NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2012

Yitzhak Shamir was a fighter for the Jews long before before Israel's creation, an underground leader who led militias against the Arab and British.

Scaring people about the U.S. health system has proven a handy rhetorical trick

A satellite galaxy or other massive object that passed through the Milky Way 100 million years ago sent shock waves through its many millions of stars that are still reverberating today, a team of Canadian and U.S. physicists has found.

Civilian oversight of police actions during the G20 summit was significantly hampered by inadequate communication by police, insufficient planning time and a top-down approach by the federal government, according to a new report.

Geroy Simon became the CFL's all-time receiving leader in dramatic fashion Friday night. The Lions' star slotback set the record on a 56-yard pass from Travis Lulay 4:57 into the fourth quarter of B.C.'s 33-16 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

From the frontline to the unemployment queue Too often thats the grim reality for Americas war heroes returning from the battlefield at a time when there are already more job seekers than the eco

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is charged with using performance-enhancing drugs by the USADA.

'Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes getting a divorce' on Yahoo! Movies UK. Movie star couple to split after five years of marriage

An Inukshuk dedicated to Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan was toppled over outside the Royal Canadian Legion headquarters in Ottawa.

The parents of two-year-old Jamie Heaton who died in a suspected gas explosion in Oldham say he was a "loving little boy".

A damsel in distress caught in heavy floods in Belfast on Wednesday was saved by the arrival of a knight on a shiny surf board.

Two-time Wimbledon champion Rafael Nadal suffers a shock five-set defeat by world number 100 Lukas Rosol.

A man has died after being swept away in flood water in Shropshire, as rain caused widespread flooding in the Midlands

Research In Motion has announced more layoffs, a delay in the release of its new Blackberry smartphone and a deeper-than-expected first-quarter loss.

Sidney Crosby has agreed to terms with the Pittsburgh Penguins on a 12-year extension worth $104.4 million US, the club announced in a press release Thursday.

Mario Balotelli finally showed some quality finishing, scoring twice Thursday to give Italy a 2-1 win over Germany and an unexpected spot in the European Championship final.

Public servants who wore Stephen Harper Hates Me buttons to work and were told to remove them are filing grievances through their union.

Federal New Democrats say a spate of shootings in Toronto shows the Harper government's stance on gun control has failed the city.

The New York Times started a Chinese-language website Thursday that generated so much interest in China two of its microblog accounts drew thousands of followers and then were apparently taken offline for several hours.

The NHL Players' Association wrapped up executive board meetings Wednesday, with Donald Fehr unveiling a 31-player negotiating committee.

Queen Elizabeth unveils a new memorial to honour the 55,573 men of the RAF's Bomber Command who died in the Second World War.

The provocative results of a new survey challenge the long-held notion that Canadians are reluctant to be as outwardly patriotic as their brash American neighbours.

The five specialized heavy urban search-and-rescue teams across the country, including the one called upon to search the rubble of a collapsed mall in Elliot Lake this week, are at risk of folding due to federal cuts, says a leading emergency preparedness

A minor hockey league coach may face assault charges after he allegedly tripped and injured a 13-year-old player during a post-game handshake.

A Nova Scotia man was sentenced to seven years in prison for killing his fiancee after she bit his penis. James Leopold, 33, was charged with second-degree murder, but was found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter last month.

Stockholm police have appealed for help in the search for a missing stuffed animal after an off-duty officer reportedly noticed a sign reading, Have you seen my teddy bear, I dropped it somewhere on Hantverksgatan on June 19?

Soldiers who were pallbearers at a corporal's funeral say they were "disgusted" at being turned away from a Coventry pub.

Businesses and individuals in B.C. are spending millions of dollars every year replacing stolen metals and wire, thanks both to thieves and to unscrupulous dealers willing to look the other way when offered hot scrap.

A final report into whether the Canadian Forces should have transferred detainees into the custody of Afghan authorities has cleared the military police of any wrongdoing.

The sexual expression of people with dementia in aged care homes is being needlessly denied, say researchers.

Queen Elizabeth II and a former Irish Republican Army commander offered each other the hand of peace Wednesday in a long-awaited encounter symbolizing Northern Ireland's progress in achieving reconciliation after decades of violence.

