NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2019

James Watson, renowned for his landmark co-discovery of the double-helix, is known for sometimes making remarks seen as sexist, homophobic or racist

During his run as chair of the House Science Committee, recently retired Texas Congressman Lamar Smith made a habit of accusing US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists of manipulating data to exaggerate global warming. Smith did so a

A kids' bomb-defusing game sold in Canada at Walmart has offended some shoppers who find it inappropriate. In the U.S., Target has already stopped selling the item following complaints.

Former conservative MLA andamp; UCP board member Ian Donovan has resigned, citing the party's "dictatorship"-like control by leader Jason Kenney.

Many Canadians don't have the time or the money to eat according to the Canada Food Guide's nutrition standards. But what if all Canadian schools offered at least one nutritious meal every day? It's an old idea with new urgency.

Sometimes, solidarity has a soft crust and a layer of melted cheese.

Salwa, 24, tells the BBC that she ran away from her family in Saudi Arabia to seek a better life.

More than 1,300 police officers were deployed in coordinated raids against family crime syndicates across northwestern Germany. The raids are focused on shisha bars, cafes and gambling venues.

Terrible dope shortages haunt the land. Illegal dealers push their shoddy wares on the unsuspecting. Oh, the horror! Etc.Once all the various levels of government have finished blaming one another for the stalled launch of legal cannabis, here’s

Thousands of ageing rooftop solar panels represent a toxic time-bomb and major economic waste unless Australia acts swiftly to keep them out of landfill, conservationists and recyclers say.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, won support around the world this week as people learned how she had barricaded herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room to resist being sent home to her family.

Under a tough new drunk driving law passed by Parliament, Canadians could now face criminal charges for driving with illegal amounts of alcohol in their system, even if they were stone cold sober while behind the wheel, according to criminal defence lawye

Halifax Regional Police say yet another taxi driver in the municipality has been charged with sexual assault.

KAMLOOPS, B.C.; Indigenous people voiced their anger and frustration with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday at a chaotic town hall in Kamloops, B.C., loudly interrupting him to condemn the arrests of protesters at a pipeline blockade.

Canada has declared Venezuela is now "fully entrenched in dictatorship" and says it will now recognize opposition figure Juan Guaido as the legitimate authority in the country. GAC officials expect retaliation and are preparing to have to evacuate diploma

Documents obtained under access-to-information law show the Immigration and Refugee Board drafted costing estimates in November 2017 showing it would need $140 million annually

A kids' bomb-defusing game sold in Canada at Walmart has offended some shoppers who find it inappropriate. In the U.S., Target has already stopped selling the item following complaints.

A Seattle TV station has fired an editor after airing video footage of President Donald Trump's Oval Office address on immigration that appears to be altered.

Jayme Closs, 13, was abducted from her home in Barron, Wisconsin on October 15, the same day the teenager's parents, James, 56, and Denise Closs, 46, were found shot dead inside.

The world's oceans are rising in temperature faster than previously believed as they absorb most of the world's growing climate-changing emissions, scientists said Thursday.

Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs say an agreement has been reached with RCMP over the enforcement of an interim injunction order to allow pipeline workers into the nation's traditional territory.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fielded questions on everything from pipelines to Indigenous rights to his favourite childhood toy Thursday evening before a lively Regina crowd.

Mohammed Abdul told doorstaff he would come back and 'kill you guys' as he was ejected from Blake's nightclub in Gravesend, Kent shortly before midnight on March 17, last year.

Forcing a teenage Calgary girl to engage in sex with three men for a ride home on a cold winter’s night has landed a city man a sexual-assault conviction.

Slurs about Miss Algeria's skin colour, nose and lips were made by users on Facebook and Twitter.

An immigration lawyer says she believes Canada may be trying to reward those who are legally trying to enter the country.

Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, says it's time for Ottawa to stop dragging its heels and repatriate its citizens who fought for ISIS and are now being held in Syria and Iraq.

The Trudeau government can't afford to buy ultra-modern warships and advanced warplanes at the same time within its current funding envelope, a new research paper argues.

The man charged in a fatal Saskatchewan highway crash between a semi-trailer truck and the Humboldt Broncos team bus has pleaded guilty to 16 counts of dangerous driving causing death and 13 counts of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

The high-profile re-trial of a former Halifax taxi driver accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated female passenger began Monday with testimony from a forensic police officer.

President Donald Trump is heading back to the U.S.-Mexico border as he doubles down on his demand for a wall amid the ongoing government shutdown.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, ran away from her family while they were on a trip to Kuwait three days ago and had flown to Thailand in the hope of reaching Australia to seek asylum.

The widespread confusion over what Justice Michael Tulloch said about police carding in his report released last week demonstrates why police race-crime statistics should be available to everyone.

Sharon Whipple, the mother of 21-year-old suspect Krystal Whipple, sitting alongside Krystal's grandmother, tearfully called on her to come forward in an interview with ABC News.

Police now have two suspects in custody in connection with the murder of seven-year-old Jazmine Barnes who was gunned down in a Texas Walmart parking lot a week ago.

A massive snow maze just south of Winnipeg may be the biggest the world has ever seen.

According to a new article in the Globe and Mail by Gloria Galloway, the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau has managed to provide a net savings of $1.8 billion in the next four years, by reducing payouts to disabled veterans.

A first-year medical resident at a prominent residency program in Ohio was dismissed from her the program after it was revealed that she had posted virulently anti-Semitic tweets threatening medical malpractice against people of Jewish origin.

Toronto police are seeking the help of the public to locate potential victims in the Montreal area of a man who is now facing sexual assault and pimping charges.

An Immigration Department report reveals more than 120 kabaddi players have either vanished, applied for refugee status or somehow obtained a Canadian work visa.

