NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2016

The Czech Republic's leaders have chosen "Czechia" as the one-word alternative name of their country. The name must win cabinet approval before it can be submitted to the UN and become official.

Ecuador's strongest earthquake in decades, a 7.8-magnitude tremor, struck off the country's Pacific coast on Saturday, killing at least 41 people and causing damage near the epicentre as well as in the largest city, Guayaquil.

Italy's Amalfi Coast has long been a mecca for writers, movie stars and honeymooners. But while the vistas are stunning and the cuisine divine, a growing danger lurks along this exquisite stretch of Mediterranean shore.

A controversial satellite tagging program for orcas has been temporarily suspended by U.S. researchers after one of the affected whales turned up dead in B.C. waters with fragments of a dart still in its fin.

Officials in Saudi Arabia have reportedly told the Obama administration they will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars of American assets if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible for any role in the S

To all the political junkies yearning for a contested Republican convention this summer: not so fast. It's still possible for Donald Trump to clinch the nomination by the end of the primaries on June 7.

The U.S. has released nine more prisoners from its base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and sent them to Saudi Arabia for resettlement, officials said Saturday.

Rioters attacked each other with metal bars and planks of wood before police managed to disperse the battle with teargas under the Stalingrad Metro line in the centre of Paris.

Maxime Bernier hints he would support the legalization of marijuana. Kellie Leitch appears to stick to Stephen Harper's anti-legalization position. Interim Leader Rona Ambrose's position is confusingly somewhere in the middle.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders traveled to Rome for the Vatican conference with 11 family members, a group of campaign staff, secret service detail and members of the press.

New documents show that the private information of tens of thousands of people was mishandled by the federal government last year, including hundreds of taxpayer files inappropriately accessed by employees of the Canada Revenue Agency, which was the worst

Canada's Department of Global Affairs has released a heavily redacted version of its 2015 report on human rights in Saudi Arabia, saying there have been some minor improvements in the kingdom.

The Canadian government has released a redacted version of its 2015 human rights report on Saudi Arabia, bowing to demands from opposition MPs and other critics calling for more transparency about a controversial arms deal with the kingdom.

PICKY refugees at an asylum centre in Germany have caused outrage among local politicians by refusing to eat the free food they are served claiming it makes them 'sick.'

If you were a terrorist, would you use the moniker of your affiliated group as your given name?

On Thursday, Leslie Van Houten convinced the state panel that the murderous young women she'd been was a long-distant memory and that she was now fit to be paroled.

A good deed by an Ottawa bus driver is getting plenty of recognition after a passenger snapped a photo of the man comforting a woman who was reportedly escaping a domestic assault.

The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that two federal laws from the previous Conservative government's tough-on-crime agenda are unconstitutional.

Residents of Newfoundland and Labrador will pay more taxes and higher fees while receiving less service as the new Liberal government grapples with an unprecedented fiscal crisis.

The House of Commons Finance Committee has called Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier to appear before the committee sometime in the next month. Opposition MP's want her to explain a secret deal between the Canada Revenue Agency and clients of the financ

She says weight deserves the same attention as discrimination by age, sex, disability, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.

A new video showing some of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped two years ago gives hope they may return, their family and friends say.

LSD, once a demonized hippie drug, has been evolving toward a clinically validated psychotherapy tool and Silicon Valley productivity hack for years now. And this week, it hit a major milestone.

Sicily has been branded 'the new Lesbos' as thousands of migrants arrive on the Mediterranean island. MailOnline gained exclusive access to the ships out to rescue them.

A group of around 20 Eritrean immigrants armed with sticks and rocks are said to have mistaken their victims for Afghan people traffickers when they attacked them at a parking area in Calais, France.

Sidney Cushman screamed as she watched the cougar tense its muscles, and lunge out of the trees, eyes fixed squarely on her own. "It was pure panic. It was terrifying," said Cushman, 21

Fresh crab can be expensive, but two Vancouver men have paid a very high price for the delicacy, and they never even got to taste their catch.

Conservation officer Ryan Gordon says the wolf had been approaching people and recently killed a dog in a backyard. He says the wolf was severely underweight and coming too close for comfort.

A video captured this week in Port Moody reminds residents that bears are coming out of hibernation, and it's important to avoid attracting them with food or garbage.

Four power poles carrying a 60-kilovolt transmission line have been cut down in the Green Timbers area of Surrey and BC Hydro says a chainsaw was used to do it.

Melissa Ann Shepard, 80, was released from prison last month after serving her full sentence for administering a noxious substance and failing to provide the necessaries of life to her newlywed husband.

The City of Toronto has issued draft rules that would loosen regulations for the taxi industry while imposing new requirements for ride-hailing services like Uber.

A takeaway chef wiped his bottom using his hands before preparing food because he does not use toilet paper for 'cultural reasons', a court heard.

The New York Yankees scratched out a run in the seventh inning off Toronto reliever Brett Cecil and it held up as the difference in a 3-2 win over the Blue Jays on Tuesday night.

