NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2013

Four Canadian members of the Hells Angels have been arrested in northwest Spain for allegedly smuggling 500 kilograms of cocaine into the country with the aim of distributing it, Spain's Interior Ministry says.

It may not time travel, but the DeLorean sports car is finding its way into the future.

Police in Langley are asking for the public's help to track down a man suspected of breaking into the home of two senior citizens earlier this week.

Thousands of people, many wearing religious headgear, march through downtown Montreal to denounce Quebec's proposed charter of values, which would bar public employees from wearing overt religious symbols in schools, hospitals and elsewhere in their line

Tiger-Cat quarterback Henry Burris achieved a career 50,000 passing yards but Bo Levi Mitchell's 15-yard touchdown pass to Marquay McDaniel late in the fourth quarter lifted the Calgary Stampeders to a 26-22 win over Hamilton on Friday.

Spain's public debt reached a record high of 942.8bn euros in June, the country's central bank says.

A judge has found an Edmonton mother who drowned her seven-year-old son in the family bathtub not criminally responsible in the boy's death.

New Vancouver Canucks coach John Tortorella doesn't want his players to get too social on Twitter. Tortorella wants his players to limit their Twitter use because he says the social media site is nothing but trouble.

A man in his 80s has died as a result of West Nile virus in Manitoba.

The township of Stirling-Rawdon will host Kraft Hockeyville celebrations on Saturday that feature a NHL pre-season game at Yardmen Arena in Belleville, Ont., between the Washington Capitals and Winnipeg Jets (CBC, CBCSports.ca, 7 p.m. ET).

NASA has been sending mixed messages about whether the Voyager space probe has become the first man-made object to leave the solar system. And this isn't the first time we've heard that news. Confused? Read on.

Highlights of the new Guinness World Records Skateboarding goats! Giant motorcycles!

The work of a Canadian anthropologist who studied how a shrew would look after being eaten, digested and defecated by a human has been honoured with an Ig Nobel prize, along with research on penis amputations and how drunkenness affects perceptions of att

Four members of the Canadian military have been charged with drug-related offences following an investigation by the Force's National Investigation Service.

More than 40 years after he was abducted from a fishing boat and taken to North Korea, a South Korean fisherman has escaped, returning to his native country.

Jonathan Trappe, a balloonist who had been attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean, is safe after being forced to land in a remote area on Newfoundland's west coast.

As Prime Minister Stephen Harper got his proclamation to shutter Parliament until Oct. 16, ministers were preparing to fan out across the land to convince Canadians the government is still hard at work. Think of it as the start of the next election campai

Parks Canada is unveiling a new pavilion Friday in Banff that hopes to shed light on internment camps built across Canada during the First World War.

What does it take to be among the top one per cent of all income earners in Canada? We dug deep into the data from Statistics Canada's latest National Household Survey to find out more about just who these people are.

Security forces put down an attack by Taliban insurgents on the US consulate in the Afghan city of Herat, which left several dead and 17 injured.

Ray Dolby, an American inventor and audio pioneer who founded Dolby Laboratories, has died at the age of 80.

Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America, has measured 83ft (25.29m) shorter than previously thought, according to a new survey.

Red Deer police continue to search for a man who shot a clerk in the face late Wednesday night at the West Park Fas Gas. The male clerk is said to be in critical but stable condition after being transported to a Calgary hospital.

The Canadian women's hockey team will face the United States in a six-game series as preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

A six-year-old girl raised to think of herself and her little brother as "pigs" -- they were treated as such -- thought she might die after the emaciated boy succumbed to starvation at the hands of his grandparents.

Canadian air force engineers and flight-certification officials are grappling with serious concerns related to the electronics aboard the CH-148 Cyclone helicopters that are supposed to replace the geriatric Sea Kings.

To help pave the way for the return of Ottawa, the Blue Bombers will move to the West Division of the CFL in 2014, the league announced today.

