NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2014

Scientists have identified a new species of razor clam, based on samples collected more then seven years ago from the ocean just off Long Pond, Conception Bay.

Nicolino Camardi pleaded guilty in a Calgary courtroom today to two counts of causing unnecessary pain to animals.

Convicted killers Cody Haevischer and Matthew Johnston have been given life sentences with no parole for 25 years over the infamous Surrey Six slayings.

Canadian sailors will no longer be able to drink aboard ships, unless the vessel is tied up or an exception has been made for a special occasion.

Paul Zizka's breath-taking work features himself in front of beautiful backdrops such as shimmering lakes, snowy mountains and vibrant auroras. Mr Zizka, from Banff, Alberta, Canada, saw his selfies go viral early in 2014 - and has now unveiled his latest

Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology collected 50 samples of rocks from the India's Deccan Traps and found an eruption began 250,000 years before the asteroid strike.

The 49-year-old wife of Robert Mugabe is launching an astonishing bid to become the world's first female dictator backed with millions in cash from a deeply unsavoury British millionaire.

It's not his fault he is a career criminal, he is Metis.

A N.S. man's quick camera reflexes are to thank for new footage of two rare piebald deer, which are nearly entirely white.

The allure of high-heeled shoes is no secret among women, who have used them to entice men. Now a scientific study in France has measured their power.

An Abbotsford family ordered to leave Canada in November and seemingly vanished has now surfaced and been granted sanctuary by the Walnut Grove Lutheran Church.

The government and the Department of National Defence will allow hunters to kill up to 500 more female elk at Canadian Forces Base Suffield in February.

In yet another sign that the Japanese have much to teach us about basic life skills, a viral video from a department store shows you how to wrap a present in 12 seconds flat -- just in time for the holidays.

A kitten is dead after it ingested some amount of ethylene glycol, commonly found in anti-freeze, suspected to be on a Christmas tree purchased at Home Depot.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday it would be crazy for Canada to impose regulations on the oil and gas industry

Pensioners daubed with a sticky substance while withdrawing money feel the need to sit down and are distracted whilst their money is stolen

A long-awaited market analysis into which fighter jet could replace the CF-18s tells the Harper government it can postpone a decision and keep flying the existing planes until 2025, but that will cost roughly $400 million.

Police can search the cellphones of people they arrest under strict conditions, the Supreme Court of Canada said today.

A sergeant-detective with the Montreal police was arrested earlier this week on allegations of domestic violence and making several death threats, including against Municipal Affairs Minister Pierre Moreau.

A Kelvin High School teacher is being investigated by the board of the Winnipeg School Division after he posted controversial remarks on Facebook about First Nations people.

Scientists attribute the turnaround in the Great Lakes to two unusually wet years.

A Florida health spa, popular with many Canadians battling cancer, including two young First Nations girls, is being sued by former staff who allege the director is operating "a scam under Florida law" and practising medicine without a licence.

​​A Sudbury man claims he was roughed up by a police officer, and ​says ​he's got the video to prove it.

Consumer debt loads and house prices that could be as much as 30 per cent overvalued are the two biggest risks to Canada's economy, the Bank of Canada warned in its semi-annual Financial System Review on Wednesday.

What comes to mind when you think of Calgary? Cowboys? Oil? Mountains? A look at what Canadians think of Calgary.

The mystery of where Earth's water came from got murkier Wednesday when some astronomers essentially eliminated one of the chief suspects: comets.

Two brothers from Benoit's Cove got more than they bargained for when they advertised on Kijiji they had bottled moose meat for sale; they ended up with a $1,000 fine and a five-year moose hunting ban.

A new report released by the Department of National Defence says that if the Canadian government goes ahead with the purchase of the controversial F-35 fighter jet, it could have to pay an additional $1 billion to replace lost aircraft over the life of th

A tanker carrying crude oil is adrift off the coast of Nova Scotia after losing steering Tuesday night.

Pictures of the murder posted on jihadist website provide further evidence of Islamic State's reign of terror in Syria and northern Iraq

Muslim religious leaders from across Ottawa and Gatineau have released a statement steadfastly objecting a recent message from a Kemptville-born member of ISIL calling for attacks against Canadians. The imams, representing most of the major mosques in

Russia's richest man says he has bought James D. Watson's Nobel Prize medal at Christie's in order to return it to the scientist.