A judge late Tuesday ordered Samsung Electronics Co. to halt sales of its Galaxy 10.1 tablet computer while the court considers Apple's claim the South Korean tech giant illegally copied the design of the popular iPad.

Every year, fires are caused by children playing with lighters. Now, Consumer Reports is warning about a certain kind of lighter that is especially enticing to kids.

In a potentially precedent-setting case, the co-owners of an eastern Ontario bar are facing manslaughter charges after a person left their establishment and caused a highway crash that left two people dead.

A German court has ruled that circumcising young Jewish boys amounts to bodily harm even if parents consent to the procedure.

Two-time Stanley Cup winner joined by Pavel Bure, Adam Oates and Mats Sundin

Diver Stefan Hogerborn, part of the team exploring the anomaly, said cameras and the team's satellite phone would refuse to work when directly above the object, and would only work once they had sailed away.

A child dies and a person is trapped by an explosion that "completely flattened" a house in Greater Manchester.

The US Supreme Court strikes down key parts of an Arizona immigration law, but allows police to check immigration status of those stopped and arrested.

The Queen meets relatives of the victims of an IRA bombing in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, 25 years ago.

Ben Parkinson, a Paratrooper who lost both legs below the knee, has walked with the torch through Doncaster on day 39 of the torch relay.

The Edmonton teacher who was suspended for giving students zeros in defiance of school policy is one step closer to losing his job.

The Revera Report on Tech-Savvy Seniors shows that of the 27 per cent of seniors aged 75 and older who are online -- which is up from five per cent in 2000 -- more than half use social media to connect with family and friends.

Is Barack Obama squandering Canada's love? The answer is a resounding yes, according to an essay in a leading U.S. foreign policy journal.

A mom in Washington state is steaming mad after her two daughters were so badly sunburned during a school field trip, they had to be taken to hospital.

The Prime Minister understands the importance of a new Detroit-Windsor crossing and trade with the United States

A Calgary school shows how a passion for hockey can translate to a passion for good grades

Sniff your way to love? Singles who have attended so-called pheromone parties haven't ruled it out. The get-togethers -- which have been held in New York and Los Angeles and are planned for other cities -- ask guests to submit a slept-in T-shirt that will

In neighbourhoods across Toronto and in cities across Canada, soccer fans have splashed the bright blues of Italy, reds of Portugal and oranges of Denmark in honour of the Euro Cup. It begs the question: What about Canadian soccer?

Taps can be heard from underneath the rubble of a partially collapsed northern Ontario shopping mall, according to rescuers. Officials confirmed Sunday that at least two individuals could be trapped under the rubble at Algo Centre Mall, and they suspect o

It takes big cojones for a man to turn down the surgery that will reduce his 100 lbs. of scrotum. But Wesley Warren of Las Vegas, 47 years old and 450 lbs. (including scrotum), said no to celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz's offer of free medical care rather

Residents in B.C.'s Shuswap region have been ordered out of their homes as heavy rainfall caused swollen creeks to burst their banks, causing widespread devastation.

After days of delay for the results of its presidential runoff, Egypt has announced Mohammed Morsi as the winner of the election and the country's new president, the Associated Press reports. Morsi, the candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood, faced off wit

A controversy over an anti-racism campaign some local critics say is itself racist is roiling the Iron Range city of Duluth, Minn.

So it's your wedding day and you don't want another toaster or candlesticks. How about getting your friends to donate to President Obama as their gift to you?

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TORONTO - Once upon a time when temperatures soared, the energy minister would heave a sigh of relief every time he flicked the switch and the lights came on. So, welcome to conservation, Ontario-style. The more jobs you lose, the more energy you save.

Ratings agency Moody's Investor Service has downgraded the credit ratings of Canada's biggest bank, the Royal Bank of Canada, and 14 other banks with global operations.

US policy of using drone strikes to carry out targeted killings 'may encourage other states to flout international law'

CTV Toronto - A Toronto high school's plan to conduct breathalyzer tests at prom this week has garnered praise from safety advocates on Thursday.