Finance department officials came up with three highly scripted, colour-coded scenarios to ensure a successful linkup with orbiting astronaut Chris Hadfield to introduce Canada's space-age polymer bank notes last April, according to documents obtained und

A B.C. marine scientist, who has found dozens of dead starfish in Vancouver waters, is hoping international experts can help figure out what's killing the invertebrates.

A Quebec waitress believes her intervention to prevent a drunken customer from getting behind the wheel made her lose her job at a Montreal-area restaurant.

A lockdown that began at two north-end Halifax schools after a gunman was reported in the neighbourhood has been lifted.

A friendly deer that made international headlines after it was filmed nuzzling a boy in Coldstream, B.C. has been euthanized by conservation officers.

Two top Islamist militants, from the US and UK, have been killed in Somalia after falling out with al-Shabab, witnesses say.

Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young had some harsh words for Alberta's oilsands, saying Fort McMurray 'looks like Hiroshima.'

Veterans Affairs Canada staff were told to hold off on mailing the Bomber Command bars to about 1,500 elderly veterans as Minister Julian Fantino made his way across the country, presenting the awards at photo-ops.

A Toronto police officer has been found guilty of assault with a weapon against a protester at the city's G20 summit three years ago. The Crown had argued that Constable Babak Andalib-Goortani was overwhelmed by the chaos and "lashed out" at protester A

The Vancouver Canucks arrived for training camp Wednesday with high expectations following two first-round playoff exits. Fiery new coach John Tortorella is likely to be more demanding than laid-back predecessor Alain Vigneault, the winningest coach in te

NHL clubs haven't officially hit the ice for game action, but CBC's Hockey Night in Canada is set to broadcast the first of four pre-season games beginning Saturday with Kraft Hockeyville.

A car that transformed into a submarine in the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me has been sold at a London auction for 550,000 pounds ($898,500).

Grand Manan's Swallowtail Lighthouse and the Whale and Seabird Research Station will both see upgrades through government and private funding announced on Wednesday.

Ottawa police have charged a 57-year-old man with the sexual assault of an 11-year-old boy while the man was a bantam level hockey coach between 1987 and 1991.

The Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Amundsen has arrived at Resolute, Nunavut, with the bodies of two crew members and a researcher who were killed in a helicopter crash on Monday.

A recent satellite image appears to show North Korea is restarting a plutonium reactor, in a move that could raise renewed international alarm over its nuclear weapons program, a U.S. research institute says.

Americans marked the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on Wednesday with bells tolling solemnly, the reading of victims' names, moments of silence and serene music.

A B.C. woman who was convicted of torturing and killing animals and who admitted to wanting to kill homeless people is hoping to change her release conditions barring her from owning pets.

Researchers have found the strongest evidence yet that climate change rather than humans was the main factor that drove the woolly mammoth to extinction.

New York City authorities say a drug-dealing crew observed the Jewish Sabbath each week while peddling prescription painkillers and heroin.

Several small northern Ontario communities have declared a state of emergency due to flash flooding in the area.

Switzerland has raised the legal age of prostitution by two years, in a measure that brings it in line with an international convention it signed in 2010.

Levi, a young porpoise rescued after getting stranded off Vancouver Island, has become the first cetacean ever to be rescued, rehabilitated and released by Vancouver Aquarium.

Mr. Peloso may suffer from a medical condition which has police concerned for his safety

Toyota is recalling 880,000 RAV-4s and Lexus sedans in the U.S. and Canada because a repair announced last year may not have solved a safety problem.

A helicopter operating with the Canadian Coast Guard research icebreaker Amundsen has crashed into the Arctic Ocean.

Superman has received the Canadian royal treatment. The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled seven coins Monday, each depicting different moments in the superhero's history.

The village where Christina Deeley was born in the Marshall Islands is disappearing, bit by bit. When she visits her family in the Laura community on the islands' Majuro atoll, Hawaii resident Deeley, 34, sees many changes confronting natives. The beac

Travis Baumgartner, the man charged accused of shooting dead three armed guards at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, pleaded guilty to three murders Monday.

