NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2015

Police launched a manhunt this afternoon after the 28-year-old allegedly approached three different people in Manchester city centre offering to give up the child.

After a long day at work, Yvonne Myers from Manchester was looking forward to her usual run on the treadmill at her local gym. But as she stepped onto the machine, disaster struck.

A dozen members of direct action group Plane Stupid got on to the northern runway of Britain's busiest airport at 3.30am after cutting a hole in a fence.

Police say the accident was reported, but officers were not sent to the scene until a second call three days later.

It took only a matter of minutes for the sudden storm to create rivers flowing down streets and into garages and basements in Chestermere Sunday morning.

Koalas, surfing, and snow? An Antarctic vortex hit parts of Australia, creating a frosty winter wonderland.

Soaring beef prices continue to take the sizzle out of backyard barbecuing. And there appears to be no end in sight to the skyrocketing cost of beef.

Authorities vow to implement ban on veil a day after Boko Haram bomber disguised as woman attacked market in capital.

Some Christians in Iraq, driven from their homes by ISIL, are forming militias in a bid to reclaim territory and form a safe haven.

When Army Sgt. Patrick Hart decided a decade ago that he would not serve in the war in Iraq, he expected to follow the same path as thousands of American war resisters during the Vietnam era and take refuge across the border.

People in Calgary woke up with a bang early Sunday morning as a line of thunderstorms hovered over the city, bringing lightning, power outages and overland flooding in communities to the east.

Canada's embassy in Kyiv was used as a haven for several days by anti-government protesters during the uprising that toppled the regime of former president Viktor Yanukovych.

Hundreds of people gathered dockside in Halifax Sunday morning for the return of HMCS Fredericton after a seven month deployment in Europe.

The Harper government has quietly pulled the plug on a $55-million deal to provide mobile radar units to Canada's CF-18 bases. Public Works won't say why the contract, signed in 2010, went bust, but it's the latest procurement project to go sour.

Iconic footwear from Wizard of Oz film disappeared ten years ago from a Minnesota museum

In the face of a nationwide "downturn," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he won't pour billions into stimulus spending and will opt to stay the course on the economy.

After 10 days of deliberations, the jury has found Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser guilty on 8 charges in Via Rail terror plot; jury deadlocked on 1 charge against Jaser.

The Enigma 1, which dates from between 1930 and 1938 is also known as the Wehrmacht, or 'Services' Enigma, and was used by German military and the railways before and during the war.

he U.S. Military will bring over a thousand troops as well as aircraft and heavy vehicles to Texas and six other southwestern states for Operation Jade Helm--an unprecedented special operations training exercise. A civilian group has organized to monitor

As wildfires continue to spread across Western Canada, a photo of a bear in trouble is spreading across the Internet, drawing attention to the threat fires pose to local wildlife.

With gigantic forest fires raging all around La Ronge, Sask., it might have been easy to miss the cat that climbed to the very top of a power pole, and then couldn't find a way back down.

Showers and cooler weather are providing some welcome relief for firefighters battling wildfires across British Columbia.

One person is dead and two others are injured after two vehicles collided with a moose on Highway 17 in the Sudbury area.

Odin Camus is too young to drive a car, but the navy let the 13-year-old steer HMCS Montreal around Halifax Harbour on Friday night.

More than two dozen Democrats have proposed legislation that would eliminate the words husband and wife from federal law. Those gendered terms would be replaced by gender-neutral words like spouse or married couple, according to the bill from Rep. Lois C

Harper Lee's unexpected new novel, Go Set A Watchman, offers an unexpected and startling take on an American literary saint, Atticus Finch.

The RCMP Integrated National Security Enforcement Team has arrested a 33-year-old man from Fort St. John and charged him for committing terrorism offences.

The rare phenomenon will lead to a phenomenon known as the 'Maunder minimum' - which has previously been known as a mini ice age when it hit between 1646 and 1715.

One teacher told of her horrifying capture in the Syrian city of Raqqa by the ruthless all-women police unit, the Al-Khansa brigade, created to enforce IS rules.

Anger boiled over at a commemoration of the massacre of 8,000 Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica 20 years ago as people pelted Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic with stones, water bottles and other objects.

Calgary Stampede officials have made the unprecedented move of eliminating a competitor because of the alleged mistreatment of his horse. Judges say cowboy Tuf Cooper, who is from Decatur, Texas, aggressively whipped his horse with a rope

From Voyager 1 to the Tardis, see how speedy the universe's most famous transportation vessels are in this engaging new infographic.

Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who was brought up in the Philippines, gives uncomfortable, awkward and tearful interviews to the cast in the new show.

A second woman has been arrested and charged after an alleged sexual assault was captured in a video posted on Facebook.

When Grant Gaschnitz walks through his fields at his farm near High Prairie, swarms of grasshoppers jump out from under his feet.

The Canadian Rangers, the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve in isolated areas, are now testing the new weapons that will replace their Lee-Enfield rifles, used since the group's inception in 1947.

Legendary Lawrence of Arabia actor Omar Sharif has died at age 83 after suffering a heart attack in Cairo.

​A legal and human rights expert wants to know how a Winnipeg girl could have been impregnated by her stepfather twice and had two abortions before she was 13, yet not have been deemed a victim of sexual assault.

A food truck selling a posh hot dog for $100 at the Calgary Stampede has sold out after just one day.

Dread sitting next to a complete stranger when you fly? If a new cabin design ever reaches the light of day, things could get much, much worse.

A New Zealand judge sentenced AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd to eight months of home detention on Thursday after the musician pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a man who used to work for him.

Consumers are snapping up fitness trackers, but many abandon the devices after just a few months, reports suggest.

A new maximum recommended daily dose for the pain reliever acetaminophen is under consideration by Health Canada.

A teenage girl has died after she was shot in northwest Toronto on Thursday morning.

An Ottawa-area man's photo of a "lazy" Canada Post package delivery has gone viral after he posted it to Reddit on Wednesday.

Kirk Rankin with RBR Fur Farms Inc. is still trying to recover the last of about 6,800 mink that were let out of four sheds after a perimeter fence was cut open overnight Tuesday

A Turkish opposition leader sparked fury by saying a mistaken attack on Korean tourists by anti-Chinese protesters was understandable, given that both peoples have 'slitty eyes'

Families of the victims and volunteers at the scene gather to commemorate one of the worst, and still unsolved, mass murders in Canadian history

Last week, the manufacturers in Solihull took last orders for one of the greatest and best-loved vehicles ever built, which will cease production in the next few months, writes MAX HASTINGS.

Iraqi media reports that 45 ISIS militants were killed after breaking their fast with a Ramadan meal laced with poison. 145 fanatics are thought to have sat down for the 'iftar' meal in Mosul, Iraq.

The PrideHouse pavilion for LGBTQ people is the first of its kind at a Pan Am Games and the first to receive official support and collaboration from the organizing committee

The much-mocked incident was captured on a cellphone video.

Toronto police have charged a man for driving in a high-occupancy-vehicle lane with two mannequins.

Toronto Star analysis of 28,000 requests over a one-year period finds a majority are sent back with information redacted.

A lawsuit accuses actor Tom Selleck of stealing truckloads of water from a public hydrant and bringing it to his ranch in drought-stricken Southern California.

The federal government should outlaw membership in a terrorist group, bar radicals from Canada and look at forbidding the glorification of extremists to protect the Canadian way of life, says a Senate committee.

What atmospheric scientist Jiwen Fan saw on her television in July 2013 appalled her. The worst flooding to hit China in 50 years was happening in Sichuan province, in the same place that had been devastated by a massive earthquake just 5 years earlier. O

New data from Statistics Canada show incomes were virtually unchanged in 2013, as senior families and families with children took home less and Canadians living alone taking home more. The median after-tax income for all people measured was $53,500, ju

Police in suburban Detroit are having a little fun while asking for help from the public in figuring out who swiped roughly 28,000 pounds of packaged nuts.

British Columbia's Ministry of Environment is investigating after a conservation officer was suspended for refusing to kill two black bear cubs.

Under the plan the Army will have 450,000 soldiers at the end of the 2017 budget year, its smallest number since before the United States entered Second World War

The Conservatives are heading toward their lowest share of the vote in any election since the Second World War. But that may not be as bad as it sounds for Stephen Harper's party. Polls analyst Eric Grenier explains.

A 27-year-old Alberta man is in custody following an early morning low-speed pursuit on the Trans-Canada highway in New Brunswick involving a backhoe.

An Ottawa couple who built a small vegetable and herb garden next to the sidewalk in front of their home say they're saddened and frustrated after a bylaw officer gave them until July 30 to remove the wooden structures around it.

Who is a Mohawk? The answer could set the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake on a collision course with the federal government.

