NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2014

Canadian Pacific Railway says it will remove bulldozers and pay to restore a park after it accidentally tore up land it does not own.

A 135-metre container ship laden with bunker and diesel fuel is adrift off the west coast of Haida Gwaii, the Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria is reporting.

NASHIK: In a shocking incident, a woman, who allegedly flouted a local voting 'fatwa', was assaulted and set on fire in Yevla town of the district in Maharashtra two days ago, police said here Friday.

An underwater archeologist with Parks Canada says the recent discovery of a Royal Navy wreck in Canada's Arctic has opened a historical window onto the 19th century.

While most B.C. politicians are used to defending themselves in interviews, the province's new Conservative leader recently had to defend himself in the woods.

WikiLeaks on Thursday published an updated version of the negotiating texts of a controversial and highly secretive trade agreement between the United States and 11 other member nations. Critics warn that the international agreement, dubbed the Trans-P

Time Warner is banking on comic book superheroes, a new line of movies from the creator of Harry Potter and Lego franchise sequels to drive its box office numbers higher

Traders at next year's Glastonbury Festival have been banned from selling Native American headdresses following an online petition that got just 65 signatures.

(Reuters) - A Pakistani court upheld the death penalty on Thursday against a Christian woman accused of blasphemy, her lawyer said, in a case that drew global headlines after two prominent politicians who tried to help her were assassinated.

Serbian police have found the drone that flew an Albanian nationalist banner over a soccer stadium in Belgrade, igniting a brawl on the field and fuelling political tensions between Balkan rivals Serbia and Albania.

'We certainly have fingers crossed for the first images of a comet from the surface of another world,' said NASA program scientist Kelly Fast

New data from the Canadian Forces Mental Health Survey reveals that one-third of soldiers worry that seeking help for mental health issues would harm their career.

Even the owner found it hard to believe: a cabin under construction on Fish Lake road near Whitehorse has been stolen. 'We found a pair of gloves, a crowbar, and they left the windows behind,' says Josie-Anne PiIotte.

The average Canadian saw their monthly bill for things like cable TV, internet and cellphones increase 3.2 per cent last year, the CRTC says.

A team of approximately 85 Canadian Armed Forces members is heading to the Middle East as part of Canada's fight against ISIS militants in Iraq.

The Nunavut hamlet is coming up with alternatives to children trick or treating door-to-door during the height of polar bear season.

Marketplace scouted the country for frustrating fees; here are some of the most ridiculous

Americans are taught that everyone is equal before the law. But that is increasingly not the case in a country divided by wealth and crime, Neil Macdonald writes.

HBO is finally cutting the cord: The premium cable network announced Wednesday it plans to offer an online-only streaming service starting next year.

Ecologist Dr Patrick Moore, who quit Greenpeace in 1986, launched a scathing criticism of the activist group, which he insisted has lost concern for humans'

Police in P.E.I. say sewing needles found in potatoes throughout Atlantic Canada appear to have been placed deliberately.

A Surrey woman accused of stealing dogs has pleaded guilty to four criminal charges.

'I will not tolerate this matter sitting down,' said Leah Paquiz, a member of the Philippine House of Representatives, in a statement last week

As news helicopters swarmed over Dallas' Love Field this evening to watch the second U.S. nurse to contract Ebola board a private plane bound for Atlanta, one lone man stood out from the pack.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Bavaria may house refugees in Oktoberfest beer festival tents as an influx of people fleeing war in Syria has stretched facilities to the limit, a leading newspaper said on Wednesday,

The FORTIS makes physically demanding jobs a lot easier, by rendering heavy tools weightless.

Outspoken cleric called for greater rights for disenfranchised Shi'ite minority

Expert describes how loving family of 'self-radicalized' Paris teenager turned to her center for help

A swarm of squid attacks a Greenpeace research sub in a viral video posted on Vine. Marine biologist John Hocevar recounts what happened.

High Arctic waters could be a step closer to receiving their first environmental protections this week. A committee of the International Maritime Organization is meeting this week in London, England, for a preliminary vote on the Polar Code.

A 6-foot-4-inch cow owned by an Illinois woman was recently dubbed the world's tallest.

Crown these Royals the American League champions. After nearly three decades spent trying to return to the playoffs, Kansas City is taking its perfect post-season ride all the way to the World Series.

As if visiting the Paris Catacombs in the daytime wasn't creepy enough -- tourists can now visit the underground maze of skeletons after nightfall, too.

A New Brunswick man says he found a dead mouse at the bottom of his McDonald's coffee and the fast-food chain says it is investigating his complaint.

Inuit and Cree hunters have agreed to slash their polar bear quotas for Canada's southernmost population of the mighty Arctic predator.

Campers in Vancouver's Oppenheimer Park on the Downtown Eastside have until 10 p.m. PT tonight to leave, according to a B.C. Supreme Court injunction granted to the City of Vancouver last week.

