NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2014

Melody Sterner just wanted to have fun dancing at a local nightclub that features partial striptease, but she says Saskatoon police officers told her she needs an adult entertainer licence.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Tunisian man accused of ties to an unsuccessful plot to derail a Canada-U.S. passenger train on Tuesday accepted a plea offer in federal court that includes no terrorism charges.

Manitoba says a unique experiment using liquid potash has halted a zebra mussel invasion in one of the province's harbours.

Hundreds of scientists have signed a letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper saying the recent report on the Northern Gateway Pipeline is so flawed, it's essentially useless.

Ten generals and five other senior military officers were found guilty in courts-martial of providing arms and information to Boko Haram extremists, a leading Nigerian newspaper reported Tuesday.

The lights could be going out across Europe unless it finds a way to stimulate massive new investment in energy infrastructure.

Detroit's bankruptcy is not an isolated case of fiscal mismanagement of a city in decline, Richard Ravitch, adviser to the judge handling Detroit's bankruptcy case said in an interview on CBC's The Lang & O'Leary Exchange.

A Canadian man won a U.K. town's famed annual shin-kicking competition on Monday, edging out the English defending champion in the finals.

Parents Bryson and Brandy Rowley watched in horror Saturday as a car sped through the Utah park where their children were playing, zipping across the grass and narrowly missing several kids. When the car turned around and looked like it would make anothe

The Raelians Movement is asking the Canadian government for an embassy where it can welcome alien life.

Zagorka Jovanovic, 68, who goes by the name Esmeralda aus Bilk, was stabbed on her doorstep by Turkish man Metin Kolkilic after his lover left him.

Airfares around the world are set to fall by 3.5 per cent this year, according to a new forecast by the International Air Transport Association.

Five fishermen were airlifted from an ice floe last night after abandoning their vessel in the Notre Dame Bay area on the northeast coast of Newfoundland.

Research indicates many garden hoses leach measurable levels of lead, bisphenol A and phthalates.

The Obama administration on Monday will unveil a plan to cut Earth-warming pollution from power plants by 30 per cent by 2020, setting in motion one of the most significant actions to address global warming in U.S. history.

Mary Soames, the last surviving child of British World War II leader Winston Churchill, has died. She was 91.

The Los Angeles Kings defeated the Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 in overtime of Game 7 of the Western Conference final on Sunday to advance to the Stanley Cup final.

Seven people died from a lack of oxygen after climbing down a well in Cambodia to retrieve about 75 cents, police and relatives said Sunday.

Mount Rainier National Park officials said that due to dangerous conditions there are no immediate plans to recover the bodies of six climbers who likely fell thousands of feet to their deaths in the worst alpine accident on the Washington state mountain

A baby barred owl has caught a break. The tiny bird of prey was found defenceless on the ground on Gabriola Island. One of its dead siblings was dead on the ground a short distance away. The . . .

Emmy-winning actress Ann B. Davis, who played the housekeeper on "The Brady Bunch," has died at a San Antonio hospital. She was 88.

EXCLUSIVE: The 10 most prolific offenders under 18 has been arrested 1,000 times between them while one youngster from Gloucestershire was apprehended a staggering 288 times.

Nobody wants strangers traipsing upon their property and taking uninvited rests upon their backyard hammocks. But it's likely that residents in one Daytona Beach, Florida neighborhood won't be getting in the face of the intruder who grabbed some R&am

Old Yale Brewing Co. took home the coveted beer of the year prize at the Canadian Brewing Awards on Saturday night for its Sasquatch Stout.

A Washington state hunter was killed in northern B.C. by a stray bullet fired as a wounded grizzly bear charged his guided group. He was reportedly hunting in a remote area near Vanderhoof.

A St. John's nurse put her nursing skills to good use on Monday when she used her CPR training to save the life of a baby duck stuck in a storm drain.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper launched into a full-force attack on the evils of communism at a fundraiser Friday for a monument to its victims.

Profiles of the five Guantanamo detainees who were swapped for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

Mehdi Nemmouche, who was known to French counter-terrorism police, found by chance by customs agents in Marseille

The Canadian naval warship damaged by fire while at sea in February has returned to its home port in B.C.