NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2011

Expatriates of Libya were celebrating across B.C. Thursday as news broke that despot Moammar Gadhafi had been killed after more than four decades in power.

Viral video star Johnny Canuck is back with a sequel aimed at mending the broken hearts of disappointed Vancouver hockey fans.

Astronomers have captured the first direct image of a planet being born.

The United States may have put the first man on the moon, but Russian scientists and space explorers are now gazing at a new goal -- setting up a colony on the moon.

Crown prosecutors began framing the deaths of three teenage girls and a relative as an "honour killing" in an Ontario courtroom on Thursday, more than two years after the victims were found submerged in the Rideau Canal near Kingston, Ont.

Spurred by the suicide of an Ottawa teen, who was bullied because he was gay, a group of Conservative politicians has made a video to tell kids it gets better.

Canada's combat mission in Libya will end in the next two weeks. The news comes on the day that ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi was killed.

China's Foreign Ministry defended the government's censoring of the Internet on Thursday, saying it meets international norms, as the U.S. questions whether the practices amount to a trade barrier.

An unusual observation from a large outbreak of measles in Quebec may raise some alarm among those who attend the the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America this weekend.

The Canadian and U.S. economies will be able to survive the growing uncertainty in the world and avoid a recession next year, says a new outlook from the Conference Board.

Pieces of a retired German satellite hurtling toward the atmosphere may crash to earth this weekend, the German Aerospace Center said Thursday.

The Christian ministry that predicted the rapture would take 200 million Christians up to heaven on May 21 now says a cataclysmic event will destroy the globe on Friday.

Tom, from Ilford, East London, had tried to get a custom-made slipper sent to him to fit his oversized foot - but what came back was 7ft long and size XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXL.

Efforts by the Occupy Baltimore protest group to evolve into a self-contained, self-governing community have erupted into controversy with the distribution of a pamphlet that victim advocates and

Ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, as his hometown of Sirte fell to revolutionary fighters, the country's prime minister says.

Justice officials have dropped a manslaughter case against a Winnipeg shopkeeper who allegedly killed a customer he caught stealing a can of luncheon meat.

Revolutionary fighters have captured deposed Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Libyan television said Wednesday, citing the Misrata Military Council.

The Coroners Service of British Columbia has identified two feet that washed ashore in Richmond in 2008, and say no foul play was involved.

The best work designed by Guy Cramer, founder of HyperStealth Biotechnology of Maple Ridge, is considered classified information

Hundreds of rioting youths smashed and looted stores in central Athens on Wednesday during a big anti-government rally against painful new austerity measures that erupted into violence.

Police say they are bumping up security measures around Thursday's highly controversial visit by former U.S. president George W. Bush.

Maple Leaf Foods is cutting 1,550 jobs as it closes plants and consolidates its distribution business as part of a three-year $560-million restructuring plan.

Jeff Foiles has been fined $14,500 for causing unnecessary pain and suffering to a duck

As the Earth warms, the change seen at high northern latitudes is greater than any other part of the planet a phenomenon known as Arctic amplification. A paper published this week in Nature Geoscience identifies another factor behind that amplification: a

Free trade will help the economy more than a Buy American rule, International Trade Minister Ed Fast told the U.S. government Tuesday.

Flashing highway signs are warning motorists to stay in their vehicles in rural eastern Ohio, where police have killed dozens of animals that escaped from a wild-animal preserve.

A South Florida woman got a shock when she opened a recent cellphone bill: she owed $201,000.

As tempting as it may be to imagine otherwise, some of the gadgets you may rely on most right now will likely suffer the same fate and be killed off or made obsolete by the end of this decad

Despite the efforts of a mediator, maintenance and security workers at BC Place Stadium have moved to strike.

Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested for the 1963 assassination of then-U.S. president John F Kennedy, but just two days later he was shot dead. Now, the woman who claims to have been Oswald's mistress says she has proof he didn't do it.

Starting today, Canadians in southeastern Nova Scotia may see Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft flying overhead as they practice North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercept and identification proced

The two winners of federal shipbuilding jackpots worth a combined $33 billion are expected to be announced on Wednesday.

Wild sockeye salmon from B.C.'s Rivers Inlet have tested positive for a potentially devastating virus that has never before been found in the North Pacific.

In the wake of Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon's death on Sunday, auto racing fans and drivers are wondering what can be done to improve safety in the risky sport.

A review is underway at a Niagara Falls hospital after an elderly patient fell at the facility and was told to call an ambulance for help.

Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was reunited with his father Tuesday, freed by militants in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

The Vancouver Canucks finally got their power play clicking in their last game. The return of Ryan Kesler could help the club's special teams make even greater improvements.

Official proposed countries share information on high-risk travellers and cargo

The College of Physicians and Surgeons says it is investigating a doctor who operates a private Ottawa clinic that might have exposed almost 7,000 patients to hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV.

Ontario justices Moldaver and Karakatsanis are his third and fourth selections, with three more retirements on way by 2015

A 21-year-old man awaiting trial for the death of a blind B.C. teenager is now facing an additional three charges of first-degree murder, Prince George RCMP announced Monday.

The grainy video of how a toddler named Yueyue ended up on the verge of death is almost too horrifying to watch, but millions of Chinese have stared at it in shock over the past few days.

The short video of a wrecked Ford F150 driving off a pile of rubble in Dauphin has become a social media hit.

A building that's been part of the Calgary landscape for nearly 100 years is no longer standing.

Four teenagers were killed late Saturday night in a single-vehicle rollover in southwest Alberta.

After being the go-to receiver for the past three seasons in Hamilton and Toronto, Arland Bruce had to adjust to a diminished role when he was traded to the B.C. Lions in August.

Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon died Sunday in a fiery 15-car wreck at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when his car flew over another on Lap 13 and smashed into the wall just outside turn 2.

The mystery of the death of a newborn baby found in the Fraser River on Tuesday may not be solved for weeks, authorities in British Columbia suggest.

A new survey has turned up more than two dozen failed stars, including one lightweight only about six times the mass of Jupiter.

Sami Salo scored two goals as the Vancouver Canucks overcame a hat trick from Edmonton Oiler rookie sensation Ryan Nugent-Hopkins to win 4-3 on Saturday.

The SS Keewatin, the last surviving Canadian Pacific steamship in the world, is coming home to Canada, more than 100 years after it was launched in 1907 at the height of the Edwardian era.

The National Energy Board has granted a 20-year licence to export liquid natural gas to KM LNG, the consortium with plans to build a liquid natural gas terminal at Kitimat, marking another step toward the construction of a $4.5 billion LNG terminal on B.C

A government agency responsible for tracking financial transactions to ensure they aren't used for illicit purposes has identified animal rights activists and "environmental extremists" as terrorist groups on a website rife with references to al-Qaida.

They may be in the name of breast cancer awareness, but students at a middle school in B.C.'s Interior are being told to leave their "I Love Boobies" bracelets at home.

Banning fighting from hockey won't stop some players from suffering depression, says former NHL player Sheldon Kennedy. "Depression is a huge societal issue," Kennedy said Thursday at the Canadian Psychiatric Association conference. "It's not just figh

First Nations in British Columbia are taking over their own health system in a first-of-its-kind partnership between aboriginals, and the federal and provincial governments.

A seven-year-old Abbotsford boy and his family are traumatized after the child was savagely bitten on the lip by another youth in a disturbing attack in a Costco store washroom on Saturday.

A newly published blueprint for doubling the global food supply includes a key suggestion about how everyone can contribute to this increasingly pressing ambition: eat less meat.

A U.S. consumer group has filed complaints against two of the largest American automakers over advertising claims that their vehicles are made in the United States, even though they're assembled in Canada

A cargo ship that has already spilled hundreds of tons of oil stayed perched on a New Zealand reef on Thursday while salvage crews debated whether the remaining fuel can be pumped from the vessel before it breaks up.

Marijuana activists petitioning for B.C.'s Prince of Pot, Marc Emery, to be pardoned from U.S. prison are expecting a formal response from American President Barack Obama soon.

David Cameron has begun the process of trying to reform outdated and controversial Royal succession laws that favour males over their older sisters as heirs to the throne. Cameron has written to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the heads of 14 other Com

Authorities say two passenger trains collided at the Amtrak station in Oakland, Calif., and local media report as many as 18 people are injured.

Homicide detectives in British Columbia are looking for the mother of a baby who was found dead inside a log boom on the Fraser River south of Vancouver Tuesday.

TORONTO - A Canadian border alert has been issued to prevent hard-core U.S. protesters from crossing the border to take part in marches and an occupation of the country's financial centres on Saturday.

Edmonton's police chief says he needs more officers on the street to battle a homicide rate that has the grisly distinction of being the nation's worst.

