NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2016

Read 'Humanity has officially depleted its renewable resources for the year' from our blog Insight on Yahoo Finance Canada . Like a teenager blowing all of his or her first paycheque, humanity has officially depleted all of its renewable natural resources

Though data are preliminary, they suggest health upticks in participating states.

A woman was fatally shot by an officer while participating in a 'shoot-don't shoot' exercise during a two-hour citizens academy hosted by the Punta Gorda Police Department in southwest Florida.

For years, Canadian police have successfully kept their use of controversial and indiscriminate surveillance devices called IMSI catchers a secret. Today, for the first time, and thanks to a year-long effort by a coalition of civil rights organizations an

Churchill is a unique place, not only in Manitoba but in Canada and around the world. But the northern town's port may be closed and rail service has been cut, and tourism is not enough to maintain the community in its current form.

A bus carrying journalists at the Rio Games was hit by gunfire on a highway between Olympic venues on Tuesday, witnesses said. No one was seriously injured.

Alberta's "incompetent" NDP government can only blame itself if it loses up to $2 billion on returned electricity purchase arrangements, interim Progressive Conservative leader Ric McIver said Tuesday.

Groups of thieves target pedestrians in Rio de Janeiro during the Olympics in robbery peak season

Kathy Shelton was just 12 years old when 41-year-old Thomas Alfred Taylor raped her in Arkansas in 1975. Her rapist's defense lawyer - who got him out of going to prison for life - was Hillary Clinton.

A family from Vancouver finished an 1,800 kilometre paddling trip from Hay River to Inuvik on Sunday, only to discover their vehicle is still stuck in Hay River - adding a flight and an extra 3,596 kilometres of driving to their journey.

Ontarians spend nearly a billion dollars a month just to service provincial government debt.

The community of Kugluktuk, Nunavut, is cashing in on its 24-hour summer sunlight after installing solar panels on its recreation complex.

A family who felt they had no choice but to abandon their Falher area farm in the Peace country more than two years ago is appealing to the provincial government for help and compensation.

The first European paper wasp was found in Edmonton Monday outside the Royal Alberta Museum. It's an invasive species with a painful sting.

Espionage platform with more than 50 modules was almost certainly state sponsored.

The government is subsidising an industry that is growing rapidly, fishing in waters as far away as South America and Antarctica

A decades-long study led by researchers in the U.K. has found a sharp decline in the fertility of male dogs, and scientists say the findings could have worrisome implications for human reproduction.

This week will be your best chance to observe the annual Perseids Meteor Shower. All you need to see a shooting star are dark and clear skies.

Amnesty International is calling for a stop work order on British Columbia's $8.8 billion Site C hydroelectric dam, saying the mega project on the Peace River threatens the human rights of indigenous peoples.

A man was found shot in a home on Singleleaf Lane in Raleigh. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

Industrial designs, like chairs and tables, now come with a copyright of 70+ years.

Paris is famed for emptying out in August as locals head out for 'les vacances', but after multiple terrorist attacks, this year is even quieter than normal as nervous tourists avoid not just Paris but all of France.

Small Ontario wineries and distilleries say they face a tangle of red tape and overwhelming taxes that make it too hard to serve consumers and build their businesses - and recent provincial changes are far too small to make a difference.

The entire Russia team has been banned from competing in the Paralympic Games in September as punishment for the country's systematic doping program.

Iran executed a nuclear scientist convicted of spying for the United States, an official said Sunday, acknowledging for the first time that the nation secretly detained and tried a man who was once heralded as a hero.

Brazilian Olympians face organized racist attacks online. The perpetrators "choose the victims and they tell those in the group to act," says the head of Rio's cybercrime unit.

Peel paramedics say they found a new use for their Ebola protective equipment this morning when they rescued a skunk in distress.

"I think its more a head turner, a, 'what the heck was that?', that's my favourite reaction," says artist Douglas Coupland at unveiling of 43-foot Golden Tree.

Tusk, one of the Vancouver Police Department's service dogs, helped capture a suspect in an alleged car jacking after a man was beaten and forced from his car on Friday night on Windermere Street.

Members of the Musqueam Indian Band and Indigenous professors from UBC blessed and launched a canoe carved from a 350-year-old cedar log on Saturday as part of a cultural revitalization project.

A wedding photographer says Canada's prime minister has 'impeccable timing': Trudeau was leaving the beach in Tofino, B.C., just as a bride was walking down the aisle in the same spot.

Commercial fishermen on B.C.'s North Coast are upset by what they're calling an unprecedented and unfair crackdown from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

The Vancouver Maritime Museum will host an exhibit on Crystal Serenity as it sails through the Northwest Passage this summer, the largest ship to ever do so. But what does the mere possibility of this trip say about the state of the Arctic?

Police in Sherbooke, Que., are describing a man as a "hero" after he pulled an elderly stranger from the fiery wreck of a car crash.

One of Canada's top soldiers used his last speech in uniform Friday to rail against an excessive amount of oversight and outside interference in how the military manages its own affairs.

