NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2015

Islamic State extremists at Iraq's ancient city of Hatra destroyed the archaeological site by smashing sledgehammers into its walls and shooting Kalashnikov assault rifles at priceless statues, a new militant video purportedly from the group shows.

West Coast fisheries managers will likely shut down sardine fishing this year as numbers decline, echoing a previous collapse that decimated a thriving industry and increasing worries that other species might be withheld from the commercial market.

The former drummer and a founding member of the Southern hard rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, Robert Burns Jr., died late Friday in a single-vehicle crash in Georgia.

Land prices are not a problem for one B.C. couple who have chosen to leave terrestrial living behind in favour of a floating lake cabin, tethered next to a cliff face.

The HMCS Annapolis is scheduled to be sunk today off Gambier Island, northwest of Vancouver to make an artificial reef. The federal court cleared the way for the former Canadian Navy destroyer to be sunk in March.

The United States defended their women's world hockey championship with a 7-5 win over Canada in Saturday's final.

Improvement of 'Massive Ordnance Penetrator' was carried out even as nuclear talks with Iran continued, 'Wall Street Journal' reports.

The first ship of the 2015 navigation season on the St. Lawrence Seaway has run aground near Beauharnois, Que., about 35 kilometres southwest of Montreal.

Google puts a nearly infinite amount of knowledge at our fingertips, but a new study says that the search engine isn't making us any smarter. Internet searches give people the illusion of personal knowledge even when they haven't actually gained a...

An Alabama inmate who spent nearly 30 years on death row will go free Friday after prosecutors told a judge there is not enough evidence to link him to the 1985 murders he was convicted of committing.

The connection between climate change and the decline of moose in parts of northern Ontario is the focus of a new study by a Trent University researcher.

France, with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of euros, joins Italy, Spain and Israel which all adopted laws against too-thin models on catwalks or in advertising campaigns in early 2013.

The DND says a Canadian naval vessel was part of a large drug bust last month in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Costa Rica.

IBM has uncovered a sophisticated fraud scheme run by a well- funded Eastern European gang of cyber criminals that uses a combination of phishing, malware and phone calls that the technology company say...

Air Canada turned around one of its planes headed from Toronto to Vancouver because of a disruptive passenger on Thursday.

Kamloops, B.C. woman Heather Arlene Carr, who died after setting a fire in a local park, was participating in a pagan ritual that went wrong, according to her husband.

A sailor who went missing in January has been rescued off the coast of North Carolina after apparently surviving on raw fish.

A woman from South Australia is reported after she was photographed flashing a Google Street View car.

The Rev. Robert H. Schuller, the Southern California televangelist and author who beamed his upbeat messages on faith and redemption to millions from his landmark Crystal Cathedral only to see his empire crumble in his waning years, has died. He was 88.

The stray dog was hit by a car, clubbed in the head and left for dead in a ditch in Washington state. Days later, the 1-year-old bully breed mix showed up sickly and covered in dirt at a nearby farm.

Divers who examined an icebreaker that struck a rocky shoal off Newfoundland and began taking on water found a 20 centimetre-wide puncture in its hull, the coast guard said Thursday.

The city has backpedalled on a decision to give a new Hamilton man a ticket for cleaning up litter in the alley next to his condo.

A major midget hockey team from Sudbury ended its season with a year-end tournament win in Brandford on March 29, but that is not why the Onaping Falls Huskies are making headlines.

Emergency supplies and power generators are en route to the hamlet of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, which declared a local state of emergency as the entire community deals with a power outage.

The Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Wednesday sought an apology from the Canadian Parliament for the Komagata Maru tragedy in which 19 freedom fighters were killed by British forces on the shores of Calcutta (Kolkata) in July 1914 after their ship was not allowed

Executives in the newsroom at NBC were left red-faced after scrambling their news teams to report on the story of a naked man abseiling down from Buckingham Palace - without realising it was a clip from their own show, reported NY Daily News.

The first of two lunar eclipses visible in the U.S. this year will take place early Saturday morning.

The cost of a pastrami sandwich is set to rise as producers of the smoked meat face rising prices for beef. But experts say deli meat is only the latest casualty of global forces that have sent products from almonds to limes soaring.

An independent report into the Oct. 22 storming of Parliament Hill concludes security forces were justified in using lethal force against gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.

Higher-than-normal ice coverage on the Great Lakes this winter has delayed commercial fishing and shipping somewhat, but above-normal water levels could end up benefiting recreational boaters.

