NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 05-2014

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Europe's failure to deliver economic growth and jobs has frayed public trust in democracy and fostered a nationalist climate that could reward anti-immigration, Eurosceptical parties

Canada offered its thanks Friday to the 40,000 veterans of the 12-year war in Afghanistan, and the troops said thank you in return.

It was a night more than 70 years in the making for one Edmonton family as 90-year-old grandfather Walter Ross finally received his high school diploma.

Dozens of colourful shoeboxes filled with small luxuries will be arriving at a number of New Brunswick's women's shelters in time for Mother's Day.

The mother and uncle of Jaswinder Sidhu have been ordered extradited to India to face charges of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, 14 years after she was found dead.

A pitbull attack on a pregnant woman in a Labrador community has people calling for tougher rules for dog owners.

Ford is recalling more than 692,000 Escape small SUVs and C-Max gas-electric hybrids in North America, including almost 90,000 in Canada, to fix two safety problems.

Presiding over a triumphant spectacle of warships and fighter jets, President Vladimir Putin hailed the return of Crimea to Russia as the restoration of "historic justice" before a jubilant, welcoming crowd Friday on the holiday that Russians hold dearest

Team Canada's world hockey championship is off to a rough start after a stunning 3-2 shootout loss to France on Friday in Belarus.

The government rolls out the red carpet for Canadian military members and their families today by presenting battle honours to the army and air force units that fought in Afghanistan as well as navy ships. Events get underway at 10:15 a.m. ET with a cerem

It's not quite the Hunger Games, but a B.C. woman has been shortlisted to become the planet's "Extreme Huntress," as part of a skills competition designed to get women around the world involved in hunting.

The National Day of Honour is a bittersweet event for Stephen Good and Mark Pusztai, who lost their brother to a roadside bomb north of Kandahar in January 2009. CBCNews.ca is livestreaming today's ceremony in Ottawa.

The war on drugs must end and the battle to change international drug policies must begin, says a new report from the London School of Economics.

Edwin Encarnacion hit two of Toronto's season-high five home runs as the Blue Jays capped a two-game mini-sweep of Philadelphia by outscoring the Phillies 12-6 on Thursday at Rogers Centre. It was the second straight night that the Blue Jays had a double-

A family dog is being credited with protecting a young North Dakota boy after the three-year-old wandered away from his rural home.

A poor commercial catch and steady demand from Asia are pushing prices for local Dungeness crab so high that some shops no longer carry them. Others have given up trying to make money on the . . .

A strong earthquake on the Pacific coast of Mexico shook the capital on Thursday, sending frightened office workers streaming into the streets away from high-rise buildings.

Britain's defence minister says women should be allowed to serve in front-line army combat units. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said Thursday the army should be open "to all who can meet the standards required."

Rookie Matt Fraser got to live a dream he had many times while growing up in Red Deer, Alta. Fraser, called up Wednesday from AHL Providence and playing his first career NHL playoff game, scored 1:19 into overtime to give the Boston Bruins a 1-0 victory o

An elementary school in St-Leonard has opted to cancel a Montreal Canadiens jersey day rather than allow some students to wear Boston Bruins jerseys.

China has developed a missile that would turn an aircraft carrier into a two-billion-dollar hulk of twisted metal, flame, and dead sailors. Publicly, the U.S. Navy downplays its importance. Privately, the sailors are working out several different options

The man filed a human rights complaint over a policy that is designed to be inclusive to same-sex parents because it discriminates against heterosexual fathers

Tucked away in the back room of a tatty red-brick building near Birmingham city centre, a beady-eyed chicken is turned upside down and placed in an open-ended metal cone.

When two would-be robbers fired at 51-year-old grandmother of four, she emptied the chamber of her gun.

North Korea is making final preparations to conduct its fourth nuclear test, South Korea's defence minister said Thursday, but he added that it could be a bluff.

Russia is once again retaliating against sanctions imposed by Canada over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

Singapore-based Woodfibre LNG signed a letter of intent on Wednesday with the province of British Columbia, , advancing the company's goal of making its first liquified natural gas shipments to Asia by early 2017.

Alison Smith, a senior correspondent for CBC News and host of CBC Radio's flagship news show The World at Six, has announced she is leaving the public broadcaster at the end of June. The news comes on the heels of a similar announcement from CBC colleague

Randy Carlyle will remain the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs after receiving a two-year contract extension, the team announced Thursday.

An annual anti-abortion rally on Parliament Hill was interrupted Thursday afternoon by topless protesters yelling "my body, my rules."

A 62-year-old man who murdered his two former wives has made headlines in Turkey after appearing on a TV marriage program to find a new partner.

The pair were caught after vigilantes stormed into a house in the Banda Aceh province, northern Indonesia. They now face nine strokes of the cane each.

It's called rock snot and it's clogging river bottoms from coast to coast. But new research says the green slime is not an invasive species wreaking havoc across Canada and around the world, as once believed.

Federal government departments are collecting data on Canadian citizens via their social media accounts for no good reason, Canada's privacy watchdog says.

