NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2015

A passing asteroid the size of the world's most massive cruise ships has its own moon, NASA says. It flew safely past the Earth this morning. Try to spot it with binoculars or a telescope tonight.

To mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, a Canadian woman who was held there as a child is returning to the notorious concentration camp to recreate a famous photo taken of her and fellow inmates in 1945.

A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed into other planes on the ground during NATO training in southeastern Spain Monday, killing at least 10 people, Spain's Defence Ministry said.

It may be the middle of winter but people in Calgary were enjoying temperatures of 17 C Sunday afternoon.

Univ. of California, Irvine and Australian chemists have figured out how to unboil egg whites, an innovation that could dramatically reduce costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry,

Thousands of people will pack into a hockey arena in Alberta this afternoon to say goodbye to Const. David Wynn, a Mountie killed in the line of duty. CBCNews.ca will have LIVE coverage of the funeral and procession starting at 1:30 p.m. MT.

Implanting a false memory of committing a crime is easier than you think. The idea that memories are not as reliable as we think they are is disconcerting, but it's pretty well-established. Various studies have shown that participants can be persuaded to

About 1,000 paratroopers from the brigade will deploy this week as part of the Operation Inherent Resolve mission.

American Sniper has set its sights on another record: Within a matter of days, it will overtake Steven Spielberg's WWII classic Saving Private Ryan to become the top-grossing war-themed film of all time in North America, not accounting for inflation.

Richard Suter, the man accused of killing two-year-old Geo Mounsef by driving his SUV onto a restaurant patio, was abducted and seriously assaulted, his lawyer said Friday.

Two men have been arrested after police seized a rocket launcher, World War Two machine gun and AK-47 rifle (pictured) following a ten-man brawl in East Street, in Bromley.

Missing snowboarder Julie Abrahamsen has been found alive three days after she was last seen on Blackcomb Mountain, Whistler RCMP said on Saturday.

The parents of an infant boy from Ottawa say they need to travel to California for permanent treatment for their son's condition, commonly known as the "bubble boy" disorder.

The new format will feature the usual Big Six hockey nations plus a best-of-the-rest Team Europe and a North American Under-23 Team

Two women who run an animal rescue operation are facing aggravated animal cruelty charges after cops caught them with more than 100 dogs and one cat stuffed in the back of a U-Haul truck without food, water, or adequate air, police said.

Toller Cranston, one of figure skating's greatest artistic innovators, has died in Mexico at the age of 65.

The Pineapple Express rolled into Metro Vancouver on Friday, drenching the South Coast with 30 millimetres of rain in most areas and more than 80 millimetres on the North Shore, according to Environment Canada.

The neat thing about a Canadian effort to donate hockey equipment to the Himalayas is that there is a lot of ice in those mountains.

An Ontario couple faces an unspeakable dilemma: their ailing twin girls both need new livers to live, but the father can only save one.

As Greece prepares for an election which could decide the fate of Europe, find out how the EU project is slowly falling apart in the ten major member states and two cities which form its heart

Homeless encampments are expanding beyond their historic boundaries in downtown L.A. to neighborhoods such as Highland Park.

Blake Deschenes says he loves being a minor hockey referee but some days he's ready to quit the game because the abuse from players' parents has become so bad.

Israeli barber Shalom Koresh fashioned the skullcaps from hair samples to obscure wearers' identities as Jews following a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe.

If you want to quantify the alarming impact of the anti-vaccine movement, the chart above is a good place to start. It plots the cumulative number of new measles cases by month, for each year from 2001 to 2014.

Flags lowered along Whitehall in honour of the Saudi King, who faced fierce protests over human rights

It's a poo-nado, a poo-nami, or just a poo-storm. Whatever you want to call it, it's a rare underwater event that most people would do their best to avoid.

Landlord took former tenant to court for refusing to pay for damage to the marble floor of the bathroom he said was caused by stray drops from the tenant habit of relieving

Alexander Zakharchenko, the leader of Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, has ruled out any new ceasefire proposals and said advances by rebel forces will continue.

Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong's seashore are magnificent, disturbing and potentially harmful to marine life, biologists say.

Some Canadian pharmacists are saying they are under intense pressure to meet business quotas, which causes an assembly-line mentality that increases the likelihood of making mistakes, a Marketplace investigation has revealed.

One of Canada's richest men poured $112 million US into a gambling venture headed by three businessmen with ties to organized crime, and is now locked in a fight over Caribbean casinos whose cast includes one of Canada's most feared Mafia clans, a joint C

The disappearing lakes were discovered by a team of researchers from Ohio State University who are building the highest-resolution map of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

REUTERS - Rising threats from climate change and nuclear arsenals prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to move it two minutes closer to midnight

Winnipeg's mayor choked back tears as he began to address the media today about claims by Maclean's magazine that the city as the most racist in Canada.

Ariella Wilkinson came home crying after Ofsted inspectors interrogated her about homosexuality during a visit to Grindon Hall Christian School.

Ashton Kutcher is preparing to take to the witness stand to testify against a man suspected of the grisly murder of the actor's then-girlfriend.

Federal prisons are potential breeding grounds for Islamist radicalization and the government and correctional system are doing little to confront the public safety risk, experts warn.

An asteroid up to 550 metres (1,800 feet) across is headed Earth's way. But don't worry: It will miss us by 1.2 million kilometres (745,000 miles), about three times the distance between Earth and the moon.

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah died early on Friday and his brother Salman became king, the royal court in the world's top oil exporter and birthplace of Islam said in a statement carried by state television.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has waded into the growing debate over a recent incident that saw Canadian special forces troops come under hostile fire while accompanying Iraqi troops near the front lines.

The US justice department will not bring civil rights charges against a white Missouri officer who killed an unarmed black teenager, US media report.

The growl from some best-selling cars and trucks is actually well-tuned lip-syncing or digitally faked.

Vancouver police and the park board are investigating after 17 maple trees were chopped along Cambie Street and West 29 Avenue and left lying on the ground sometime after midnight.

The blue and gold braided beard on the burial mask of famed pharaoh Tutankhamun was hastily glued back on with epoxy, damaging the relic after it was knocked during cleaning.

Seventy people have been infected in a measles outbreak that led California public health officials to urge those who haven't been vaccinated against the disease, including children too young to be immunized, should avoid Disney parks where the spread ori

One Beaconsfield man's snow fort has become the subject of a heated argument with the city.

Police in a Mexican border city said Wednesday that a drone overloaded with illicit methamphetamine crashed into a supermarket parking lot.

Canadian diplomats in Ireland tweeted a few photos of Kevin Vickers meeting with senior Irish officials as he began his posting as ambassador to the Emerald Isle. Vickers is quite tall - about six-foot-five. Ireland's president is... less so. Laura Payton

Royal Bank of Canada has a friendly deal to acquire L.A.-based City National Corp. for $5.4 billion US in cash and common stock.

The European Central Bank announces a huge bond-buying program in a last-ditch attempt to resuscitate a struggling eurozone economy.

Christopher Phillips threatened to hurt police and posed a threat to the public by carrying two dangerous chemicals, police allege in court documents filed a day after the Halifax resident was arrested in Ottawa.

To mark the 50th anniversary of Sir Winston Churchill's death, CBC News Chief Correspondent Peter Mansbridge met with the former British prime minister's granddaughter, who shed light on some of the daily tensions her "grandpapa" faced during the Second W

The video of the Dec. 30 killing of Jerame Reid in Bridgeton, a struggling, mostly minority city of 25,000 people just south of Philadelphia, was released this week, raising questions and stirring anger over another death at the hands of police.

The wrecks of two 19th-century canal boats have been found on the bottom of Lake Ontario, an unusual discovery because such vessels typically weren't used on open water, a team of New York shipwreck hunters said Wednesday.

