NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2012

Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday, his nephew said.

A female judo fighter from Saudi Arabia will be allowed to compete in the Olympics wearing a form of headscarf after a compromise was reached that respects the cultural sensitivity of the Muslim kingdom.

The World Badminton Federation has charged eight women's players from China, South Korea and Indonesia with misconduct for attempting to throw preliminary-round games to secure a more favourable draw later in the tournament.

The story of a 14-year-old girl who underwent plastic surgery to put an end to years of schoolyard taunting has sparked debate over what many believe is a drastic response to bullying.

Michael Phelps becomes the most decorated Olympian of all time, capturing the 19th medal of his career to surpass Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina in the overall medal count.

An American judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for a Canadian businessman over his role in an illegal Internet pharmacy operation.

Homeowner Loretta Yates said she knew she had a "sweet mess" on her hands at her home in the small southern Ontario community of Varney, located more than two hours northwest of Toronto, when a crack in the ceiling started oozing honey last week.

Ye Shiwen's world-record performance in the women's Olympic 400-metre individual medley remained a hot topic Monday, only talk seemed to be shifting away from the race itself.

The queen's granddaughter Zara Phillips added to the family silver on Tuesday, helping team Britain to a second-place finish behind Germany in Olympic equestrian eventing in London.

India's energy crisis spread over half the country when both its eastern and northern electricity grids collapsed, leaving almost 600 million people without power in one of the world's biggest-ever blackouts.

Chinese gold medallist swimmer Ye Shiwen, 16, has denied taking drugs to enhance her performance, saying there was "no problem with doping".

Great expectations were raised around Britain's medal run in these Olympics. But while there have been triumphs, like the unexpected bronze in men's gymnastics, it hasn't exactly been the best of times early on.

The federal government Monday announced that the Royal Canadian Mint will stop distributing pennies as of Feb. 4, 2013.

Great Britain won their first-ever silver medal in the team competition for men's artistic gymnastics at London 2012, but lost it to Japan after an official inquiry.

Olympic organizers are investigating why rows of seats at some venues were empty on the first full day of competition at the London Games.

The Swiss Olympic team expels soccer player Michel Morganella from the London Games after an allegedly racist message was posted to his Twitter account following a loss to the South Korean squad.

Two people are dead after a rock climbing accident Sunday afternoon at the Heart Creek Mountain area near Canmore, Alta.

Saudi Arabia's Wojdan Shaherkani may not compete in Friday's judo competition if she is not allowed to wear her hijab.

Canadian rider Hawley Bennett-Awad was thrown from her horse and injured during the cross-country portion of an equestrian event at the London Olympics today.

Ebola outbreak in Uganda claims at least 14 lives as health officials battle to stem spread of deadly virus

An Israeli newspaper reported Sunday that the Obama administration's top security official has briefed Israel on U.S. plans for a possible attack on Iran, seeking to reassure it that Washington is prepared to act militarily should diplomacy and sanctions

The Google Street View service that has brought us Earth as we might not be able to afford to see it has turned its 360-degree cameras on road trips through five national parks in California.

In the afterglow of Barack Obama's historic victory, most people in the United States believed that race relations would improve. Nearly four years later, has that dream come true? Americans have no shortage of thoughtful opinions and no consensus.

The federal government is putting together a task force to figure out how to get more people with disabilities employed in meaningful work.

Rehabilitation on a large portion of the former Sydney tar ponds is complete and the agency behind the cleanup is now looking to turn the former industrial wasteland into a public greenspace.

There is a growing radicalized environmentalist faction in Canada that is opposed to the country's energy sector policies, according to a newly declassified intelligence report obtained by The Canadian Press.

A soldier was shot during an altercation early Sunday with another member of the Canadian Forces at CFB Shilo in western Manitoba.

A special U.S. military team has almost finished its month-long mission off Quebec's north shore to recover the bodies of five crew who drowned 70 years ago when their U.S. Army seaplane slid into the waters.

Brian Pallister is set to become the next leader of the Manitoba Progressive Conservative party after a nomination process closed Saturday with him being the only person seeking the job.

Delegates overseeing a 175-nation endangered species treaty adopted measures Friday intended to curb smuggling of elephant ivory and rhino horn, including a new plan to eventually allow ivory to be legally traded again in global markets.

