NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2016

Seven Russian women in Kazan, Tatarstan stripped down to their underwear and asked motorists on a motorway for money to buy clothes as part of a class to help them find husbands.

Calgarians just can't leaf this one alone. The Twittersphere is mocking a group of Calgary residents who are barking over the city's decision to plant 15 trees in a local park.

Fox News has agreed to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit launched by former host Gretchen Carlson against ex-CEO Roger Ailes for $20 million US, Vanity Fair reports.

A small Ottawa charity that works to alleviate poverty has been under audit by Revenue Canada for almost five years for allegedly excessive political activities. The group, Canada Without Poverty, has now launched a constitutional challenge of the Income

Hurricane Newton slammed into the twin resorts of Los Cabos on the southern tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula Tuesday morning, knocking out power in some places as stranded tourists huddled in their hotels.

Agencies are probing whether the Kremlin intends to sow public distrust in the vote through a hacking and disinformation campaign.

Flights in and out of London City Airport have been disrupted after a group of Black Lives Matter demonstrators marched onto the runway at around 5.40am today.

Dani Mathers, Playmate of the Year in 2015, sparked controversy by posting the picture of the woman in her 70s in an LA gym in July and police have now urged prosecutors to charge her.

Rodrigo Duterte further strains diplomatic ties with Washington as he warns US leader not to question him on extrajudicial killings

Natural Resources Canada is reporting a light earthquake this morning that was felt in the Yorkton, Melville and Langenburg areas of Saskatchewan.

The women from all 50 states, as well as Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, have descended in Atlantic City, New Jersey, filled with talent and ambition to become Miss America.

White Ocean Camp, which holds nightly parties featuring famous techno DJs throughout the week-long event in Black Rock City, Nevada, says its campsite was attacked on Wednesday night.

Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party is beaten into third place by the anti-immigrant AfD in a north-eastern German state.

Los Angeles County Fire Department says a swarm of bees at a suburban park attacked, stinging more than 20 people and sending three to the hospital.

Eight people were taken to hospitals after a ride shut down at the Delta Fair in Memphis on Saturday.

Many university students are moving into apartments this month that have bed bugs waiting for them, according to an official at Concordia University.

The parents of the Florida toddler killed by an alligator on June 14 at Walt Disney World say they will always remember their sweet little boy. Saturday would have been his third birthday.

As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau finishes his visit to China to try to deepen trade ties, the Liberals are sending a strong signal that they are open to rolling back the thresholds on foreign investment the Harper government set up in 2014.

The underground brokers are targeting undocumented African migrants who arrive in Cairo desperate for cash. They offer sex workers as a 'sweetener' before taking the organs.

In his first event at the G20 leaders' summit, Justin Trudeau urged his peers Saturday to drive away the anti-globalization and protectionist attitudes that have been fuelling "divisive, fearful rhetoric" in different parts of the world.

Officials say several dozen Ohio middle schoolers apparently ate extra-hot peppers brought in by a student and were treated by medics after some had adverse reactions.

After saving his mother from two would-be carjackers, an Edmonton man is facing an assault charge of his own.

David Dinkins (pictured), 89, clipped Bronx resident Rodrigo Garcia's bike with his Cadillac in June, causing the bike to spin and breaking Garcia's ankle, a lawsuit filed Friday in Manhattan states.

The Russian president has invested heavily in decking out top-secret facilities around Moscow in the event of war.

MARINE Le Pen has promised French voters she will hold an EU Referendum if she wins the country's presidency.

Colin Kaepernick's decision to speak out against racial injustice and police brutality, as well as direct critical words at officers across the nation, has the Santa Clara police union saying its officers might...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was chased by protesters banging on pots and yelling they were hungry as the embattled leader visited Margarita Island.

A Chinese official confronted U.S. President Barack Obama's national security adviser on the tarmac on Saturday prompting the Secret Service to intervene, an unusual altercation as China implements strict controls ahead of a big summit.

Canada's international trade minister says anti-trade sentiment in the U.S., whipped up by Donald Trump and others, has made getting a deal on softwood lumber "fiendishly" complicated.