Conservation officers have rescued two bears found in a dumpster in Coquitlam, B.C., but say the mother will have to be killed because she has become too habituated to garbage.

Claude Giroux, Chris Pronger and the rest of the Flyers gave their fans a needed morale boost, remaining undefeated with a 5-4 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night.

Amnesty International wants the federal government to arrest former U.S. president George W. Bush when he visits British Columbia next week.

The DNA of the Black Death bacterium has been sequenced, a development that could allow researchers to track how it evolved to become such a killer.

The acquisition of Ilya Bryzgalov appears to have solved the Philadelphia Flyers' goaltending issues of last season. Bryzgalov, though, may face his toughest test yet from the Vancouver Canucks' Daniel and Henrik Sedin.

The body of an infant was discovered Tuesday night by a tugboat crew working on the Fraser River south of Vancouver, according to police.

A second candlelight vigil will be held Tuesday night to honour a teenaged Good Samaritan who was murdered trying to break up a fight this weekend.

A U.S. weather website is predicting B.C. could experience one of the coldest, harshest winters in decades.

Newfoundland and Labrador's governing Tories were given a third consecutive majority on Tuesday night while the Liberals edged the upstart NDP to remain the Official Opposition.

Three former NHLers who were recently criticized by Don Cherry are still upset and say they are considering taking further action after he failed to offer an adequate apology.

A deer farmer in New Brunswick has apparently been killed by an animal in his herd, police say.

The collapse of a platform during a shoot for a zombie movie in west Toronto has injured 17 people, police say.

A construction worker died and rescue crews managed to free another after a piece of heavy equipment collapsed at York University in Toronto.

Western leaders have condemned the jailing of former Ukraine Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Tymoshenko was jailed for seven years for acting beyond her powers in sealing a gas deal with Russia in 2009.

Organizers are planning a march on Tuesday that will visit the homes of JP Morgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire David Koch, hedge fund honcho John Paulson, Howard Milstein, and News Corp (NWSA, Fortune 500) CEO Rupert Murdoch.

CALGARY -- After she narrowly missed being hit by a bullet whizzing by her head, Thanksgiving has a whole new meaning for 17-year-old Alicia Taylor.

CALGARY -- China's state-owned oil firm Sinopec has made a multibillion-dollar bid to increase its Canadian holdings.

The Edmonton Eskimos don't mind winning an ugly game now and then, especially when it gets them into the post-season.

The American-financed company behind a controversial proposal to mine Ontario limestone says it planned, from the onset, to turn prime farmland into a quarry.

An internationally recognized "Important Bird Area" is being threatened by an Ontario wind power development, a Canadian conservation group alleges.

Already down a goal to the Blue Jackets in the third period, the Vancouver Canucks badly needed a stop on a penalty shot from goaltender Cory Schneider.

The Montreal Alouettes quarterback broke Damon Allen's all-time CFL record of 72,381 passing yards with a 50-yard TD pass to Jamel Richardson on the final play of the third quarter against the Toronto Argonauts.

WARSAW - A 23-year-old student who is running for parliament in Poland has ended up in hot water with her party over a vote-seeking Internet striptease.

Despite all its bluster about saving money and honouring Canada's armed forces, the Conservative federal government is poised to melt down millions of dollars worth of military memorabilia.

The Canadian army wants to cut 250 civilian staff, the first move of wider-scale reductions of thousands of public servants at the Defence Department, according to documents

Clean water advocates worry that pollutants could stream into the Great Lakes if a proposal to treat chemical wastewater at a New York state sewage plant is approved.

The headmaster of King's-Edgehill School has won the 13th annual Pumpkin Regatta in Windsor, Nova Scotia.

A gunman fired several shots at police officers in southwest Calgary before fleeing and later shooting himself.

A 32-year-old Quebec man is dead after his car smashed into a pickup truck carrying his ex-wife, their two children and his former in-laws.

A Surrey, B.C., teenager who was stabbed on a bus early Saturday morning has died in hospital of his injuries.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled one of the two commemorative coins the Royal Canadian Mint is producing to mark the Winnipeg Jets' return to the NHL.

Winnipeg hockey fans are celebrating the return of a hometown NHL team, as the Jets prepare for their home opening game.

B.C. Lions placekicker Paul McCallum has set a Canadian Football League record.

The Dalai Lama has criticised China via a live video link in South Africa, after he cancelled a trip to celebrate Archbishop Desmond Tutu's birthday.