NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2014

French police arrested 34 Greenpeace activists on Tuesday who forced their way into a nuclear power plant operated by EDF in Fessenheim, eastern France, the company said.

A new report from Statistics Canada is raising questions about the seriousness of what the Conservative government says is a major national problem

A bright light that looked like a fireball lit up the whole northern sky over Canada's Maritime provinces early this morning, callers to CBC morning shows report.

The scientific community is commemorating the work of W.D. Hamilton, who pioneered the idea that everything from bees' behaviour to the way cancer spreads in the body can be explained by evolution.

The last group of Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan has returned home. The troops arrived in Ottawa Tuesday morning on a military transport plane escorted by fighter jets.

Steven Stamkos and Ondrej Palat both had a goal and an assist to lead the Lightning past the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 on Monday night.

TORONTO -- Ontario's debt is nearly double that of California's -- even though the province has far fewer people and a much smaller economy, the Fraser Institute says.

If you kept a close eye on the waters near Vancouver and Squamish this weekend, you may have seen the dolphins and even some orcas.

Ontario Provincial Police seized 4,400 cans of beer from a Waterloo, Ont. home on Sunday morning, ahead of a St. Patrick's Day party.

A pre-dawn earthquake rolled across the Los Angeles basin on Monday, rattling residents from the San Fernando Valley to Long Beach but causing no reported damage.

A Vars man is facing charges of animal cruelty after allegedly tying a dog to a truck and dragging him for one kilometre.

The overcrowding at Royal Columbian Hospital in New Westminster, B.C., has become so bad nurses are quitting the emergency room according to the B.C. Nurses Union.

The University of Regina's administration has apologized after the school's cheerleaders planned a "culturally inappropriate" cowboys and Indians night.

'No one can stop Quebec from using the Canadian dollar,' said former Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe in an interview that aired Sunday on CTV's Question Period.

Accused pimp Reza Moazami has denied raping the underage prostitutes he worked with, claiming the sex was consensual and he believed them all to be older than 18.

North Korea fired 25 short-range rockets into the sea off its east coast Sunday in an apparent continuation of protests against ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, South Korean officials said.

As more environmentally conscious Americans do their bit to help clear the air by paying up for an eco-friendly Prius or a sporty Tesla, a damaging form of polluted rain is falling in China

Major Bernie Gaynor jnr has served three tours of duty in Iraq but he is going to be thrown out of the army very soon. And he is not going quietly, writes Paul Sheehan.

Mental health services are strained as a growing number of teens show up at emergency rooms across Canada with self-inflicted injuries and suicidal thoughts, say pediatric psychiatrists.

Voting is officially open for the top 4 communities in the running to be crowned Kraft Hockeyville in 2014.

A father and son have been killed in an avalanche in Lake Louise, Alta. Police say a Parks Canada dog handler found the victims buried under debris at the base of Mount Fairview.

Toronto is being asked for $10 million toward a BMO field makeover that would move the Toronto Argonauts back to Exhibition Place.

Announcement from the military comes as ties between Cairo and Hamas deteriorate

Palestinians say facility shuttered due to Israeli closure of crossings following this week's rocket attacks

MOSCOW (AP) -- This is Ukraine today, at least as seen by most Russian news media: the government is run by anti-Semitic fascists, people killed in protests were shot by opposition snipers and the West is behind it all.

Wyoming resident Andy Johnson says he's being threatened with thousands of dollars in EPA fines for building a stock pond on his property.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - The far-right, euro-skeptic Danish People's Party may emerge as Denmark's biggest vote getter at the European parliamentary elections in May, a poll indicated on Saturday.The People's

Canada's wheelchair curling team defeated arch-rival Russia 8-3 on Saturday to win its third straight Paralympic gold medal.

While average Canadians dutifully file personal income tax returns during the coming weeks, many profitable companies pay little or no tax, says the executive director of Canadians for Tax Fairness. Instead, these multinational corporations set up subsidi

The New Brunswick government has become the first Atlantic province to sign an agreement with Ottawa on the controversial Canada Job Grant.

Workers at Ceres container terminal in north-end Halifax returned to work Saturday morning after experts confirmed no radiation had leaked out of four canisters that were dropped.

Canada's largest bank has been named in a lawsuit initiated by a top U.S. banking regulator that accuses RBC and more than a dozen of the world's largest banks of colluding to fix a key international lending rate.

A Nova Scotia man was fined more than $55,000 for not declaring repairs to a 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle Malibu he had fixed in the U.S. then brought back to Canada.

A multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been launched by the parents of a student who almost died after being strangled by a lanyard at his school in Bearspaw just west of Calgary.

Police have found a shoe they believe may belong to Jeffrey Boucher, the Whitby, Ont., teacher missing since January.

Ottawa police charged a 32-year-old Ottawa man on Saturday in connection with the stabbing of a Russian diplomat near his country's embassy.

The youngest member of the Canadian Paralympic team strikes gold in Sochi in his final alpine event. Mac Marcoux wins the men's visually impaired giant slalom by more than two seconds.

