NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2014

The captain of the sunken Italian cruise ship Costa Concordia sparks outrage after delivering a lecture to university students on best emergency practices.

Qaraqosh, Tal Kayf, Bartella and Karamlesh emptied of original populations and now under the control of jihadi militants

The long-lasting winter ice in Lake Superior is causing a shortened summer season for communities along the north shore.

David Smythe has been prominent in highlighting the dangers of fracking and helped to persuade West Sussex County Council to reject an application to drill an exploratory shale well.

The city fumigated three subway trains after bedbugs were spotted on them over the weekend, the MTA says.

A one-two weather punch gained strength and churned closer to Hawaii as residents braced for the first hurricane to strike the state in more than two decades.

An Indonesian bombmaker convicted of helping to orchestrate terror attacks on the resort island of Bali in 2005 which killed 20 people - including four Australians - was released on parole Wednesday, an official said. Muhammad Cholili, 36, was sentenced t

They are scared of lettuce. They abhor pumpkins. They practise maybe the oldest religion in the world. And now, after at least 6,000 years, they are finally being exterminated, even as I write this.

President Barack Obama says U.S. corporations that adopt foreign addresses to avoid taxes are unpatriotic. His own administration helped one $20 billion American company do just that.

There's a reason that power companies are attacking rooftop solar across the nation: They see those silicon panels as nothing short of an existential threat. As the cost of solar continues to fall, and more people opt for the distributed power offered by

A Brampton, Ont., teenager has become the first person in North America to have a benign tumour near his hip removed without radiation or surgery.

BlackBerry Ltd. said on Wednesday its Android and iOS device-management service has won key security clearance from the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). The company said the DISA clearance will allow its customers in various U.S. Department

Alison Redford is resigning as MLA for Calgary-Elbow "to start the next chapter of my life," making the announcement one day before the auditor general of Alberta releases of a special report on the expenses of her office while she was premier.

The U.S. government is seeking the forfeiture of millions of dollars, property, vehicles and jewelry from a former B.C. woman who has admitted to running a Ponzi scheme.

A week after expressing his pro-Israeli views, Paul Estrin has resigned as president of the Green Party of Canada.

Yoshiki Sasai was found with a rope around his neck at the government-affiliated science institute Riken in Kobe, in western Japan.

Relatives of Ebola victims in Liberia defied government quarantine orders and dumped infected bodies in the streets as West African governments struggled to enforce tough measures to curb an outbreak of the virus that has killed 887 people. In Nigeria

There are plenty of expected, unexpected and just plain unusual emergencies that New Hyde Park firefighters face on a daily basis. A Toyota Prius crashing into the firehouse, a woman behind the wheel with a pilfered pet store python around her neck, wasn'

He dressed in a wig and fake padded breasts and cruised popular D.C. nightlife spots on the prowl for drunken people he could rob.

The unmanned European Space Agency spacecraft will enter orbit around the comet 67P/Churumov-Gerasimenko Wednesday morning starting at 4 a.m. ET. The ESA is streaming the event live.

Residents in the community of Clyde River caught their first bowhead over the weekend, after an exciting and, sometimes dangerous, hunt.

An independent human rights board of inquiry has found that an employee of the Black Educators Association was discriminated against, in part, because of the colour of her skin.

Chinese authorities have requested that the son of a Canadian couple being investigated for suspected theft of military and intelligence information come in for questioning.

The trial of Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone on bribery charges appears set to end with a settlement. State prosecutors said they would accept his offer of $100 million to end the case.

The disclosure of non-conviction information on police record checks costs many people educational and job opportunities in this province.

Cybersecurity researcher Ruben Santamarta says he has figured out how to hack the satellite communications equipment on passenger jets through their WiFi and inflight entertainment systems.

James Brady, the former White House press secretary who was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on then-U.S. president Ronald Reagan and then became a prominent gun-control advocate, has died at the age of 73.

A dozen men were seized and stripped naked before they were forced to undergo circumcisions in western Kenya as part of a 'ceremony', it has been reported.

CHIMACUM, Wash. - Graffiti expressing affection for someone named Miranda has marred one of the most sacred sites for an American Indian tribe in Washington state.

Residents of a large swath of northwestern Ohio are still without drinkable water for a second day Sunday after a dangerous toxin was discovered in an area water treatment plant.