U.S. President Barack Obama is making a statement after the United States, Iran and five other world powers reached an understanding that will direct them toward achieving a comprehensive nuclear agreement within three months.

Russia and Canada led the world in the loss of tree cover in 2013, according to analysis of new satellite images by researchers and Global Forest Watch.

A doctor's note excusing an employee from work for one day because of a cold has gone viral because in it the doctor accuses the employer of wasting his time and tax dollars.

The death of a senior citizen from eating laundry detergent pods in a Moose Jaw, Sask., care home should be blamed on short-staffing, a former care worker in the facility says.

When photojournalist Osman Sagirli approached four-year-old Hudea, the refugee girl raised her hands in surrender, thinking his camera was a gun. The resulting photo has spread around the world, becoming a symbol of the human toll of the war in Syria.

Prince Harry will begin a four week placement with the Australian Defence Force on Monday, Kensington Palace has confirmed.

A camel, whose intact skeleton has been found in a 300-year-old Austrian cellar, was probably ridden by the invading Ottoman army in 1683.

A UN report says that more than 25,000 foreign fighters have travelled to join militant groups such as al-Qaeda and Islamic State.

Islamic State militants enter the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in the Syrian capital, seizing control of large areas, reports say.

Eleven former school teachers and administrators are convicted of falsifying students' test scores in Atlanta, Georgia.

Vancouver police are endorsing the idea of conducting high-risk transactions for Craigslist deals in the lobby of their headquarters.

Gary Ross Dahl, the creator of the wildly popular 1970s fad the Pet Rock, has died at age 78 in southern Oregon.

Pizza Pizza is again offering free pizza slices for Canadians who drop off old electronics for recycling in April, expanding the program this year to let companies and organizations participate.

Playing hockey on top of a mountain is not just for Mounties anymore, now that the Invermere, B.C., heli-ski company has begun offering people a chance to play hockey at a high elevation.

The commonly-prescribed drug acetaminophen does nothing to help low back pain, and may affect the liver when used regularly, a large new international study has confirmed.

Mysterious radio wave flashes from far outside the galaxy are proving tough for astronomers to explain. Is it pulsars? A spy satellite? Or an alien

Veteran Detroit Red Wings forward Drew Miller received an awful scare (and likely a scar) on Tuesday night when the skate of Ottawa's Mark Stone struck him in the face, causing severe cuts around his right eye.

Canadian pop star Avril Lavigne reveals she's been battling Lyme disease in an exclusive interview published Wednesday by People magazine.

The explosive growth of those single-serve coffee machines is fuelling concern about what they leave behind: billions of plastic coffee pods piling up in landfills worldwide. Some Canadian companies are exploring recyclable or compostable solutions to app

Cynthia Lennon, the first wife of the late Beatle John Lennon, died at her home on the Mediterranean Sea island of Majorca in Spain at age 75 after a battle with cancer, confirms the couple's only son, Julian Lennon.

Parents and teachers are not telling police about children who may try to join Islamic State (IS) for fear of criminalising them, a former senior prosecutor says.

Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin scored his 50th goal of the 2014-15 NHL season in the first period against the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday in Washington.

The City of Winnipeg is using a new method this summer to get rid of problem gophers - "The Giant Destroyer."

Police were called to the scene of a parking lot in the Black Creek Avenue and Eglinton Avenue area on Wednesday morning after a Jaguar was buried up to its windows by a sinkhole.

Two Aeroplan members have decided to Go Public, after finding it almost impossible to use their points to book flights.

It might be possible to create a burger that helps the environment and improves your health. But will it taste good enough to win over the masses?

Researchers have uncovered an ongoing espionage campaign that uses custom-developed malware to siphon confidential data out of energy companies around the world. Trojan.Laziok, as the malware has been dubbed, acts as a reconnaissance tool that scours infe

Parliament may have approved a year-long extension to the country's combat mission in Iraq and Syria, but the government is once again refusing to say how much it will cost taxpayers. Nor will it reveal the estimated pricetag for upcoming involvement in N

Global warming caused the northern tip of Antarctica to nearly reach room temperature last week, with a record-breaking high of 63.5 F (17.5 C) being recorded at Argentina's Esperanza Base on Tuesday.

On April 1, temporary foreign workers who have been employed in Canada for at least four years will see their work visas expire. But just how many of them are there? The federal government won't release the number and no one else is sure.