As the House of Commons shuts down for its summer break, the ruling Conservatives say they not only kept their promises, but also created a stable economy in a world of financial chaos.

A new ebook says Karla Homolka is now a mother of three living in the Caribbean. The publishers of "Finding Karla" say the 46-page book by journalist Paula Todd details Homolka's new life as a wife and mother.

Comedian Jimmy Carr says he has made a "terrible error of judgement" over using a tax avoidance scheme and has pulled out of it.

Critical update to Research in Motion handsets will feature touchscreen-only interface for BlackBerry 10 operating system

TD Canada Trust will charge new senior citizens for banking services it used to offer for free, leading some to worry that a precedent is being set for how businesses will deal with a growing segment of the population.

Royal Navy sailors came to the rescue of fellow Service personnel when they answered a distress call from a yacht stranded in the middle of the Celtic Sea.

Prosecutors on Thursday asked a court to send confessed mass killer Anders Behring Breivik to a mental institution instead of prison for his massacre of 77 people in a gun and shooting rampage.

As Enbridge cleans up after an oil pipeline leak in Alberta, B.C.'s opposition party is pledging to do what it can to kill the company's Northern Gateway project.

Bullied to tears by teenagers on a school bus where she worked as a monitor, a New York State grandmother will be getting the vacation of a lifetime, thanks to the fundraising efforts of a Toronto man.

Many health experts fear that the rise in superbugs may be fuelled by the widespread use of antibiotics among meat producers. Now, a new survey finds it's getting harder to find meat in your local grocery store grown without the drugs.

The day after a two-year-old boy drowned in a backyard pond, the man who owned the home, and the pond, appeared in court.

Water levels on B.C.'s upper Fraser River have peaked, putting several Fraser Valley communities under evacuation alerts as the water rushes south.

It was only a pre-season game but Hamilton Tiger-Cats quarterback Henry Burris was a man on a mission Wednesday night as he led his new team to a 26-25 win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

A warming climate has health officials worried that tick populations are already spreading, bringing with them the germs that can lead to Lyme disease.

Federal workers have been booking off sick in record numbers, costing Canadian taxpayers more than $1 billion a year in lost wages alone, a confidential government report obtained by CBC News reveals.

Sweeping changes proposed in a new immigration bill would give new powers to the minister of immigration, including the ability to deny entry to visitors for public policy reasons and to override the rules to let otherwise inadmissible people come to Cana

'Kim Kardashian sums up everything that is wrong with society, headmistress says' on Yahoo! Lifestyle UK. The model Kim Kardashian's title as the "hottest woman in the world" in a men's magazine sums up "almost everything that is wrong with Western societ

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is seeking asylum at Ecuador's London embassy, faces arrest for breaching his bail, police say.

Inmates at a federal prison in B.C. are suing the government over claims they were held in their cells for 10 days and denied fresh clothes, eating utensils, soap and even toilet paper during a lockdown two years ago.

Can you be too overweight to be a good parent? One Ottawa man says he's losing a custody battle in court because of his obesity.

A Texas grand jury did not return an indictment against a father who killed a man he found allegedly sexually abusing his daughter, officials said .

A request from Passport Canada to remove a YouTube video of a person peeing on his passport is just one of thousands Google has received from government agencies around the world seeking to take down content from its websites or obtain information about i

Just off the Las Vegas strip, the NHL's board of governors took time off to approve two rule changes as well as the sale of the Toronto Maple Leafs at its annual June meeting.

Grant Stoddard writes that Canadian national identity was born amid the bloody heroics of the War of 1812 against the US.

A free language tutorial website aims to translate the entire web. It's a project born out of guilt from the man behind those annoying online security checks involving random words.

UK Prime Minister David Cameron confronts Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez over her country's continued claim to the Falklands Islands.

Egypt's state news agency says ousted leader Hosni Mubarak is clinically dead. The agency had previously reported that the former president's heart had stopped beating, and he was not responding to defibrillation.

Not looking to be left out of the biofuel party, Air Canada is the latest to try out the eco-friendly alternative for its

Travellers could face increased surveillance in certain customs-controlled areas at Canadian airports and land border crossings as the Canada Border Services Agency will soon monitor them with high-definition cameras and listen in on their conversations.