Library and Archives Canada has compiled the first-ever master list of how well its massive collection is holding up as it prepares for a major move next year of thousands of pieces of Canadian history.

A man fired multiple rounds at the Kimmirut detachment and a police truck.

A cagefighter shows how a mix of martial arts and theology is deradicalizing released convicted terrorists and turning around their lives.

53-year-old Michael Marin put the poison in his system after being found guilty of arson

A 28-year-old man is facing four firearms charges after being arrested in East Vancouver on Thursday night after crashing his bike into a tree.

A computer simulation shows the Moon's birth may not have been through the impact of a slow, Mars-sized object, but rather something much bigger and faster.

Divers have discovered a World War II-era German submarine nearly 70 years after it sank under withering U.S. attack in waters off Nantucket, Massachusetts.

An Inuk woman underwent surgery in Montreal Friday afternoon, four days after she was mauled by a polar bear near Kangiqsualujjuaq, a small Inuit community in Nunavik, Quebec.

Canadian middleweight boxer Mary Spencer should be pleased with how Friday's Olympic women's boxing draw turned out. The Wiarton, Ont. native drew a bye, meaning she must win just one bout to be guaranteed at least a bronze medal.

A man in Cape Coral, Florida on Wednesday was arrested for shooting and killing an unarmed door-to-door salesman on his property.

Canada has entered the Olympic Stadium. Led by triathlete Simon Whitfield, the 277 athletes, less those preparing for Saturday morning events, were resplendent in red and white track jackets with CANADA across the front, plus khaki pants.

Summerhill Pyramid Winery has become B.C.'s first bio-dynamic certified winery, and is using some unique methods to create its award-winning organic wines.

LONDON - A minute of silence carved out of a three-hour opening ceremony is not too much to ask. It works out to little more than five seconds for each victim.

The PA is against the moment of silence because they view the murder of Israelis by Palestinians not as terror but as heroism. Palestinian Media Watch has documented the PA's ongoing policy to glorify terror and terrorists. The murder of the 11 Israeli at

Legally blind archer Im Dong-hyun set the first world records of the London Olympics, breaking his own record in the 72-arrow mark and helping South Korea set a team record in the ranking round on Friday.

Disgraced former Mountie Benjamin (Monty) Robinson has been given a 12-month conditional sentence for obstruction of justice relating to a fatal collision with a motorcycle in Delta, B.C., in 2008.

Canada's premiers and territorial leaders say they stand to lose almost $36 billion in health transfers over a 10-year period if Ottawa proceeds with its disputed plan to alter how it calculates the payments to the provinces and territories.

Four years after her husband's vehicle fell through thin ice near Yellowknife, Kelsey Smith finally feels at peace

Shift work has long been associated with unhealthy lifestyles and sleep deprivation, but a new study has now linked irregular work hours to more serious problems -- increased risks of heart attacks and strokes.

It was a crowded leaderboard midway through the first round of the Canadian Open with Stuart Appleby, Charl Schwartzel, Bo Van Pelt, Jhonattan Vegas and Troy Matteson opening with a 5-under 65.

Members of the Egyptian Olympic team have been given fake Nike gear, a synchronised swimmer alleges, leaving officials shocked and embarrassed.

The operator of China's Three Gorges Dam said the world's largest hydropower project has withstood its biggest test, regulating a record amount of floodwater.

When an official with the Vancouver School Board first heard that an adult entertainment company wanted to visit high school job fairs to recruit future strippers, he actually laughed out loud.

Researchers have detected a solar system 10,000 light years away that is very much like our own, with planets that have aligned orbits close to a parent star.

Smaller, cheaper, financially sustainable? The London Olympics has 538 fewer competitors than went to Beijing four years ago, the smallest number of Summer Olympians in 16 years. Everyone, including Canada, is cutting back.

Scientists from the U.K. have uncovered a 1.6 kilometre-deep rift valley under the ice in West Antarctica, a feature which they say may explain why that part of the continent is losing ice so rapidly.

The last of the TBM Avenger aircrafts left its New Brunswick home for the last time today, to land permanently at the Shearwater Aviation Museum in Nova Scotia.

A German court says the founder of the environmental activist group Sea Shepherd has broken the terms of his bail and apparently left the country.

LONDON - Canada raised its flag, welcomed some of its athletes and even got its first taste of Olympic action on Wednesday as the London 2012 Olympic Games came to life two days before the opening ceremony.

