NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2014

Former Ottawa hospital technician Misbahuddin Ahmed has been found guilty of two terrorism-related charges by a jury.

A female executive is accused of coercing a female subordinate into sex.

An extremely rare brain-eating amoeba has killed a nine-year-old girl from Johnson County Kansas.

Selective Service receives calls from bewildered relatives after mistakenly sending notices to Pennsylvania men born in 1890s

North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into the sea on Sunday, South Korean and Japanese media reported, the latest in a series of test-firings seen as expressions of anger over its failure to win talks on receiving outside aid, and over ongoing U.S.

Three persons were hospitalized after several thousand people tested their bravery by dashing alongside six fighting bulls through the slippery streets of Pamplona in the sixth running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival on Saturday.

Officials with the Calgary Stampede say the accident happened during what appeared to be a normal run. The steer was seen to have difficulty standing after the event and veterinarians were brought out to assess the animal.

Paul McCallum booted four field goals and running back Andrew Harris racked up 197 total yards and a touchdown to boost the B.C. Lions to a 26-13 victory on the road over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

A provincewide heat wave in British Columbia is expected to hit record highs in the coming days, heightening concerns about wildfires.

Some residents from the wealthy Fort McKay First Nation are in financial trouble after the First Nation failed to provide an expected dividend from oilsands profits last month.

Three valuable rodeo horses belonging to world champion steer wrestler Lee Graves have been pulled from competition after they were injured in an alleged abduction attempt Wednesday.

Writing left on the door of one of the buildings read: 'this is the fate of any prostitution'

More torture for Brazil on Saturday, as the football-mad nation saw its team recieve another insult, falling 3-0 to the Netherlands in the third-place match at the World Cup.

U.S. law enforcement officials are investigating after a 48-foot female whale well-known in the waters of southeast Alaska was killed in a collision with a boat.

Soaked in Kickstarter money, the 'world's fastest hot tub' built by two Canadians is at full steam to break a speed-racing record.

One person is dead following an incident at North American Palladium's Lac des Iles mine north of Thunder Bay.

For the fifth time this year, an unmarked fishing net containing dead fish has been pulled from Lake Nipissing by the Ministry of Natural Resources.

Katherine Sinclair embarks on 1,300 kilometre walk around Lake Winnipeg. She wants the lake to be given legal title, recognized as a person, with legal rights.

Poachers are putting turtle populations at risk across southern Ontario, say conservationists, by selling them on the black market as novelties or food.

A happy, healthy and feathered baby arrived earlier this week at an Ontario hospital to a pair of rare peregrine falcons nesting atop Lakeridge Health in Oshawa.

The future of the Peel River Watershed Land Use Plan is now in the hands of Yukon Supreme Court Justice Ron Veale as arguments wrapped up Thursday morning.

A young woman from Calgary has invented a faster way to clean up toxic waste generated by oilsands extraction, using filters made from sand and bacteria. That has made Hayley Todesco, 18, the Google Science Fair's regional winner for Canada this year.

The federal government has dropped its appeal of a court decision involving the care of a severely disabled teen living on a Nova Scotia reserve.

The man police are calling a "person of interest" in the Nathan O'Brien disappearance case has been granted bail on an unrelated charge involving identity theft.

A federal inmate from the Northwest Territories who served time in Manitoba and Alberta committed suicide in 2010 after spending 162 consecutive days in segregation, with corrections officers unaware he had tried to end his life before, an inquiry has fou

A stunt pilot heading to Yellowknife to take part in Saturday's airshow made an emergency landing on Deh Cho Boulevard over the lunch hour on Friday.

Horses at the Calgary Stampede can be considered high-performance athletes, so it follows that there is also a lot of specialized support available for them behind the scenes - help that wasn't always there before.

A 29-year-old mother who left her infant son locked in her car in the parking lot of a Montreal shopping centre Thursday will have to pay a $100 fine and could face criminal charges.

Bassist Charlie Haden, who helped change the shape of jazz more than a half-century ago as a member of Ornette Coleman's groundbreaking quartet and liberated the bass from its traditional rhythm section role, has died. He was 76.

Tommy Ramone, a co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones and the last surviving member of the original group, has died, a business associate said Saturday.

This is a true story of wartime determination and devotion - of a young woman's passionate love that defied social convention in an era when women didn't even have the vote.

Men huddling in trenches quickly spiced their conversation with foreign words, dialect, rhyming slang, puns and new terms for the strange conditions they found themselves in.

A woman in Carling Township, north of Parry Sound, says she felt trapped for weeks while a nuisance bear repeatedly returned to her home, causing thousands of dollars in damage.

Parks Canada is offering a unique opportunity to history buffs this summer: a chance to sample what life was like in the Newfoundland Regiment in 1917. The CBC's Adam Walsh took advantage of the offer.

A ridge of high pressure is pushing warm weather up the coast. Temperatures will rise throughout the week and are set to peak on Wednesday.

