NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2012

A show at a private girls' high school in Sherbooke, Que., went strangely awry when a young hypnotist left several students in mass hypnosis limbo and he had to call in his mentor to snap them out of it.

Instruments measuring the flow and height of the Mississippi River find that it ran backward for 24 hours, driven by the storm surge of Hurricane Isaac.

When they encounter a fallen bird, western scrub jays call out and gather around the body, scientists discover.

The US government ends its protection of gray wolves in Wyoming, allowing the western state to shoot wolves on sight in most areas.

Police in southeast Michigan say a man called to complain that a woman he had agreed to pay for sex unexpectedly increased the price.

Brandon Whitaker scored his third touchdown of the game late in the fourth quarter and Anthony Calvillo threw over 300 yards for a CFL-record eighth straight game as the Montreal Alouettes defeated the B.C. Lions 30-25 on Friday night.

Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a Denisovan, an ancient human, from a tiny finger bone fragment from a young girl who lived between 74,000 and 82,000 years ago.

When the Canadian Coast Guard takes part in the search for the lost ships of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition, its efforts will be only one part of its multi-faceted annual mission to the Arctic.

Kuwait's state-owned petroleum company may be closing in on a $4-billion joint venture with Athabasca Oil Corp. in Alberta's oil patch.

Some children's shoes found on a Victoria beach containing what police described as unidentified bone and a 'meat-like' material were likely a hoax, police now say.

An Alberta judge has sentenced a man to five years in prison for slashing his infant son on the throat and abdomen with a butcher knife, saying the father's violent actions were spawned by "anger, rage and jealousy" toward his wife.

The publisher of an insider account of the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden said Friday it will begin public sales next week despite a Pentagon warning of possible legal action against the book's author and unspecified associates.

The death earlier this year in Thailand of two sisters from Quebec was caused by caused by drinking a cocktail that includes the insecticide DEET, an autopsy concluded.

Three children's shoes containing what appear to be flesh and bones have been found on a beach near Victoria, CBC News has learned.

It was scooped up from the sea after 98 years, and now officials say a message in a bottle discovered in Scotland has set a world record.

The Royal Bank says profits increased by a massive 73 per cent in the third quarter of 2012 and earnings hit $2.24 billion. The news comes as TD Canada Trust and CIBC also reported much higher earnings.

The rustic tent cabins of Yosemite National Park in California have become the scene of a public health crisis after two visitors died from a rodent-borne disease following overnight stays.

Twin typhoons are renewing fears of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, where poor drainage and crumbling infrastructure can turn a routine rainstorm into a catastrophic flood.

Federal officials have expanded a recall of mangoes grown in Mexico because they could be contaminated with salmonella.

The pending opening of a hunting outlet in a mall east of Ottawa has parents upset because the store is moving in two doors away from their daycare.

Astronomers analyzing data from the Kepler space telescope have found a new planetary system that has at least two planets orbiting a pair of stars, only the fifth example of such a system to have been spotted in the region of our galaxy being monitored b

A woman from Longueuil, Que., is in a medically induced coma with serious burns to her upper body after she was attacked with acid during a conjugal fight on Sunday.

A Red Deer area man says a string of bad luck on a camping trip last month led to bullet holes in his trailer and an unlikely lightning strike.

An expert in coastline erosion says the island of Newfoundland is sinking by a rate of about 3.5 millimetres a year.

President Barack Obama was the target of an assassination plot by US troops (AP)

Paul Katz was appalled after being forced to send his 1669 Andrea Guarneri cello to the baggage compartment on a WestJet flight

The former Global BC reporter who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a minor is expected to be sentenced Tuesday in Surrey provincial court.

40-year-old Scarborough man Jiang Chunqi was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Liu Guanghua

The U.S. has long viewed the Haqqani network as one of the biggest threats to U.S. and NATO forces

Officials say area where slaughter took place is completely in Taliban control

Ontario police say four young people from the greater Toronto area have died in a plane crash in the province's southwest.

All nine people injured during a dramatic confrontation between police and a gunman outside the Empire State Building were wounded by gunfire from the two officers, police said Saturday, citing ballistics evidence.

Dozens of demonstrators, elected officials and union members rallied outside the Kitsilano Coast Guard base on Saturday, urging the federal government once again to reverse its decision to shut down the base.

Kevin Glenn passed for two touchdowns as the Calgary Stampeders handed the Saskatchewan Roughriders their fifth straight loss with a 17-10 victory on Saturday afternoon at Mosaic Stadium in Regina.

A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery and unleashed a ferocious fire Saturday, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80 others in the deadliest disaster in memory for the country's key oil industry.

A US court orders Samsung to pay Apple $1.05bn in damages after a patent dispute, and rejects claims Apple breached its rival's technologies.