A woman lost in an Arizona forest for nine days survived by drinking pond water, eating plants and spelling out 'help' on the ground with sticks, authorities said Tuesday.

Police found10-metre-long tunnel stashed with between $65,000 and $100,000 worth of stolen goods behind a Calgary home.

Yousef Mohammed Hussein hanged himself with his bedsheets in a solitary confinement cell in a maximum security section of the jail known as one wing

Amsterdam's Schiphol airport has been evacuated and one man has been arrested after a 'suspicious situation' was detected by authorities. Armed police and a bomb squad are at the scene.

A dangerously close pass along Alberta's Queen Elizabeth Highway was caught on dashcam earlier this week and the video has gone viral.In a video posted by Anton Vladimirovich, a car can be seen driving in the right-hand lane of the highway. The car then s

The town of Hay River, N.W.T., is preparing for spring breakup. When the Hay River starts to melt, the ice can jam the waterway and cause flooding with little warning.

Hundreds of cadets with Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan marked the Battle of Vimy Ridge at Vancouver's Mountain View Cemetery on Sunday to remember a defining moment for the Canadian military.

The warming climate that helped trigger B.C.'s mountain pine beetle outbreak might also be helping the province's forests recover, according to a new study.

Ev Williams on feedback loops, giving a home to publishers, and finding critical mass

Led Zeppelin founders Robert Plant and Jimmy Page must face trial in a copyright row over the song Stairway to Heaven, a US court rules.

The San Antonio school district on Monday fired a school police officer seen on a viral video body slamming a 12-year-old girl, saying his use of force was unwarranted.

EUROPE'S elite tonight dropped all pretence of respecting democracy by plotting to grant visa-free travel to 45 million Ukrainians in direct defiance of the Dutch referendum result.

A Syrian refugee has confessed to setting light to a hotel in Rhineland-Palatinate where he was staying and spraying swastikas on the walls to make it look like a political crime.

The Canadian military has discharged a soldier suffering from severe depression without a medical release, which means he is not eligible for long-term disability support, re-education, retraining or other benefits.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces he will offer a full apology for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident in the House of Commons on May 18.

Hundreds of Canadian soldiers have converged on Canada's High Arctic, conducting snowmobile patrols and Arctic dives to boost survival skills in the punishing conditions. They're also preparing for a big arrival - with the help of some southern visitors.

By simulating conditions in space, scientists in France say they found ribose -- the 'R' in RNA -- is potentially present throughout the universe.

Major accounting firms known as the "Big Four" routinely hired senior Canada Revenue Agency enforcement executives and Department of Justice tax lawyers over a span of more than a decade, a CBC News investigation has found.

The federal and Ontario health ministers said Sunday that a crisis team, including mental health nurses and social workers, was being flown immediately to the James Bay community of about 2,000.

The Trudeau government won't be taking a permissive approach to medically assisted dying in new legislation to be unveiled as early as next week, The Canadian Press has learned.

Climate change is often blamed for many things, but until now it is unlikely anyone has linked it to a reduction in the number of babies.

British Muslims disagree with the rest of the population on a range of key issues such as sexuality, freedom of speech and polygamy, according to new research.

With the recent announcement that Ontario in pledging $60 million to improve math scores, the debate continues over the best way to improve them and whether students need to get back to basics.

The U.S. Air Force says it has deployed B-52 bombers to the Mideast nation of Qatar to take part in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against the Islamic State group.

The suit arguing Cruz does not meet the Constitution's requirement that a candidate has to be a "natural born" citizen is not likely to go anywhere.

A Toronto mother of two is stranded in Trinidad and seeking financial assistance to fly home, after a fall off a cliff left her with injuries too difficult for local doctors to treat.

Canada and the European Union are racing towards a Tuesday deadline to avoid triggering a process that could result in Canadian travellers having to obtain a visa to travel to 26 European countries.

On the ice, Derek Boogaard was a bruiser, chalking up more than 60 fights over his six-year National Hockey League career. Off the ice, he fought a different type of battle. Boogaard had an addiction to painkillers -- one that would ultimately take his l

ANTI-semitic attacks in Austria - the birthplace of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler - have spiked by an incredible 82 per cent since the country's refugee crisis began at the end of 2014.

Memories of an unusually warm winter seem to be forgotten as many in eastern Canada wonder: will the spring weather ever arrive?

The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command warned Congress this week that Russia and China now can launch crippling cyberattacks on the electric grid and other critical infrastructures.

Rocket launchers and anti-aircraft guns stockpiled after the brutal civil war in Libya in 2011 are said to be among items being made available on social media.

Islamist militants on a remote Philippines island have again threatened to execute a pair of Canadian men if $110 million in ransom isn't paid soon.

The landmark honouring the American billionaire has been daubed with a swastika, a mute symbol, and dog excrement during his controversial Presidential campaign.

In Afghanistan, where women were until recently almost completely excluded from schooling, Zari will target young girls and entrenched traditional attitudes towards women's education and careers.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is getting subpoenaed by the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands to cough up its communications regarding climate change. Today a climate change skeptic is being hounded. Tomorrow it might be you.

