NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2014

Israel's announcement came after U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat that the agency was mulling an investigation into attacks on its facilities

On Wednesday, just hours before he was scheduled to speak at the school, the Campaign Life Coalition assailed Trudeau for 'using a Catholic venue to push forward his anti-life political agenda.'

He is accused of creating fake online profiles to destroy reputations in short order, presenting his targets to the world as child predators, members of a Nazi party, exotic dancers and prostitutes.

Commuters in Vancouver yesterday were greeted with the sight of a large, red Satan flashing the salute and, um, parts of his anatomy, as the statue mysteriously appeared in a park near Grandview Highway

Africa's western black rhino is now officially extinct according the latest review of animals and plants by the world's largest conservation network.

Bilal Philips, 68, a Muslim convert known for his controversial denunciations of homosexuality and music, was to be deported by Philippine immigration authorities

The judge in Oscar Pistorius's trial said Thursday he can't be found guilty of murder but that he was negligent in the killing of girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, raising the possibility that the double-amputee Olympian will be convicted of culpable homicide.

Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was likely struck by multiple "high-energy objects from outside the aircraft," causing it to break up over eastern Ukraine, a preliminary report into the deadly aviation disaster concludes.

Ukraine's president said on Wednesday Russia had removed the bulk of its forces from his country, raising hopes for a peace drive now underway after five months of conflict in which more than 3,000 people have been killed.

On Thursday, South African Judge Thokozile Masipa reads out her verdict in Oscar Pistorius's murder trial. But is South Africa also on trial? Margaret Evans reports.

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday Russia must maintain its nuclear deterrence because of what he said were a growing number of possible security threats.

The controversial, leather-clad woman at the heart of the effort to rewrite Canada's prostitution laws delivered an unexpected whip-crack of drama Wednesday among the buttoned-down senators examining Bill C-36.

Canadian food scientists are testing the slimy vegetable okra as an ingredient in ice cream, to keep it thick and creamy.

A small group is working hard to try to preserve one of the 13 African American cemeteries in the Windsor-Essex region by pushing for a provincial heritage designation.

A woman who was visiting a resettled community in Newfoundland's Placentia Bay on Labour Day weekend made an unusual discovery, when she nearly stepped on a human skull.

The ozone layer that shields life from the sun's cancer-causing ultraviolet rays is showing its first sign of thickening after years of dangerous depletion, a U.N. study says.

Archeologists have found 17 previously unknown ancient monuments in and around Stonehenge, revealing surprising new insights about the people who built the iconic ring of massive stones.

A man accused of killing his five children in South Carolina and driving their corpses through several states before dumping them in Alabama will be charged with murder, law enforcement authorities said on Wednesday.

A statue of the devil erected along the Grandview Highway at Clark Drive near the SkyTrain line early Tuesday was turning heads all day.

Golfers at a B.C. resort were surprised to find a baby bear using their putting green as a playground.

Richard Kiel, the towering actor best known for portraying steel-toothed villain Jaws in a pair of James Bond films, has died. He was 74.

The laugh of the loon across southern Canadian lakes may soon be replaced by the calls of unfamiliar birds such as white-faced ibises and Mississippi kites, because of climate change.

Joel Isfeld thought his precious Savannah cat, Cleo, was lost after she sneaked onto his condo balcony and jumped from the 17th floor.

The Northern Lights may be especially brilliant during an expected geomagnetic storm Friday after a sun spot erupted early this week.

Toronto mayor Rob Ford has been admitted to hospital for what doctors are calling a possible tumour in his abdomen.

About 26,000 Calgary homes and businesses are still without power after a freak September snowstorm blanketed the city.

SULEIMAN BEG Iraq (Reuters) - A small group of people pick through putrefying human remains laid out on plastic sheets by the side of a road in northern Iraq, searching for any trace of missing friends

BANGKOK (Reuters) - As he prepares to move in to Bangkok's Government House this week, Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is going to great lengths to sweep away any occult challenge.

Islamic State (Isis) fanatics have threatened to kill Twitter employees if they continue to shut down their accounts and stop them spreading propaganda.

Frequent pot use by teens is linked to a greater likelihood of incomplete education, suicide attempts and other harmful effects, say researchers in Australia and New Zealand, who suggest their findings should be considered as countries move to decriminali

Bernard Ominayak, longtime Lubicon Nation leader, collected $1.5 million in recent years while the northern community lacked running water and adequate housing, according to an new audit released Tuesday. Chief Billy Joe Laboucan, who leads the Lubicon La

In a cheeky new video game called Aura of Power, a red-headed character named Alison tries to get to the Skypalace while collecting diamonds, burning taxpayer dollars and leaping over journalists. On her way through the city, she passes signs that point h

An Iranian news site affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards warned this week that Israel is spearheading a dangerous global plot to spread the Krav Maga martial art worldwide. Mashregh News's alert comes amid reports that Angelina Jolie is "crazy about"

A muskie-hating fisherman is in a sea of controversy after he gleefully bludgeoned a fish to death, discarded it, then strangely bragged about it on video while likening it to smoking weed.

