NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2016

Voters in Switzerland have rejected a proposal for all citizens to recieve a basic monthly income from the government, whether they are in work or not.

A new report rejects claims that diaspora communities often breed violent, homegrown terrorists, saying such groups actually want to counter extremism among members and should be courted. The research was ordered by the Harper government, whose pre-electi

The University of Alberta was withdrawn a spoon bending workshop after an outcry from academics incensed that the school would legitimize the event.

National Front Marine Le Pen has stormed ahead of President Holland in latest figures revealed by a poll measuring voting intentions ahead of next year's presidential elections.

Gen. Mahlwi said they had information that between 150-200 more Yazidis are still being held in Fallujah and he hopes they will be brought out alive when they liberate the city in the coming days and weeks.

Thousands of people marched in Buenos Aires on Friday to condemn violence against women, the latest public outcry following the recent killings of three 12-year-old girls in Argentina and the gang rape of a teenage girl in Brazil.

Poland says it will start recruiting in September for a new 35,000-strong paramilitary defence force because of tensions with Russia.

Police in London, Ont., are being forced to defend decals on patrol cars that have the word "police" written in a number of different languages, including Arabic, which is the one that has angered some people.

Alex Radita died and was resurrected by God the day before paramedics found his severely emaciated body in the family's home, his parents told church members in the hours before 911 was called.

The European Commission wants to shake-up the MOT, demanding that vehicles will have to remain identical to the specification they were in when they left the factory.

Iran is the main state sponsor of terrorism, according to the US State Department's annual survey of worldwide terrorism. The Islamic republic "remained the foremost state sponsor of terrorism in 2015, providing a range of support, including financia

​When Brig.-Gen. Greg Smith first touched down in Iraq in February to advise and assist the Iraqi army in its fight against Islamic State militants, he assumed that ISIS had the upper hand.

If you've ever taken a personality test, it was probably in a lifestyle magazine ("What kind of adventurer are you? Take this quiz to find out!") or maybe at the behest of a friend who's a Meyers-Briggs believer. But these fluffy diversions have a serious

Five soldiers were killed and four were missing after an Army troop carrier was washed from a low-water crossing and overturned Thursday in a rain-swollen creek at Fort Hood, the Texas Army post said.

Belhassen Trabelsi, one of the richest and most powerful members of the former Tunisian regime who has been fighting deportation from Canada, has disappeared off the radar of Canadian authorities.

In his first media interview since deploying to Iraq, Brig.-Gen. Greg Smith - Canadian chief of staff of the Combined Joint Forces Land Component Command for Operation Inherent Resolve - said he had underestimated the prowess of the Iraqi soldiers in figh

The case of a lost boy in Japan, who went missing in a remote area for six days after his parents abandoned him as a punishment, is causing intense soul-searching about how children are raised and disciplined in Japan.

A Missouri inmate convicted of beating his infant son to death was himself beaten to death by his cellmate according to the Missouri Department of Corrections.

Petro-Canada gas stations in Kelowna, Kamloops, Edmonton and Calgary are running out of petrol from their parent company, Suncor.

The Conservatives' foreign affairs critic is calling the Chinese foreign minister's admonishment of a Canadian reporter on Wednesday "unacceptable," while a former ambassador to Beijing sees the visiting minister's "tantrum" as fallout from years of troub

A U.S. Navy Blue Angels jet crashed Thursday afternoon, the Navy public affairs office at the Pentagon said -- the same day that a U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 crashed in Colorado.

Pro wrestling star Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka is mentally incompetent to stand trial in the death of his girlfriend more than three decades ago, a judge ruled Wednesday.

A teacher at Burns Middle School in Mobile, Alabama, was placed on administrative leave after she distributed a questionable test to eighth graders.

The Toronto Argonauts will bring tailgating to all home games at BMO Field, the team's president announced Wednesday.

With up to $50 billion to be spent on renewable energy projects in Alberta and Saskatchewan over the next 14 years, suppliers want details on how the money will be spent and which projects they can bid on.

The BBC was accused of racial discrimination after applicants for the two 12-month trainee writer roles got generic emails back saying that it was not open to people from white backgrounds.

Three British companies developed the Anti-UAV Defense System (Auds), which is due to be included in new trials by the US aviation authority.

Authorities in Red Deer, Alta., have seized a four-year-old boy from his mother, accusing her of sexually abusing the boy and producing child pornography that involved him.

The obese extremist, a member of the terror group's so-called Chopping Committee, is seen lying half-naked in the back of a truck with his hands tied behind his back in Syria.

Canadian soldiers guiding and mentoring Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have been wearing the Kurdish flag on their uniforms in a sign of respect, but that tradition may soon end, CTV News has learned.

As the Kremlin claims unequivocal support among Russians for its policies both at home and abroad, a crackdown is underway against ordinary social media users who post things that run against the official narrative.

One person is dead and two others injured after a shooting in a Southern Ontario community Wednesday.

A 14-year-old girl may be left paralyzed after a sawed-off golf club punctured her skull during a school track day at a municipal park in Windsor, Ont.

An Italian appeals court upholds the 16-year sentence given to the captain of the Costa Concordia which capsized in 2012, killing 32 people.

Two MPs are among 10 people killed as al-Shabab gunmen storm a hotel in the centre of the Somali capital Mogadishu after car bomb attack.

A Toronto couple are desperate to get help for their son, who they say has been radicalized by white supremacist groups, but have been told there's little that can be done.

Toronto police are searching for a suspect after a man was wounded in a shooting on Finch Avenue West this morning.

Two people were shot on the UCLA campus Wednesday, but the conditions of the victims were not yet known, a university spokeswoman said.

Mamadou Diallo, who beat his wife's would-be rapist to death was released from a New York City court on Tuesday evening to a chorus of cheers.

A Rome university student was burned alive by her ex-boyfriend after she left him, authorities said Monday - a slaying one investigator called the most ...

Kenneth Alfred Jenkinson, 69, facing six charges as police seek other clients of the dayhome

An international aviation authority has issued a notice warning that debris from a Russian rocket launch is slated to fall Saturday into Baffin Bay. Environmentalists are outraged.

New York's attorney general, who has filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump's education venture, Trump University, slammed the presumptive Republican presidential nominee on Tuesday for his attack on a U.S. district judge's ethnicity.

Police say they have arrested a camouflaged, armed gunman believed to have fired shots at a home in Windsor, Ont., early Wednesday morning.