A 79-year-old Ontario woman got lost on a solo hike near an Alaska glacier and spent a night in the forest without camping gear but walked to safety the next day.

Legend says that China's first dynasty, the Xia, began after the sage King Yu tamed the waters of a massive flood that swept away villages and overran mountains. Now, for the first time, scientists have found archeological evidence that the flood may actu

A kitten climbed a tree in North Central Regina a few days ago and stayed there before finally being brought down with some help from a local cat rescue group.

Lightning has left most of northwestern B.C. without power this afternoon. BC Hydro says 50,000 customers from Vanderhoof to Prince Rupert are without electricity due to a transmission failure caused by lightning.

Despite facing discrimination, hundreds of Japanese-Canadians enlisted to fight for Canada during the First World War.

The hazardous waste of a Cold War-era military base once thought to be buried forever in the Greenland ice sheet may eventually resurface due to climate change, says a new York University study.

Two shark encounters in Atlantic Canadian waters have been captured on video recently, just as Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientists prepare to study sharks caught in the annual shark fishing derbies held around Nova Scotia.

The military's support unit for ill and injured soldiers has a new commander, marking what many hope will be a turning of the page for the much-maligned organization.

The owner of Bridgehead coffee shops speaks for the first time since Abdirahman Abdi's fatal confrontation with Ottawa police that began with multiple 911 calls from one of her shops, and she discusses what led up to the incident.

One of Europe's biggest flea markets, in the northern French city of Lille, is cancelled amid security fears over Islamist militant violence.

CCTV footage, released by Manchester council, walking over the line of wreaths which commemorate the Battle of the Somme.

Hassan Saada was detained by police this morning over claims he attempted to sexually assault the two women in the athletes' accommodation at Barra de Tijuca, Brazil.

Widespread media coverage of mass shootings is contributing to their rise by giving perpetrators the fame they "desire", according to researchers.

A growing collection of flowers and American flags surrounds the headstone of Capt. Humayun Khan in Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, D.C. Americans are feeling compelled to offer their support and pay their respects in the wake of Donald Trump

Demonstrators stood across the width of the approach road to Heathrow airport. Protests have also targeted Birmingham airport and Nottingham city centre

Prison Break actor Robert Knepper helped rescue a distressed Canada goose on Tuesday along with his wife, a TransLink supervisor, and McDonald's staff.

The jet, which had flown from Paris in France, smashed through barriers before coming to rest in front of stunned motorists driving past Bergamo Airport in the country's north.

Luke Aikins, a 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps, made history Saturday when he became the first person to survive a leap without a parachute.

North Korean space officials are hard at work on a five-year plan to put more advanced satellites into orbit by 2020, and don't intend to stop there: They're also aiming for the moon, and beyond.

A would-be motorcycle robber had his gun turned on him after he smashed a Russian diplomat's car window only for his victim to seize the weapon and kill him as Olympic athletes passed by.

A deaf dog that was left at the SPCA has found a loving family fluent in sign language.

The twenty executed Sunni prisoners were accused of committing several murders and undermining national security in Iran before they were killed

Actor Clint Eastwood has backed Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the upcoming presidential election and bemoaned the current 'p***y generation' of political correctness.

An new ad campaign for Sprite has raised more than a few eyebrows this week. The new advert, running with the tagline, '#BrutallyRefreshing', has appeared on billboards in Ireland and on Irish websites. It features such witty and definitely not sexi

The shape-shifting Terminator T-1000 robot which appeared in the 1990s film franchise could become a reality after a breakthrough in liquid-metal technology, scientists have claimed.

It is still unknown what the long-term effects will be, and numerous local families and businesses have suffered great losses and hardship. Many of us doubt we can be made whole again -- by the mine or the province.

In an odd twist linked to the energy industry downturn, one of Canada's largest drilling companies says it earned more revenue in the second quarter from clients who didn't want it to go to work than from those who paid to have wells drilled.

Staff Sgt. Craig Burnett as been charged with trafficking, theft, breach of trust and laundering of proceeds of crime.

Russia is experiencing its first anthrax outbreak in more than 70 years. One child died. Health officials think it might have been triggered by warming permafrost, which unleashed dormant bacteria.

With microcephaly largely confined to one part of the country, researchers wonder which other factors are in play

Drug charges dismissed against young white female driver and her black boyfriend, but woman calls experience depressing and says her boyfriend�s basketball career is ruined.

Shooting deaths in the city of Toronto have more than doubled from this time last year, a trend that Mayor John Tory says he is "deeply concerned" about.

University of Toronto student Tahmid Hasib Khan is one of two men arrested Thursday on allegations they were involved in a deadly siege that left 20 dead at a caf� in Bangladesh.

Mel Hurtig, the ardent nationalist behind "The Canadian Encyclopedia," died of pneumonia Wednesday in a Vancouver hospital. He was 84.

Canada has released its latest cloud adoption strategy which includes policy around storing sensitive government information within national borders.

