NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 01-2020

Bid to call witnesses in the Trump impeachment trial fails, setting up a likely acquittal next week.

A panel of experts advising Japan's government on a disposal method for radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear has recommended dumping it into the Pacific Ocean.

Forget the corporate welfare for Canadian Tire’s electric car chargers or the $12 million Justin Trudeau gave Loblaws to help them buy fridges.We’ve got a new champion for companies pigging out at the taxpayer trough: MasterCard.

Critics are questioning the independence of a panel that reviewed Alberta's finances last year, after documents emerged that show the government drafted talking points and an op-ed for the panel chair. The documents, obtained by the Alberta Federation

Will the 5,000 publicly-funded librarians converging on Toronto for a "super conference" that runs the remainder of the week be discussing the growing need for digital literacy and the increased demand for e-collections?Not much.

Images from a powerful new telescope installed atop a volcano in Hawaii show the surface of the sun in the closest detail yet.

A 15-year-old girl with leukemia testified before dying against the the man who supplied her meth and sexually assaulted her.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page filed a lawsuit Thursday in federal court against the Democratic National Committee, law firm Perkins Coie and its partners tied to the funding of the unverified dossier that served as the basis for hig

The surface of our sun is a wild, violent place and now we can see it in exquisite detail, thanks to the first images returned by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope based in Hawaii.

Fabian Imfeld arrived in Whitehorse almost a week ago, and he's ready to hit the trail. "Yeah, I can feel it. I want to go," he said on Wednesday. Imfeld travelled from his home in Switzerland to compete in a race that bills itself as the "world's c

Environment Canada is releasing scientific evidence today to back up the government's bid to ban most single-use plastics next year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced last June the government was getting ready to prohibit the production and sale

Alberta's chief electoral officer will review an undisclosed donation to the nomination campaign of Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer from Steve Allan, the prominent Calgary businessman Schweitzer appointed commissioner of a public inquiry into alleged for

In a sea can outside Gjoa Haven, Nunavut, there are rows of ripening cherry tomatoes working to grow from green to red.

Canada has no official way of measuring who is and isn't a member of the middle class, Minister of Middle Class Prosperity Mona Fortier said Monda

The parliamentary budget watchdog estimates the Liberal government's newly enacted income tax cut will cost $2.5 billion more than projected.

Conservation officers on Vancouver Island say they're confident a wolf that was caught Sunday in the backyard of a Victoria residence is the same animal known to live alone on a group of small islands off the coast of the capital city.

A tax on carbon dioxide emissions in Great Britain, introduced in 2013, has led to the proportion of electricity generated from coal falling from 40% to 3% over six years, according to research led by UCL.

Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of its liberation, returning to the place where they lost entire families and warning about the ominous growth of anti-Semitism and hatred in th

A U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman and Afghan journalist affiliated with the militant group said.

The world's longest and largest twin-engine airliner, the Boeing 777-9X, has finally taken to the skies for its maiden flight.

One rocket hit a dining facility Sunday on the compound of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, a U.S. official told CNN.

Working against the clock in freezing temperatures, Turkish rescue teams pulled more survivors from collapsed buildings Sunday, after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the country's east.

The plane and crew are to transport fire retardant from the U.S., free up Australian airlift capacity and take images of fires from the air to measure them and predict how they might spread.

Tracy Spence was outraged when Crown Crest Capital told her she'd have to pay $32,406 to buy out her rental contract for her air conditioner and furnace. After being contacted by CBC News, Crown Crest said there was an error and it offered Spence a better

Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, who retired in 2016 as a five-time NBA champion with 33,643 points, was among five people killed Sunday in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, Calif. He was 41.

The coronavirus that has spread from Wuhan has been linked to the sale of live wildlife at a market that experts describe as a perfect incubator for novel pathogens.

The victim is a man in his 50s who recently travelled to Wuhan, China.

Ryerson University announced Friday it has terminated its operating agreement with its student union, leaving one of Canada's largest universities without a student government.

Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz confirmed the house's existence during an interview for the February issue of the Vatican's magazine Women Church World.

Phil Waldner wasn't expecting to come across a stranded family of five when he went out for a snowmobile ride in rural Manitoba after Christmas last month.

An oil worker in Alberta, Canada, rescued the animals while inspecting wells.

Puerto Ricans poured into the streets of San Juan on Monday calling for the resignation of Gov. Wanda Vazquez after Hurricane Maria supplies were found in a warehouse over the weekend in the city of Ponce.

Prince Charles seems to ignore US Vice-President Mike Pence as he shakes hands at a forum in Israel.

