian women are fighting back under a simple, attention-grabbing slogan: "Don't give it to a Russian." The campaign -- the goal of which is exactly what it sounds like: denying R

The Ukraine Army's dolphins, trained to hunt for mines, plant bombs on hostile ships and attack enemy divers, will be transferred to the Russian Navy.

Male university students in North Korea must get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, reports say. The state-sanctioned guideline was introduced in the capital Pyongyang about two weeks ago, Radio Free Asia reports. It is now being rolled out acr

The sums were large: $100, $50 bills, an assortment of silver coins. The recipients were picked seemingly at random. But his daughter insists he is not mentally ill

CBC News has learned Canadian sailors aboard fire-stricken HMCS Protecteur last month battled the blaze that disabled their ship for more than 11 hours before they were able to put it out.

MOSCOW, March 25 (RIA Novosti) - Over 22,000 people have signed a petition calling for the secession of Alaska from the United States to seek reunification with Russia.

Growing crops to make biofuel harms the environment and drives up food prices, admits the United Nations

Cornerstone of U.S. Naval power eliminated under Obama budget

Police say a man walked out of a New Jersey prison after serving 15 years for robbing a children's shoe store, headed straight back to the same shop and robbed it again.

Private health insurance should be better regulated in Canada, say researchers who found the gap between premiums and payouts in claims reached $6.8 billion in 2011.

A Conservative senator from Ontario is facing questions about his expense claims after attending a national prayer breakfast in Washington, D.C., last month despite being told by his own party's Senate leadership not to go.

An Ontario couple and their two children were recently stopped while trying to cross the border at Niagara Falls, Ont., after border officers allegedly found "six concealed handguns" in their van.

An Egyptian court convicted 529 alleged supporters of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood on charges of murdering a policeman and sentenced them to death, in one of the harshest verdicts ever imposed in the nation's modern history.

A new private elementary school will be opening in Kitchener this September. The school, to be called the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) Maple Grove School, formally known as the St. Louis Learning Centre.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says Russia's sanctions against 13 Canadian officials are a "badge of honour" for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and all of Canada. Baird made the remarks in The Hague where he is attending a nuclear security summit with

With world attention focused on MH370, Uri Bar-Lev recalls how he saved his El Al passengers from an attempted skyjacking, and says other pilots should have been trained to do the same -- on 9/11 and in countless other cases

Police also rescued several severely malnourished people founded wandering in the bush near the building in the southwestern city of Ibadan, and more were found shackled in leg-chains inside.

The remains of more than 15,000 babies were incinerated as 'clinical waste' by hospitals in Britain with some used in 'waste to energy' plants

Mireille Miller-Young accused of stealing anti-abortion sign then pushing and scratching campus demonstrator.

Early returns in the first round of France's municipal elections showed historic results for the anti-immigrant, anti-EU National Front Party.

Russian troops were trying to seize a Ukrainian naval base in Feodosia on Monday, one of the few military facilities still flying a Ukrainian flag in Crimea after Russia's annexation, a Ukrainian military spokesman said.

Although the calendar says it's spring, Atlantic Canada is not getting a reprieve from the winter weather. In fact, a major snowstorm expected to hit Wednesday could be one of the strongest of the season, Environment Canada says.

Frozen lakes have killed hundreds of ducks in southern Ontario and upstate New York, wildlife conservationists say, as ice has made it impossible for many waterfowl to dive for food.

Britain is being taken to court by the European Commission over its right to reside test.

Venice has voted to split from Rome and form an independent 'Repubblica Veneta' in protest against high taxation being used to support the poorer south.

Guinea has confirmed that it has an epidemic of the Ebola virus, which has killed up to 59 people since early February.

Parti Quebecois Leader Pauline Marois says she's concerned about reports of possible voter fraud involving anglophone and allophones from outside the province trying to register in the Quebec election.

