NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2015

A graduate student defended his master's thesis under water to demonstrate how underwater technology can foster better appreciation of marine science.

A deadly explosion levelled a house in Toronto on Monday afternoon, damaged at least a dozen other homes, and claimed at least one life.

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd pleaded guilty in a New Zealand court Tuesday to a charge of threatening to kill a man who used to work for him. He also pleaded guilty to possessing methamphetamine and marijuana.

A Japanese maglev that is the fastest passenger train in the world has broken its own speed record.

A man from Longueuil has been arrested on a charge of aggravated vehicular homicide, following a fiery crash that killed one person and sent up a column of thick black smoke in southeast Wyoming.

Norway will become the first country to abandon FM radio in 2017 when it switches completely to digital.

The head officer in the arrest of Sawyer Robison called the day two of his officers were shot one of the worst of his life.

Some onlookers in Yarmouth were treated to an unusual sight last week after two dogs took their owner's car on a short lived joyride.

High school teachers in one Toronto-area board hit the picket lines Monday leaving 24,000 students out of class and the education minister "perplexed."

Egypt's former President Mohammed Morsi gets a 20 year jail sentence over the abuse of protesters during his rule, the first of many verdicts he faces.

Music legend Willie Nelson is jumping into the movement to commercialize marijuana and plans to roll out his own brand of cannabis that he intends to make "the best on the market."

From Yahoo News: George Lucas plans to build an affordable-housing complex in the same neighborhood that denied his film studio there almost three years ago.

U.S. Navy officials say the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is steaming toward the waters off Yemen and will join other American ships prepared to intercept any Iranian vessels carrying weapons to the Houthi rebels fighting in Yemen.

Whole Foods at Lansdowne Park is facing four charges for opening the store on Good Friday, according to Ottawa police.

Kraft says it will remove all artificial preservatives or synthetic colours in its iconic macaroni and cheese meal by the end of next year.

B.C.'s newly revised Guide Dog and Service Dog Act, set to take effect later this year, will be among the first in Canada to tackle the subject of service animal impersonation, an issue experts say has escalated sharply in recent years.

Attack comes 16 years to the day of the Columbine High School massacre in the United States

A Spanish student reportedly armed with a crossbow and a machete killed a substitute teacher and wounded four others at a school in Barcelona, police and witnesses said Monday.

Overly complex rules and a move toward points programs not attached to any specific merchant mean consumers are increasingly disloyal to businesses offering rewards, experts say. Don Pittis asks if points are going the way of Green Stamps.

A significant number of Canadian Rangers and Junior Rangers have died in recent years, putting a strain in those tasked with being Canada's "eyes and ears" in the Arctic, according to documents obtained by CBC News.

Queen Elizabeth honoured the First World War contributions of three Canadian regiments on Sunday including the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry, the Calgary Highlanders and the Canadian Scottish Regiment.

Maine fishmonger Glen Libby made a disheartening discovery on Easter Sunday brunch -- the cold water shrimp on the menu at a restaurant up the street from his fish market were from Canada, not New England.

The Arctic has not seen the current level of Russian air activity in decades, Defence Minister Jason Kenney says he was recently told by NORAD commanders.

Just by gazing at their owners, dogs can trigger a response in their masters' brains that helps them bond, a study says.

There's been no break from the globe's record heat -- the first three months of 2015 have set new high temperature marks.

Scientists have rediscovered a mostly intact World War II aircraft carrier used in atomic bomb tests and then sunk off the Northern California coast decades ago.

A senior commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guard said Sunday that inspectors would be barred from military sites under any nuclear agreement with world powers.

Every spring, 'Swan Haven' is home to thousands of photogenic visitors to the Yukon: migrating trumpeter swans. Wildlife officials say this year's migration is ahead of schedule, with far more birds than the previous year.

Walter Ramsey, 42, has been charged with first-degree murder after 33-year-old Eleanor Anthonysz died in a suspicious fire in her mobile home in Mission, B.C. on Friday.

Canada beat the Czech Republic 3-2 Sunday at the world under-18 hockey championship in Zug, Switzerland.

Police finally caught up with a minivan carrying four caged puppies on its roof after dozens of calls poured in to 911 centres in northeast Ohio.

Officials in Germany are solemnly commemorating the liberation of two Nazi concentration camps 70 years ago in the closing days of World War II.

The Queen joined three Canadian military regiments in London on Sunday, to commemorate the regiments' role in a historic First World War battle.

Hockey fan Katie Kerrick says she is overwhelmed by the reaction her story is getting a day after telling CBC News about being harassed at the Bell Centre during Game 2 of the Montreal Canadiens-Ottawa Senators playoff series.

A century after he scribbled the simple but poignant stanzas of In Flanders Fields, John McCrae is being honoured with two statues.

Emergency services in Squamish is confirming there has been a rockslide on the Squamish Chief.

Chlorine gas -- sent crawling in favourable winds over Flanders Fields from German positions -- sowed terror and agony for the first time on April 22, 1915. The era of chemical weaponry had dawned.

