NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2014

Russia has expelled a Canadian diplomat from Moscow, government sources confirm to CTV News, after Canada forced out a Russian military attache earlier this month over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

An unmanned submarine has recorded some of the most detailed images of two American ships that sank off the coast of England during World War II, according to the Massachusetts company that surveyed the wreckage to mark the disaster's 70th anniversary.

A whistleblower in the auto sales industry says car dealers may be violating customers' privacy rights when they scan licences of propective buyers before they take a test drive.

The Montreal Canadiens swept their way into the second round of the NHL playoffs, but not before the Tampa Bay Lightning made it interesting.

Sponteneous demonstrations will be subject to P6 bylaw

Prince Fahd bin Sultan is said to have killed 1,977 houbara bustards while on a 21-day trip to Chagai in Pakistan's Balochistan province in January.

The Canadian government is downgrading the protection of humpback whales off the coast of B.C. under the Species at Risk Act amid fears that the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline will turn the whales' habitat into a major oil shipping corridor.

The use of treated sewage sludge on agricultural land is a well-established if sometimes controversial practice. Researchers are now delving more deeply into biosolids, looking to find any potential contaminants.

Laval, Que., was the scene of an Easter egg hunt gone so bad that organizers are considering having police on hand for the next edition.

An Etobicoke couple had a very welcome Easter weekend surprise when one of their family cats returned home after being missing for more than eight years.

Some Thunder Bay pet owners say veterinarian prices are so high they're going to Minnesota to have their cats and dogs fixed.

A woman in east-end Toronto had quite a scare early this morning when she discovered a snake wriggling around her bathroom.

Herb Gray, a former deputy prime minister and Canada's first Jewish federal cabinet minister, has died at the age of 82.

China's seizure of a Japanese cargo ship over a pre-war debt could hit business ties, Japan's top government spokesman warns.

The Finance Department has ordered its pollsters to stop asking Canadians potentially embarrassing questions about Economic Action Plan advertising.

Queen Elizabeth turns 88 today, and while the long-serving monarch is slowing down, she remains a significant diplomatic force.

Two ships are due to arrive in the port of Thunder Bay on Monday, marking the latest start to a shipping season there.

The U.S. State Department said Friday it was extending the government comment period on the Keystone XL pipeline, likely postponing a final decision on the controversial project until after the Nov. 4 midterm elections.

Manitoba's top aboriginal leaders say the province doesn't have the right to know about apprehended kids on reserves

Sandy Nelson can't fight back the tears as she talks about losing her long-term serving job in Weyburn, Sask., to temporary foreign workers.

A 16-year-old boy stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii, surviving the trip halfway across the Pacific Ocean unharmed despite frigid temperatures at 11,500 metres and a lack of oxygen, FBI and airline officials said.

Miss America is asking a Pennsylvania school district to reconsider the punishment of a high school senior who asked her to be his prom date during the question-and-answer portion of an assembly.

Displaying the first examples of animals with reversed genitals, researchers have discovered cave insects in which the females have penis-like genitals and the males have vagina-like organs. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Connecticut

A woman has been reunited with her Yorkshire Terrier and flat-screen TV that were snatched during her first date with a man she met online.

A respected American labour specialist says governments, educators and employers should work together to boost the number of apprenticeships for young Canadians in a collaborative approach that would yield "significant payoffs."

Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, the former U.S. professional boxer turned advocate for the wrongly convicted, has died. He was 76.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram is still holding 85 girls it abducted from a raid on a secondary school in northeastern Borno state this week,

Six schools implicated in the so-called 'Trojan Horse' plot by extremists to 'Islamise' secular state education face being placed in special measures

Aquilino Morelle resigned today in the latest sleaze scandal to hit the Socialist French government. But the 51-year-old insisted he had done nothing wrong, and that his shoe collection was not excessive.

A California deputy accidentally shot himself while trying to kill a dog that he said was threatening his life on Wednesday, but video captured by a local television station later showed the animal much smaller than reported and peacefully playing with ch

A New Jersey woman claims she was denied a custom license plate proclaiming her an atheist is suing the state to have it made.

Amanda Todd was one of 10 Canadians, and about 100 worldwide, who police believe were targeted by a man who's been arrested in connection with the 15-year-old British Columbia girl's death, CTV News has learned.

Hamiltonians have heard this one before. Monday, the Conference Board of Canada reported that in addition to Canada's seven existing NHL teams, Quebec City and Hamilton, appear to meet minimum requirements to become home to franchises in the near future.

An activist heckled Prime Minister Stephen Harper's wife Laureen about missing and murdered aboriginal women while she spoke at a Toronto film festival devoted to online cat videos.