The flag we have today has forged our national identity. Take a look at this infographic that explains what it's taken to come up with our Canadian flag.

A Quebec woman had her entire town believing she was pregnant and expecting quintuplets, convincing many to open their hearts -- and wallets -- to help her. Problem was, not only were there no quintuplets, there was no pregnancy at all.

And another child groomer is sent back to Afghanistan

Chiheb Battikh, 52, was sentenced to six years in prison today after pleading guilty to attempting to kidnap the grandson of a Quebec billionaire for ransom.

VANCOUVER - A New Democrat who represents a Vancouver riding has admitted she and her family took two trips cited in scathing government audits that revealed lavish

Marc Nadon cannot take his seat on the Supreme Court of Canada, the court's justices said Friday, in an unprecedented move that blocks Prime Minister Stephen Harper's latest appointment to the top court.

The board and senior managers of Vancouver's groundbreaking safe injection site have resigned amid concerns over spending by the non-profit group behind the initiative.

An Ontario Superior Court judge has ordered the seizure of more than $7 million worth of bank accounts and property belonging to Iran, in a historic ruling that will turn over the assets to victims of militant groups that it bankrolled.

There are both ethical and political reasons for wanting to address the growing gap between rich and poor, according to experts ranging from economists and political scientists to social workers and activists.

It is now legal for licensed hunters to harvest feral pigs anywhere in B.C. In a news release issued this morning, the B.C. ministry of forests and lands says feral pigs are invasive animals that have escaped farms and established themselves in the wild.

Earl Jones, a self-styled investor who bilked $51.3 million from clients between 1982 and 1999, was released from prison this afternoon after serving only four years of his 11-year sentence.

The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who drew international condemnation for outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and U.S. soldiers, on America's tolerance

Guy Turcotte will stand trial again for the 2009 slayings of his two children after previously being found not criminally responsible because of a mental disorder.

Eight-month-old Santiago Mendoza, who weighs 3.1-stone, was flown from his home in the northeastern city of Valledupar to Bogota on Sunday.

City Pages on Minneapolis received a tip that a WWII historical society had a Nazi-themed Christmas dinner back in December. How "cool."

Freshta Caron risked her life to go to school and then to work as an interpreter in Afghanistan, even as the Taliban killed her friends. Now a Canadian student, she's got her sights set on her war-torn country's highest office.

A shell or grenade buried in Ypres in Belgium since World War One explodes, killing two people and injuring two more.

A Halifax family is taking their fight against Sharia Law to Parliament.

Alberta Justice confirms that it is not going ahead with two counts of first-degree murder against Travis Vader

Canoe Sports covers the world of hockey and the NHL through and abundant variety of news, videos, photos, results, scoreboard and statistics.

There's no clear evidence supporting decades-old dietary guidelines to cut our saturated fat intake to promote heart health, a new review concludes.

Dassault Aviation of France is making an aggressive bid to sideline the F-35 and to sell its own jet fighter to Canada, offering to transfer technology, create jobs and share billions of dollars in business if Canada buys its Rafale fighter to replace its

The U.S. has reached a $1.2 billion settlement with Toyota Motor Corp., concluding a four-year criminal investigation into the Japanese automaker's disclosure of safety problems.

For the second day in a row, a large fireball has been seen in the sky over Nova Scotia.

Protesters near the Tyendinaga Mohawk reserve in southern Ontario have blocked the Montreal-Toronto Via Rail line to draw attention to missing and murdered aboriginal women.

The federal government is arguing it does not have a social contract with veterans in response to a class-action suit brought by veterans upset with the compensation arrangement offered to wounded soldiers under the New Veterans Charter.

A same-sex couple in the U.K. have decided to take legal action in forcing their church to perform their marriage, stating they want "A big lavish ceremony."

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has resigned to work in the private sector, he announced in a news release Tuesday.

Toronto Public Health wants to regulate hookah cafes after evidence of carcinogens released from herbal product called shisha.