NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2010

British Airways apologized to passengers after an emergency message warning they were about to crash into the sea was played by mistake.

Club head strikes rock to ignite California brush fire that requires 150 firefighters to contain

Canada needs stealth fighter jets so its military can sneak up on an adversary at the edges of domestic airspace and use that potential for surprise as a deterrent, the head of the air force says.

Naked photographs of a senior Manitoba judge engaged in bondage are part of a man's complaints to legal watchdogs about the judge's past and that of her husband, CBC News has learned.

Edmonton Oilers goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin was sentenced Tuesday in an Arizona courtroom to 30 days in jail for drunk driving, but he will remain free while his case is under appeal.

Fossils of a new type of dinosaur, which looks like a beefy version of the predatory Velociraptor, have been unearthed in Romania.

Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica.

The theory that the great beasts living in North America 13,000 years ago were killed off by a space impact can now be discounted, a new study claims.

Under mostly clear skies, the CC-177 Globemaster III hit the gravel runway at Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert on August 14 for the start of Operation Boxtop 2010.

An old 1972 VW Beetle is expected to be the first electric-powered car to cross Canada from one end to the other when it arrives in Halifax on Friday.

An archeologist working in Turkey has uncovered what appear to be scalpels that have been used in primitive brain surgeries.

Police have confirmed that four male Mounties in Kamloops, B.C., are under investigation for allegedly watching a sexual encounter between two female prisoners on closed-circuit video for seven minutes without intervening.

The B.C. father at the centre of this weekend's Amber Alert is facing charges in connection to the alleged parental abduction.

Alberta RCMP say a man investigated in the nearly two-month disappearance of two seniors is now considered a suspect.

Losing a child is every parent's nightmare. Having your only son accused of killing your only daughter is something even worse, and that is what happened to Ontario couple Brian and Leslie Jenkins.

In a prime-time address Tuesday, U.S. President Barack Obama was to formally end combat missions in Iraq and thank the men and women who served there as America's attention turns further to the country where more than 150 Canadian soldiers have died in th

Pollutants in Alberta's Athabasca River system are natural, the joint oilsands industry-government group responsible for monitoring the region's water maintains.

Activists breached a 500-metre security perimeter around the Stena Don rig off western Greenland, then climbed up the rig and fastened themselves to it, police spokesman Morten Nielsen said. The breach triggered an automatic shutdown of the rig's operatio

A drilling program at the deepest offshore site in Canada has concluded, three months after it began under a cloud of controversy.

The genetically modified salmon grow twice as fast as regular farmed salmon and is the first genetically modified food animal to be reviewed by the FDA.

Bell, Telus and other phone companies must pay back about $310 million to urban customers in the culmination of a bitter dispute with consumer groups that has lasted years, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has ruled.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders loonie will be unveiled this week, and fans and coin collectors in the province will get first dibs.

A resurgence of bedbugs across the U.S. has homeowners and apartment dwellers taking desperate measures to eradicate the tenacious bloodsuckers, with some relying on dangerous outdoor pesticides and fly-by-night exterminators.

MySpace, which recently revamped itself to look more like Facebook, is now allowing users to sync their posts to Facebook, too.

Thirty-three men stuck a half mile underground are now the longest-trapped miners in recent history as a huge drill is the early stages of digging a planned escape route.

As U.S. Vice President Joe Biden presides over the formal end to U.S. combat operations in Iraq, few Iraqis are cheering the American exit.

Two men arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport were being questioned on Tuesday about suspicious items found in their baggage and apparent irregularities in their travel plans.

Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines.

The B.C. Supreme Court has stepped in to support the University of Victoria to deal with the school's longstanding rabbit problem.

The UN's climate science body needs stricter checks to prevent damage to the organisation's credibility, an independent review has concluded. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has faced mounting pressure over errors in its last major as

They are among 1,200 extra soldiers deployed by President Barack Obama to beef up the 1.900-mile (3,000km) frontier, a major route for drug and people smuggling.

Seven US soldiers have been killed in two bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) says.

US President Barack Obama has signed an executive order mandating new financial sanctions on North Korea, senior administration officials say.

Some families of front-line soldiers in Afghanistan have been shipping their loved ones packages of food after receiving complaints the troops have been living mainly on rations during their time overseas

Geologists from Germany and Ireland are in southwestern New Brunswick this week to evaluate a proposal to create North America's first United Nations geopark.

The head of a Montreal-area teachers' union and peace activists have teamed up to oppose a drive by the Canadian navy to convince elementary school children they should be part of the next generation of sailors.

A Winnipeg family got a bit of a surprise when they jumped into a Manitoba lake and found themselves surrounded by dozens of tiny jellyfish.