Tyson is the latest in a bizarre cast of characters to meet with Ford. Among guests so far: Hulk Hogan, Ben Johnson, Snow and an actor from the Trailer Park Boys

She called on Olivia Chow and John Tory to 'do the right thing' come the eve of the election, and endorse whoever has a better shot of winning

Alyson Sidra, who is married and dating outside that relationship, gives a crash course on polyamory and explains why it can be a recipe for relationship success

Jose Bautista drove in four runs and starter Mark Buehrle worked seven innings as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Chicago Cubs, 9-2 on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre.

A mother in Newfoundland's Conception Bay was sent to prison today after a judge threw the book at her for abusing her children.

The Atikamekw First Nation in Quebec has declared its sovereignty over 80,000 square kilometres of territory and says any development in that area must get its approval.

A man who tangled with a police dog in Prince Albert following a wild car chase is facing a number of charges, including animal cruelty. Police say he was nude at the time of the encounter.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that one of Franklin's lost ships has been found, following the disclosure that two artifacts from the 19th-century Franklin expedition were found on an island in Nunavut.

A black teenage girl has been violently beaten by a black classmate for acting 'too much like a white person', she told police.

Bicycle theft is a problem in big cities, so these entrepreneurs are trying to help fix it

Anyone who likes scotch whiskey, and is willing to pay $19,888 for a single bottle, will get the chance Tuesday to purchase a 60-year-old Glenfarclas premium single malt. There are only 360 bottles available worldwide and the B.C. Liquor Stores is the fir

Eligible families have signed up in droves to collect the $40 a day offered to parents by the B.C. government during the teachers strike. As of early Monday morning, parents of 225,520 students had signed up for the stipend, according to a finance minstry

17-year-old says she is one of about 40 Yazidi women and girls, some as young as 12, still being held captive and sexually abused on a daily basis by Isil fighters

(WMC) - Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong are holding a news conference at 2 p.m. to address the brutal attack that happened in a Kroger parking lot. Three people

Charl and Naira Nel, who claimed fear of rape and violence against whites by the black majority in their homeland, have won the Federal Court's support to continue their claim

It's no white lie: Lobstermen in Maine caught a pair of rare albino lobsters within a week.

Mission RCMP spent all day Monday pulling evidence and material from the illegal lab which housed pressure vessels, reactions chambers and hid buckets of volatile and dangerous solvents and acids.

RCMP say a hunter who went missing in Kananaskis on Saturday was killed when he accidentally got between a mother bear and her cub.

Limits on energy production in the West enabled conflicts in the Ukraine and the Middle East

Planned Parenthood opposes over-the-counter contraception, pushing back against a popular Republican argument being used in many Senate races this year. The nonprofit's lobbying arm, which advocates for women's reproductive health issues, argued that cal

Russia's military acted in an "unnecessarily provocative" manner when its aircraft circled a Canadian ship in the Black Sea on Sunday, says Canada's minister of national defence.

The calendar says its summer but the weather outside is frightful. A hot, sunny weekend dissolved overnight into rain and wet snow throughout the city, with temperatures around 0 degrees Celsius.

The Defence Department balked after the cost of a long-delayed docking and refuelling station in the Arctic ballooned to more than twice its original estimate, a newly released document shows.

This was the week when global warming jumped the shark. Just like it did last week. And the one before...

The Higgs boson 'God particle' could cause space and time to collapse if it was put under extreme stress by scientists, Stephen Hawking has warned in a new book.

The mother of a nine-year-old girl found dead in a vehicle near Sundre last week has been charged with first-degree murder.

The Pittsburgh Steeler's Antonio Brown isn't shy when he does return punts. Check out the finishing move Brown performed at the end of this punt return against the Cleveland Browns.

Canada's so-called "War on Science" has made international headlines, especially after deep funding cuts led to the closure of some of Canada's most important research centres. A push to prioritize economic gains over basic research is endangering science

A media request to speak to a federal government scientist about rock snot generated more than 100 pages of emails to and from 16 public servants, but no interview, the Canadian Press reports.

Pundits have spilled barrels of ink and politicians have spewed torrents of words on murdered and missing aboriginal women. None have addressed the root cause, which is too uncomfortable. The simple, horrible truth is that the rest of us, the 98 per cent

An unusual Edmonton group is seeking to raise awareness about their unique formula for blissful romance. Polyamory Edmonton is a group of people that practise consensual, non-monogamous relationships. They are in the process of becoming a non-profit organ

A prominent national security reporter for the Los Angeles Times routinely submitted drafts and detailed summaries of his stories to CIA press handlers prior to publication, according to documents obtained by The Intercept. Email exchanges between CIA pub

More than 50 vessels, including 11 magnificent square-sail ships, descended on the south east corner of the capital for the Royal Greenwich Tall Ships Regatta. Pics

Hospitals across the Midwest - especially Kansas City - are being inundated with children infected by a bizarre virus, which first comes on as a common cold before developing into severe respiratory distress.

