NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2015

Tiger Woods plunged new depths when he missed the cut in a third successive major for the first time in his career at the storm-delayed PGA Championship on Saturday.

Masahiro Tanaka painted the corners of the plate in nine masterful innings of work Saturday, limiting the Blue Jays to five hits while striking out eight to lead the New York Yankees to a 4-1 victory in Toronto.

Is anyone surprised that the Toronto Blue Jays all of a sudden have a massive fan following? Eric Simons isn't. He explains the psychology that drives the bandwagon.

The federal Liberal leader was on the campaign trail Saturday calling out the prime minister for not firing members of his staff who knew about the $90,000 payment made to Senator Mike Duffy.

Riot police did nothing as 50 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran threw rocks and exchanged blows near a passenger ship where hundreds of migrants were being registered.

Shukee Begum, widowed after her husband was killed fighting for ISIL, wants to return to Britain with her young family

The Liberal Party's new black and red posters that are going up in Quebec are being mocked online, with an actual parody sign popping up in a Montreal riding as well.

Maria Gabriela Chavez, 35, the late president's second-oldest daughter, holds assets in American and Andorran banks totaling almost $4.2billion, Diario las Americas reports.

Veterans of World War Two are taking part in events to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day, when Japan surrendered and the war ended.

Has Russia's king of masculine poses found a way to get a swarm of flying birds to soar into a formation of his face?

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT This distressing footage captured the moment a plastic straw was pulled from the nose of a sea turtle after it was discovered lodged inside in Costa Rica.

Hamza Bin Laden, who is thought to have been groomed by his father, is believed to be speaking in the audio recording. He can be heard urging lone wolf attacks in the US and the West

The Experimental Aircraft Association is putting a Second World War B-25 bomber up for display in Regina.

A three-run home run from Carlos Beltran silenced a sellout crowd at Rogers Centre and made the Toronto Blue Jays' winning streak and brief stay in first place come to an abrupt end.

Many pet and livestock owners were left with no choice but to free their animals to fend for themselves as the rapidly growing wildfire approached.

The protesters were at the Utah County Fair in Spanish Fork on Wednesday. They sneaked into the ring while wearing rainbow-colored wigs and were tossed out. It was the second year there has been a protest.

He's survived three cat-nappings and 16 winters on board CSS Acadia, but now Erik the Red is set to swallow the anchor.

An Alberta man captured his own private Fly Away Home experience when he used his truck to lead a lost Canada goose to water.

Toronto typically gets the heel treatment amongst other Canadians for being "the centre of the universe." And while that nickname is often derisive, it's apt when it comes to baseball in this country. The city's Blue Jays, since the loss of the Montreal E

The current El Nino, nicknamed Bruce Lee, is already the second strongest on record for this time of year and could be one of the most potent weather-changers of the past 65 years, meteorologists say.

TORONTO -- The Blue Jays are the hottest team in baseball, and they haven't shown any signs of slowing down after matching their franchise record with an 11-game winning streak on Thursday afternoon. Toronto continued its impressive run with a 4-2 victory

The UK is to make a formal protest to the Ecuadorean government over the country's decision to

American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly forced to have sex with Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, according to accounts provided to U.S. intelligence officials.

Summer won't be nearly as relaxing as you would like if you run into one of these irritants.

Canada's medical research community is reacting with shock and disappointment to the cancellation of a 30-year program to train doctors who see patients and work as scientists searching for new treatments.

Hundreds of people spent the night wondering if their homes or belongings had been destroyed in a massive wildfire near Rock Creek in B.C's southern Interior.

A family of grizzlies that wandered into Whitehorse's Granger subdivision have been successfully moved out of the city by conservation officers and trained bear dogs. The bears were led to a wooded area near Fish Lake.

An aggressive, out-of-control wildfire raging in B.C.'s southern Interior forced evacuations of 208 homes in the Rock Creek area on Thursday afternoon.