Civil liberty advocates warn that Ontario's new distracted driving law could disproportionately affect racialized communities.

The trial date has been set for March 4 for Rachel Dolezal, the former NAACP leader who pretended to be black before being unmasked as white, and is accused of welfare fraud.

A test group of about 50 women enlisting in the US Marine Corps will go through grueling boot camp training alongside male recruits, rather than separately, for the first time ever beginning January 5.

British jihadists captured in Syria should be taken back to face trial in the UK or be put before a new international court there, the forces holding them demanded last night.

Tony Castro, the grandson of former Cuban ruler Fidel Castro, had to make his Instagram account private this week after old and recent pictures were publicized of him showing off the family's wealth.

Beachgoers found the 'skeletonized' remains inside a boot on the south end of Jetty Island, just off the coast of Everett, Wash., on New Year's Day.

Staff at Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix, AZ had been giving round the clock care to the female patient, according to AZ Family.

National Geographic suspended airing the fifth season of StarTalk at least until their investigation with the Fox network into sexual misconduct claims against Neil deGrasse Tyson is complete.

Jessica Samson, from Salisbury, said she has spent months waiting for laser hair removal surgery as one of the final stages of her gender reassignment from male to female.

Imran Mostafa Kamel, 26, whose radical preacher father was extradited to the US in 2012, was arrested after Tudor Simionov was knifed in the chest in Mayfair at 5.30am on Wednesday.

Rashida Tlaib, a newly-elected representative from Michigan, told a room full of cheering supporters that she aims to impeach President Trump just hours after being sworn in to Congress.

Canada's embassy in Amman has become involved in the attempt to deport a Jordanian citizen who spread Islamic State propaganda online while living in B.C. as a refugee, a hearing heard Thursday.

Some plants appear to move leaves, roots to share resources with kin

Alana Bartol is hoping to find caregivers for hundreds of Alberta orphans, but these charges are not children. They are oil wells across the province abandoned by their owners.

Eighteen of the Australian F-18 aircraft will eventually be flying for the Canadian Forces, while another seven will be used for testing and spare parts

Tropical storm Pabuk is expected to make landfall on Friday, amid fears it could be the worst to hit Thailand since more than 400 people were killed by Typhoon Gay in 1989.

The Trudeau government has announced $113 million in new money to improve pre-arrival services for future immigrants to Canada.

A Department of National Defence official said no plans currently exist to distribute the weapons in Iraq

U.S. President Donald Trump has said U.S. forces will withdraw from Syria "over a period of time," insisting he wants to protect U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters battling the Islamic State (IS) extremist group.

In a terse letter to Ontario-based Superior Propane explaining her decision, Sheila Griffith addresses Notley and Trudeau about their failure over Alberta oil

People walking by a house in Wanneroo, north of Perth, reported hearing a man repeatedly yelling "Why don't you die?" along with the sound of a screaming child.

More than three dozen former provincial biologists are asking the Alberta government to stick with conservation efforts in a vast area of west-central Alberta despite what they call misinformation from an Opposition member of the legislature.

The Public Prosecution Service of Canada confirmed Wednesday that peace bond applications for John Nuttall and Amanda Korody were withdrawn on Dec. 20 on behalf of the RCMP.

Syncrude will pay a fine of $2.75 million after pleading guilty federal and provincial charges in relation to the deaths of 31 great blue herons.

Bob Einstein, a comedian whose career stretched from "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" to "Curb Your Enthusiasm," has died at 76.

The U.S. and Israel have officially quit the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Monday night, ciiting anti-Israeli bias.

Would it surprise you to find out that the federal Liberals' 10-year, $187-billion infrastructure plan has been largely useless so far?"Really!?" you ask. Grotesque overspending by Ottawa has been mostly ineffective? Say it ain't so. But it is so.

There's a petition that calls for the United States government to adjust the border near Manitoba to give Canada the geographic oddity known as the Northwest Angle.

I don't think I understood what it was like to live in a truly polluted city until I went to one. As an American, I'd never really experienced a place choked with smog. New York, my home, is the 21st most polluted city, according to a recent study by E

Police in Kentucky found some humour after an empty doughnut truck caught fire.

A popular weather app built by a Chinese tech conglomerate has been collecting an unusual amount of data from smartphones around the world and attempting to subscribe some users to paid services without permission, according to a London-based security fir

The rumoured minimization of meats and dairy in Canada's new food guide has some producers concerned it could cause a blow to their industries and negative health effects to boot.

The country's two major railways exceeded their grain cap in 2017-18, despite shipping less of the stuff than last year, according to the Canadian Transportation Agency.

Whelan, 48, who is head of global security for a Michigan-based auto parts supplier, was arrested on Friday.

The Ashanti Act is now officially a law. The law named for Prince George's County native Ashanti Billie, who was kidnapped and murdered in the Norfolk area was signed by President Donald Trump on Monday.

Legal experts say proposed changes to the Criminal Code after a high-profile acquittal in the fatal shooting of an Indigenous man are short-sighted.

The sub-Saharan men were arrested after border guards found them at a check-point between Melilla, a Spanish enclave on the north African coast, and Morocco.

A ban on plastic bags, Inuktut language classes, edible marijuana rules and more

A departure hall at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport was briefly cleared on Monday after a Canadian man claimed to have a bomb, national police said in a statement.

A man has driven a car at groups of pedestrians in the Ruhr cities of Bottrop and Essen, injuring five people. Police say there are indications that the driver is mentally ill and holds xenophobic views.

The countries announced in 2017 that they would withdraw from the UN Educational, Science and Cultural Organization, accusing it of bias against Israel. That went into effect at the stroke of midnight.

A mental health charity has predicted a significant increase in cannabis-induced psychosis following legalization.