Muhammad Rodwan, 56, launched a ferocious assault on PC Stuart Outten, 29, hacking at him with a rusty blade last August after the officer stopped his passing van in east London

A convicted killer has had his verdict overturned and a new trial ordered on what amounts to a technicality in how a new law was interpreted by the trial judge.

The owners of Restaurant Manitoba, on Saint-Zotique Street, claim they found a threatening note, as well as glue inside the lock of their door.

The owner of greeting card retailers including Carlton Cards and Papyrus is closing all of its stores in North America, including 76 Canadian locations.

Wisconsin police are warning residents of a 'highly addictive substance' arriving in their neighbourhoods as the sale of Girl Scout cookies begins.

Thousands of residents on Greek islands hosting large migrant camps on Wednesday kicked off a day of protests, demanding the immediate removal of asylum-seekers.

A secretive facial recognition software used by hundreds of police forces is raising concerns after a New York Times investigation said it could "end privacy as we know it."

The RCMP is investigating whether a "kamikaze" campaign for the leadership of Alberta's United Conservative Party defrauded donors, according to a source familiar with the investigation. The police are investigating Jeff Callaway's 2017 campaign "as b

This summer, Big Wreck, Headstones, Moist and The Tea Party will hit the road together for a 17-date coast-to-coast Canadian tour.

Monty Python star Terry Jones has died at the age of 77, after having lived with dementia, his agent has said. A statement from his family said: "We have all lost a kind, funny, warm, creative and truly loving man."

Sophisticated unmanned mini-tanks patrol alongside soldiers, but humans still decide when to shoot.

Paul Lynch posted a light-hearted review in which said that people who don't enjoy the faggots on sale in Morriston aren't being true to the area in Swansea.

It was presented to her as a quick way to make $150, but now, a Burnaby woman says she's horrified after seeing pictures of herself holding a Meng Wanzhou support sign go viral.

2019 is set to be the second warmest year on record, ending the warmest decade on record, another reminder that climate change is the defining issue of our time. Yet 2019 will not be remembered as the year when the world finally united to save the planet

Despite reports that global emissions of the potent greenhouse gas hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) were almost eliminated in 2017, an international team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has found atmospheric levels growing at record values.

After the 75kg pig was pushed off a tower, it was reportedly sent to the slaughterhouse.

A 38-year-old male is in hospital after suffering hypothermia and other minor injuries due to a fall during a hike early Sunday. "We got requested by the Penticton RCMP to help evacuate an injured hiker from the Wiltse area," says Hamish Reidie, searc

Move over, old ferries, and make way for the future.

Abdirahman Sahal and Yusuf Hussein, both 18 at the time of the alleged attack, have pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault charges related to the incident on Dec. 8, 2018.

Staff Sergeant Ralph Norbury flew wooden gliders deep behind enemy lines at the invasion of Sicily in July 1943. Sgt Norbury passed away in hospital last week.

The chair of the committee admitted it did not study First Nations views toward the project, saying he 'did not know' that most communities supported it

China’s birth rate fell to its lowest last year since the Communist Party took power 70 years ago, exacerbating concerns that population challenges will drag growth in the world's second-largest economy.

The website purported to give access to stolen data from 10,000 data breaches, giving hackers easy access to user credentials. The police operation tracking the cybercrime involved the UK, US, Netherlands and Germany.

A petition claims Tesla Model 3, Model S and Model X that were made and sold from 2013 through to 2019 are suddenly accelerating on their own and have caused 110 crashes over six years

ISLAMABAD -- A Pakistani court has sentenced 86 members of a radical Islamist party to 55-year prison terms each for taking part in violent rallies in 2018 over the acquittal of a Christian woman in a blasphemy case, a party official said Friday.

The virus emerged in December, two people have died and it has been detected in three countries.

The secret effort is done, in part, to spare the wealthy Persian Gulf kingdom embarrassment, the FBI said, and intelligence officials believe the escapes from justice will continue.

London-born actor Derek Fowlds played Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley in Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister and Oscar Blaketon in Heartbeat.

Cheers erupted today at Halifax's Pier 21 as the founder of a growing Antigonish, N.S., chocolate company who came to Canada as a refugee from Syria became a Canadian citizen.

Tens of thousands of Muslims fought for the Nazis in World War Two. DW spoke with historian David Motadel about whether pragmatism or anti-Semitism drove Adolf Hitler's overtures and why some Muslim leaders backed him.

The person detained is believed to be facing charges relating to national security.