Ryan Goins hit a home run and pitcher Mark Buehrle was solid as the Toronto Blue Jays won their 11th game in a row on Thursday with a 4-2 home victory over the Oakland Athletics.

Elisa Bellandi, now 14, survived an abortion when her mother fell pregnant with her when aged 43. Her parents, Giuseppe and Aurora, from Rimini, Italy, are suing the hospital that carried it out.

The Ontario Energy Board says the environmental risks of the $12 billion Energy East pipeline project outweigh the potential benefits, and warns it will drive up natural gas prices.

Canadian heavy crude fell to $20 below Texas prices this week, a seven-year low that's going to make more wells in Alberta too expensive to run

As the Mike Duffy Senate spending scandal unfolds, the Conservative talking points keep changing. Here are some of the contradictions emerging through courtroom testimony and evidence.

Yellowknife's Andre Tricoteux has played varsity volleyball, been a professional wrestler, and worked in a diamond mine. Now, he's playing a super hero on the silver screen, acting as Colossus in the upcoming Marvel film 'Deadpool.'

The emergency declared at the Copper Cliff smelter in Sudbury, Ont., due to a nitrogen dioxide leak has been downgraded. All roads are now open and people are allowed outside again.

For the past four years, California has been going through a record-setting drought. Experts say this can offer a glimpse into climate change, and the effects could be even worse in Canada.

Nature lovers are protesting to Yellowstone National Park that the bear was just defending her young

Rival war games by Russian armed forces and Nato represent greatest build up of military tension in Europe since Cold War, warns think tank

The FBI has taken possession of thumb drives containing Hillary Clinton's emails, some of which have been deemed to contain highly sensitive classified information.

When Toronto Blues Jays slugger Justin Smoak watched his home run fly out of Detroit's Comerica Park earlier this summer, he never could have predicted the happy journey that baseball would take.

Vancouver Coastal Health has asked restaurants to take increased precautions when serving oysters as more illnesses are reported.

Chris Colabello and Justin Smoak each hit three-run homers, and the surging Toronto Blue Jays put up seven runs in the second inning en route to their 10th straight victory, 10-3 over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday.

The waters where Olympians will compete in swimming and boating events next summer in South America's first games are rife with human sewage and present a serious health risk for athletes, as well as for visitors to the iconic beaches of Rio de Janeiro.

Everyone who thinks robots are going to take over the world might be getting a lot more frightened: Scientists have created a machine that's able to have babies. Sort of.

Just weeks ago, a dog bit a child in the ear. Investigators ruled the dog, Padi, be euthanized. But now, Manatee County leaders, alongside advocates, are pushing for changes that could save that dog's...

The beating death of a Pomeranian named Fox may have been eclipsed by the hand-written note left behind: "We beat it 2 death lol HAHAHA!"

In Napanee, a battle rages over a proposed 300-acre solar farm. Residents wonder why they should give up prime farmland in order to charge city residents' cellphones and laptops

With the snowy mountains and beautiful forests of British Columbia in the background, Spencer Seabrooke certainly chose an impressive location for his record breaking challenge. Yet the video of the daredevil slackliner almost ends in tragedy within th

A Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge has ruled three British sailors charged with a sexual assault in Halifax can return to the United Kingdom while on bail.

Kraft Heinz says it is cutting about 2,500 jobs as part of its plan to slash costs after the food companies combined.

BRITISH council and Foreign Office staff could be amongst hundreds of military personnel and embassy workers at risk after Islamic State (ISIS) leaked what is believed to be their names, email addresses and passwords online.

Tragedy struck again Tuesday at Harrison Lake when a boater swimming in the glacier-fed water disappeared beneath the surface.

The Huffington Post has caused outrage among those readers who considered it a liberal left website by launching an Arabic edition which has promptly criticised gays, atheists and the practice of taking selfies.

The B.C. government has agreed to compensate a major liquefied natural gas project if it raises taxes on the LNG industry for a 25-year period after the plant starts shipping.

