NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2016

The Fulton County grand jury also indicted James Burns on charges of aggravated assault and making a false statement.

North Korea has executed a vice-premier and banished two other top officials to rural areas for re-education, South Korean officials said Wednesday.

Eight years later, more athletes continue to be stripped of medals from the Beijing Olympics because of positive doping tests.

Thousands of people pelted each other with tons of ripe tomatoes Wednesday, creating a red, mushy mess in the annual "Tomatina" street battle in eastern Spain.

After a string of arsons in 2014, RCMP are once again investigating unusual fire activity in Vernon, B.C. Since the spring, there have been at least 15 suspicious fires in the area.

Richie Leone's 30-yard field goal as time expired earned the B.C. Lions a 16-13 win over the Toronto Argonauts on a breezy Wednesday night.

A Richmond exporter has been fined $77,500 for possessing northern abalone, an endangered shellfish whose numbers have been in sharp decline since the 1970s.

A Russian radio telescope has received a "strong" signal from a nearby star. Is it a sign of intelligent life?

The earliest fossil evidence of life on Earth has been found in rocks 3.7 billion years old in Greenland.

For over 100 years, a Calgary business has been one of the places to go to buy all sorts of western wear, but now the company is hanging up its spurs in the midst of the economic downturn.

Lawyers get millions. Consumers get nothing. E-mail snooping continues unabated.

An independent scientist has confirmed that the paper by scientists at the Nasa Eagleworks Laboratories on achieving thrust using highly controversial space propulsion technology EmDrive has passed peer review, and will soon be published by the American I

Canadian surgeons are urging people to throw out wire-bristled barbecue brushes because none of them have figured out a surefire way of removing the wires when they get stuck in people's throats.

The European Commission's three-year investigation into Apple's sweetheart deal with Ireland has found it amounted to illegal state aid.

Canada's insatiable appetite for the Tragically Hip sent the rock band's entire discography back onto the Billboard charts last week, from their debut EP in the late 1980s to their latest, Man Machine Poem.

Scientists have found evidence to support what many dog owners have long believed: man's best friend really does understand some of what we're saying.

In his Edmonton living room, Najim Altameemi shakes hands with a honey farmer to complete the sale of bins full of honey. It's part of his business plan to bridge the gap between local honey producers and the growing communities from Syria and Iraq who ap

All incidents come from the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner's annual report, which details all substantiated allegations against officers that require further investigation

A Tory MLA says Jason Kenney doesn't meet the standards laid out by the Progressive Conservative party for leadership candidates and could face disqualification from the race.

Increasing Islamic State influence in country likely to further destabilize region, experts predict

Islamic State and its followers have increasingly turned to private messaging app Telegram

A Conservative member of Parliament is raising ethical concerns about the Liberal government's new special envoy for the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

Attackers ram a car through the gates of a Brussels crime laboratory before starting a fire to try and destroy forensic evidence, prosecutors say.

Yikes. Trouble is brewing in the Great White North.

A giant poster brought into a Toronto FC game against the Montreal Impact Saturday night has left fans of both teams crying foul on Twitter. At least one fan says she plans to file an official complaint.

The FBI is urging U.S. election officials to increase computer security after it uncovered evidence that hackers have targeted two state election databases in recent weeks, according to a confidential advisory.

As the Alberta economy sinks, the federal government has been trying to gauge the risk to the rest of Canada.

Last week, an elderly man with a walker begged employees at a Saskatoon Co-op gas station to use the building's washroom. He was denied access.

Germany expects up to 300,000 migrants to arrive in the country this year, the head of Germany's Federal Office for Migration and Refugees says.

There are signs that Islamists are trying to join the German armed forces to get military training, and there is a risk they might use that training to carry out attacks in Germany or abroad, a German newspaper cited a draft document as saying.

The federal government ran a $995-million deficit over the first quarter of the fiscal year, an outcome Ottawa says is roughly in line with projections in the March budget

Paramedics rushed to the scene but they could not save 17-year-old Julio Macias Gonzalez

The San Francisco Go Topless day celebrants may not realize the strange bedfellows they're united with in promoting the freedom to have a bare chest. It turns out the national protest event is the work of Rael, the spiritual leader of the Raelians.

The 49ers quarterback refused to stand for the national anthem Friday, saying, "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color."