Why did so many ancient societies around the world make human sacrifices to appease the gods? A new study supports the theory that the practice may have played a key role in keeping the poor downtrodden and the elites in power.

Brock Holt hit a grand slam and drove in five runs as the Boston Red Sox rallied from a 7-2 deficit, taking advantage of the Toronto bullpen to defeat the Blue Jays 8-7 in their home opener Friday night.

A Toronto woman was shocked to arrive home to find a massive hole in her front lawn and her water shut off this winter. Then, she found out it might cost her.

An RCMP officer dragged a paddle boat with an ice pick to rescue a dog that had fallen through the ice.

A year to the day after the cargo ship MV Marathassa spilled several thousand litres of bunker fuel into Vancouver's English Bay, concerns remain about the region's ability to put together a coordinated clean-up response.

Monkey heads, narwhal tusks, tiger bones - these are just a few of the items Canadian wildlife enforcement officers come across in policing illegal animal trafficking. Take an exclusive 360 tour of the secret exhibit room where these confiscated items are

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT. This distressing video shows the moment Irma Bule, 29, was attacked mid-performance in the village of Karawang, West Java, by a king cobra.

Proposed changes that would give women the same prayer rights as men at the Western Wall continue to cause divisions in Israel, where the ultra-Orthodox community wields considerable political power, the CBC's Derek Stoffel writes from Jerusalem.

Canada's economy added an impressive 41,000 jobs in March, more than four times what economists were expecting.

The company re-selling Lockheed Martin hybrid airships presented at the Nunavut Mining Symposium this week. Hybrid Enterprises envisions many more uses for a fleet of airships, including cargo shipping as a way to lower the cost of food in the North.

Several Quebec police officers engaged in sexual misconduct while working as UN peacekeepers in Haiti, including at least two who had children with Haitian women during the course of their mission, Radio-Canada has learned.

Police say the man taken into custody following a collision that killed an RCMP officer in Langford, B.C., has been released without charge.

A Lower Mainland woman who racked up 14 distracted driving infractions is now off the road

Two class actions over alleged civil rights abuses and "kettling" during the 2010 G20 summit in Toronto were given the go-ahead by the Ontario Court of Appeal Wednesday.

Former Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro has lost his appeal of his election overspending case and been ordered to serve a jail sentence immediately.

A Denver-based company specializing in tactical training is offering courses aimed at preparing civilians with permits to carry concealed guns to deal with an "active shooter" in a school or workplace.

Baseball's new rule on breaking up double plays gave Logan Forsythe and the Tampa Bay Rays a disputed 3-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a law that allows people with religious objections to refuse service to gay couples and protects other actions considered discriminatory by gay rights activists.

Alex Carpenter scored the winner as the United States beat Canada 1-0 in overtime on Monday to win the women's world hockey championship in Kamloops, B.C.

Jared McCann scored the winning goal in the second period and Ryan Miller made 40 saves Monday night as the Vancouver Canucks downed the visiting Los Angeles Kings 3-2.

Chinese around the world remember their dearly departed on Monday and take time off to clean up the tombs and place flowers and offerings.

A new study by researchers from Denmark and Canada's York University says Arctic heat waves cause exceptional melts of the Greenland ice sheet, calling into question commonly-used climate models that may underestimate the impact of warm weather episodes.

Environmentalists say Ottawa needs to consider Inuit people and the marine animals they depend on when planning Arctic shipping lanes.

Residents in and around Victoria, B.C., felt a small earthquake Tuesday morning. The United States Geological Survey reports that the quake happened just after 11 a.m. PT (2 p.m. ET), about 39 kilometres east of the B.C. capital.

An RCMP officer was killed in a road crash near Victoria early Tuesday morning, the force has confirmed.

British Columbia's Environment Ministry says about 20,000 litres of diesel fuel from a transport truck have spilled into the Similkameen River south of Princeton.

The Alberta government announced plans today to create a new system for monitoring and reporting the environmental impacts of industry.

Victims of sexual assault at Brandon University are required to sign a behavioural contract that forces them to say nothing about the assault except to counsellors, CBC News has learned.

High treason, a charge used liberally by kings and queens in the Middle Ages, is being vigorously pursued in modern Russia to root out perceived enemies of the state. Legal advocates say such charges have tripled in recent years and are entirely political

A former judge recommends the government refer the matter to current Alberta ethics commissioner to determine if a new investigation is needed

If customers don't replace the device by May 15, they won't be able to turn their lights on and off.

On the same day we started sending back economic migrants to Turkey from Lesbos, Greece (pictured), Austria is preparing to defend itself, writes KATIE HOPKINS.

Police have issued flyers to nearly 2,000 people living near the Congress Centre in Hanover, Germany - due to be visited by Obama on April 24.

Michelle Pavey, 30, from Radstock, near Bath, was gang raped by five men. Now she is speaking her about ordeal, which has so far only seen one man jailed, 19-year-old Ahadullah Khughiani.