A man dressed in a secret-agent costume was arrested in Victoria, B.C., Sunday night after he was spotted carrying what police thought was a gun.

Thousands of British Columbians are defying the seven-month-old law that bans drivers from talking on their phones.

EDMONTON - A new study shows that heavy metals including lead and mercury which are being released from oilsands facilities into the air and water of northern Alberta are already above levels considered hazardous to fish.

It doesn't have quite the same shock value as a polar bear appearing on the tropical island in the TV show "Lost."

A review in Monday's Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests the federal government should give up its Supreme Court of Canada challenge around Vancouver's safe injection site.

Hurricane Earl grew to a Category 4 storm Monday as it lashed the northeastern Caribbean with ferocious winds and heavy rain.

MPs on the House public safety committee just received these documents via email this afternoon.

Riverdale hasn�t seen anything like this before. In an issue of Veronica, a spinoff of Archie comics hitting stands on Wednesday, Archie and the gang will welcome the first openly gay character in the series� 69-year history.

A 21-year-old soldier from western Newfoundland died Monday morning at a military hospital in Germany, more than a week after he was injured by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

WINNIPEG - Family Services Minister Gord Mackintosh has asked the province's child protection branch to look into the case of a Manitoba foster mother who agreed to care for another woman's daughter on the condition that the woman get her tubes tied

The initial jubilation over the massive bounty of returning sockeye salmon is now washing up on the shores of criticism, with Conservative MP John Cummins saying fishermen are " disgusted" with the way federal regulators have delayed the fishery.

Last year was tough for the Canada's West Coast fishing industry, but with experts predicting the largest sockeye salmon run in a century some fishermen are already considering dumping some of their catch

Some lucky beachgoers got a rare and unexpected treat at Vancouver's English Bay on Sunday when a grey whale cozied up to the shore.

Michelle Wie won the second title of her career on Sunday, draining three straight birdies on the back nine to pace herself to a three-stroke victory at the CN Canadian Women's Open.

Wildlife officials in Canmore, Alta., say fewer bear sightings in the past week mean their efforts have been paying off.

TORONTO - Smoking pot can make some of the pain go away, without the patient getting high. The finding comes from what researchers in Montreal believe to be the first outpatient clinical trial of smoked cannabis, involving 21 people with chronic neuropath

Mounties in Whistler, B.C., are asking the public to help locate a 17-year-old girl who disappeared while walking with her family on Saturday afternoon.

Mounties have issued an Amber Alert after receiving a report that a 12-year-old boy was abducted in Chilliwack, B.C.

Michael Ignatieff has spent his summer "vacation" on a bus, travelling almost 40,000 kilometres to some 130 events in 10 provinces and two territories, pumping 11,000 hands and kissing countless babies.

A loaded cruise ship exploring the Northwest Passage has run aground on a rock that wasn't on the map.

Ordinary soldiers wounded in the line of duty, veterans with families and the most severely disabled of troops are the biggest losers under Ottawa's new system of compensating those who've laid down their lives for the country, says an independent analysi

Scores of bare-chested skinheads attacked a crowd of about 3,000 people at a rock concert in central Russia on Sunday, beating them with clubs, media reports said.

A motorist fired pepper spray Saturday at a group of demonstrators and counter-protesters outside a funeral for a U.S. Marine in Omaha, Nebraska, police said.

An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week.

"I knew I was going into the military," he said. But that hope came crashing down Wednesday when an Army recruiter informed him that a minor marijuana case stemming from his senior year at Carmel Valley High School in 2004 has made him morally unfit for t

After more than three years of fruitless searching, the family of a missing Saskatchewan woman is putting up a reward for information about her disappearance.

Weeping relatives and friends on Saturday buried a dismissed Philippine policeman who seized a busload of Hong Kong tourists in an incident that ended with eight of his hostages dead.

Officials in Chile are working on an alternative plan to speed the rescue of 33 miners trapped underground since Aug. 5.

U.S. President Barack Obama travels to New Orleans on Sunday for the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, hoping to underscore his commitment to a region battered by nature as well as the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

Nigerian police have arrested three men suspected of kidnapping the son of the country's first prime minister.

Bolivian biologists say they have finished rescuing 12 pink, freshwater dolphins who were trapped in a river.

The print version of the Oxford English Dictionary may not have long to live. The publisher said Sunday that most people prefer to make use of the online version of the famed dictionary and it may not make business sense to print its hefty volumes any

Paralympic silver medalist Josh Dueck can now add the title of "Guinness World Record holder" to his name.

Mounties say they will not comment on unconfirmed media reports that officers did not intervene in a potentially dangerous sexual encounter between two detainees at the Kamloops RCMP detachment earlier this month.

Witnesses say a long-standing feud is to blame for a targeted shooting at the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple in Surrey, B.C., on Saturday afternoon.