A Nebraska school principal has apologized for sending fifth-grade students home with a flier that advises those who are bullied to not tattle on their tormentors.

Mohammad Whitaker, 27, is accused of shooting into at least nine cars, injuring two of the drivers, in incidents dating to the beginning of March.

Samra Kesinovic, 16, and Sabina Selimovic, 15, disappeared from their homes in Vienna and began posting pictures of themselves wearing niqabs surrounded by armed men.

The RCMP announced the results of their annual Name the Puppy contest on Wednesday.

CTV's Daryl McIntyre sits down with retired Oiler Ryan Smyth, days after he played his last game with the NHL.

Edmonton police said investigators have made the largest-ever marijuana seizure in their history from a single investigation, and four people are facing a variety of charges.

A soldier at CFB Petawawa is facing 18 new sex charges, and police say there are at least several dozen other women who are victims.

A powerful magnitude-7.5 earthquake has hit Mexico's capital, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The story of the missing Malaysian Airlines plane has preoccupied people around the world for more than a month. It also looks to have inspired online scammers who exploit people's interest in trending news topics to install malware on their computers, in

NASA's small moon-orbiting spacecraft LADEE is no more.

An avalanche swept down a climbing route on Mount Everest early Friday, killing at least 12 Nepalese guides and leaving three missing in the deadliest disaster on the world's highest peak.

A new poll shows former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's (D) numbers hitting their lowest point in six years.

The federal agency that backed down over the weekend in a tense standoff with a Nevada rancher is being accused of leaving a trail of wreckage behind.

Jews in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk were handed leaflets ordering them to register with the new self-proclaimed pro-Russian leadership

Media Matters for America is apparently resisting an effort by Service Employees International Union Local 500 to unionize its staff.

According to a Dutch media outlet, a 35-year-old man was arrested in January and appeared in court on Wednesday. He cannot be named until later in the Dutch court proceedings.

UK drug company GlaxoSmithKline is facing a criminal investigation in Poland for allegedly bribing doctors, BBC Panorama discovers.

A man has been arrested in the Netherlands apparently in connection with the online bullying of Amanda Todd, the B.C. teen who killed herself in October 2012.

Call it the Big Flush 2, and this time the sequel promises to be much bigger than the original. Portland officials said Wednesday they are flushing away millions of gallons of treated water for the second time in less than three years because someone u

A Saskatchewan man who just wanted to take a selfie in front of a train has become an internet sensation, after he was kicked in the head by someone on a speeding locomotive.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canada will contribute six CF-18 jet fighters to a NATO air-policing mission as a response to the crisis in the Ukraine.

Child and mom were struck at a marked crosswalk by a driver who ran a red light Tuesday morning.

The iconic Ford Mustang, which spawned its own class of automobiles dubbed pony cars, celebrates 50 years of production on April 17. Here's a look at some of that history.

A 10-year-old girl is dead after being mauled by two dogs in Lac Brochet, Man., a small First Nations community in the far northern part of the province.

Christine Allen, the Kitchener, Ont., woman accused of poisoning eight children and an adult, has been sentenced to six years in prison, including time already served, after pleading guilty to four counts of administering a noxious substance with intent t

Turkish homosexual rights groups expressed alarm at a government-led project to build prisons only for criminals who declare themselves as homosexuals, saying it would lead to more discrimination in the country.

Muslim groups and civil liberties advocates applaud the decision by New York Police Department officials to disband a controversial unit that tracked the daily lives of Muslims as part of efforts to detect terrorism threats.

The UN Security Council fell silent Tuesday after ambassadors viewed a series of ghastly photographs of dead Syrian civil war victims.

Canadians' out-of-pocket spending for prescription drugs, dental care and insurance premiums rose over a 12-year period for all families, especially people with lower incomes who may have reduced their use of health-care services, a new report suggests.

In a series of exclusive letters with CBC, one of the men convicted in the so-called Toronto 18 bombing plot in 2006 offers his own analysis of his transformation from a typical immigrant teenager to a radical convicted on a terrorism-related charge.

SYDNEY, April 15 (RTRS) - Fish on a remote coral reef in the South Pacific have altered their behaviour, as acidification of the ocean changes their natural habits, making them attracted to the smell of their predators and unafraid of approaching them.

Jordanian warplanes have targeted and destroyed several vehicles trying to cross the border from Syria, the Jordanian military says.

A multi-story ferry carrying 459 people, mostly high school students on an overnight trip to a tourist island, has sunk off South Korea's southern coast, leaving nearly 300 people missing despite a frantic, hours-long rescue by ships and helicopters. At l

A prestigious research institute in France said it had lost thousands of tubes of samples of the deadly Sars coronavirus.