People in Taloyoak, Nunavut, are baffled that young polar bears are roaming into the community without their mothers.

A Second World War veteran from North Rustico, P.E.I., received one of the highest military medals from the government of France Monday.

A woman in B.C.'s Central Interior says she has no plans to find the former owner of a cat she rescued after it was tossed from a moving truck on the highway.

The new veterans charter, a marquee deal defended and championed by Stephen Harper's Conservatives since 2006, suddenly became a 'Liberal policy' Tuesday as the government weathered more demands for Julian Fantino's resignation.

Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi receive the Nobel Peace Prize awards in Oslo.

Blond and white-skinned images no longer stand for something "better" among Peruvians, as the politics of skin colour force department-store chain Saga Falabella to withdraw its Christmas shopping catalogue.

A large group of Sikh Liberals in British Columbia is quitting the party over a nomination fight in Vancouver South, saying Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is being "manipulated" by Sikhs under the banner of the World Sikh Organization.

Police in a Chicago suburb were investigating on Tuesday an act of vandalism at a Catholic church in which the heads were removed from statues of Mary and Joseph in a convent garden. The destruction was discovered on Sunday

Tomas Plekanec scored the winner late in the third period to lead the Montreal Canadiens to a 3-1 victory over the visiting Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday.

Stephen Harper channelled Axl Rose for his musical encore at the annual Conservative Christmas party on Tuesday night. Harper was on keyboards and lead vocals with his new band the Van Cats (as in 24 in French, 24 Sussex), and played the Guns N' Roses tun

An armed carjacker held a brutal attack against a 67-year-old grandma, but she fought back.

A man in Quebec's Eastern Townships had to break down his backyard ice rink after a neighbour made a complaint about it to the city.

At Christmas, surprises usually come wrapped in glittery paper and tied up with bows. But for one Nova Scotia man, a surprise arrived in the form of a message in a bottle that washed ashore after 29 years.

A Manitoba judge has sentenced two men to nine years behind bars each for manslaughter in the beating death of Eugene Fontaine, the father of Tina Fontaine.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper made it clear today that Canada will not regulate emissions from the oil and gas industry ahead of the United States.

Diamond Marshall, the little girl with a rare form of cancer who got her wish to hug the Duchess of Cambridge while the popular royal was visiting Calgary in 2011, has died.

The second wave of a powerful subtropical storm pounded the southern coast of B.C. on Tuesday morning as high winds caused ferry cancellations and power losses for thousands, and heavy rains flooded roads and rivers.

The world's first vending machine with facial recognition technology has been unveiled, and it could refuse to vend a certain product based on a shopper's age, medical record or dietary requirements

Discovery had refused to say how much Rosolie was actually consumed

Anti-immigrant protests claim to want to preserve Judeo-Christian culture as critics accuse it of harbouring neo-Nazi elements

Ken Weatherwax, who played the pudgy son Pugsley on the 1960s ABC sitcom The Addams Family, has died. He was 59. Weatherwax died Sunday from a heart ...

A knife-wielding man stabbed an Israeli student in the head inside a synagogue at the Brooklyn headquarters of an international Jewish organization early Tuesday before being fatally shot by police after he refused to drop the knife, authorities said.

A 25-year-old Iranian university student says he couldn't believe it when his branch manager told him he would have to shut down his bank account, because of his nationality.

A doctor at Penticton Regional Hospital was the victim of a "horrific attack" by a patient on Friday, according to RCMP and the B.C. Nurses' Union.

A mother and her two young sons, one of them just a month old, were killed Monday morning when a private jet crashed into their two-story wood-frame home, which was engulfed in a fireball immediately, authorities and witnesses said.

Critics say the federal government's current multimillion-dollar taxpayer-funded ad campaigns to promote tax savings and Canada's 150th anniversary appear timed for one main goal: to get Canadians to vote Conservative in the next federal election in Octob

The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed on Monday night that 30-year-old Stephanie Moseley, originally from British Columbia, was shot by her rapper-husband, Earl Hayes.

Read 'Watch 25,214 stuffed animals hit the ice for Calgary Hitmen's Teddy Bear Toss goal (VIDEO)' from our blog Buzzing The Net on Yahoo Sports Canada. The fur was flying as WHL rivals Edmonton and Calgary held their Teddy Bear Toss games on consecutive n

Security cameras captured a woman stealing more than $200 worth of Christmas decorations from Sunshine Farm in Sherborn, Massachusetts.