The financial difficulties of South Korean shipping line Hanjin has stranded good around the world, leaving merchants of everything from fashion to Christmas toys wondering when they will get their products.

As they finish harvesting this year's crop, Canadian honey producers say they are being stung with prices that have fallen by about 50 per cent since a year ago, a devastating blow that some are blaming on a global glut of what they say is cheaper, low-qu

A girl who was injured four years ago when a minivan plowed into a rural Alberta school has died.

Norman Lim Kwong, a prominent Albertan businessman, football player and commercial realtor has died at the age of 86, according to his family.

The professors who shut down climate-change debate in class have landed on the radar of a top University of Colorado official, who says he wants to make sure students are being "educated, not indoctrinated."

China and the United States have ratified the Paris agreement to cut climate-warming emissions, marking a major step toward the enactment of the pact as early as the end of the year.

It was just an impulse buy off a Value Village shelf, a cute bobblehead hockey player for $2.99. Turns out it was the jackpot of bobbleheads, worth $10,000.

Workers at a Coca-Cola factory in southern France opened a shipment of orange juice but found a huge shipment of cocaine instead.

That radio signal that might have been from extra-terrestrials? Sorry, it was actually from Earth, Russian scientists confirm.

In Whitehorse, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced more details about new rifles for the Canadian Rangers that will replace the aging Lee-Enfields.

What was pitched as a straightforward process to buy $200 million in new mobile tents for the military has gone sideways, as companies involved have launched complaints to a trade tribunal and the Federal Court of Appeal even before the contract is awarde

�The woman was jaywalking at the time and ought to have been paying greater attention to roadway traffic,� said SIU Acting Director Joseph Martino.

An Ontario Provincial Police officer and a Quebec man are facing charges following a three-vehicle collision about 150 kilometres northwest of Toronto.

The number of restricted guns in Canada shot up 9.5 per cent last year. Since 2004, the number of restricted firearms such as semi-automatic rifles and handguns that require a restricted gun permit in Canada has doubled.

A Romanian hacker nicknamed "Guccifer" who helped expose the existence of a private email domain Hillary Clinton used when she was U.S. secretary of state was sentenced on Thursday to 52 months in prison by a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.

Dorchester County says it provided plenty of warning of impending sprays, but local beekeepers feel differently.

A 24-year-old man was killed and a 23-year-old man was grazed by a bullet in a shooting in the West Lawn neighborhood late Wednesday night, capping off the most violent month in Chicago in 20 years.

The national debt hit $19.5 trillion for the first time ever this week, a little more than seven months after it hit the $19 trillion mark. The debt clocked in at $19.51 trillion at the end of Wednesday, the Treasury Department reported Thursday afternoon

Hermine made landfall around 1:30 a.m. EDT east of St. Marks, Florida, as a Category 1 hurricane.

Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch is asking whether the federal government should screen potential immigrants and refugees for anti-Canadian values.

A small Canadian company is offering to make a prostate cancer drug that costs U.S. patients as much as $129,000 US a year for a fraction of the price but has been unable to get U.S. health authorities to override the existing patents.

A massive explosion erupted at a SpaceX launch pad Thursday during a routine rocket test for a planned launch of a communications satellite.

A CONSERVATIVE commentator and Donald Trump supporter sparked outrage after an explosive anti-immigrant rant on live TV.

A four-year-old child is receiving special help from education authorities in Australia to undergo transition for a change in sex. The situation has drawn criticism from psychologists who say four is too young to start gender transition.  They mainta

Georgetown University will give preference in admissions to the descendants of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits as part of its effort to atone for profiting from the sale of enslaved people.

An Indianapolis mother accused of beating her son says the charges should be dismissed, because her religious beliefs protect her from prosecution.

Even people who claimed to be aware of risks clicked out of curiosity.

The number of under-25s without work has risen from 47.3 per cent to 50.3 per cent in Greece and from 37.3 per cent to 39.2 per cent in Italy.