Patrick Keenan, the general manager of Americab, said two of his drivers said they do not want to drive cabs with Gay Games placards because of their Muslim faith.

Poster outside London hairdresser's shop showing leader Kim Jong Un on 'bad hair day' draws ire from diplomats

Pollution from China's coal-burning power plants is pumping up winter storms over the northwest Pacific Ocean and changing North America's weather, a new study finds. Northwest Pacific winter storms are now 10 percent stronger than they were 30 years ago,

Gasoline prices in Canada are climbing to two-year highs, and could be going higher, according to industry watchers.

The Vancouver Park Board voted last night to approve a motion to develop a plan for free public Wi-Fi in parks and beaches.

AC/DC may be announcing their retirement as soon as Tuesday, according to media reports. The famous rock band, which formed in 1973, is one of the most popular and highest-grossing bands of all time.

The Iranian regime is slated to hang on Tuesday a 26-year-old woman charged with fatally stabbing her accused rapist.

Justin Trudeau and his Ontario campaign co-chair are facing a $1.5 million libel suit from Christine Innes who was barred from running for the Liberal party

The Conservative government has secretly ordered the Canadian military to share information with allies even when there's a serious risk it could lead to torture.

A Red Deer, Alta., company has been charged with violating international sanctions against Iran by exporting a product that can be used in nuclear applications, officials announced today.

At least 71 people were killed when a parked vehicle exploded at a bus station in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Monday morning, Nigerian officials said.

DETROIT - It looks like a ghost town, and Canadian oil helped build it.The burned-out, abandoned parcels of property in a west-end Detroit neighbourhood are the reverse image of an oil boom town � a ramshackle yin to the thriving yang of Fort McMurray,

About 900 social insurance numbers were stolen from the computers of the Canada Revenue Agency, the revenue department has confirmed, following a shutdown of its public online services caused by the Heartbleed Internet bug.

From Yahoo News: Birmingham launched a probe Monday into an alleged hardline Muslim plot to take control of schools. The city council said it had appointed a chief adviser to examine at least 200 complaints as the investigation widened to 25 schools from

New pot vending machine has cameras to verify identity of user.

A Canadian college student recently conducted a social experiment to see if people treated her differently if she wore a hijab - she noticed that people actually treated her more kindly and with more respect than when she didn't wear the hijab.

Brandon Nandan, Shakib Shakib killed Sanders and discarded his badly burned body in a Burnaby park in 2011

The Canada Revenue Agency says full service has been restored on all of its online systems as of Sunday.

Saturday night was the final NHL game for Oilers legend Ryan Smyth. NHL players, including many teammates, took to Twitter to congratulate No. 94 on his great career.

Another Canadian warship has been hit by an engine room fire on the high seas. A release from the Royal Canadian Navy says the crew of HMCS Kingston doused a "minor" engine room fire late Saturday morning while the ship was sailing for Halifax after a six

Fifty lions at a safari park in Crimea have become caught up in the Ukraine-Russia crisis.

A Portland woman came home one night and found a stranger in her house with a hammer and the intent to kill her.

Sources say the board of internal economy, the all-party body that sets the rules for MPs' spending, has decided that the House of Commons must be the ordinary place of employment for anyone whose salary is paid by the Commons; they cannot work in offices

RT media: A Sudanese asylum seeker has moved to the treetops in central Berlin after local authorities evicted her refugee camp.

A prominent advocate for transgender and women's rights in the tech world has been charged with raping her wife, The San Francisco Examiner has learned....

Read 'Malaysia flight's co-pilot tried to make cellphone call-report' on Yahoo News Canada. Investigators probing the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 suspect that the co99626622-pilot of the jetliner tried to make a call with his cellphone

Two suspected car thieves who fled from Langley, B.C. RCMP at high speed in a stolen car are behind bars thanks to Air One's thermal imaging camera.

Atheist Gustav Potthoff wants to make sure his public defender is the farthest thing from a Jesus follower.

The share of mothers who do not work outside the home rose to 29% in 2012, up from a modern-era low of 23% in 1999, according to a new Pew Research Center

A Quebec court has ruled that Telus must reimburse customers more than $2.6 million for text messaging fees that the mobile phone carrier collected between 2008 and 2011.

Conservative Senator Linda Frum started a storm of controversy on social media this week when she said Elections Canada has no role in encouraging people to vote.

Navy has had to step in simply to stop the thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who make the perilous journey from drowning

The White House refuses to issue a US visa to Iran's pick for UN ambassador, who was involved in the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.