Icebreakers are a welcome sight for many Arctic communities, where their arrival signals the arrival of the annual summer resupply. CBC's Natasha MacDonald-Dupuis stepped onto the CCGS Des Groseilliers to get a first-hand experience of life aboard an iceb

A teenager has made an unexpected find while swimming in a lake in the German Alps: a 17.6-ounce bar of gold.

A man from the Northwest Territories has filed a lawsuit against health officials claiming they failed to find a knife blade buried in his back for three years.

A massive explosion hits a petrol storage station in China's northern Tianjin with scores of people injured, reports say.

A Canadian Armed Forces reserve soldier died Monday at CFB Gagetown, the military announced Tuesday.

A federal committee is holding a hearing today into a complaint that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service illegally spied on peaceful anti-pipeline protesters in B.C., but the public may never know what went on behind closed doors.

Oilsands giant Syncrude is facing an environmental protection order after the deaths of 30 great blue herons at one of its sites. The Alberta Energy Regulator has given the company a series of tasks after the discovery of the large shorebirds' carcasse

Certain fishing spots in southern Alberta are temporarily inaccessible due to high water temperatures. The province introduced the closures on Tuesday to safeguard fish populations in rivers and streams that have exceeded temperature thresholds.

Croatia's prime minister is to address the nation after reports that militants affiliated to Islamic State have killed a Croatian national.

Bell and Telus pledged earlier this summer to wire up Toronto, Edmonton and other cities for ultra-fast internet, but it was old news for some residents who are clients of a handful of non-traditional companies.

Premier Kathleen Wynne's government is slowing down the phase-in of its controversial new Ontario Retirement Pension Plan to ease the transition for small and medium-sized businesses.

A B.C. family is grateful to be alive after waking up to find a hungry grizzly bear feasting in their kitchen. WARNING: This story contains a graphic image of the dead bear

A U.S. defence and foreign affairs think tank released a comprehensive report today suggesting the oft-maligned F-35 might not meet the performance standards of current fighters, including Canada's CF-18s.

This Independent B.C. candidate just released the greatest campaign video in Canadian history.

According to new research, vegetable farmers who clear away trees and wild vegetation from their fields aren't making their produce any safer to eat. But they are destroying animal habitats.

Toronto Mayor John Tory says he doesn't want the "hate speech" of controversial U.S. blogger Roosh V in the city, and is urging organizers to cancel the controversial pickup artist's speaking event.

What would you do if you could do anything? Would you be a rockstar, playing a sold out arena? Or be a surfer, riding the gnarliest 100-foot swells this side of Hawaii? No seriously, stop for a second and picture it. Imagine yourself there.

Kurtis Ling, 22, left university to play video games professionally, and now his team has won the top prize at The International, worth $6.6 million.

Three of four British sailors charged with sexually assaulting a woman in Halifax are expected in court today to challenge the conditions of their bail.

A power plant operator in southern Japan restarted a nuclear reactor on Tuesday, the first to begin operating under new safety requirements following the Fukushima disaster.

Heart disease and stroke risks showed "striking differences" for South Asian men, black men and women and Chinese men over a 12-year period, a new Canadian study suggests.

Dutch prosecutors said Tuesday they have found what they believe could be parts of a Buk missile system at the site in eastern Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was brought down last year.

The incident took place during a registration procedure which was taking place at the stadium of Kos town, on the south east of the island.

In the U.S., he was apprehended as an illegal alien and spent six months in a detention centre in Texas and another 10 weeks in a centre in Louisiana. After his refugee claim was formally rejected, he was released to await deportation back to Somalia. Des

WETHERSFIELD-- A professor at a local community college has been arrested after allegedly claiming an officer racially profiled her, when he didn't. On May 9, Minati Roychoudhuri, 32, of Storrs, was driving near exit 85 on Route 15 when she was

Japanese government learned at Pacific Rim talks that auto-content deal brokered with United States had not been finalized by NAFTA partners, source says

Taipei, Aug. 10 (CNA) The onslaught of Typhoon Soudelor Saturday has caused 8 deaths, 4 people missing and 420 injured across Taiwan, statistics released by the Central Emergency Operation Center Monday show.