Police were called to Russell Square at 10.30pm after the suspect, 19, stabbed pedestrians in the back, side and arms who were left 'screaming and covered in blood' on the pavement.

A sensitive segment of the DC Comics fanbase is lashing out at Rotten Tomatoes over the abysmal critical response to 'Suicide Squad.'

Veterinarians at Busch Gardens had to euthanize 'Pinky' the flamingo after a man grabbed her from an animal viewing area and threw her to the ground.

A woman has died and five others were injured in a knife attack in a central part of London, the police said Thursday. A statement from the London Metropolitan Police said the attack happened late Wednesday in Russell Square, which is near the British Mus

A New Mexico bear hitched a ride on top of a garbage truck, travelling at least eight kilometres on the vehicle before it was able to make its escape up a tree.

More than 200 campers staying in tents had to be relocated from Two Jack Main and Lakeside campgrounds in Banff National Park due to the bold behaviour of a wolf.

Fetid sewage, floating garbage and worries about water safety are lingering issues ahead of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Seven years after being awarded the Olympics, the massive seaside city has only managed to decrease, but not end, the dumping of un

Police used stun grenades and tear gas to clear protesters in the path of the Olympic torch in a poor suburb of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, two days before South America's first Olympic Games open under tight security.

The Canadian women's national soccer team started Rio 2016 Olympic Games play by scoring the fast goal in Olympic history. It also set another record for fastest red card received in an Olympic matchup.

The BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner, meets the people investigating so-called Islamic State's slave trade in women and girls from Iraq.

The idea of a ban on people coming from countries affected by terrorism has been an issue in this year's U.S. presidential election, but it appears half of Canadians are on side with it.

The Canadian Red Cross raised $299 million for recovery efforts in Fort McMurray following the wildfire.

The Satanic Temple doesn't worship the devil; it rejects the belief in supernatural entities and regards 'Satan' as a metaphorical construct

After years of cost overruns and delays, the U.S. air force says the version of the F-35 fighter plane that Canada was planning to buy is ready for combat.

Mental health advocates are praising Toronto police after officers spent hours negotiating with an armed man experiencing a mental health crisis on a TTC bus over the weekend, eventually arresting him without firing their guns.

The 2m-high Transit Elevated Bus took its inaugural test run in the streets of Hebei, much to the amazement of Chinese citizens.

Since the Alberta government introduced Bill 6, the contentious farmworkers' safety bill, Workers' Compensation Board claims for farm workers have more than doubled, a sure sign of success, according to one advocate.

London's police force is putting more armed officers on the streets -- a visible response to attacks by Islamic State-inspired groups in Europe.

Police are investigating the incident involving two men in a blue Renault Clio which happened at around 8.15am next to the garrison in Aldershot, Hampshire (file photo).

Chairs were smashed over heads, punches thrown and people kicked as the room was wrecked while police rush to the scene in the city of Dortmund in western Germany, to try to regain order.

Artist Marina Amaral, 21, from Brazil, has brought defining moments in history to life by 'colourising' old black and white photos.

New police figures for England and Wales have revealed nearly 900 Syrians were arrested in a single year.

Former Central Investigation Bureau officer Jacek Wrona slammed Angela Merkel's response to recent terror attacks in Germany.

Vancouver police are investigating whether a hate crime was committed after a Turkish-speaking man said he was punched in the face after his assailant told him he was talking in a "f---ing foreign language."

U.S. President Barack Obama slams Donald Trump as "woefully unprepared" to serve in the White House and challenges Republican lawmakers to drop their support for their party's nominee.

A former senior analyst with the province's energy regulator is calling 'balderdash' on the NDP's argument that a clause was 'secretly' added to Alberta's power purchase arrangements (PPAs) 16 years ago.

In his master's thesis obtained by CBC News, Dimitri Soudas, a one-time director of communications to former prime minister Stephen Harper, sheds light on how governments attempt to manipulate the media and public opinion.

A TOURIST was left bloodied and beaten by patrolling Turkish nationalists after he refused to hold a Turkish flag.

ISIS has released the 15th issue of its propaganda magazine, Dabiq. It features a list-style article on the reasons why the terror group hates Westerners.

Researchers followed more than 130,000 nurses and other health professionals over several decades to arrive at conclusion

Shannon Phillips is at the center of Alberta's transition into a carbon-conscious energy producer. But how far will she go?

Salmon no longer collect in the nets along the Teslin River where the Tlingit people have harvested them for thousands of years. Now, they come from the sky.

First Nations, landowners and environmental groups accuse Justin Trudeau of reneging on campaign promises

Joshua Sturman, 23, walked over to a group of protesters holding Donald Trump signs in Pittsburgh on Saturday and lit a flag on fire, tackling Richard Dillon, 67, to the ground when he tried to put it out.

Unique in Canada, Nova Scotia hosts annual shark derbies every August, in which hundreds of anglers pay for a chance to land one of the top predators of the sea.