Police in Bangladesh killed three suspected militants Saturday, including Tamim Chowdhury -- a Bangladeshi-born Canadian -- who they say was an alleged mastermind of a major attack on a cafe last month that left 20 people dead.

The U.S. Coast Guard says two stranded mariners were rescued Friday after crews saw their "SOS" in the sand on an uninhabited island in Micronesia.

Abedin, vice-chair of the Clinton campaign, was on the editorial board of the Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs when it published the claim about Bill Clinton using 1998 airstrikes as a distraction.

Leon Swanson and David Tait Jr. are 41 years old and have just learned they're not exactly who they thought they were.

A wooden arch baring the words 'The Last Steps' was unveiled today on the Halifax waterfront near where tens of thousands of Canadian soldiers set off to fight in the First World War, never to return to return home.

Canada will commit roughly half a billion dollars towards UN peace support operations over the next few years, a commitment that includes hundreds of troops and police officers. The announcement is being made at an air base in Bagotville, Que.

Three Ottawa men who conspired to commit terrorism have pleaded guilty and have been sentenced in Ontario Superior Court, with the alleged ringleader, Ashton Larmond, facing the stiffest penalty.

A young fishing guide based in Lillooet is enjoying some extra attention after he and some friends reeled in a huge white sturgeon known as Pig Nose this week.

A botched attempt to break into the iPhone of an Arab activist using hitherto unknown espionage software has triggered a global upgrade of Apple's mobile operating system, researchers said Thursday.

Sam Fyith was sitting in his living room when he heard the woman's screams coming from the street outside.

Alberta Health Services has reached an agreement in principle with Dynalife that would see the company continue to provide lab testing services in Edmonton and northern Alberta.

A new report concludes far fewer Fort McMurray residents would have lost their homes in the May wildfire if they had taken precautionary measures.

Former prime minister Stephen Harper will resign today as a member of Parliament.

"I've been 'sentenced to die' by @DrEricHoskins using a corrupt, RIGGED political system engineered to NOT pay for out-of-country health care," he said in one tweet. "Rigged out-of-country funding program will pay to remove my penis but not my cancer t

Three people are dead, all of whom had apparent crossbow injuries, in the Scarborough region of Toronto on Thursday afternoon.

Criminal Complaint Details Brutal Slaying of New Mexico Girl

A Canadian Jewish student issued a warning Tuesday to incoming pro-Israel freshmen about the harsh reality they will likely face on campus for their religious and political identities.

A school district outside Amarillo recently installed signs warning people that its staff is armed

"It's very terrifying here," American ISIS hostage says in the video.

A couple from British Columbia who have been married for 62 years are being forced to live apart after because of a shortage of spaces in care homes in the town of Surrey.

A Vermont facility embraces transparency in a way that's truly rare for the industry. Will it catch on?

The Nunavut Impact Review Board is recommending the federal government approve a plan to bring a luxury cruise ship through Nunavut waters without a full environmental review, which has one Arctic researcher on edge.

The crazed couple are leading police on a manhunt spanning at least three states.

A vague message on an Alberta billboard promotes a conspiracy theory about governments secretly spraying chemicals from the sky to sterilize people.

A new independent resource assessment suggests the Orphan Basin could hold twice the oil of the Flemish Pass.

By next year, the same garbage that Edmontonians place curbside should be converted into a component of the gasoline they use to fuel their cars.

The flight manifest for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Christmas vacation to the Caribbean, released to the Conservatives through an access to information request, was redacted to leave off the names of family members and a nanny who travelled on the gov

The Communications Security Establishment intercepted 342 private communications in 2014-15, compared to just 13 for the previous year, for reasons they won�t explain

Photos of a woman being surrounded by police and apparently ordered to remove her body-covering swimwear by police on a beach in Nice, France have surfaced online as several French municipalities move to ban so-called burkinis.

The RCMP is now letting officers wear hijabs as part of their uniform, a spokesman for Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale confirmed Wednesday.

Authorities pleaded for the public's help Wednesday as they continued to search for two people wanted in connection with the kidnapping of three young children whose mother was found dead on a Gorman-area road recently.

The American University of Afghanistan in the capital Kabul is under attack according to witnesses, with gunfire and explosions heard coming from inside the campus.

Up close and personal with a new core of very old Antarctic ice.

