NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2015

Pro-wrestling star "Rowdy" Roddy Piper dead at the age of 61, WWE confirms.

A Canadian Army reservist from Vancouver Island didn't miss as she put first place in the cross hairs at an international shooting competition in England.

Among the ruins left by Islamic State, George Weidenfeld is helping many Coptic Christians - but he can't save the world

A great white shark thwarted a Northern California man's quest to become the first person to swim from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Farallon Islands.

The federal government has closed the book on what was once called the Canadian Wheat Board.

Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains was hit with a complaint Wednesday for performing an abortion on a 13-year-old girl without reporting possible sexual abuse against the underage girl and returning her to the man who abused her.

The experimental Ebola vaccine designed by Canadian scientists seems to work, the interim results of a trial in Guinea suggest.

The widow of the late RCMP spokesperson who became the face the Robert Dziekanski case has launched a lawsuit against the RCMP alleging the force made him a scapegoat.

RCMP in Kelowna, B.C., are investigating after a video surfaced online showing an officer pulling over a driver because of hand gestures made by her passenger.

Inuit have long shared tales of cannibalism on Sir John Franklin's last expedition to the Arctic, and now researchers say they have found evidence to back up those stories.

The federal government is running a pricey ad campaign to inform parents about the enhanced Universal Child Care Benefit. But most families will only pocket a fraction of the dollar amounts being advertised, which has critics upset.

It was the worst attack by Israeli assailants since a Palestinian teenager was burned to death in Jerusalem a year ago

Scientists have discovered a new species of wild dog by analyzing the DNA of jackals in Europe and Africa.

A 100-year-old B.C. woman says she was left on the curb at a bus stop a few weeks ago, after a transit driver refused to help lift her walker.

Designer Michlle Chu says her products are "perfect for today's fast-paced environment"

Mohammed Ali, 31, attempted to purchase the chemical weapon over the 'dark web' from his home in Liverpool but his supposed supplier was an FBI agent

A judge has thrown out a motor vehicle accident claim filed by a Burnaby man accused last year of travelling to Syria to join an Islamist terrorist group. Hasibullah Yusufzai, the first person in Canada to be charged with the terrorism-related offence, le

A gay pride march in Jerusalem was the sight of bloodied chaos Thursday after an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stabbed six participants. But the head of a leading gay rights group said the event will go on despite the attack.

Athletes in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Russian bombers were intercepted off California and Alaska on July Fourth. What does Russia stand to gain from this, and what are the risks?

The former hosts of the BBC's popular Top Gear program, who left amid scandal over an off-set dustup, have signed up to present a new car show for broadcaster Amazon Prime.

Rolling Stone sued: Three University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity profiled in retracted Rolling Stone magazine story on a now-discredited account of a gang rape have filed a lawsuit against publication and the article's author on Wedn

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Like a lot of teenagers, Aanya Nigam reflexively shares her whereabouts, activities and thoughts on Twitter, Instagram and other social networks without a qualm.

Osaka University was able to produce a 2-petawatt - or 2 quadrillion-watt - laser beam using the Laser for Fast Ignition Experiments. This is equivalent to 1,000 times the world's electricity consumption.

The longest federal election campaign in modern history is set to kick off as early as Sunday, CBC News has confirmed.

Two Cornwall, Ont. brothers ran into trouble with the city when they launched a successful worm-selling business from their front porch.

Four farm workers ranging in age from 27 to 39 vanished after arriving in the B.C. Interior under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program

City of White Rock argues large tent along the beach where patrons of the Church of the Holy Smoke gather to smoke cannabis, to increasing complaints from nearby residents, poses a potential hazard

Sightings of Asian grass carp in two Toronto ponds have prompted the "biggest response in Canada to date" from Fisheries and Oceans Canada against the invasive species.

I'm more conflicted about Windows 10 than I have been about any previous version of Windows. In some ways, the operating system is extremely ambitious; in others, it represents a great loss of ambition. The new release tries to walk an unsteady path betwe

A passenger wants an apology from Porter Airlines, alleging she was asked to move from her seat to accommodate a man who did not want to sit beside a woman for religious reasons.