A former Minnesota nurse who admitted going online and encouraging an English man and a Canadian woman to kill themselves is headed to jail.

The Canadian Hurricane Centre says hurricane Gonzalo could unleash potent winds in central and eastern Newfoundland this weekend as it barrels north from Bermuda.

Friends of a fugitive gunman shot to death by police near the village of Slocan, B.C., are expressing their grief and anger over what they consider a tragic end to the man's life.

Italian police have arrested Daniela Poggiali, a 42-year-old nurse suspected of killing as many as 38 patients because she found them or their relatives annoying, media reports say.

The European Space Agency has confirmed the time and place it will attempt to land the first spacecraft on a comet.

Scholars commemorating the 100th anniversary of the First World War are turning their attention to female icons of the era - two of whom were used in propaganda campaigns after their deaths to bolster the war effort, albeit in very different ways.

Four Canadian hikers are among more than a dozen people who have died following an avalanche and a blizzard in Nepal's Himalayas, with many more believed to be missing. Bad weather stalled the search for the remaining missing trekkers, but crews are expec

The Royal Canadian Navy's combat readiness is facing serious challenges brought on by a lack of maintenance staff to keep ships seaworthy and inadequate combat training, among other problems, a six-month internal review says.

The mother of the first Canadian woman to be killed in Afghanistan in a combat role says she feels her daughter would be proud to have a coast guard vessel named after her.

Shirley Parkinson, 56, was killed by her husband near Unity, Sask., last month, but RCMP won't call it a homicide because they say it's a private matter.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a de

Decades of incompetence, neglect, greed and dishonesty by a succession of owners, engineers and municipal officials led to the deadly cave-in of a northern Ontario mall two years ago, a judicial inquiry reported Wednesday.

It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.

Climate Change, September 2014 was the warmest September on record globally for land/ocean combined, according to NASA.

By now, even the most determinedly optimistic Conservative Party strategist has grudgingly accepted that their relentless efforts to turn Justin Trudeau's leadership into a Reefer Madness reboot has fizzled. But will a plan to exempt political parties fro

Scientists from CERN's LHCb experiment say the discovery of a new type of meson, Ds3*(2860)ˉ, will transform our understanding of the strong interaction.

Turkish warplanes bomb Kurdish rebels near the Iraqi border, in the first major air raid since the PKK declared a ceasefire in 2013.

B.C. plugged into the electric vehicle market two years ago and accelerated fairly quickly, going from zero to 1,400 cars now on the road. But the rate of electric vehicle (EV) adoption has slowed dramatically after a popular rebate program ended this spr

A singlet bearing a slogan seen by many as racist is removed from Woolworths shelves in Australia after it was "inadvertently" stocked.

Plot to 'Islamise' state schools is far from over, says man sent to investigate the scandal

Four Nigerian schoolgirls held captive for seven months by radical Islamists have escaped by walking towards the sunset for three weeks

Barbers in a southeastern Turkish city are doing a roaring trade shaving off the beards of men worried about being labelled jihadists, the İhlas News Agency (İHA) reported on Oct. 13.

Peter Degroot, the suspected gunman who had been on the run near the small B.C. Kootenay community of Slocan since Thursday, is dead, police say.​

As temperatures drop, the viruses that make people sick during what we call flu season start to circulate. Flu season isn't like hunting season. There is no fixed date for its start; it begins when people start getting sick.

On W5 Saturday: exclusive undercover video obtained by W5 depicts inhumane abuse of pigs as they are brought to slaughter at a Canadian processing facility.

The deadly Ebola virus has been contracted by someone inside the United States for the first time.

British backpacker Daniela Liverani was travelling around south-east Asia when she started suffering persistent nosebleeds, but put it down to a burst blood vessel.

Ministers come under fire over claims the Government is too close to a Gulf State blamed for funding Islamist terror groups

Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who leaked classified details of U.S. government's surveillance programs, has been reunited in Russia with his long-time girlfriend. Lindsay Mills, a pole dancer...

Author Salman Rushdie believes he may not have survived if he had published his controversial The Satanic Verses today due to the internet now making death threats common place.

Alan McLeod was only a teenager when he won the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth's highest award for valour, in the bullet-riddled skies over France in the First World War.

A growing number of Canadians, especially older ones, are suffering from vertigo, a sometimes debilitating chronic dizziness that can result from viruses, sports injuries and certain medications, and is almost impossible to cure.

The debate on medically assisted death will be front and centre again this week as the Supreme Court of Canada hears arguments Wednesday in a case that could make the practice legal on a federal level mere months after Quebec adopted its own law allowing

Introducing the birth control pill in waterways created a chain reaction in a lake ecosystem that nearly wiped out a freshwater fish, suggesting that Canada's wastewater treatment facilities need improvement.

