NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2019

American soldiers inside the embassy have fired tear gas, stun grenades and warning shots at hundreds of fighters who broke down the compound gate in the Iraqi capital.

Firefighters are being extra cautious when they work to cut people free from wrecked vehicles these days because of the dangers found in electric cars.

Russia condemns the US ambassador to Poland for saying the Nazi-Soviet pact triggered World War Two.

Dozens of giant drones with at least six-foot wingspans have now been spotted in five counties in Colorado and one county in neighboring Nebraska.

OPINION: Migration continues to shape Canada, which brought in a record 350,000 immigrants in 2019, plus a larger-than-ever number of international students and guest workers.

The Russian president says co-operation from US intelligence has prevented attacks within his country.

A Brooklyn miscreant accused of slapping three Orthodox Jewish women last week struck again on Sunday and was busted for assaulting another woman.

Leading private schools have turned down a donor's 1 million pound offer saying scholarships should be for pupils from all backgrounds.

The bikes are designed to be locked and unlocked by members of the public via an app.

Glass expert Andy McConnell was handed the mysterious bottle during an episode in Trelissick, Cornwall, after a local found it buried in the threshold of their house.

Kevin Heimsoth, 56, is believed to have killed his elementary school principal wife, Lynn, her beloved Golden Retriever, Sukha, and a pet cat at their Washington state home on Thursday.

Light Blade has a range of up to two kilometers, burns airborne threats out of the sky; several systems developed over past 2 years have failed to eliminate threat

Nine women and children of US-Mexican origin were shot dead by suspected drug cartel hitmen last month

Yasser, 29, was arrested at his mother's West London home, whlie another son Uthman Mustafa Kamel, 31, was arrested nearby. Tito Ibn Sheikh, 33, was also arrested in the area.

Sometimes Justin Bieber will rent the ice at the historic, century-old Allman Arena in his hometown of Stratford, Ont., and play pickup hockey with his pals. On Boxing Day his pals happened to include Auston Matthews, Mitchell Marner and Tyson Barrie.

At least 76 people are killed by a massive vehicle bomb during morning rush hour in Mogadishu.

Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained shortly after Canada held a Chinese executive.

Under the scheme, police were allowed to hold sex workers and their clients for up to two years.

FortisBC and an electrical repair and maintenance company deny any blame in the case of a dog allegedly electrocuted on a North Van sidewalk

Products finally arrived in B.C. stores on Dec. 24, more than a year after the federal legalization of dried cannabis, oil and seeds.

Aerial footage showed police at the top of the parking structure, gathered around a car with three doors left open

Dr. Louis Slotin was one of a handful of Canadian scientists recruited by the Manhattan Project

The Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) claim they killed the captives to avenge for the killing of their leaders Abu bakr al-Baghdadi and Abul-Hasan Al-Muhajir in Iraq and Syria.

White-collar criminals have little to fear from the Canadian judicial system, in which nearly all money laundering charges get thrown out before trial, according to statistics obtained by the Star.

A compulsive problem gambler is suing Caesars Windsor for $842,000 in general and punitive damages after some very bad luck at roulette.

Darryn Frost, who fought Usman Khan with a narwhal tusk, and John Crilly, who doused the jihadist with a fire extinguisher, are to receive either the George Cross or Queen's Gallantry Medal.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made a personal appeal to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to condemn the International Criminal Court for taking a major step toward investigating Israel for alleged war crimes against Palestinians.

The most recent quake occurred around 12:40 p.m. on Christmas, registered a magnitude of 4.9, and did not cause any damage.

A newly discovered cave in a remote valley in British Columbia's Wells Gray Provincial Park might just be the country's largest.

Citizens Again, an activist group, revealed their plan to create a $3billion, 300-acre private city to solve the ongoing homeless crisis in California. The city would house 150,000 citizens.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he won't let resistance from unwilling premiers scuttle the plans of municipalities that want to ban handguns.

Beckett, a 32-year-old mother of two, was killed when her marked police car was struck broadside at Goldstream Avenue on April 5, 2016.

Peewee, bantam and midget names will be replaced by U13, U15 and U18 next season as Hockey Canada attempts to make the sport more inclusive.

Police say the suspect pointed a gun at the seller before fleeing with the puppy, but accidentally shot himself in the leg while running away and fell to the ground

Officials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.