The Conservatives will table legislation Tuesday in an meant to help shrink the price gap between retail prices in the United States and in Canada, Global News has learned.

'It is certainly an outbreak that was unexpected and has caused unwanted disruption at the team level'

Read 'More than $500M in unclaimed money on Bank of Canada books' from our blog Pay Day on Yahoo Finance Canada . It�s one of those facts of life some tight-fisted Canadians may have trouble getting their heads around: There�s more than a half a billi

Tickets for the Pam Am Games, which run from July 10 to 26, officially go on sale on Monday.

Acronyms on social media and texting apps can sometimes be shorthand for dangerous teen behaviors, such as sexual activity and use of drugs and alcohol.

Sandwich order gone wrong: dispute over diced onions leads to snake being thrown in Saskatoon Tim Hortons.

Ontario ratepayers last year paid $1 billion to dump cheap electricity into neighbouring states and provinces, NDP MPP Peter Tabuns says.

Natural weather patterns, not man-made climate change, are the cause of the historic drought parching California, says a study from federal scientists.

Harvard scientists have discovered two molecules that convert white 'bad' fat into brown 'good' fat cells in the body. They hope the discovery could be 'the first step towards a pill that can replace the treadmill.

As sales continue to slide in the U.S., McDonald's plans to expand a test that lets people build their own burgers by tapping on a touchscreen to pick the bread, cheese and toppings they want. The company says it will bring the option to 2,000 of its more

The Opposition and business groups slammed the proposed pension plan as a job-killing payroll tax

MacLean took over behind the bench in Ottawa in 2011 and won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's coach of the year in 2013

The 35-year-old actor will portray the comic book character Aquaman in the upcoming 2016 film, Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice.

The man who was mauled by a pack of lions after jumping into their enclosure at Barcelona Zoo, is a former police officer who now spends his time as a neo Nazi activist.

The Duchess of Cambridge made a big impression on a class of children in Harlem today - who thought she was a princess from the Disney film Frozen.

Humanity may have already created its own nemesis, Professor Stephen Hawking warned last week.

Prosecutors say necrophilia motivated a Pennsylvania man to fatally shoot his stepdaughter last month

More than 100,000 students study in B.C. every year, living in dormitories, apartments, basements and under the stairs, Harry Potter style.

A Utah mom says she "cancelled" Christmas to teach her three sons a lesson in gratitude. "John and I feel like we are fighting a very hard uphill battle with our kids when it comes to entitlement.

A Naval engineer is facing charges that he gave an FBI undercover agent posing as an Egyptian intelligence officer secret documents about the new Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier while discussing how to sink the vessel with a missile.

A former member of Islamic State recounts travelling through Turkey in an ISIS convoy to attack Kurdish forces as the Turkish army turned a blind eye

Watch Canadian who joined ISIS threatens Canada in new video Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

Canadian scientists who spent most of Saturday performing a necropsy on killer whale J-32 say the female orca had been pregnant with a full-term fetus.

Police cordoned off an area of Edmonton for several hours Saturday afternoon after someone dropped a grenade at a west-end Goodwill store.

After last year's ice storm and harsh winter hurt sales, local businesses hope for a holiday bounce-back. Just don't let the weather get too warm . . .

Afghan boy Abuzar Ahmad, now 3, is adjusting to his new life in Canada after being wounded in a Taliban attack during which his entire family died.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will post 12 stories, one a day for 12 days, starting December 12th.

Mark O'Connell, owner of the world's oldest manufactured hockey stick, has brought his piece of history to the front doors of Sidney Crosby and Stephen Harper, with unexpected results.

Saturday marks the 25th anniversary of the shooting rampage that left 14 women dead at Montreal's Ecole polytechnique. A survivor and the brother of a victim discuss moving on with their lives after the horrific event.

For the past 18 years, Kanok Bolt of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, has been snowmobiling about 60 kilometres from the community to get his family a tree for the holidays.

Halifax residents gathered to mark the 97th anniversary of the Halifax explosion Saturday morning.

Mohammed Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar, from Birmingham, sentenced after parents put pressure on them to return home from fighting alongside Islamic extremists