Canadian Health Minister Rona Ambrose and chief public health officer Dr. Gregory Taylor will comment on developments in the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, which the WHO said Monday was "the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times." CBC i

Canadians love the landscape and the landscape helps define us. But all over this country, people will toss almost anything almost anywhere when they think no one is watching, writes Havard Gould.

Two siblings are speaking out for the first time about how Halifax police "invaded" one of their homes in the middle of the night, then assaulted him as he tried to protect his sister from getting seriously hurt.

A man has been transported by air ambulance to hospital in Calgary after a bear attack in British Columbia.

Judge Thokozile Masipa, who convicted South African runner Oscar Pistorius of negligent homicide in the death of his girlfriend, has wide latitude in deciding the double-amputee Olympian's sentence as legal arguments begin Monday.

Powerful Cyclone Hudhud pounded a large swath of India's eastern seaboard with heavy rain and strong winds today, killing at least eight people and causing major damage to buildings and crops, one of two storms to lash Asia as thousands in Bermuda were hi

Scores of student protesters faced off with Hong Kong police who were clearing barricades from a main pro-democracy protest area close to government offices early Monday.

A Texas health-care worker tested positive for Ebola, the first known case of the disease being contracted or transmitted in the U.S., even though she wore full protective gear while caring for a hospitalized patient who later died from the virus, health

Damage to the electrical system in downtown Calgary will require a rebuild, not just repairs, said Mayor Naheed Nenshi on Sunday, as utility company Enmax expects power to be restored to thousands in the downtown core sometime between Wednesday and Saturd

An Alabama mom is furious that the kindergarten would force her daughter to sign the form without her consent, and said they also tried to assess whether the little girl was depressed. ccording to them she pointed a crayon at another student and said, ''p

During Saturday's game Toronto Maple Leafs and the Pittsburgh Penguins, with the Leafs down 5-2 in the third, a fan tossed his or her jersey onto the ice

The plan, that parents with children older than six would also receive $100 cheques, would provide a point of differentiation to Liberal and NDP programs

The family of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan are venting their outrage that the late Liberian may not have received the same quality of care leading up to his death Wednesday morning as the other patients treated in the U.S. for the dreaded virus.

A Colorado city is standing by its decision to turn away a Muslim woman from its recreation center pool for wearing an Islamic dress over a shirt and pants.

BRIDGEPORT -- Former State Trooper Aaron Huntsman, his voice cracking with emotion, told a judge Friday he isn't the same man who stole a dying motorist's cash and gold crucifix two years ago.

A Vancouver owner who wishes to remain nameless has taken up the challenge of renovating a heritage castle in Moncton, N.B., that went on the market earlier this year for less than an East Vancouver bungalow.

Kevin Glenn completed three touchdown passes, including one for 60 yards to Ernest Jackson, as the B.C. Lions hammered the Ottawa Redblacks 41-3 in CFL action Saturday night.

Chris Higgins scored the only goal of the shootout Saturday as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Edmonton Oilers 5-4. Higgins beat Viktor Fasth with a quick shot in the third round before Canucks goalie Ryan Miller stopped Benoit Pouliot on Edmonton's fi

About 120 members of the Canadian Armed Forces will depart from Trenton, Ont., next week to join the fight against ISIS in Iraq, Defence Minister Rob Nicholson announced on Saturday.

Residents and businesses near nuclear power plants must be provided with potassium iodide pills as a precautionary measure in case of an emergency, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission said Friday.

Indian authorities were relocating hundreds of thousands of people Saturday as a powerful cyclone swept through the Bay of Bengal and headed toward the country's east coast.

The setting is beautiful, but the mood is tense in the small B.C. Kootenay community of Slocan after a heavily armed man allegedly shot at police Thursday then fled into the woods.

Faleh Gazi Albasman, 56, killed his 24-year-old daughter Mashel by stabbing her in the neck 13 times after she was 'disrespectful' to him by talking on a mobile phone and told him to 'go home'.

A Muslim civil rights group is asking the Department of Justice to investigate an Arkansas shooting range whose owner recently declared it a "Muslim-free zone."

The federal government is poised to make it easier to track and arrest potential terrorists, amid reports that a man who appears on an ISIL propaganda video could have Canadian roots.

An attempted rapist who tried having sex with a teenage girl is in critical condition after locals hacked off his genitals after dragging him into a butchers.

Jonathan Parker works at Trojan Horse-linked Washwood Heath Academy

Members of a forestry crew in British Columbia believe they may have unearthed a Second World War-era Japanese balloon bomb in the Monashee Mountains.

The Alberta couple has been globetrotting since 2009, when they sold their Okotoks home and bought one-way tickets to Belize. On Thursday, they were named one of 10 National Geographic 2014 Travelers of the Year.