Veteran actor Donald Sutherland has joined a group of long-term expats critical of the residency limits of Canada's voting laws, amid a recent decision that affects those who have lived abroad for more than five years.

A senior officer with the Canadian Armed Forces has been charged with multiple counts of sex-related offences in connection with incidents dating back to 1998.

An 8-year-old boy who lost his hands and feet to a serious infection has become the youngest patient to receive a double-hand transplant, surgeons said Tuesday.

"This isn't just their fight, it's the world's fight," says Gill Rosenberg who returned to Israel after nine months of fighting for the Kurds in Syria and Iraq.

A Colombian man suspected of running an international drug ring while behind bars in Quebec has been arrested.

Mounties in Alberta say the discovery of a woman's remains in the same area where three other women have been found could mean police are dealing with a serial killer.

U.S. investigators are probing a potential link between a suspected serial killer and a B.C. woman who disappeared nine years ago.

A piece of Second World War history touched down in British Columbia's Okanagan region on Monday.

Researchers may never learn why the carcasses of 18 endangered whales were found floating near Alaska's Kodiak Island, a scientist working on the case said Monday.

A Canadian soldier in the reserves has died while training at a military base in Manitoba.

After Sergey Ananov's helicopter went down in the Davis Strait between Baffin Island and Greenland, he eventually found himself trapped on an ice floe with a single flare, a life raft, and three polar bears. His one objective: stay alive.

Susan Rowbottom of Kelowna, B.C., says she was sunbathing topless on a local beach when a police officer told her to cover up even though that's not the law in the province.

Florida family who dive for treasure for a living discover valuable gold artifacts from the wreckage of a 1715 Spanish fleet that sank in the Atlantic

Former New Democrat MP Olivia Chow is launching a bid to re-enter federal politics, saying she will champion a $15-a-day national childcare program if the NDP forms government in the fall.

Some 2,000 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel terminal in Calais on Monday night in an attempt to reach the UK, operator Eurotunnel says.

Calgary-based TransAlta Corporation manipulated power prices and engaged in insider trading when it shut down its coal-fired power plants during peak periods nearly five years ago, according to a decision handed down by the Alberta Utilities Commission on

It's been two years since filmmakers making a documentary about the song "Happy Birthday" filed a lawsuit claiming that the song shouldn't be under copyright. Now, they have filed (PDF) what they say is "proverbial smoking-gun evidence" that should cause

Cord-cutting will gain momentum over the next five years as people abandon traditional television for the growing choices and ease of use of online video streaming services, a new IDC Canada report projects.

Meteorologists are expected to be on the ground in southwestern Manitoba to assess damage after at least one tornado touched down amid heavy rain and hail.

Just hours after Hillary Clinton unveiled her presidential campaign's push to solve global warming through an aggressive carbon-cutting plan, she sauntered up the steps of a 19-seat private jet in Des Moines, Iowa. The aircraft, a Dassault model Falcon 90

VANCOUVER - A woman found guilty of helping to mastermind a terrorist bomb plot wanted to infiltrate a synagogue and kill "small Jews" to save the children from going to hell, a court has heard.

Transport Minister Lisa Raitt said she still doesn't know the impact on Canada of a major recall of Fiat Chrysler vehicles in the U.S. that is resulting in a $105 million US fine for the company.

Three Kitchener sisters plan to file a formal complaint after they say they were stopped by a police officer for cycling topless.

Melissa Mayeux has made history by becoming the first female to be placed on Major League Baseball's international registry.

An attack on a woman who wore a bikini in a park in northern France has sparked a furious campaign on Twitter. Hundreds of social media users posted photos of themselves in swimsuits in public places.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Leena is on the run from ISIS, having crossed into Turkey six weeks ago, and lives in constant fear that the militants will hunt her down and kill her.