The Canadian men's sledge hockey team shook off its semifinal loss with a 3-0 win over Norway to take the bronze medal at the 2014 Paralympics on Saturday.

Mocking a stay-at-home father or insulting a woman for wearing revealing clothes will be illegal in Belgium under sexism laws unveiled yesterday.

Today is Steak and BJ Day, and we're all out of steak. This is the so-called anti-Valentine's Day, set a month after the lovey-dovey consumer fest -- at least by all the dudes lying on Facebook and Twitter. And let's just assume all their girlfriends are

Demonized by Russia, Right Sector denies its symbols resemble the swastika; says Jews, ethnic Russian should enjoy equal rights

An old, seven-story residential building collapsed Friday in a Mumbai suburb, killing at least seven people and injuring another eight, police said.

Fire officials say an evacuation zone remained in place Friday at a port in Halifax after four steel cylinders carrying weapons-grade uranium fell about six metres the night before as they were being unloaded from a container ship, prompting a radiation s

Using sound devices to probe for voices and telescopic cameras to peer into small spaces, workers searching a pile of rubble from a gas explosion in New York City continued to treat it Friday as a rescue operation, holding onto the possibility of finding

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that differences remain between Moscow and the U.S. following negotiations in London aimed at ending the crisis in Ukraine, whose strategic Crimea region is voting this weekend on whether to secede.

Disturbing video showing employees of one of the world's leading turkey producers clubbing, kicking and otherwise abusing the hapless birds is evidence of a culture of cruelty and neglect at the factory farm, an animal-rights group said Friday.

A round of goodbye messages are following the last Canadian troops out the door in Afghanistan and some of them are rather nasty. The Taliban's information arm issued a statement Thursday to followers in Kandahar congratulating its fighters in the rural d

The United States, with its abundant supplies of natural gas, would seem to have an easy answer to Europe's fears that a strong response to Russia's rapid takeover of Ukraine's Crimea region could prompt Vladimir Putin to shut down gas lines that keep Eur

From Yahoo News: The National Security Agency has developed malware that allows it to collect data automatically from millions of computers worldwide, a report based on leaked documents showed Wednesday.

Vincent Cochin, who was attempting to trek 2,300 kilometres on foot across the High Arctic, had to be rescued Wednesday night near Taloyoak just nine days into his journey.

The Davis Strait polar bear subpopulation is said to be 'vulnerable' to the supposed effects of global warming because, like Hudson Bay, Davis Strait sea ice retreats every summer, leaving polar bears on land for several months. However, Davis Strait bear

Most Americans, 65%, believe global warming is currently happening or will happen in their lifetimes, but far fewer, 36%, predict it will be a serious threat to their way of life.

A nine-year-old Barcelona girl who went missing seven months ago has been rescued from captivity deep in Bolivia's Amazon rainforest.

A young P.E.I. father who broke the bones of his crying baby has been sentenced to one year in jail.

The Canadian Coast Guard is pleading with merchant ships to plan their voyages well in advance this year as the organization's icebreaker fleet confronts some of the worst ice conditions on the Atlantic Ocean in decades.

A dirty, $10 diamond with a prize inside has helped reveal that there are vast quantities of water stored deep inside the Earth.

A Vancouver Aquarium marine mammal rescue team, in partnership with Fisheries and Oceans, has successfully disentangled several California and Stellar sea lions spotted on log booms in the Fanny Bay area of Vancouver Island.

Nine Canadian Forces soldiers were sent to hospital after two military trucks collided at CFB Shilo in western Manitoba on Wednesday evening.

Chris Higgins had the only goal in the shootout as the Vancouver Canucks handed the Winnipeg Jets their fifth straight loss with a 3-2 victory on Wednesday night.

A London, Ont. man says he was humiliated after being kicked out of a Tim Hortons because of his three-wheeled scooter wheelchair.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Richard Kennedy, 18, from Blackpool, suffered dislodged teeth, a bad knee injury and a swollen face after he left the Evoque nightclub in Preston, Lancashire, in the early hours of the morning.

The EU says American-made feta, gorgonzola, Parmesan and other products aren't fit to be called by their traditional names.

A senior source in her campaign told The Globe the federal MP will resign her seat in Parliament Wednesday and kick off her campaign Thursday

Harper agreed to a wager with U.S. President Obama on the outcome of two Olympic hockey games. The Prime Minister's choice was revealed Tuesday

Teachers at a middle school in Innisfail will no longer take their students to question period at the Alberta legislature after they witnessed the poor behaviour of the members there during a session last fall.

People in Ross River, Yukon, have gathered on the ice of the Pelly River, vowing to stop any demolition work on the historic suspension bridge there.

With online lectures, MOOCs, and open courseware, it's probably never been easier to get access to college-level instruction on a huge variety of topics. But yesterday saw the launch of a new entry dedicated to scientific concepts: the World Science Unive

A man who spent nearly 26 years on death row in Louisiana walked free of prison Tuesday, hours after a judge approved the state's motion to vacate the man's murder conviction in a the 1983 killing of a jeweler.

As Canada officially ends its engagement in Afghanistan, which started in 2002, CBC News takes a look back at the most memorable moments of this highly controversial mission.