A federal lawsuit moving forward in Manhattan could open the floodgates to tightly held government secrets about foreign connections to the 9/11 attacks. While the Obama administration refuses to make...

Actual peer reviewed papers aren't making "Earth to Moon in four hours" claims.

The picture-perfect beaches and turquoise waters that people expect on their visits to the Caribbean are increasingly being fouled by mats of decaying seaweed.

Two assailants opened at the U.S. Consulate building in Istanbul on Monday, touching off a gunfight with police, Turkish media reports said.

According to an NBC News Online Poll conducted by SurveyMonkey, Donald Trump is still polling at the top of the GOP pack despite controversy over comments about women.

A pivotal decision is due this week in the case of two 13-year-old Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please online horror character Slender Man.

A woman is recovering after being attacked by an alligator that bit off her arm while she swam in central Florida.

Canadians have no right to travel to regions of the world controlled by terrorist groups, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday in promising a broader legal crackdown on what he called 'terror tourism.'

A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.

Mohammad Ali Taheri, an Iranian faith healer, reportedly died in prison and was then sentenced to death to cover it up

The bell of HMS Hood has finally been recovered from the depths of the North Atlantic and will be put on public display following an expedition led by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Police in Bangladesh have shot dead six suspected tiger poachers in the world's largest mangrove forest.

Around the U.S., more than 50 people have reported losing their jobs at Catholic institutions since 2010 over their sexual orientation or identity, according to an LGBT Catholic advocacy group.

There's a tiny new weapon being used in the fight against the destructive emerald ash borer in Ontario. The federal government recently approved the introduction of a foreign breed of parasitic, non-stinging wasp that destroys ash borer eggs from within.

Protesters in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, wrote #DarrenWilson on a roasted pig and later placed its head on a barrier outside the city's police department.

Josh Donaldson and Jose Bautista each hit a long home run, and the Toronto Blue Jays earned their eighth straight victory by beating the New York Yankees 2-0 Sunday to complete a three-game sweep that tightened the AL East race.

Pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gifford has died. He was 84. Gifford died suddenly on Sunday morning at his Connecticut home of natural causes. His wife, Kathie Lee Gifford, is a host for NBC's Today.

A 12-year-old girl has died after a horse fell on her before a parade in Shelburne, Ont. First responders, who were set to take part in the parade, were close by. They treated her injuries, which "appeared serious" immediately.

A hockey tournament featuring several NHL players was held in Bedford, N.S. Saturday and raised $130,000 for the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the QEII Foundation.

A retired P.E.I. military officer is inviting the public to come to a Sunday ceremony to honour those who have served in peacekeeping roles in troubled spots around the world over the decades.

More than a week ago, Christina Lee's husband spotted a cougar near their Whitehorse neighbourhood. Every night since, strange noises have woken Lee at night.

Two people have died following a collision between a moose and a car on Saturday night north of Quebec City.

A police officer in suburban Dallas shot and killed a college football player during a struggle after the unarmed 19-year-old crashed a car through the front window of a car dealership, authorities said.

The Toronto Blue Jays acquired some infield depth on Saturday, picking up Cliff Pennington and cash considerations from the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Grabbing something hot and tasty on the move? You have the ancient Romans to thank. 'Street food' was their invention, generally enjoyed with wine, gambling or even prostitutes.

Swords and battle axes drawn, shields up, combatants thrust and parry in a stunning recreation of Viking battles at the Icelandic Festival of Manitoba in Canada's midwest.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki by renewing his commitment to a nuclear weapons free Japan, following criticism for not making the same pledge on the anniversary of the Hiroshima b

Eight people, five of them children, were killed late Saturday at a house in Houston, local media reported, and a suspect surrendered to police after an hour-long standoff.

It's a $100,000 question, one that apparently has some of Michael Sam's teammates steaming mad. It would have been wonderful if the Sam chatter had ended after he finally made his CFL debut Friday night in Ottawa.