Argentina's president demands the UK negotiate over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, on the 30th anniversary of the end of the 1982 war.

A Forum Research poll of Canadians shows that almost four in ten Canadians would vote for the NDP, and that the youngest voters are the least likely to approve of Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader.

Concerns about the safety of the man charged in the slaughter of 56 sled dogs in Whistler, B.C., have prompted a change in venue for his trial.

Some illegal migrants were flown from Israel to Africa on Sunday, the first of potentially thousands of such deportations, Israeli officials said.

A policeman in Slovakia kills three people and wounds two more, thought to be members of a Roma family, reports say.

By the CNN Wire Staff Los Angeles (CNN) -- Rodney King, whose beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked riots after the acquittal of the four officers involved, was found dead in his swimming pool Sunday, authorities

Travis Baumgartner, wanted after a deadly armoured-car heist at the University of Alberta, has been arrested at a border crossing without incident, police say.

A giant shale gas find in northern B.C. has the potential to exponentially increase the province's natural gas output for decades.

China has launched its historic space docking mission, carrying the country's first female astronaut into space.

Nik Wallenda has successfully crossed Niagara Falls on a highwire strung high above the raging waters, a historic achievement for the American aerialist.

A stage at Toronto's Downsview Park has collapsed in advance of this evening's scheduled Radiohead concert, crushing a man in his 30s to death and injuring three others.

The U.S. declared war against Great Britain on June 18, 1812. U.S. historian Alan Taylor tells CBC News about the lead-up to what he calls the civil war of 1812.

Just as in 1919, Winnipeg's poor are segregated by slum housing, poor health and less education. In the downtown and North End, people's lives are between 13 and 16 years shorter than those of people who live in newer suburbs in the wealthier south end.

Thought the plague was a relic of the Middle Ages? Think again. A man in Oregon is said to be in critical condition after contracting the illness long known as the Black Death.

It looked like a Stuka, partly buried in the muck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, but researchers now say the wreck German military divers have been recovering for the past week is a totally different - but nearly as rare - Second World War aircraft.

Over the past few years, the Motion Picture Association - Canada, the Canadian arm of the MPAA, has recorded nearly 100 meetings with government ministers, MPs, and senior officials. While their lobbying effort will not come as a surprise, last October th

The Obama administration will stop deporting and will give work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty says the province should prepare for its second election in less than a year after the Conservatives and NDP joined to force changes to the budget bill.

At least three people have been shot at the University of Alberta in Edmonton early Friday morning, according to reports.

The worsening economic situation in Europe could bring Brent crude prices down to $50 per barrel this year, according to research prepared by Credit Suisse.

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is in a bind now, but the problems at the company sprung up long before he joined the company. Read this blog post by Roger Cheng on Mobile.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's accusation that Russia dramatically escalated the crisis in Syria lost steam when the State Department acknowledged the helicopters were actually refurbished ones already owned by the Assad regime.

Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee has signed legislation to decriminalize marijuana, making Rhode Island the 15th state in the nation to sign similar legislation.

Federal MPs came armed with snacks, blankets, even iPads for a marathon voting session on the government's omnibus budget implementation bill, which began at around 1 a.m. Thursday morning.

A Massachusetts man who was badly burned last month while barbecuing is warning of the dangers of using spray-on sunscreen.

Jacques Delisle is believed to be the first Canadian judge tried for murder in Canadian legal history

Gordon Lightfoot, one of Canada's best known musicians, is to be inducted into the American Songwriters Hall of Fame Thursday night in New York.

A huge asteroid that astronomers compare to the size of a city block will reportedly zip by so close to Earth tonight that skygazers should be able to witness it live on the web.

Egypt's supreme court orders that parliament's lower house be dissolved following a ruling that last year's election was unconstitutional.

Despite experts' insistence that childhood vaccines are both safe and necessary for public health, some people still refuse to let their kids get shots. So who makes the call when parents with conflicting opinions split up?

Surrey RCMP are recommending charges of drug trafficking against the supervisor of a drug recovery house after they found $50,000 in cash and illicit drugs on the property, CTV News has learned.