Little is known about Sergei Aksyonov, the pro-Russia Crimean leader, who rose from obscurity in a month and who is driving the region toward secession

An innovative hepatitis C drug that was only recently hailed as a breakthrough treatment is facing skepticism from some health care providers, as they consider whether it is worth the $1,000-a-pill price set by manufacturer Gilead Sciences Inc.

Nunavut's information watchdog says she's found no reason why the territory's justice department refuses to release a report about conditions at the Baffin Correctional Centre. She says problems at the prison are already widely known.

A coalition of Caribbean leaders will meet today in St. Vincent to discuss a landmark legal claim for reparations - that could run into the hundreds of billions of pounds.

Portland police had to be called in to subdue a 22-pound (10-kilogram) house cat that trapped its owners inside their bedroom after attacking their baby. The baby was not injured in the Sunday incident.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - About two dozen Iraqi women demonstrated on Saturday in Baghdad against a draft law approved by the Iraqi cabinet that would permit the marriage of nine-year-old girls and automatically give child custody to fathers.

Illustrations in 16th-century artillery manuals show how to use cats to attack a city.

Two unvaccinated children in B.C.'s Fraser Valley have contracted the extremely contagious measles virus, putting others in the community at risk.

There is a new kitten at the Winston Churchill estate. The orange-colored rescue cat is there to comply with the late British leader's request that there always be a cat of that colour living at Chartwell.

Censors for Qatar, Bahrain and UAE said it went against the teachings of Islam and Cairo's Al-Azhar, a Sunni institution more than 1,000 years old, said it objected to any depictions of God's messengers.

When Big Food and Big Food Police congratulate each other for coming together with the White House, as they did when new food nutrition labels were unveiled last week, consumers and small businesses should be very nervous. But the controversial new label

Sarah Palin is being wooed by two news media veterans to join a streaming network, The Post has learned.

CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson has reached an agreement to resign from CBS News ahead of contract, bringing an end to months of hard-fought negotiations, sources familiar with her departure told POLITICO on Monday. Attkisson, who ha

With no one else on the ballot, state media reported Monday that supreme leader Kim Jong-un was not only elected to the highest legislative body in North Korea, he won with the unanimous approval of his district, which had 100 per cent turnout.

Elliott, Oshie star in shootout win over Minnesota.

Hezbollah operative who remotely detonated bomb in suicide bomber's backpack left hats, towel in hotel room which yield DNA evidence.

Defenceman Yannick Weber scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period as the Vancouver Canucks breathed a sigh of relief with a 2-1 win over the Calgary Flames on the Saturday night.

Most Canadians will be moving their clocks forward an hour on Sunday for the switch from local standard time back to daylight saving time for the summer months. Here are six interesting facts about daylight savings.

Stuxnet-like malware attacking systems in embroiled state; experts suspect Russian involvement

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia couple accused of a Canada Day bomb plot at the provincial legislature are scheduled to stand trial for more than three months beginning in January of next year. . . .

A fireball exploded and lit up the skies over Yellowknife early Thursday morning, but was not believed to have caused any damage. The exploding meteor was described as being so bright that it turned the night sky blue.

The DEW Line remediation project cost the government $575 million and saw the removal of toxic waste from 21 former radar stations across the Arctic.

Former public safety minister Vic Toews, who retired from politics last year, has been appointed a judge in the Court of Queen's Bench in Manitoba.

Consumption of high-caffeine energy drinks among high school students may be linked with mental health issues and substance use, says a new report, which calls for limits on teens' access to the beverages and reduction in the amount of caffeine they conta

The Harper government is set to sign a long-sought trade deal with South Korea early next week, despite entrenched opposition by some in Ontario's critically important auto sector, sources close to the talks say.

The question of what Ottawa is prepared to do about the huge backlog of Prairie grain could be answered later this morning. Transport Minister Lisa Raitt and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz are set to make an announcement at 10:30 CT in Winnipeg "to addre

An Ottawa father is looking to move his children out of their daycare over its strict "no outside food" policy, after his daughter was suspended for three days for bringing a cheese sandwich to class.

Two women suffered non-life threatening injuries when they were shot on York University campus in Toronto on Thursday night, emergency officials say.

The Royal Canadian Legion is set to call on the Harper government to take better care of wounded veterans and their families.

A major grain backlog would have been easier to manage if the Canadian Wheat Board was still able to co-ordinate grain transportation for Prairie wheat, New Democrat MP Pat Martin says.

The Canadian government joined the German and U.S. governments in rejecting the legitimacy of the referendum, saying it will not recognize the results. The parliament in Crimea, which enjoys a degree of autonomy under current Ukrainian law, voted 78 with

Canada's "level playing field" may be compromised under changes proposed in the Conservatives' election reform bill, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand warned Thursday. "In Canada, electoral fairness has traditionally been understood to mean maintain

Talk at the Edmonton Oilers practice today wasn't just about who was coming and going as the trade deadline loomed, but who was in net. "Just another player on the ice with just a little longer hair than the rest of them," laughed Canadian women's hockey