Kevin Bieksa has been named Team Canada's captain for the men's hockey world championships, which open Friday in Belarus.

In a letter sent to political parties today, representatives from CBC, Radio Canada, CTV, Rogers, and Shaw - which owns Global Television - said they would no longer air political advertisements that include material taken from their airwaves without thei

A carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere could strip important food crops of their nutrients, a new study suggests. Wheat, rice, barley and certain legumes like soybeans are classified as C3 plants, which corresponds to their ability as plants to convert carbon d

New lists from the Environmental Working Group offer consumers data on which fruits and vegetables have the highest and lowest levels of pesticide residue.

A New York filmmaker has discovered rare footage of the 1919 World Series - known for the Black Sox betting scandal - while working on a documentary about old films found in Dawson City permafrost.

Kellogg says it will no longer use the "all natural" or "nothing artificial" labels on certain Kashi products as part of an agreement to settle a class-action lawsuit.

Tim Hortons Inc. will take a decidedly American approach to menus at its U.S. stores as the chain prepares to roll out more quick service restaurants south of the border.

After 20 years, the gun industry seems to have finally developed a safety-equipped "smart gun" that will only fire for the proper owner. Only problem, U.S. gun shops are being threatened by "freedom loving" gun groups when they try to sell them.

Syrian rebels leave the last opposition-held enclaves in Homs, ending three years of resistance in the "capital of the revolution".

A Halifax woman is asking people to be wary of pole dancing style exercises after she suffered a concussion a year ago as she hung upside down from a pole.

The Canada Border Services Agency says it "terminated" the employment of an enforcement officer who used her job title to to help a convicted criminal. The officer was one of 13 CBSA employees fired in 2013 for misconduct, according to agency reports obta

Scientists have discovered a vast, ancient meteorite crater in southern Alberta.

The Royal Canadian Navy has lost the use of another one of its air defence destroyers after rust was found in the hull, leaving the fleet further diminished as more than a dozen other vessels undergo regular maintenance, modernization and repairs.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - As volleys of gunfire rang out across the desert, the kidnapper stared at his captives and said, It's goodbye to you all.Margaret Thompson, an American tourist held at gunpoint...

The trial of a man accused of impaired driving in a collision that killed three young men near Beaumont heard evidence about how fast his pick-up truck was going.

Former Saskatchewan Roughriders player Kory Sheets has pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana.

Farley Mowat, one of Canada's best-known authors and a noted environmentalist, has died at age 92.

The development follows a huge increase in aggressive begging and stealing in and around world famous tourist sites in Paris.

The 23-year-old was soaked to the skin and suffering from hypothermia when he was picked up by coastguards after he was spotted drifting near to Sangatte.

More than 50 addresses in Quebec had already been searched early this morning in what police are calling a major operation to break up a drug-trafficking ring.

A Halifax navy officer who pleaded guilty to desertion will not be demoted, but will be fined and severely reprimanded.

Less than a year after scientists first warned that the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could rise above 400 parts per million and stay there, it has finally happened. For the first time in recorded history, the average level of CO2 has topped

Eli Shukron's theory is rekindling a longstanding debate about using the Bible as a field guide to identifying ancient ruins

The new chief of Roseau River First Nation has evicted the managers and staff at the Red Sun gas bar...

Refugees fleeing camps in war-torn country refused entry by Beirut, Human Rights Watch says

The shocking books (pictured) are paid for and printed by the Saudi government and also say Jews need to be exterminated and homosexuals should be 'put to death'.

There's certainly no "severe labour shortage" in the region, but the number of TFWs has risen dramatically

Republicans are strong favorites to retake the Senate majority this fall, according to The Post's new Election Lab model.

The federal government should look at lowering tariffs and relaxing supply management restrictions if it wants to close the gap between U.S. and Canadian pricing, according to a study by the C.D. Howe Institute.

A new paperclip-shaped armrest hopes to settle for good the battle over elbow room in the sky

Six months on from Typhoon Haiyan, The Telegraph’s Lewis Whyld, who covered its immediate aftermath with an unmanned drone, returns to see how the worst affected city is recovering

Civil strife in countries such as Pakistan and Syria is thwarting efforts to combat the polio virus, which has spread and become an international public health emergency, according to the World Health Organization.

A retired Canadian medic who is taking part in the "Soldier On Afghanistan Relay" says that ill and injured members of the Armed Forces can still go on to have long careers in the military. Retired Master Cpl. Paul Franklin lost both of his legs above the

They risked their lives to help the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. Now, the Afghan interpreters who immigrated to Canada say Ottawa should also be doing something to help their family members, who are still under attack in their war-ravaged country.

Leaders of two Christian denominations in Georgia said this week that guns had no place in their churches and they would opt out of a new state law allowing firearms in houses of worship as part of a broad expansion of gun rights.

Researchers on Monday described a new method to assist Darwin's finches in combating the larvae of parasitic flies responsible for killing numerous nestlings of the famous birds that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection

Meskie, a calico angora cat, has been honoured by a global pet food company for waking up its owner so she could escape from a fire last summer.