Italian journalist Domenico Quirico and Belgian teacher Pierre Piccinin da Prata are released after being kidnapped in Syria in April.

A Canadian study examining the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases with human fecal transplants is showing some promising early results.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Esmil Rogers knows the important of pitching well in September despite his team being long out of the playoff picture.

A mural in downtown Toronto honouring Canadian soldiers killed overseas has been defaced. The Highway of Heroes mural marks the end of the route taken by repatriated soldiers, and is located in a back alley at the coroner's office near College and Yonge S

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) Adam Lind hit a pair of three-run homers and J.A. Happ snapped a three-game losing streak, leading the Toronto Blue Jays over the Minnesota Twins 11-2 on Saturday night.

Hamilton quarterback Henry Burris threw four touchdown passes as the Tiger-Cats held on to defeat the B.C. Lions 37-29 in front of 13,101 at the University of Guelph's Alumni Stadium in CFL action Saturday afternoon.

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says the world cannot stand by as the Assad regime gasses civilians, but he expects Russia to block any vote at the United Nations supporting military intervention.

Search and Rescue crews in Coquitlam, B.C. have begun testing unmanned drones, in the hope that having a bird's eye view could help them save more lives.

The European Union agreed on Saturday a chemical attack outside Damascus last month appears to have been the work of the Syrian regime, but that any potential military attack against it should wait for a UN inspectors' report.

London police have arrested two men over a suspected burglary attempt at Buckingham Palace, though the Queen and her family were far away at the time and not at risk.

Two researchers and their pilot remained stranded on a remote Alaska volcano Friday, two days after freezing rain left thick ice on their helicopter.

Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympic Games. The Japanese capital beat out Istanbul, Turkey in the final round of voting Saturday afternoon. Madrid was eliminated in the first round of voting at IOC meetings in Buenos Aires.

Heavy rain on a logging site after a dry summer may have triggered a massive landslide north of Campbell River this week, local guides say.

A B.C. Supreme Court justice says current and former members of the Canadian Forces who were injured in Afghanistan can continue their class-action lawsuit against the federal government.

At the North Pole, a newly discovered lake is sparking concerns about global warming.

A study of a dozen of 2012's wildest weather events found that man-made global warming increased the likelihood of about half of them, including Superstorm Sandy's devastating surge and shrinking Arctic sea ice.

Imagine maintaining a military presence over roughly four million square kilometres of exceedingly harsh terrain. That's the tricky thing about keeping boots on the ground in Canada's North, where the Canadian Rangers are patrolling the front lines.

Retired NBA star Dennis Rodman left North Korea Saturday after a five-day trip during which he met leader Kim Jong Un. Rodman told The Associated Press that Kim really actually wants to change things.

The Calgary Stampeders won their second game over the Edmonton Eskimos in a five-day span, coming away with a 22-12 victory on Friday night.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) R.A. Dickey pitched into the seventh inning for Toronto, and the Blue Jays hung on for a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night.

Police say four people were shot and wounded when gunfire broke out at an anti-violence vigil in the U.S.

A B.C. Supreme Court justice has turned down an application by the government to seize the motorcycle of a man clocked going more than three times the speed limit.

A U.S. man has died after falling into the propellor of a float plane on a northwestern Ontario lake.

There were tense moments at a meeting in High River Thursday night as angry residents confronted members of the RCMP over forced entries and gun seizures during June's flood emergency.

About 20 non-Muslims gathered Friday outside the Saguenay mosque vandalized last weekend to show their support for the small Muslim community and its place of worship.

A leaked photo of Jonathan Toews wearing what is supposedly Team Canada's Jersey for the Sochi Olympics next year has already created some buzz and fanfare around the social media world. Here is what fans had to say on Twitter.

A leaked photo of Jonathan Toews wearing what is supposedly Team Canada's sweater for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics is causing a stir among hockey fans.