Canadian Finance Minister Joe Oliver says growth in the U.S. economy could help boost Canada's, despite low oil prices and instability in Europe.

Rob Ford was the lone dissenting vote in city council against receiving a petition to stop the practice of carding in Toronto.

The Red Deer RCMP detachment was briefly evacuated after a citizen dropped off some hemlock at the building. Police say the person didn't mean any harm, but the poisonous flower needed to be safely and properly removed. The hazardous material unit a

Baroness Flather, a cross-bench peer, says it is 'absolutely appalling' that first cousin marriages in Pakistani communities are leading to 'so much disability among children'

He carefully singled them out, naming Romeo Saganash from the New Democratic Party, Carolyn Bennett from the federal Liberal Party and Quebec Aboriginal Affairs minister Geoffrey Kelley. Then, in a moment of pure political theatre, he seemed to point to a

The ticket might not be real, but the online love is. A photo of a young Halifax biker getting a ticket for illegally parking on the waterfront has seen thousands of likes and shares online after it was tweeted from the Halifax Regional Police's Twitte

Aeroplan says it has heard the complaints, and its (relatively) new way of redeeming points means lack of seat availability is a thing of the past.

The assault on a man near Fountain Square on Saturday night was incorrectly described as an "anti-white" crime, Cincinnati Police Captain Mike Neville said.

The president and his family have spent nearly every summer on the tony Massachusetts island since he was elected into the White House in 2008.

Russian Bombers Intercepted on Independence Day

Its Russian makers say it is a 'fundamentally new electronic warfare system' - but has refused to reveal how the Krasuha-4 system works.

"They frisked me and put me in this intake cell with all these inmates in orange jumpsuits," Becky Rehr said. "I was pretty nervous."

An easy, quick and cheap solution to high-priced or hard-to-find air conditioners could be as close as your garage or hardware store.

Calgary's Nolan Hill says he was called "disgusting" and threatened to be kicked out of a Calgary United Cab after he kissed another man on the lips.

A Colorado Springs man was arrested after police believe he left racist messages outside a church.

Police say a 9-year-old boy has died after he was allegedly handcuffed and beaten for eating a piece of birthday cake without permission.

It comes as no surpise to Zack Gallinger that another hockey player from Thunder Bay was drafted to NHL.

The South Carolina Senate voted Monday to pull the Confederate flag off the Capitol grounds, clearing the way for a historic measure that could remove the banner more than five decades after it was first flown above the Statehouse to protest integration.

Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he got Quaaludes with the intent of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with, and that he gave the sedative to at least one woman and "other people," according to documents obtained Monday by The Associated Pr

A photo of a boy upset over his first parking citation is getting plenty of love online. Halifax police Const. Shawn Currie wrote a ticket for Declan Tramley, 3, after he spotted him illegally stopped on his red plastic motorcycle.

Savannah Burton is currently the only known transgender athlete representing Canada on the international level.

Americans' support for the First Amendment rebounded strongly over the past year, a new study says.

Former model Tiger Sun (pictured), 46, who grew up in Canada and has asked for her real name not be published, has spoken exclusively to MailOnline about bloody battles and killing jihadis

Foreign exchange manager Jenus Fiouzi, 43, claims key decisions at Commerzbank AG's London office were made during all male drinking sessions to which she wasn't invited.

A patient with extensively drug-resistant TB flew from Mumbai to Chicago, and the deadly disease could become an infamous export due to problems in India's public health system

Two men are dead and a three-year-old boy has been rescued after a canoe capsized in a lake north of Kingston, Ont., on Saturday evening.

Inadequate public transit has become as Canadian as maple syrup, and cities are struggling to find affordable solutions. The problem? Too much political wrangling and an outdated approach to new infrastructure projects.

A young man who was drinking and celebrating the Fourth of July tried to launch a firework off the top of his head, fatally injuring himself, U.S. authorities say.

Residents across Metro Vancouver and other parts of B.C. woke to the sight of a strange haze in the sky Sunday morning.

U.S.-led coalition aircraft unleashed a wave of airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqqa in eastern Syria in what the coalition said Sunday was one of its most sustained aerial operations carried out in Syria to date.

Can an algorithm pass for an author? Can a robot rock the house? A series of contests at Dartmouth College is about to find out.

A 10-month-old girl was rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard on Saturday after she drifted nearly a kilometre out to sea in an inflatable crib.

A five-year-old Florida girl died after a sturgeon leaped into her boat along the Suwannee River in Florida and struck her.