NDP leader Tom Mulcair says his party will introduce a motion in Parliament this week demanding the Conservative government reopen the Kitsilano Coast Guard station in Vancouver.

An Ontario man has been charged with the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Calgary restaurant worker 20 years ago.

A female grey whale from Russia crossed the Pacific, swam to Mexico and back in a record-breaking migration - revealing some disconcerting news along the way.

The remains of a soldier from Saskatchewan who died in the Second World War have been identified in the Netherlands.

The Calgary Zoo had some fun with the the rivalry between the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks. On Friday it placed a straw-filled Canucks jersey inside its gorilla habitat.

Six months after Cpl. Nathan Cirillo was shot while standing guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa, his regiment in Hamilton opened its armoury to thank the public for its support in the aftermath of the reservist's death.

Katie Kerrick was excited to head to the Bell Centre to catch the Montreal Canadiens versus the Ottawa Senators in the second game of the 2015 NHL playoffs. Until several fans intimidated her to the point of tears.

The Edmonton Oilers won the National Hockey League draft lottery on Saturday, giving them the first selection in the 2015 entry draft. The Erie Otters' Connor McDavid is widely expected to be picked first.

In the realm of law enforcement, iris recognition could be used to identify suspects at a long range in various lighting conditions.

As many as 70 vehicles piled up in one spot of a Wyoming interstate Thursday after a heavy April storm dropped almost 10 inches of snow on the area, authorit...

The Wolf of Wall Street star, who urges others to reduce their carbon footprint, took his then girlfriend and male pals on the private planes too, all paid for by Sony according to leaked docs.

Clowns brawled with animal rights protesters under a circus big top in San Bernardino Friday night.

Parisians are calling on the government to combat sexual harassment on public transport after a poll shows that 100 per cent of the women said they experienced at least one incident.

Finally, thankfully, mercifully, the time has come for Connor McDavid to find out where his new hockey home will be.

Stoll was arrested at the MGM Grand Hotel's Wet Republic pool for possession of cocaine and club drug MDMA, also called "Molly".

'The surplus that was previously forecast over the 5-year outlook has been eliminated by a combination of policy announcements and the impact of lower oil prices on nominal tax bases'

New traffic signs are popping up across New York, calling out those who like to catcall women, a problem activists say can no longer be laughed off.

Four British sailors are charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Nova Scotia.

A Yukon government lawyer was in court this week arguing the meaning of "'hands-free," in the territory's appeal of a recent decision to toss a ticket given to a man who was using his cellphone while driving.

The suit against subsidiaries of Bell alleges that the defendants used the program to track, collect and sell the sensitive account and internet browsing information of their customers to advertisers.

The Kremlin said Friday the arrival of about 300 U.S. paratroopers in Ukraine to train Kyiv's National Guard could destabilize the situation in the east of the country, where pro-Russian separatists are fighting Ukrainian government forces.

Canadians like to imbibe the occasional frosty beer. Here's a roundup of how the provinces and territories sell their suds.

TV host and author Ezra Levant, who has said he wrote some speeches for Mike Duffy five or six years ago, will testify via video conference Friday at Duffy's Senate expenses trial.

Calgary police say they have recovered a patrol rifle that was stolen from an officer's vehicle along with two ammunition clips containing 56 bullets.

Striptease shows in bars are once again banned in Saskatchewan, although a little bit of stripping for charity will be allowed, the province says.

A tower-crane operator looked down from his work on a downtown Toronto condo to see a raccoon had climbed up 213 metres on a ladder on Thursday morning.

Stunning video shows the jihadi suicide bomber attempting to launch an attack on Kurdish Peshmerga forces, reportedly near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.

New data, released by the United Nations, shows how the number of international migrants has increased by nearly 80 million globally over the last 25 years, with 7.8 million immigrants now recorded in the UK.

Muslims trying to get from Libya to Italy in a boat threw 12 fellow passengers overboard -- killing them -- because they were Christians, Italian police say.

CBC failed to provide its staff a workplace "free from disrespectful and abusive behaviour," says the report of an independent investigator hired to examine CBC's handling of the behaviour of former radio and television host Jian Ghomeshi.

Footage released later today is expected to reveal the first glimpses of divers plunging deep below thick Arctic sea ice to get "an up-close-and-personal look" at the wreck of the Franklin Expedition's HMS Erebus.

A decision from the B.C. Court of Appeal paves the way for First Nations to launch lawsuits to protect their territory from private parties, even without proving aboriginal title.

For the growing number of cat owners who want to connect with their often-aloof fur babies, experts say there's something to gain from those attempts at communication.

Cloud-based "outbound interactive voice response" is being embraced by telemarketers.

Netflix is enthralling viewers and investors alike as popular original programming such as House of Cards lure subscribers at a quickening pace.

Cirque du Soleil's headquarters will remain in Quebec even though the entertainment company is being sold to American and Chinese investors, CBC/Radio-Canada has confirmed.