The Maud, a ship used by famed Arctic explorer Roald Amundsen that sunk after being stuck in sea ice near Cambridge Bay 85 years ago, is set to be raised early next week by a team attempting to bring it home to Norway.

Russia will strengthen its naval forces in the Arctic and Atlantic as a response to Nato activities close to Russia's borders, the Kremlin says.

The Jehovah's Witnesses Church in Australia failed to report to police more than 1,000 cases of child sexual abuse going back more than 60 years, a government investigation into abuse and its aftermath heard on Monday.

​Canadians who have been prescribed medical marijuana could one day see their insurance company footing the bill, experts predict, following the introduction of new Health Canada rules that allow for the sale of cannabis oils.

Handmade in Toronto, this rare armoured truck is turning heads everywhere it goes thanks to a bold exterior and fully customizable interior that is highly sought after by wealthy collectors who can afford a car that guzzles 34 litres per 100 kilometres.

Fiat Chrysler must offer to buy back from customers more than 500,000 Ram pickup trucks and other vehicles in the biggest such action in U.S. history as part of a costly deal with safety regulators to settle legal problems in about two dozen recalls.

A Russian helicopter pilot who went missing during the Iqaluit-to-Greenland portion of a trip around the world was down to his last flare when he was found on a floe in the Davis Strait this morning.

Mounties created bogus profile so as to reach out to protest groups from Black Lives Matter Toronto to Idle No More.

A nearly all-female online vigilante hacker group, which boasts a former Jordanian beauty queen among its ranks, has vowed to eliminate Isis's online presence to disrupt the group's capacity to organise terror attacks.

Cambridge Professor Peter Wadhams suspects the deaths of the three scientists were more than just an extraordinary coincidence

The move from the players is just the latest in a rash of Cuban defections across various sports. It meant they could only field a team of eight out of 11 players in one of their matches.

Police say that an Arizona woman, Trina Heisch, 49, and her two dogs were decapitated by her husband whom she met at a mental health facility.

Longtime Canadian politician Flora MacDonald has died at age 89. Born in Nova Scotia, she worked for many Conservative governments during a long political career, which included becoming Canada's first female foreign affairs minister.

Conservative defector Eve Adams, parachuted into the key Toronto riding, fails to win the Liberal nomination for the looming federal election.

Ontario has granted more water-related industry patents than any other similarly-sized jurisdiction in the last three decades.

A temporary foreign worker in Edmonton has been given a second chance at life in Canada after a traffic accident in 2012 left her paralyzed and facing deportation to the Philippines.

Paris police were searching for four occupants of a car that struck a taxi and tried to crash barricades set up near the Tour de France finish line on Sunday morning, drawing police fire hours before the arrival of cyclists and spectators. Police said the

Foreign trade partners trash it. The domestic food industry wants it reformed. But Canada's supply management system for dairy, poultry and eggs isn't going anywhere so long as politicians are nearly unanimous about protecting marketing boards. Why?

Actress Kristen Bell (a.k.a Princess Ana, from the movie 'Frozen') has named a four-year old girl with cancer the new princess of the Disney kingdom Arendelle.

Invitations to "The Unveiling" summoned guests to prepare for "a night of chaos, noise, and debauchery... Come dance with the Devil and experience history in the making."

Bernie Sanders' favorable rating from the U.S. public has doubled since March, rising to 24% from 12%, while Hillary Clinton's rating has slipped five percentage points since April. She now tilts negative, 48% vs. 43%.

Isabella Worlock was bullied mercilessly by classmates who called her 'bacon lips' and 'ugly' and sneered at her acne

Mohammed Emwazi is thought to have left IS several weeks ago and tried to head for North Africa

A community east of Montreal is mourning the loss of a two-year-old boy who died after going missing from his home on Friday.

A fire at a high-rise hotel swimming pool sent large plumes of black smoke high above the Las Vegas Strip but left most guests unscathed Saturday.

Public Safety Canada is paying an Australian academic $170,000 over two years to study why Canadians convert to Islam.