An eBay ad offering the sale of a sperm whale carcass from the western Newfoundland community of Cape St. George was pulled Monday afternoon after the online auction site learned the town was trying to sell a marine mammal.

Stargazers will be treated to another cosmic light show tonight as the annual Eta Aquarids meteor shower streams through the sky. The meteors that will be visible are part of a weeks-long shower that usually begins in late April and continues into May, pe

Every spring, in the Cree communities of northern Quebec, regular life grinds to a halt; kids take a break from school; businesses shut their doors; and people head out on the land to hunt. It's 'goose break,' a tradition that goes back centuries.

A new strategy from the Nunavut Food Security Coalition says helping people hunt and share more caribou, seal and other Inuit traditional food could help tackle the "food security crisis" in the territory.

Students around the country are taking high-stakes Common Core-aligned standardized tests now and some teachers are expressing unhappiness about having to administer them.

The Carolina Hurricanes have dismissed head coach Kirk Muller, and three of his assistants have been either fired or reassigned, the team announced Monday.

If three discoveries in mice reported on Sunday are applicable to people, making old brains and old muscles perform like young ones may require simply a blood transfusion.

New documents obtained by CBC News show management at Health Canada admitted that changes to library services would lead to risks in the department's credibility and its ability to produce evidence-based decisions.

REGINA -- The RCMP is giving a shout-out to Briercrest residents who joined forces with them on Friday in an unusual takedown that involved three suspects being taken into custody in the bucket of a tractor.

Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel has stepped down from the company he's worked at for 35 years following the fallout from the company's massive theft of customer information last fall.

Canada's telephone companies have turned the tables on the cable companies, reversing the trend that started about a decade ago when the latter started offering phone service over their cable networks.

Fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico were shocked last month when they hauled a shrimp net up to discover they had caught a rare, and slightly terrifying, Goblin shark. The mysterious sharks can live at depths of more than 1,300 metres.

A Royal Canadian Navy officer accused of leaving his post during a military operation has pleaded guilty to desertion, and will be sentenced later today in Halifax.

Two women are dead and a third is in hospital after a stabbing attack in southeast Calgary.

Less than half of Canadians know which war the famous Battle of Vimy Ridge was fought in, a new poll suggests.

Denmark's strict immigration laws have saved the country 6.7 billion euros, a government report has claimed.

A Texas judge has sparked national outrage after implying a 14-year-old rape victim was promiscuous and was not 'the victim she claimed to be'.

A prosecutor with the Delaware Attorney General's Office was charged Friday with rape, allegedly for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy, New Castle County police said.

A group of 11 terrorists with links to Al Qaeda were yesterday being interrogated on whether they are behind the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

A B.C. man who filmed a possible sasquatch sighting while hiking in the Tantalus Range near Squamish, B.C. two years ago is getting thousands of hits on YouTube after recently uploading the footage.

Ottawa says it is imposing economic sanctions on 16 more Russian "entities" over that country's actions in Ukraine.

A team of injured Canadian veterans is beginning a special long distance relay Sunday from Trenton, Ont., to Ottawa for the National Day of Honour on May 9.

The single longest battle of the Second World War was commemorated across the country Sunday as people gathered to mark the 71st anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic.

WARNING: THIS COLUMN CONTAINS GRAPHIC CONTENT Who is the most prolific serial killer in modern history?

Hydro workers have restored power to about 700 residents in the B.C. Interior who lost it when a slide of mud and trees took out power lines along Cooke Creek, 25 kilometres east of Enderby.

In the only Canadian city hosting playoff hockey this year and with the team's biggest rivals in town, authorities say they're ready for anything with the series tied 1-1 heading back to Montreal.

Noble Yahudah Ben Ysrael was in court today for a pre-trial hearing for a traffic violation of driving with a revoked license. Even though he was born in this country he says he is not a U.S. citizen but a citizen of the United Nation Of Yisrael.

Students saw a shocking sight, a pornographic picture, in a JC Harmon High School classroom and the students ended up getting in big trouble.

Amanda Spencer, 23, befriended girls, some as young as 11, on the streets of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, before luring them into a life of prostitution.

The 'Memphis Belle' monument (left) was erected at RAF Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, to honour the USFA's Eighth Air Force - who were based there during the Second World War.

If you have often imagined yourself piloting your X-Wing fighter on an attack run on the Death Star, you'll be reassured that University of Leicester students have demonstrated that your shields could take whatever the Imperial fleet can throw at you.

Just south of Canyonlands National Park, the redrock wonders merge into a scrubland oasis with a peak that juts 11,000 feet into the sky. Mesas and buttes provide panoramic views and canyons.

Ben Affleck has been busted card counting in Vegas.

California Chrome pulled away to win the 140th running of the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

A Minnesota homeowner who shot and killed two unarmed teenagers during a break-in was quickly convicted of premeditated murder Tuesday, with a jury taking about three hours to reject his claim of self-defence.

A Vancouver police officer is suing another officer, claiming he was violently assaulted and falsely imprisoned while he was conducting surveillance in the downtown area.