Shifa al-Nima, a big capture, was hauled from his bolthole in Mosul, Iraq, by security forces. Dubbed the terror group's Jabba the Hutt, the so-called religious leader had ordered executions.

The rural Alberta landowner who became a lightning rod for the debate over property rights learned Thursday that he's no longer being sued by a trespasser he shot, and has also dropped his suit against the other man.

The Supreme Court of Canada has unanimously dismissed British Columbia's appeal of the Trans Mountain pipeline.

Sheikh Mohammed Mutumba, 27, found out the truth when his bride was caught stealing a TV from a neighbour and was searched by police.

The U.S. House has sent two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate and approved House prosecutors for only the third impeachment trial in American history.

The surprise move came after President Vladimir Putin announced plans to change the constitution.

When psychologist Dr. Cindy Hardy informed a judge that a nine-year-old B.C. boy might deliberately hurt himself if he had to visit his dad in Alberta, she did so without ever speaking to the father.

Prominent Conservative Peter MacKay is running for Conservative party leadership.

Tine Nys's family say her request to die after a relationship ended should never have been granted.

The federal government is planning to invest hundreds of millions of dollars more to ensure Canada's aging CF-18s can still fight while the country waits for replacement jets, which were originally expected years ago.

The previous record-holder was the year 2008, when the sun was blank for 268 days. That was during the epic Solar Minimum of 2008-2009, formerly the deepest of the Space Age. Now 2019 has moved into first place. Solar Minimum is a normal part of the 11

It seems a lot of Canadians have something to say about medical assistance in dying. In just over 24 hours, more than 37,900 people filled out the federal government's new online survey on changing the assisted dying regime, according to the office of

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev submitted his resignation to President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Tass news agency reports. Russian news agencies said Putin thanked Medvedev for his service, but noted the prime minister's cabinet failed to ful

The devastating wave of wildfires ravaging Australia has rekindled interest in an unsolicited proposal dropped on the Canadian government four years ago: a call for Canada and Australia to develop and share a couple of strategic water bomber squadrons.

Butch Chiniquay was only months into a lengthy prison sentence in the death of his girlfriend, Charmaine Wesley, when senior officials in Alberta's Justice Ministry obtained a report that might have exonerated him.

The CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, Michael McCain, called on parliamentarians to back off on calling for sanctions for Chinese officials last month, according to a copy of a letter obtained by CTV News.

Tensions between the Iranian government and the Revolutionary Guard spilled into the open on Monday as the president’s office accused the elite military force of misleading them over the accidental shooting down of a civilian airliner.

For decades, critics of U.S. foreign policy have claimed it's largely built around securing control of foreign oil. Donald Trump is doing his best to prove them right.

Parking meters, cash registers and a professional wrestling video game have fallen foul of a computer glitch related to the Y2K bug. The Y2020 bug, which has taken many payment and computer systems offline, is a long-lingering side effect of attempts t

Wexit officially became an eligible political party at the federal level on Friday.

President Tsai Ing-wen sweeps to victory in what is seen as a rebuke to China's growing influence.

At least 22 private clinics in England are believed to be offering hymenoplasty and patients flocking to London from abroad to undergo the constructive surgery.

Protests across country as media outlets join outcry at shooting down of Ukrainian jet

AN AUSTRALIAN firefighter has been charged with deliberately starting 17 wildfires while on bail for alleged sex offences.

The northernmost Orkney island, North Ronaldsay, is home to just 50 people and 2,000 sheep. Since the 19th Century, when islanders built a stone wall to confine the flock to the shoreline, it has survived on seaweed alone - and it now seems that this spec

A Jewish teenager avoided death in occupied France thanks to the kindness and bravery of a doctor in a small Alpine resort. But it's a story local people seem reluctant to remember, Rosie Whitehouse discovers.

Thanks to forgiveness laws, murder doesn't always result in a jail sentence - or even a trial.

Canadians are excited at the prospect that the royal couple might make Canada their home.

Officials warn that human activity is resulting in rising numbers of elephant deaths.

A number of questions remain unresolved about Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752.

A woman of mixed race was offended by the insult directed at her in a 2014 email.

Three-judge panel says B.C. law allows boy to make that decision

Islamic State claimed its suicide bomber carried out the attack to target an Afghan Taliban seminary.

Security footage that went viral showed Summer Tapasa-Sataraka, 24, battling a man trying to leave the store in Hawaii with a speaker, using her forearms to block the exit and wrestling the man to the ground.

Margaret Kanayok squinted her eyes scanning an image of a sealskin parka on Facebook. If she could just touch it, and examine the stitch work, Kanayok said she could tell exactly who made it.