The goaltender who thought he had played his last game with the Vancouver Canucks was back skating with his old teammates Friday. Roberto Luongo, who spent all of last season expecting to be traded, admitted that it was strange to be back in Vancouver wea

A B.C. man is recovering in hospital after finding himself between an angry grizzly sow and her cubs while walking to work this morning in the remote community of Bella Coola.

A dramatic confrontation between two dogs and a hissing cougar near Victoria last weekend was caught on camera

The Canadian Coast Guard rescued a group of Americans who attempted to travel through the Northwest Passage on jet skis as part of a reality television show.

Parks Canada is spending $475,000 to buy two high-tech research tools it hopes could help crack the mystery of the lost 19th-century ships of the Franklin expedition and reveal other sunken secrets of the country's underwater cultural heritage.

Scientists at the University of Houston have uncovered the largest single volcano on earth, located under water about 1,600 kilometres off the eastern coast of Japan.

Malala Yousafzai, a 16-year-old Pakistani activist who survived a Taliban attack last year, will receive the International Children's Peace Prize today from a Dutch children's rights organization.

The Bluenose II is back in the water today, three years after it was dry-docked for restoration, despite problems with launch.

The ruling could have an impact on future UN peacekeeping missions, as states could be reluctant to participate in foreign military operations if their troops can be held responsible when things go wrong

The mother of a young Canadian man currently in Syria has been asking for months how and why her son ended up there among a group of extremist fighters. "How do you sit there and admit to somebody, my son has gone off to fight in a war where I don't know

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne has unveiled an interim deal to keep open an internationally renowned freshwater research station in northwestern Ontario, while negotiations continue this fall to transfer the facility from the federal government to a non-p

A former Leon's furniture employee is alleging racial discrimination after he says a statue was lynched in effigy at a store in Dartmouth, N.S.

A naval helicopter procurement program described as the worst in Canada's history was doomed from the start but could be made viable and operationally relevant if the federal government urgently adopts a new approach, says a confidential new report obtain

A geochemist at Dartmouth University says somewhere under the forests, soil and bedrock of southern Quebec lie the ancient, undiscovered traces of an enormous meteor strike so catastrophic that it helped change the Earth's climate and alter human history.

Stephen Harper can soon add another line to his resume: published author. The prime minister's book on the history of hockey is set for a Nov. 5 release.

Canadian troops will begin a phased withdrawal from Afghanistan next month, leaving fewer than 100 soldiers on the ground by the time the training mission officially comes to end in March.

A Senate panel has voted to give U.S. President Barack Obama the authority to use military force against Syria in response to what the White House claims was a deadly chemical weapons attack perpetrated by the Syrian regime.

An NHL hockey player from Vancouver Island is facing criticism from several B.C. First Nations for shooting a grizzly bear while hunting on a remote section of the West Coast dubbed the Great Bear Rainforest by environmental groups.

Calgary's popular mayor, Naheed Nenshi, took a moment this weekend to criticize Quebec's contentious plan for a secular charter, saying residents of all faiths are welcome in his city.

Pre-race favourite Peter Sagan made a little bit of history Tuesday night when he became the first man to wear the yellow jersey in the inaugural stage of the Tour of Alberta cycling race.

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after officers deployed a Taser on an 80-year-old woman in Mississauga, Ont.

An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale has struck an area off British Columbia's coast, almost 200 kilometres southwest of Bella Bella. The United States National Weather Service says a tsunami isn't expected as a result of the quake in the ocean.

A naval expert warns that a weekend collision with naval supply ship could hasten the demise of the Canadian navy's only command-and-control destroyer in the Pacific.

Sheriff's officials on Sunday identified the victim as Daniel R. Ricketts, who owns property and a residence on Saw Mill Road, near Thacher Park, where the accident took place. The sheriff added the wire appeared to be the type used in pianos, but he sai

The Arab League has called for United Nations and International measures against Syria over alleged gas attack.

A section of Pacific Rim National Park Reserve remains closed to the public, despite promises to reopen last spring.

One of the crown jewels in the federal government's Arctic strategy is mired in a slow-moving environmental clean-up and the threat of legal action, federal documents reveal.