Paramedic says palliative care patients used to 'just beg' her to treat them at home, and now she can.

The Calgary Zoo hopes a new pilot project will turn the weakest links of an endangered species into love machines.

A powerful earthquake has rocked Italy overnight killing at least 20 people and burying many more as they slept. (pictured, the town of Amatrice).

A wind turbine in Cape Breton has collapsed while crews performed routine maintenance. No one was injured and staff were able to evacuate the site before the 80-metre turbine fell.

The Latest: Man Arrested in Killings Blames Rampage on Drugs

The federal environment department paid a French photojournalist $6,662 to take pictures of its minister, Catherine McKenna, and her staff during the COP21 conference on climate change in Paris last year.

Ben Eisen and Steve Lafleur: Alberta is running bigger deficits than Ontario did in the worst years of its debt binge

The mayor of Thorold says the junior and minor hockey teams that sport offensive logos and team names must change them by next June.

A quick-thinking seal hitched a ride on a whale-watching boat to escape the pod of hungry orcas trying to hunt him off the B.C. coast.

A woman is reportedly suing Toronto Blue Jays slugger Edwin Encarnacion for battery after he allegedly knowingly gave her sexually transmitted diseases, according to media reports.

Members of Canada's Olympic team, led by breakout swim star Penny Oleksiak, stepped through the arrivals area at Toronto's Pearson airport this morning in a triumphant return after an impressive 22-medal performance in Rio de Janeiro.

Initiated by President Rodrigo Duterte, the death toll has spiked since he took office. Nightly police raids have been condemned by international human rights advocates as out of control. They are calling on the government to end the drug raids and invest

A Coon Rapids man is now charged with the murder, sexual assault and kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl who was the daughter of a friend and co-worker.

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Toronto police are seeking four men as witnesses after a video emerged that appears to show a taxi running a food-delivery service cyclist off the road.

Canada's federal prison watchdog is investigating the death of a Cape Breton man who was pepper-sprayed repeatedly by prison guards, describing it as a "tragedy."

Alberta Serious Incident Response Team initially recommended the officer not be charged in the March, 2015, death of Anthony Heffernan

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the German government plans to tell citizens to stockpile food and water in case of an attack or catastrophe, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung newspaper reported on Sunday.

The attacker lunged at passengers as they were getting off a bus in the Uccle area of the Belgian capital this afternoon.

'I can�t believe I live in Canada and this is happening'

An estimated 1,500 Americans illegally and unexpectedly washed up in Canada late Sunday after strong winds blew them across the St. Clair River near Sarnia, Ont.

The clip, called Driving through Detroit at night, was filmed by a woman who was a passenger in a car going around the Motor City and was posted to Twitter at the weekend.

Europol has warned ISIS has been using Greek refugee camps to distribute fake passports and other identity documents to potential terrorists planning attacks in Western Europe.

The Canadian icebreaker ship Louis S. St-Laurent is mapping the seafloor near the North Pole this weekend, as Canada prepares to stake a claim to territory beyond the 200-mile nautical limit in Arctic waters.

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman says Russia will stop using Iranian air base for Syria airstrikes for the time being. The announcement comes after Iran's defence minister chastised Russia, saying Moscow's announcement on using Iranian bases for attacks

A Canadian soldier stationed in London pleaded guilty to making and possessing child pornography in a court appearance Friday. Jason Moore was a member of the military police working in the Canadian High Commission in England until his arrest in April

Star swimmer Penny Oleksiak will carry the Canadian flag into Maracana Stadium for tonight's Summer Games closing ceremony in Rio.

Green party deputy leader Daniel Green says it will be a 'great blow' if Elizabeth May decides to step away from her position as leader.

Carly Minish, a 25-year-old chef from the small town Swan River, Man., is selling her gourmet mustards across the country after her recipes proved to be a succulent success.

A Saskatchewan reeve says the future of a councillor who posted an online comment about the shooting death of an aboriginal man will be a topic at an upcoming meeting.

Conor McGregor got his revenge. Now he wants a third fight on his terms.

Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into southern Israel on Sunday, prompting the Israeli military to respond with airstrikes and tank fire on targets inside Gaza. No injuries were reported on either side.

Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened to quit the UN after the organisation called for an end to the killings by his war on drugs.