Officers with the Franklin Police department had worked diligently to collect toys for needy children this holiday season, but noticed that some of those toys were disappearing. The culprit turned out to be their own therapy dog.

Footage from the US shows a UPS delivery man making several trips to and from his loaded lorry to leave piles of cardboard packages in front of someone's garage.

'Gaza is the new #Auschwitz,' she posted on Twitter

A misrepresentation case against Md. Tarekh Rana was dropped after he denied allegations and officials said there were insufficient grounds to continue.

Junaid Hafeez was convicted of insulting the Prophet Muhammad on social media.

Justin Trudeau says he's taking a lower-profile, more businesslike approach to being prime minister, having concluded that the focus on him and his lofty talk of values during his first mandate obscured his government's concrete achievements on bread-and-

An Ames man was sentenced Wednesday to about 16 years in prison after he set fire to a church's LGBTQ flag in June.

The $47 million that went to keep Saadi Gadhafi happy was filtered out of deals Libya awarded SNC

Maya Forstater lost her job after she questioned government plans to let people declare their own gender.

Already comfortable as an outlier in her party, Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard did not support the impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, voting 'present' Wednesday on two articles that cleared the House.

Canadians should expect fewer spam phone calls as the CRTC deadline to implement call-blocking systems comes into force Thursday.

The Asian grooming gang from Telford forced their victim to perform sex acts in a churchyard, raped her above a shop on a filthy mattress, a court heard.

West Yorkshire Police said the charges relate to alleged offences against three teenage girls in Halifax between 2006 and 2009. The alleged victims were aged between 13 and 16 at the time.

A study into the UN mission in the disaster-hit Caribbean country of Haiti found girls as young as 11 were left pregnant after being sexually abused by United Nations peacekeepers.

Serie A chief executive Luigi De Siervo has expressed 'his sincere apologies' after the league installed a painting featuring monkeys at its headquarters for an anti-racism campaign.

Premier Jason Kenney's claim that the non-profit Pembina Institute is an enemy of Alberta's energy industry is contradicted in documents his own government filed in court.

Former interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose is thinking over the possibility of leadership bid, a source with close knowledge of the situation has told CTV News.

John Jenkins (pictured) who was one of the last surviving Normandy landing veterans, died last night in Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth. It comes a month after his 100th birthday.

Joining Iceland at the top is the rest of Scandinavia, Norway takes second, followed by Finland and Sweden, in the World Economic Forum's annual Global Gender Gap Index.

It's the most expensive plane seat in the world. What do you get? As Casey Neistat found out on a flight from Abu Dhabi to New York, a 'borderline ridiculous' amount of space and privacy.

Premier Jason Kenney's claim that the former NDP government's carbon tax cripped the Alberta economy is contradicted by documents his own government filed in court.

Chinese television pulled coverage of Arsenal's Premier League match against Manchester City after Mesut Ozil, a forward for the London club, criticized Beijing's brutal mass crackdown on ethnic Muslims in the country.

The Clint Eastwood-directed film Richard Jewell, based on the real life story of a security guard wrongly accused of bombing Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta in 1996, is on the defensive after being accused of inaccurately portraying a journalist who co

Sales of electric vehicles in Ontario have plummeted since the Progressive Conservative government cancelled a rebate last year, hampering progress toward a national target.

The case centred on several major infrastructure projects and alleged dealings with Saadi Gadhafi, one of the sons of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

Four neglected dogs are looking for new homes after the SPCA says they were found living in "terrible conditions" on a Maple Ridge property.

A UN climate summit in Madrid is at risk of collapsing l | Daily Mail Onlineafter all-night negotiations between countries left them more divided than ever over on how to fight global warming.

A new survey says Canadian public opinion is solidly against allowing Huawei as a supplier for the new generation of ultra-fast wireless networks that are being built by the country's telecommunications companies.

The incident occurred on November 21 in Hamilton County, Florida, and the video first emerged on Thursday after the boy's family retained attorney Foye B. Walker for possible legal action.

Delta police say they hear all kinds of excuses about why drivers need to touch their phone, but this one was a first: interacting with a "prayer app."

Drivers who park gas or diesel vehicles in spots meant for electric cars could now receive a $125 fine, after a private member's bill was passed Thursday. The bill's co-sponsor was Guelph MPP and Green Party leader Mike Schreiner, marking the first time a

China today marked the 82nd anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre. It has been estimated more than 300,000 people were slaughtered by Japanese troops during the six-week bloodbath.