They are on the cusp of an electoral breakthrough - and an examination of Green Party policy reveals a extraordinary list of demands

Pupils at a Christian school have been branded bigots after a young boy gave the wrong answer when asked what a Muslim was.

The arrest of Merve Buyuksarac follows a crackdown in the country on critical media in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris.

Kristen Momeyer says she was injured on June 22, 2013, when Brent Ray Fraser came on to the dance floor of the AuBar nightclub with a skillet or a small metal mixing bowl, which he lit on fire.

Scientists have found that the 'cowgirl' position is responsible for half of all penile fractures during sexual intercourse

A terrified shopper was bitten on the head by a snake at a Lowe's store in Mississippi.

Dennis Antiporek's, 68, charred remains were found inside the sauna at Eden isles Condominium in South Florida on Sunday evening by his daughter Lara Antiporek.

The Crown has asked for six to 12 months of jail time for dog walker Emma Paulsen after six animals died while in her care.

Police officers got quite the surprise when conducting a search warrant in a Vancouver home on Tuesday.

Hundreds of dirt bike and ATV riders took over Miami yesterday when they swarmed through city streets and highways, taunting police and pulling wheelies in an apparent tribute to Martin Luther King.

Tangy the bingo-playing robot will make its debut as part of pilot study at a long-term care facility in Toronto in the coming weeks.

Premier Jim Prentice made an astute purchase when he outbid all comers at a vintage car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz., Sunday.

The leader of a German organization against the perceived "Islamization" of Europe, which has taken pains to distance itself from neo-Nazi groups, provoked a firestorm Wednesday after a picture surfaced showing him with a Hitler moustache and hair combed

The tweets - often accompanied by illustrations which depict the Palestinian flag and a bloody knife - heap praise on the stabber who was shot by a prison officer after injuring 11 people.

Justice Minister Peter MacKay said he doesn't see the need for an in-depth examination of police and justice system protocols as suggested by the head of the RCMP after the recent shootings of two Mounties in Alberta.

The hideous, mildly terrifying and rarely sighted frilled shark has turned up in waters off southeastern Australia.

The Royal Bank of Canada claims two former employees conspired to steal more than $200,000 as part of two elaborate inside job bank heists.

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told the World Economic Forum on Wednesday that Russia had 9,000 troops on Ukrainian soil and he called on Moscow to withdraw them.In

Scientists have succeeded in reading parts of an ancient scroll that was buried in a volcanic eruption almost 2,000 years ago, holding out the promise that the world's oldest surviving library may one day reveal all of its secrets.

A man suspected of travelling from Nova Scotia with potentially hazardous chemicals and arrested at an Ottawa hotel was identified by the RCMP as a former military biochemical weapons specialist from the United States.

A cancer-stricken warrant officer who served with the Canadian military for nearly three decades is facing a long appeal process after Veterans Affairs denied his application for disability compensation.

Alex Killorn had two goals, Valtteri Filppula added a goal and an assist, and the Tampa Bay Lightning took over the top spot in the Eastern Conference with a 4-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday night.

The Canadian dollar fell more than a cent against the U.S. dollar today, its lowest value since April 2009.

A semi-trailer hauling gasoline rolled over on Highway 2 north of Calgary early Tuesday morning, spilling thousands of litres of fuel into wetlands.

Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi said he's had complaints of councillors getting "blotto" at community events and using drugs.

Toronto Maple Leaf fans were charged and banned from the Air Canada Centre after throwing jerseys onto the ice Monday night following another loss for the NHL team.

Border guards have seized more than $38,000 from a man at the Calgary International Airport under a federal anti-terrorism law.

Vancouver has the second most unaffordable housing market in the world after Hong Kong, according to a new study of major property markets.

The federal government is stripping Dying with Dignity Canada of its charitable tax status following a political activity audit by the Canada Revenue Agency.