Ahead of his long-awaited reunion with family and friends, the badly injured man at the centre of a case of alleged torture is looking forward to one day getting married and living life to the fullest.

An air and water search continues for a float plane missing along the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

A Haitian-Canadian musician wants to help the earthquake-displaced people in his homeland by spearheading the building of a village.

Can you break a $1 million? Not a chance. But the story is rich in audacity.

Your mother has been urging you to play nice and make friends since playground days. Heck, you're even guilty of pushing your own children toward the sandbox with hopes that they'll thrive socially and make fast pals with the other little girls and boys.

Popular music's rich history is littered with lurid tales of sex, thugs and substance abuse.

The Chechen president reportedly directed a deadly gunbattle that occurred in his hometown and killed 19 people in the early hours of Sunday morning.

WHITBY, Ont. - A motorcycle passenger was killed Friday night in a disturbing accident on the busy 401 in which the body was hit by an unknown number of vehicles, none of which stopped to help.

A man in Hawaii is suing a video game developer saying that the game Lineage II was so addictive that he is unable to bathe, dress himself, communicate with others and wake-up during the day.

It may seem hard to believe now, but dry, frigid Ellesmere Island in Canada's high North was once teeming with alligators, turtles and rhino-like mammals.

Taliban attackers wearing U.S. uniforms mounted simultaneous predawn raids on two NATO bases in Afghanistan Saturday, part of an apparent new strategy by insurgents to spread their attacks across the country.

Scientists observing a small group of Australian lizards very closely, believe they may be watching evolution happen right before their eyes.

Local residents are again speaking out about a practice used by GEUS, the local electric utility system, to collect on delinquent payments.

The kindhearted Long Island convenience-store owner who last year shot to global fame for giving a would-be robber money and food died of a heart attack last Friday, The Post has learned

RCMP have launched an investigation into four of their own officers and three municipal staff after an incident in the Kamloops detachment's jail cell block.

An extra week of practice didn't help the B.C. Lions end their struggles against Calgary or solve their own problems.

A historic Sikh temple in Abbotsford, B.C., was burned to the ground in a suspicious fire early Thursday morning. Only the front wall was left standing after the blaze at the temple.

Nunavut man who says he was protecting himself from a home invasion was sentenced on Friday to life in prison, without the possibility of parole for 16 years, after being found guilty of shooting three men to death in 2007.

WARNING: This video is graphic. Boaters in Trinity Bay, eastern Newfoundland, videotaped orcas attacking a minke whale on Thursday. This is at least the fourth video of orcas attacking whales near eastern Newfoundland this summer.

Canadians spent more money abroad and took Canada's international travel deficit to $3.5 billion in the second quarter, up $464 million from the previous quarter.

Emergency crews evacuated a Winnipeg postal sorting plant after discovering a package with a substance spilling from it Friday, but they soon found it contained crushed vitamins.

Four U.S. companies have announced they will boycott or reduce their use of fuels from the Alberta oilsands.

A $1 million lawsuit has been filed against Alberta Children's Hospital by a Calgary family. Papers filed in court this week claim a young girl suffered serious brain damage, blindness and other injuries as a result of improper care.

A provincial court judge in Regina has slammed the RCMP for destroying video evidence that could have been used in a drinking and driving case.

The number of sockeye salmon in British Columbia's Fraser River just keeps growing, with the estimate of this year's run now increased to 30 million.

A human foot has been found washed up on a beach in Washington state, police say. The foot was found Friday by a person walking on Whidbey Island, about 100 kilometres south of Vancouver, according to a release from Det. Ed Wallace of the Island County Sh

The dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago by at least two meteorite impacts, rather than a single strike, a new study suggests.

Scientists at NASA have made a huge find: a star 2,300 light-years away with a solar system of two, and possibly three, planets orbiting around it.

While fishermen on British Columbia's Fraser River celebrate the largest sockeye salmon run in nearly a century, there is also jubilation along the Yukon's Alsek River where salmon returns are approaching historical records, say fisheries officials.

The federal Transportation Safety Board has completed a draft report on its investigation into the crash of Cougar Helicopter's Flight 491 last year. In March 2009, one of the company's Sikorsky S92 choppers went down 55 kilometres southeast of St. John's

A seven-year-old P.E.I. girl was honoured Thursday for saving her cousin's life this summer. The Red Cross gave Keana Jeffery a Rescuer Award for her quick thinking at a family gathering on Aug. 15.

Edmonton firefighters used their specialized skills on Thursday to help a unique conservation initiative.

Angus cattle in British Columbia's Okanagan region are being fed red wine with their grain, and chefs say it makes the beef taste unique.

Hurricane Danielle, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, has reached major hurricane status, forecasters say.