A Camrose woman whose arrest for speeding was caught on a dashcam video was found guilty of assaulting a peace officer, resisting arrest and obstruction Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the U.S. military announced it would exhume and attempt to identify the remains of almost 400 sailors and Marines from the USS Oklahoma who were buried as unknowns after the war.

The search is on for Paddington's mother and sibling cubs.

Jean Beliveau was honoured by the Montreal Canadiens in the a ceremony prior to facing the Ottawa Senators at the Bell Centre in their playoff opener on Wednesday.

The former CEO of a U.S. catering company who was caught on video kicking a dog in a Vancouver elevator has been fined $5,000 and banned from owning animals for three years.

Canada's pipeline regulator took a "big step forward" on a promise to be more transparent with the release of a map of spills and other incidents. But gaps in the data still exist.

One of the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) tasks is analyzing the future of the US energy economy. This year's report, released today, looks forward to 2040. And the picture it foresees is one where the US becomes increasingly energy independent

Toyota to build Corollas in Mexico beginning in 2019.

A celebrity mountain lion that lounged under a home for hours and refused to budge for bean bags, tennis balls and prods has wandered out on its own, wildlife officials said Tuesday.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that elected officials do not have the right to recite prayers at municipal council meetings.

After this year's controversial deer cull in Oak Bay, a local group has stepped forward with a plan that involves giving female deer birth control.

A restaurant in North Sydney has reversed a decision to stop serving "small screaming children" after the Facebook post announcing the policy provoked swift response from patrons and parents.

Three opening round series between the Canucks and Flames over the past 26 years have produced three game seven overtime heroes.

Police say a Long Island man suffered first- and second-degree burns after he accidentally set his rental car ablaze while trying to kill bedbugs inside the vehicle.

The vast majority of hacking attacks are successful not because the hackers were sophisticated, but because their targets were careless, a new study suggests.

Toyota will spend $1 billion to invest in an assembly plant in Guanajuato, Mexico, and move production of its popular Corolla sedan there from another plant in Cambridge, Ont.

Police in a Tucson suburb have released a video showing an officer using his cruiser to ram an armed suspect.

Police said Tuesday they were investigating the fatal shooting of a gay community college worker as a possible hate crime. The shooting victim, 44-year-old campus print shop director Ron Lane, was gunned down by former student Kenneth Morgan Stancil III o

Experts on judicial ethics condemn Judge Olu Stevens' remarks about victim statements.

The man who was once the top pick for prime minister today finds himself in third place, trailing Stephen Harper and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, a poll released Monday shows.

Search crews have found the bodies of the two pilots of a cargo plane that crashed in Vancouver's North Shore Mountains yesterday morning, the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Victoria has confirmed.

Two Calgary men are facing weapons charges after several vehicles and homes were peppered by gunfire on the weekend.

A runner celebrated his way to a loss on Saturday at a meet in Eugene, Ore.

Environmentalists are asking consumers to stop buying almonds, a crop being blamed for guzzling water amid California's unprecedented drought.

A non-profit organization that has been testing toys for children since 1952 has shut down after members were unable to secure financial backing.

U.S. President Barack Obama told Congress on Tuesday that he plans to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.

Some public servants say they are effectively barred from participating in political campaigns by a new directive requiring them to disclose any political activity, even on personal time.

New measurements from the Gale crater contradict theories that the planet is too cold for liquid water to exist, but Mars still considered hostile to life

A U.S. Department of Transportation committee will hear testimony starting today about health and safety concerns raised by airlines' push to get more seats on passenger aircraft. Seats are getting narrower, thinner and some say much less comfortable.

Two suburban Washington, D.C., parents are under scrutiny again for letting their 6- and 10-year-old children play in a park and walk home alone in a case that has stirred debate about "free-range" parenting and government powers.

McGill University's Vicky Kaspi, one of the world's leading experts on neutron stars and pulsars, has just been awarded the prestigious Killam Prize for academic-career achievement.

One of Canada's new Arctic Offshore Patrol Ships will be named after a nurse who was in the Royal Canadian Navy.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the Harper government's law requiring mandatory minimum sentences for gun crimes is unconstitutional, upholding a lower court ruling.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Defence Minister Jason Kenney will announce today that Canadian troops are headed to Ukraine to join in U.S. and British forces in helping train the Ukraine military.

An Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Los Angeles had to turn back minutes after takeoff Monday afternoon when an employee's screaming and banging could be heard from the cargo hold.

A federal judge sentenced one former Blackwater security guard to life in prison and three others to 30-year terms for their roles in a 2007 shooting that killed 14 Iraqi civilians and wounded 17 others.

Japan will open the first hotel that is entirely staffed by androids. The hotel will be named "Henn na," which is Japanese for strange hotel.

The fires in Khakassia have reportedly killed 15 people, Anna Borodina from the Khakassia Health Ministry told Interfax. "A total of 613 people needed medical attendance, and 533 of them have received aid and gone home. Eight are in a grave condition. Mos

Law enforcement groups and private security companies around the world said they have taken down a botnet that enslaved more than 770,000 computers in 190 countries, stealing owners' banking credentials and establishing a backdoor to install still more ma