An AirAsia plane that crashed last month with 162 people on board was climbing at an abnormally high rate, then plunged and suddenly disappeared from radar, Indonesia's transport minister says.

A B.C. MP is warning people about a new information-sharing agreement between Canada and the United States that could put travellers who regularly spend a lot of time in the U.S. at risk of significant consequences.

Consumers can avoid financial heartache by adopting new habits and correcting bad ones, anti-fraud experts say.

It's been a year since Colorado became the first U.S. state to legalize recreational marijuana, and CBC's Reg Sherren travelled to Denver to see how some $1 billion US in sales has impacted the state's capital.

Prolonged time spent sitting and being sedentary is associated with an increased risk for heart disease, cancer and death, regardless of physical activity, according to a new study.

Canadian special forces exchanged gunfire with Islamic State fighters in Iraq in recent days, in the first confirmed ground battle between Western troops and IS, a senior officer said Monday. The Canadians came under mortar and machine gun fire while trai

The first-degree murder trial of former financial adviser Brian Malley, charged in the death of a disabled single-mother, got underway in a Red Deer, Alta., court today.

A special prosecutor who had accused Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of ordering impunity for Iranian suspects in the South American country's worst terrorist attack was found shot dead in his bathroom, authorities said Monday.

The NFL confirmed on Monday that they are investigating whether the New England Patriots used deflated balls in their blowout win over the Indianapolis Colts during Sunday's American Football Conference championship.

Arroyo Valley High girls' coach Michael Anderson was suspended for two games after the victory last week against Bloomington High. He insists he did not try to embarrass the opposition.

In a months-long investigation that's the largest of its kind in Canada, CBC's Marketplace brought hidden cameras into 50 pharmacies to test if pharmacists are giving the proper advice to patients before dispensing drugs. Read the story to find out what w

A pair of bed bug-detecting Labradors are missing after Winnipeg police said an ambulance-style vehicle was stolen early Monday morning with the dogs inside.

Calgarian Dean Reid is opening Canada Boy Vinyl, which will be the only vinyl record pressing plant in Canada.

The actor, fitness trainer and star of Bravo's reality TV series Work Out, may have been filming when he was hit on Saturday.

In 1995, a nine-year-old boy found an extraordinary fossil on a Prince Edward Island Beach. Nearly 20 years later, Michael Arsenault finally shares the story of the fossil's long journey from the beach to his bedroom to a Toronto museum.

The man who is suspected of forcing his way into two apartments before being shot by a resident last month has been charged with two counts of attempted murder.

Seven-man group allegedly plotted to shoot Druze Israelis; Negev doctor seeking to wage jihad in Syria arrested, too

The loudest stadium in America was silent. A return trip to the Super Bowl was slipping away. Time for the Seattle Seahawks to show why they are champions.

Const. David Wynn, the RCMP officer who was shot in the head while trying to arrest a suspect in a casino outside of Edmonton, has yet to regain consciousness and is not expected to survive, police say.

A Canadian navy frigate returned home to Halifax today after a seven month deployment in the Mediterranean Sea.

The surviving members of a legendary force of Canadian and U.S. soldiers will be honoured in Washington for their courage and bravery -- and the rough-and-tough tactics that helped win the Second World War.

The Vancouver Island Amateur Hockey Association is warning its members in a letter it is considering implementing a spectator-free weekend to protest verbal harassment of its players.

A Natural Resources Canada seismologist says the odds of a megathrust earthquake and tsunami on Vancouver Island occuring in next 50 years are one in 10.

Lebanon's Saly Greige says Miss Israel, Doron Matalon, photo-bombed her and she had been cautious to avoid any image or communication with Ms Matalon during the contest

The shutdown of the mill in Iroquois Falls has sent shockwaves through the community. Some say the town's woes illustrate the problems created by the changing approach to exploiting Canada's northern resources.

Multiple gunshots were fired from a vehicle near the Delaware home of U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden on Saturday night, the Secret Service said.