Falling output from the eurozone's manufacturing and services sectors suggest the region is heading for another recession, analysts say.

Kicker Paul McCallum hit a 41-yard field goal on the last play of the game as the B.C. Lions fended off a late Winnipeg rally on Friday for a 20-17 win over the Blue Bombers.

BC Ferries has turned its finances around with a much better performance in the first quarter of this year compared to 2011.

Greenpeace activists, a Canadian among them, were first offered hot soup, then showered with blasts of cold water and pieces of metal after they stormed a floating Russia oil platform.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper watched a military training exercise in Hudson Bay today that simulated the boarding of an ecotourism boat carrying migrants attempting to enter Canada illegally.

The wife of Manitoba Liberal Senator Rod Zimmer has been charged for disrupting a flight between Ottawa and Saskatoon.

A Vancouver man has been arrested for torturing a kitten, after cellphone video was discovered, the cellphone still contained a video lasting more than 50 minutes of a helpless kitten being violently abused and tortured

A visually impaired woman died after she slipped and fell off the platform at the University LRT station in Edmonton on Wednesday afternoon, according to her family.

The governing Liberals say they're recalling the legislature to introduce a bill that would impose a two-year contract on Ontario's teachers.

A recently married woman who wanted to be photographed one more time in her wedding dress was killed during the photo shoot Friday, after she was swept away in a Quebec river.

The Conservative government has quietly given Canada's national police force and the federal border agency the authority to use and share information that was likely extracted through torture.

Researchers propose a mechanism that may cause the largest tsunami - a "popping up" of wedges of sediment, even from comparatively small earthquakes.

Nineteen people were shot overnight in Chicago - more than a dozen of them in just half an hour - as the US city's gun violence epidemic continues.

From Yahoo! News Canada: OSLO (Reuters) - Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was jailed for a maximum term on Friday when judges declared him sane enough to answer for the murder of 77 people last year, drawing a smirk of triumph from the self-s

With over one million observations since it launch on April 24, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has been a endless source for insane wonders, unprecedented scenes and humbling experiences. However, many of its most amazing images have never been seen bef

New York City officials say at least four people have been shot outside the Empire State Building and that the gunman is dead.

Due to a lack of resources, Canadian border agents have been told to stop looking for illegal drugs

The Nova Scotia government says workers are beginning to shift the Bluenose II into a position for its relaunch on the Lunenburg waterfront, another step towards its return to the water.

A Dartmouth man, who is visually impaired, says he was turned away from an employment centre on Thursday because staff would not allow his service dog, Moe, into the building.

The NHL and the NHL Players' Association met Thursday in Toronto for a 90-minute collective bargaining session, after which commissioner Gary Bettman said the sides are still far apart on fundamental economic issues.

An animal trapped on Newfoundland's Baie Verte Peninsula has been proven to be a wolf, government officials revealed Thursday.

Science and sovereignty will be key priorities at Canada's new Arctic research centre in Nunavut, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says.

The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency will ban Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his seven Tour de France titles after the cyclist dropped any further challenges to USADA's allegations that he took performance-enhancing drugs to win cycling's premier event

A devout Spanish woman is being roundly criticized for her attempt to restore a 19th century fresco

New corporate logo and typeface just in time for fall launch of Windows 8

The Maps team has started working with residents like Chris Kalluk to build what it hopes will be the most comprehensive map of the region to date.

A report by the Conference Board of Canada says economic and demographic trends suggest the country could support three new NHL teams, major league baseball in Montreal, an NBA franchise in Vancouver and as many as three new Major League Soccer teams.

EXCLUSIVE: CBC News is on board as Parks Canada launches the biggest expedition yet to find the missing ships from Sir John Franklin's doomed 1845 effort to discover the Northwest Passage.

Researchers have identified a mysterious new disease that has left scores of people in Asia and some in the United States with AIDS-like symptoms even though they are not infected with HIV.

Despite worrying economic signs globally and near-constant warnings from financial leaders at home, Canadians are racking up higher-than-ever debt levels, according to a new report from credit bureau TransUnion.

An outbreak of infected tattoos has led to an unlikely source: the ink. With the growing popularity of tattoos, health officials say they are seeing more cases of a nasty skin infection caused by a common bacteria traced to the ink. In the largest outbrea

Police in Langley, B.C. have pre-emptively shut down an online party invitation that was sent to more than 12,000 people and had the potential to explode into a massive event.

John Lennon's killer has been denied release from prison in his seventh appearance before a parole board. The New York Department of Corrections says Mark David Chapman was denied parole after a hearing Wednesday.