Parts of Yellowstone National Park in America's north-west were temporarily closed Thursday after underground heat from the park's super volcano combined with high summer temperatures melted a section of road.

After spending five days in the dark, a fed up Nova Scotia Power customer decided to put her frustrations in writing. It turns out, she wasn't alone.

While Mars and Jupiter are named after gods, planets outside our solar system are stuck with ugly names like HD 108874 b. Luckily for them, you'll soon get a chance to give them names they deserve.

A 6.8-magnitude earthquake has hit Japan's northern coast near the nuclear power plant crippled in the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

A private, unmanned spaceship heads to the International Space Station tomorrow, and along the way, it will test a new Canadian technology that will be critical to future missions.

The U.S. is facing a crisis as tens of thousands of unaccompanied children have showed up at its southern border and thousands of other migrants from Central America are seeking refuge. The issue is furthering divisions in Washington.

A B.C. family says Canadian immigration officials are ruining their adoptive daughter's life, after their failure to resolve her visa status left her living on her own in South Africa.

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the Ontario government's right to permit industrial logging on the Grassy Narrows First Nation's traditional lands, in a 7-0 decision released today.

Employees at a Seattle-area thrift shop were left scratching their heads after someone donated three human skulls.

A man charged with killing four children and their parents forced his way into the family's suburban Houston home, tied them up and shot them in the back of the head when they refused to tell him where his ex-wife was, authorities said Thursday.

Montreal police are investigating after a seven-month-old baby boy was found locked in a car in the parking lot of the Rockland Centre in the Town of Mount Royal.

One woman is in hospital and Brantford Police are "shocked" no one was killed after a man opened fire on a crowd outside of a bar past last call Thursday morning.

Metro Vancouver is calling for waste bylaw changes, claiming the Lower Mainland's burgeoning craft beer industry is overwhelming the sewage system.

Efforts are underway to save a young false killer whale calf which has washed ashore on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Lemon-Lime, a nine-month-old female lab cross, had an open wound on her throat and was covered in wood ticks when she was brought to D'Arcy's A.R.C. by animal services staff on Wednesday.

Twenty-six years ago, a group of recreational divers made a gruesome discovery in the Otonabee River in Peterborough, Ont.

The wolves had other ideas about their new digs at Winnipeg's new Journey to Churchill exhibit.

Four tourists were killed on Highway 93 south of Jasper Wednesday evening when a car collided head-on with a motorhome. This is only the latest in a series of fatal crashes on Alberta's highways.

Langley Animal Protection Society says a kitten has died and three others escaped, after 10 kittens were found abandoned, taped inside a cardboard box thrown in a dumpster.

A pro-life protest gets out of hand, and now a woman is charged with a crime.

VANCOUVER - Buoyed by a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision, hereditary chiefs of the Gitxsan (GIT-san) First Nations have served eviction notice to CN Rail, logging companies and sport fishermen to leave their lands.

Ukraine has asked for the return of its dolphins, which defected to Russia when their Crimea home was annexed in March.

B.C. is getting smoked for tax losses of about $120 million per year because so many people use illegal tobacco.

Amid ongoing rocket fire Israel continues to treat over 20 sick Palestinians, allows food, aid into Gaza.

Iraq warns the UN that Sunni militants have seized nuclear materials used for scientific research at a university in Mosul.

Controversial emergency laws will be introduced into the {UK} Commons next Monday to reinforce the powers of security services to require internet and phone companies to keep records of their customers' emails and calls. The move follows private talks ove

A Silicon Valley success story turned sordid this week with the arrest of an upscale prostitute who allegedly left a Google executive dying on his yacht after shooting him up with a deadly hit of heroin.

An 80-year-old American agave plant that will flower once then die seems poised to do just that.

Former mayor Ray Nagin, the businessman-turned-politician who became the worldwide face of the city after Hurricane Katrina, was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday.

Politicians Seek Solution to Costume Character Bullies in Time Square. Licensing legislation must respect first amendment rights.

Raju the elephant was rescued by a team from North London-based charity Wildlife SOS after suffering for 50 years in the Uttar Pradesh area of India.

French police stumbled on terror plans after decrypting coded messages between Algerian butcher living in southern France and high-ranking members of al-Qaeda in the Maghreb

Terror group vows to continue firing rockets at Israel after air strike reportedly kills 7 in Gaza house

The Iron Dome missile defense system has achieved a nearly 90 percent success rate since Monday night, an improvement over its performance during Operation Pillar of Defense in November 2012.

When an East Huntingdon Township woman showed up for work Tuesday, she was greeted by an angry deer foaming at the mouth.

The militants, who are members of the Islamic State terror group, were filmed attacking the centuries-old tomb in the city of Mosul in Iraq's Ninevah province.

An American who co-authored the book 'Fiesta: How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona' became one of their victims Wednesday when he was one of two men gored at the festival.