Boris Johnson and the Conservatives have won big - here's how world leaders have responded so far.

The FTSE is higher while sterling hits its highest level against the dollar since June last year.

The PM meets the Queen to ask to form a new government, following the Conservatives' election victory.

Three patients died when lawyers attacked a cardiac hospital in Lahore in a dispute with doctors.

ason Kenney's approval ratings have cratered by 15 points over the last three months, according to a new poll. Conducted by DART, the poll shows the Alberta premier fell from 55 per cent approval in September to 40 per cent approval in December. In

The red carpet was rolled out Wednesday night in Cochrane as actors, directors and excited locals came out for a special screening of a Disney movie partially shot in the Alberta town.

Going in to today, Boris Johnson had a narrowing lead in the polls and is hoping to secure a swathe of northern Labour seats. But Labour sources claim its vote is holding up amid a seemingly huge turnout.

Andrew Scheer is resigning as the Conservative leader. He was meeting with his caucus on Parliament Hill on Thursday and is expected to stay on until a replacement is named.

A national survey suggests people living in Manitoba and Saskatchewan see race relations as worsening in stark contrast to a brighter picture painted across the country.

The mother of Hunter Biden's baby has demanded that he admit he was employed as a board member for Burisma in the Ukraine in court papers obtained by DailyMail.com

Terri Lammin, 43, from Ramsgate, Kent said that watching her daughter Ash - born Ashton - grow up confused and unhappy in her own body was 'heartbreaking.'

John Ilett and his colleagues were working at a fish farm off the coast of northern Vancouver Island this week when they spotted a bald eagle in the death grip of an octopus and filmed the unfolding drama.

Three men and a woman in Hamilton are facing a raft of charges in connection with a scheme where high-end cars and pickup trucks were stolen and smuggled for sale in Iraq.

John Ilett and his colleagues were working at a fish farm off the coast of northern Vancouver Island this week when they spotted a bald eagle in the death grip of an octopus and filmed the unfolding drama.

Sources said David Anderson, who committed the deadly Tuesday attack with a woman identified as Francine Graham, was a one-time follower of the Black Hebrew Israelite movement and made the hateful postings on his social media page.

Videos containing insults based on race and sexual orientation will be removed, YouTube says.

The hottest day on record in the UK, on 25 July this year, caused the deaths of more than 200 additional people than usual, according to official figures that underline the deadly impact of the climate crisis.

Jeff Bezos' re-usable autonomous rocket launches into space .

Child prodigy Laurent Simons has left his university course, following a dispute over his graduation date.

A commercial real estate company based out of Baltimore, Maryland, surprised its 198 employees with a Christmas bonus of USD $10 million.

Seven more women accused Cuba Gooding Jr of sexual misconduct, according to a New York court filing Monday, bringing the total number of accusers to 22.

The Canadian Human Rights Commission improperly dismissed Aaren Jagadeesh's discrimination complaint based on sexual orientation, the Federal Court of Canada has ruled

Finance Minister Bill Morneau has tabled a motion in the House of Commons to move on the Liberal's promised tax cut for the middle class.

Should children be required to learn cursive? A New Jersey legislator says so.

A French former NBA player has been reprimanded and fined US$1,400 by sports officials in China for not looking at the Chinese flag during the national anthem before a game.

The Russian flag and national anthem were banned from next year's Tokyo Olympics and other major sports events for four years on Monday.

After an investigation, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling Fresh Express brand sunflower crisp chopped kit due to an E coli outbreak in five Canadian provinces.

Maurice Mounsdon's death on Friday leaves only three remaining members of The Few, the 3,000 airmen who fought off the Luftwaffe in the skies above southern England in 1940.

An internment ceremony was held at sunset on Saturday for Lauren Bruner, who died in September at the age of 98. His ashes were interred inside the USS Arizona in Oahu.

A deadly attack by a Saudi air force member "in no way" represents the kingdom, Donald Trump is told.

Thousands of people celebrate the killings, while the woman's mother says "justice has been done".

The blaze across 300,000 hectares (1,150 sq m) is just an hour's drive from the nation's most-populous city. People who cannot defend their property from approaching fires have been told they should leave immediately. Since October, bushfires have k

The Canadian economy posted its biggest monthly job loss since the financial crisis as the unemployment rate also pushed higher in November.