The search continues for an inmate who escaped from an Ontario jail by disguising himself as his cellmate, an incident that has prompted authorities to launch an internal investigation.

Let's face it, we are a red-blooded, sex-obsessed species. Behind every new technology, pornography has been hot on its heels, and the brave new world of virtual reality is right now climbing its way to a hyper-real climax.

For some Iranians, the most important question raised by the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers has nothing to do with uranium enrichment or the prospects for the country's economic recovery.

Despite a rap sheet with dozens of arrests--and related terms of incarceration--Toccara Marlesha Huff maintains an outwardly positive attitude.

An Australian nurse who says he was forced by Islamic State militants to work as a medic in Syria will appear in a Sydney court on Saturday on terrorism-related charges, police said.

A B.C. man received an electricity bill last week worth thousands of dollars but there was just one problem -- his home had burned to the ground.

Jonathan Pollard, an American who was convicted of spying for Israel in a sensational espionage case that inflamed public sentiment, could be released from federal prison within months, his lawyer and the Justice Department said Friday.

NASA has released new images of Pluto, including a photo that suggests evidence of exotic ice flows across the dwarf planet's surface.

British politicians have been criticised for investing the cash after falling under the spell of former President Bill and canditate Hillary, pictured, and are using the cash for future influence.

Six men are convicted of sexually abusing two schoolgirls in Buckinghamshire on a

A man who was caught on camera unleashing a racist tirade against a Calgary cab driver has been fired from his job, his former employer announced on its website Thursday.

Police discovered the bodies at a house in Oklahoma following a 911 call. Two girls who survived the attack were also found. The male suspects were traced to a nearby wood.

Environmentalists shed their clothing Saturday morning on campus to rally against what they see as plans to cut down an estimated 450,000 trees in the East Bay hills.

Japanese automobile company apologizes to Allied prisoners of war who were forced to work in its mines during the Second World War, but Canadians swept up in the Battle of Hong Kong are insisting they should have been included

Toronto police have issued a warrant for a 27-year-old Brazilian water polo athlete after a sexual assault occurred downtown.

Police are looking for two men they say broke into a Vancouver home, pointed a gun at a seven-year old girl, and injured her grandfather before making off with money and a rare watch.

Stranded Orca triggers rescue efforts

A luxury hotel in Belfast is charging $38 a bottle for the 'purest water on Earth,' supposedly taken from the wall of a glacier in the Canadian Arctic.

The former Mountie who was the senior officer in charge the night Robert Dziekanski was jolted with a Taser and died has been given a two-year jail term for lying to an inquiry into the death.

In a major tactical shift, Turkish warplanes struck Islamic State group targets across the border in Syria on Friday, a day after IS militants fired at a Turkish military outpost. A Syrian rights group said the airstrikes killed nine IS fighters.

Stephen Harper's Conservatives have vaulted to a huge lead in voter support thanks, largely, to the distribution of $3-billion worth of benefit cheques to parents earlier this week, a new poll says.

A scorching hot summer across Western Canada is taking a toll on farms and forests. But the bad news is that even warmer and drier El Nino conditions are still on the way, so next year may be even worse.

The world's first malaria vaccine got a green light on Friday from European drugs regulators who recommended it as safe and effective to use in babies in Africa at risk of the mosquito-borne disease.

The Electronic Sports League said Thursday it will begin randomly drug testing players at its competitive video game tournaments.

An orca that was stranded on some rocks was kept alive for eight hours by a dedicated team of whale researchers and volunteers on the North Coast of B.C.

A fossilised four-legged snake has been found, with palaeobiologists claiming it could be the missing link between ancient snakes and modern-day lizards

Edmonton police are investigating an allegation of abuse of a senior at the Kipnes Centre for Veterans, according to Health Minister Sarah Hoffman.

A man is cycling across the United States in the hopes of losing hundreds of pounds, saving his marriage and finding material to write his second book.

A gunman opened fire at a movie theatre in Louisiana on Thursday night, killing two people and injuring at least six others before shooting himself, officials said.