Foxconn, whose clients also include Dell Inc., Sony Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co, agreed to slash overtime, improve safety, hire new workers and upgrade dormitories

Men transmitted far more new gene mutations to children than women, research suggests

A curious incident of a deceased giraffe has reopened the question of whether animals mourn their dead.

A well-known biologist in Newfoundland and Labrador says he hasn't seen anything like it in his 30-years as a scientist: gannets who should be nesting at Cape St. Mary's have abandoned their chicks for cooler waters.

Tourists from around the world have been flocking to Monterey Bay to go whale-watching. Longtime observers say they've seen a sharp increase in endangered blue and humpback whales feeding near California shores, where they spend the spring and summer befo

The day he was alleged to have killed a wounded, unarmed Taliban fighter, Capt. Robert Semrau watched in dismay as stoned Afghan soldiers passed around "King Kong" marijuana joints and carried their rifles like baseball bats.

Tony Nicklinson, a man with locked-in syndrome who fought for the right for doctors to legally end his life, has died after refusing food since last week.

Celebrity gossip site TMZ.com published two pictures of the 27-year-old royal cavorting with what they called a mystery woman in a VIP suite

What could go wrong?

Some Winnipeg Blue Bombers fans say they are furious with how the team is implementing a new security policy, in which snacks and drinks are being confiscated at home games.

A year after his death Canadians are still in the dark about what actually killed Jack Layton, who mere weeks before dying had asked voters to let him lead Canada.

Four days after helping save a 16-year-old girl from drowning off the coast of Wales, the prince swooped in to rescue an injured Canadian tourist in North Wales.

Anyone wanting to run for public office in a Quebec led by Pauline Marois will have to prove they can speak French first, the Parti Quebecois leader said as she announced her latest language-related campaign promise Tuesday.

Avril Lavigne and Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger's relationship has been so quiet that few even knew they were dating. Now, after a six-month courtship, the Canadian rockers are engaged to be married.

Two young professors are being honoured by MIT. The recognition shows Canadians can compete with the best and brightest

High-resolution video taken in July is encouraging, exploration group says

It took Annaleise Carr nearly 27 hours fighting high waves, cold current and leg cramps to swim 52.5-kilometre Marilyn Bell route from mouth of Niagara River to Toronto park

British director Tony Scott died Sunday after jumping from a bridge in San Pedro, an official with the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office told CNN.

A seven-year-old boy who was attacked by a cougar at a campsite on Vancouver Island is recovering in hospital.

Officials from Port Metro Vancouver continue to investigate the source of a mysterious black sludge that washed ashore Friday afternoon.

When Canadian soldiers descended on Dieppe 70 years ago, they found themselves overwhelmed by a German army that was able to mobilize en masse to repel their attack. As soldiers began dying, a small group of Prairie soldiers embarked on a stealthy mission

A 14-year-old girl from Simcoe, Ont., is attempting this evening to become the youngest person to swim across Lake Ontario.

A Village of Osgoode resident was surprised enough to witness a large snapping turtle laying her eggs last June, but he was even more surprised because she was laying them right beside the town's Main Street.

Canada's veterans affairs minister says the people of France are grateful for the sacrifice Canadian soldiers made at Dieppe.

An extremely rare piece of Canada's war history is being restored in Nanton by a group of aircraft enthusiasts.

Wednesday marks the one-year anniversary of former NDP leader Jack Layton's death and a celebration of his message of love, hope and optimism is planned for Toronto, while other events will be held in cities across Canada.

Vancouver Canucks defenceman Kevin Bieksa joined fellow NHL players Tanner Glass, Darcy Hordichuk, and Kris Versteeg to honour Rick Rypien in a charity hockey game Thursday night at the Coleman Sports Complex in Crowsnest Pass, Alta.

Winger alleges conspiracy, oppression, breach of fiduciary obligation and unjust enrichment by McAlpine and his family

As the 70th anniversary of the Dieppe raid approaches, The Globe and Mail invited readers to share their connections to this defining moment in Canadian history.

In this second part of our 3-part Vancity Buzz Special Exclusive Series, we focus on the competition sport venues required to host the Summer Olympic Games here in Metro Vancouver and Victoria.

Ex-world chess champion Garry Kasparov was among several people arrested outside the court in Moscow, where three members of Pussy Riot were found guilty of hooliganism.

AUSTRALIAN diplomats have no doubt the United States is intent on pursuing Julian Assange, Foreign Affairs and Trade Department documents obtained by the Herald show. This is at odds with comments by the Foreign Affairs Minister, Bob Carr, who has dis

Kelowna could become the first city in British Columbia to fly a pro-life flag over city hall.

On the same day B.C. Finance Minister Kevin Falcon admonished the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for high wages and inflated management, the auto-insurer was given approval to boost its rates by 11.2 per cent.