BREAKING: IDF Slays 2nd Terror Cell Trying To Infiltrate Israel Near Gaza

Tour de France riders were too busy negotiating rain-slicked roads and hazardous cobblestone sections to notice the countryside during a drama-filled fifth stage on Wednesday.

A Canadian airman shot down over Germany more than seven decades ago has finally been laid to rest.

Canada's largest private sector union will likely hold a formal meeting early next week as it attempts to begin the process of representing major junior hockey players from around the country.

A decorated Afghanistan war veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder says the only help he got from military counsellors was he was given a rock to squeeze when he wasn't feeling well.

A cow can get penicillin without a prescription in most parts of Canada, unlike humans who have to see their doctors first.

WildSafeBC, the District of Squamish and the Conservation Officer Service have issued a wildlife email alert warning of a grizzly bear sighting in the Cheekye Fan area north of Squamish.

Two children aged five years and three months were treated by emergency services after a man threw a steel block through the window of a family's car while passing them on a highway in Halton Hills, Ont.

Victoria's new Hotel Zed is a retro traveller's dream, with the look and feel of the 1970s but plenty of modern comforts and technology.

Smoke from the roughly 137 wildfires burning in the Northwest Territories is travelling as far away as southern Saskatchewan and Churchill, Man., in what one official says is the worst fire season in 30 years.

High winds and hot, dry conditions helped fuel a wildfire near some oil and gas operations in northeastern B.C. overnight.

Most smartphones produced in 2014 will follow a certain design playbook: rectangular screen, a few buttons around the edges, and just enough thickness to house the internals and the requisite battery. One could argue that this is the idealized design for

Richard Schiffman: Climate change denialists are suing scientists, seeking access to their private emails. They will stifle inquiry and scientific progress

Israel launched a major operation against Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza in the early hours of Tuesday morning, dubbed Operation Protective Edge, following heavy Hamas rocket fire over the preceding days.

Albertans will get to vote on a new design for provincial licence plates, but keeping the slogan "Wild Rose Country" is not an option.

A chuckwagon driver is hurt and a horse is dead following two unrelated incidents during training exercises at the Calgary Stampede.

Extra police officers on Chicago's streets weren't enough to quell a long weekend of violence that ended with 14 people shot to death and dozens more injured.

Whale poop may actually play an important role in mitigating the effects of climate change, according to University of Vermont researchers.

The wreck of a U.S. Air Force twin-engine plane that crashed into Lake Ontario more than 60 years ago has been found in deep water off upstate New York, a team of underwater explorers said Tuesday.

Germany advanced to the World Cup final with a shocking 7-1 pasting of host Brazil Tuesday at Estadio Mineirao in Belo Horizonte.

Paleontologists have identified fossils of a thumb-sized hedgehog and a spaniel-sized tapir that scurried through the B.C. rainforest 50 million years ago.

Saudi Arabia has placed 30,000 soldiers on its northern border after 2,500 Iraqi soldiers reportedly quit their posts, leaving the country open to the threat of a lightning advance by ISIS militants.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian journalist and blogger Marzieh Rasouli reported to Evin prison on Tuesday to serve a two-year sentence and receive 50 lashes over charges of spreading anti-government propaganda,

About 150 people gathered outside of the courthouse to silently protest the Yukon Government's land use plan for the Peel watershed, the subject of a major court battle that got underway in Whitehorse yesterday.

Under tough new anti-terrorism legislation to be announced on Wednesday in France, suspected radicals would be banned from international air travel and...

Omar Khadr, a Canadian who pleaded guilty in a U.S. military court to war-crimes charges, would have been sentenced as a youth had he been in Canada, and should be serving his time in a provincial facility, the Alberta Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday.

New papers in Science debate the limitations of international agreements on climate change and suggest reforms.

The Vatican bank on Tuesday reported a big drop in profits as Pope Francis presses reforms to make the scandal-tainted institution more transparent.

Smith Creek in southeastern Saskatchewan normally runs dry in July. Last week it hit an all-time high and the stream gauge that scientists have been monitoring for decades is now under water. So are countless homes and farms in Saskatchewan and Manitoba w

An Alberta politician caught trying to buy sex from undercover officers in Minnesota while on a government trip has been allowed back into the Progressive Conservative caucus. Government whip George VanderBurg said Fort McMurray-Wood Buffalo member of the

Kimberley B.C. is set to become home to one of the first grid connected solar projects in the province.

Ahmad Jebril, 43, who is on probation after serving 6 1/2 years in prison, has become the most popular religious figure for Western fighters flocking to Syria to battle its government.

Scientists say if no action is taken during California's extreme drought, there could be dire and irreversible consequences for local wildlife.

Iraqi antiquities officials are calling on the Obama administration to save Nineveh and other sites around jihadist-occupied Mosul. But are drone strikes really the answer?

It is by far the highest level at the South Pole since satellite observations on which the figures depend began in 1979.

Bronx Bombers fan Andrew Rector claims he was defamed by announcers during an April 13 game. So he would like $10 million for his "emotional distress."