An Afghan judge on Sunday sentenced seven men to death for the gang-rape of four women in a case that has sparked nationwide outrage, with angry protests outside the court and proceedings broadcast live on television.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities have ordered the arrest of nine men who appeared in a video purporting to show the country's first gay marriage, accusing them of inciting debauchery and undermining

The brutal Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorist organization has continued its bloody string of executions, this time finding fit to shoot two female doctors to death after they refused to treat members of the terror group.

Third straight U.S. Open title worth record $4 million, ties Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova with 18 majors.

The Labour leader revealed passport checks 'would have to be looked at' with a party spokesman adding: 'It would be up to us to secure our northern border'.

Like an island in the middle of the sugarcane country of south Florida, Miracle Village is a small religious colony of bungalow-style houses for people who were found guilty, and have usually served a prison sentence, for a sex crime.

Founder says wearers can't even feel the difference in the weight of their spectacles with gadget attached

The possible use of corpses from executed Chinese prisoners for a public display as part of an exhibition in Ontario merits a criminal and coroner's investigation, a human-rights group is asserting.

French journalist who was held hostage by extremists in Syria identifies gunman Mehdi Nemmouche as one of his captors

Islamist rebels, al-Shabab, select new leader after confirming killing of previous leader by U.S.

Half a million B.C. students are facing a second week without classes, after the government officially throws cold water on the teachers' offer of binding arbitration to settle the dispute. Union says it will continue to keep the option open.

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard took advantage of a public appearance with Prime Minister Stephen Harper Saturday to reiterate his wish for the province to sign the Constitution.

Deer on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge? That's what motorists saw when a pair of deer ran across the northbound lanes and safely made it to the other side.

A man representing a group of 30 militants in Syria reportedly contacted a radicalisation research centre in London and told experts he and his group want to return to Britain

Police are asking for help identifying a group of young males involved in a vicious assault on a couple in Springfield, Missouri.

Researchers claim up to 15 per cent of Western jihadists in Syria and Iraq are women

UN has been negotiating with Jabhat Al-Nusra rebels for the release of the hostages since last Thursday

NASA announced that a small asteroid will safely pass "very close" to Earth on Sept. 7.

The world's precious few remaining large forests are fragmenting at an alarming rate, and the amount of degradation in Canada leads the world, threatening species such as woodland caribou, a new analysis suggests.

Two people are dead and eight others injured following a moose-related collision on Highway 11 near Saint-Louis-de-Kent on Thursday night, say RCMP.

The student, whose family is from the Markham area, was struck while walking to student dorms on campus around 9 a.m. Friday.

MAINZ, Germany - Small groups of hardline Salafist Muslims have been patrolling the streets of a German city hoping to "influence and recruit young people

A Liberal MP wants a Commons committee to launch a full-scale parliamentary inquiry into the national security threat posed by individuals who come back to Canada after becoming involved with overseas terrorist entities.

According to the Internal Security Service (ISS), Estonia's national agency for counterintelligence and high-profile corruption investigations, one of their officials was abducted at gunpoint at Luhamaa border checkpoint this morning where he was discharg

An Edmonton webmaster accused of posting a video that authorities believe shows Luka Magnotta killing a Chinese university student has been committed to stand trial. Following a two-day preliminary hearing, Judge Steven Bilodeau ordered Mark Marek, owner

U.S.-based fund Quadrangle Group LLC is suing Industry Canada for $1.2-billion for damages related to equity investments worth hundreds of millions of dollars it made in struggling wireless player Mobilicity. Quadrangle said on Friday it invested the huge

A woman dubbed the 'Angel of Woolwich' for confronting Lee Rigby's two killers has been detained under the Mental Health Act after allegedly racially abusing a shop worker.

Researcher Krishna Upadhyaya (left), 52, and photographer Ghimire Gundev (right), 36, from London, were due to fly from Doha to London on Sunday but failed to arrive at the airport.

Shweta Prasad (pictured), best-known for her lead role in 2002 film Makdee at the age of 11, was arrested in Hyderabad, India, on Sunday after becoming involved in the sex trade.

Police raided multiple addresses associated with an organisation that is suspected of selling stickers in support of Isis and using the proceeds to fund the jih

A gathering of thousands of Isis (now known as the Islamic State) supporters has taken place at Jerusalem's Temple Mount, according to local Israeli media.

An Israel-based intelligence news service claims that the Saudi, British and Australian governments have credible information that two powerful Islamic terrorist groups -- the Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- have plans to launch a c