Canada's last airworthy Lancaster bomber is set to take off Monday for a U.K. tour with the only other operational aircraft of its kind.

Officers find pipe bombs, gas canisters, explosives, and a detonator inside suspect's car.

Police cars have been repainted to say "Islamic police." Women are forbidden from wearing bright colors and prints. The homes of Shiites and others have signs stating they are property of the Islamic State. And everyone walks in fear amid a new reign of t

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Some members of a tiny Coquitlam-area First Nation want their chief to resign after damning financial disclosures were published this week.

Rachel Schoeler's plan is to leave Nanaimo's Neck Point at 8 a.m. PT today and swim 35 kilometres to Sechelt on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast, arriving some 11 to 13 hours later.

A woman dies from a suspected overdose at a major music festival in Penticton, B.C., and police say they expect more overdoses will be reported before it is over.

Long lines formed at water distribution centres and store shelves were quickly emptied of bottled water after Ohio's fourth-largest city told residents not to drink from its water supply that was fouled by toxins possibly from algae on Lake Erie.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck southwestern China on Sunday, killing at least 175 people and leaving more than 180 missing and 1,400 injured in a remote area of Yunnan province, causing thousands of buildings, including a school, to collapse.

GameStop is now requiring its customers in Philadelphia, but not in the suburbs, to provide a fingerprint scan on certain transactions. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and Philly's Top Spots

A LAKE that mysteriously appeared in a drought-stricken region of Tunisia last month is being hailed as a miracle by locals but may in fact be radioactive.

Turtle populations, including endangered species, are facing greater risk from those who covet the animals as aquarium novelties or dinner delicacies.

Emergency crews were called to a street near the Londonderry Mall Saturday afternoon after an Edmonton Transit Service bus caught fire.

P.K. Subban can call Montreal his hockey home for the foreseeable future after the defenceman struck an eight-year contract with the Canadiens on Saturday.

The RCMP in Jasper, Alta. say the discovery of human remains on the Athabasca Glacier ends a nearly two-decade old search for a missing New Brunswick man.

A baby delivered by emergency C-section after her mother was struck by a car that crashed through the doors of a Costco store in London,Ont. has died, according to police

It's really starting to look as if an "impossible" space propulsion technology actually works.

The fossilized remains of a crow shark that is believed to be 80 to 90 million years old has experts talking at a Manitoba fossil museum, 39 years after it was unearthed at a mine site.

Peter Kaludjak of Arviat, Nunavut, caught a beluga whale in Hudson Bay this week, only to have a polar bear also take an interest in it.

He was the most decorated First Nations soldier in the history of the Canadian military, but very few people have ever heard of Francis Pegahmagabow.

Paul Clark was rowing from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy to celebrate his 70th birthday.

For the first time, waves rearing as high as the second-floor windows of a building have been detected in a part of the Arctic Ocean that's normally calmed by ice.

Five vintage fire trucks are up for sale in Calgary.

The term "gluten-free" may lead some consumers to think they are getting an overall healthier option, according to new research conducted by nutrition experts at the University of Florida.

The Vancouver Park Board voted unanimously to allow the aquarium to keep cetaceans in captivity at a special meeting Thursday night, but ordered an end to the breeding of most whales and dolphins.

A 42-year-old Ottawa man faces nearly 200 charges of identity fraud, defamation and criminal harassment charges involving 38 people across Canada, the U.S. and U.K.

There is another possible setback for premier Christy Clark's vision of LNG as the fuel for B.C.'s economic future. One of the key players in a Kitimat liquefied natural gas project, Houston-based Apache Corporation has pulled out. Apache has already spen

A company that rents out high-end digital camera equipment to clients across the country has suspended its service after several of its packages were stolen while being transported by Canada Post.

TORONTO -- Television personality Don Cherry lent his support Monday to a ceremony honouring the First World War service of British Home Children, a group that formed a little-known and often sordid chapter of Canadian history.

First came love, then came marriage, then came the lawsuit by a B.C. lawyer who says his Vietnamese bride ditched him after getting a Canadian visa.

Actyl Group Inc., a company that recruits temporary foreign workers on behalf of Canadian employers, has filed a lawsuit against McDonald's Canada alleging breach of contract and defamation of character.