London Olympic organizers mistakenly displayed the South Korean flag on a jumbo screen instead of North Korea's before a women's soccer match Wednesday, prompting the North Koreans to refuse to take the field for nearly an hour.

An important piece of history from the Second World War may be at the bottom of the Churchill River.

Group of Orthodox rabbis warn ancient Jewish practice of infant male circumcision could face further restrictions in Europe

Nine track athletes were suspended ahead of the London Olympics for doping, including three who were caught in retests of samples from last year's world championships, the IAAF said Wednesday.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Triple jumper Voula Papachristou was expelled from Greece's Olympic team Wednesday for her comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right party.

Boy passed through security without being checked, before making his way on to Jet2.com flight

Tech giant misses expectations, despite 21-per-cent rise in profit to $8.8-billion

Documents reveal high-level meetings took place between Canada and Australia

Sherman Hemsley, the American actor who played George Jefferson, first on All in the Family and later on the TV show The Jeffersons, has died. He was 74.

Nearly 400 military members sign letter insisting research on alternative fuels for military use is vital to national security

Scientists say there has been a freak event in Greenland this month: Nearly every part of the massive ice sheet that blankets the island suddenly started melting

From Yahoo! News: At least 3 men accused of making threats during or after watching the new Batman movie have been arrested in separate incidents, underscoring moviegoers' anxieties and heightened security in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Colora

U.S. President Barack Obama has warned Syria it would be a tragic mistake to use its chemical and biological weapons after the regime acknowledged for the first time it possesses weapons of mass destruction.

Intellectually disabled prisoner to be put to death in Georgia despite court ruling in 2002 that such executions were unconstitutional

Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, died today of pancreatic cancer at the age of 61.

A former Mountie who sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy while the man was infected with HIV has died in a B.C. prison.

Penalties come in wake of sex scandal that rocked college football

Historic high water levels on the Fraser River this spring have led to more swarms of mosquitoes in the Fraser Valley.

Norway today pauses to commemorate the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago, a tragedy that the prime minister said had brought Norwegians together in defence of democracy and tolerance.

At least 11 people died Sunday and another 12 were injured after their pickup truck left the highway and crashed into trees in rural south Texas, authorities said.

Prices for two key crops set new records on Friday as the heat and dryness across many of the Canadian and American agricultural regions is starting to kindle fears of a food crisis.

A person wearing an Afghan national security force uniform turned his weapon Sunday against civilian contractors with the U.S.-led military coalition, killing three.

Native American and Alaska Native leaders told of their villages being under water because of coastal erosion, droughts and more during a Senate hearing intended to draw attention to how climate change is affecting tribal communities.

Another tribute to late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno has been dismantled, a day before the NCAA is expected to spell out sanctions against the now-infamous university.

Promiscuous squid take 30 minutes to return to normal swimming speed after sex, scientists reveal.

Navigable photographs of polar explorers Sir Ernest Shackleton and Robert Falcon Scott's Antarctic huts are put online by Google.

US shoppers are thrown into a panic by a disorientated bear that wandered into a shopping centre in Pennsylvania.

Ernie Els has won his fourth major championship in an astonishing finish, rallying to beat Adam Scott in the British Open when the Aussie bogeyed the last four holes.

Lighter loonies and toonies were introduced this year in a bid to save money, but CTV News has learned that governments and schools in Metro Vancouver have spent nearly a quarter of a million dollars to adapt to the new coins.

An RCMP officer was killed in western Saskatchewan on Friday when his police cruiser hit a moose. Mounties say Const. Derek Pineo, 38, was the only person in the vehicle and died at the scene near Wilkie, 135 kilometres west of Saskatoon.

Police are warning against vigilante justice after a father attacked a neighbour who drove into his daughter Wednesday evening.

A quick-thinking Vancouver Island senior managed to scare off a black bear that lumbered into her living room on Wednesday -- using only screams and a squirt bottle.

A Vancouver island couple had the fright of their lives when a grey whale started frolicking in the water beneath their samll powerboat.

Quadruplets born in Windsor, Ont., without the use of fertility drugs are doing fine.

Firefighters continue to battle a 225-hectare blaze burning just outside the northeast edge of Algonquin Park, between the park and Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.

Defence Minister Peter MacKay is weighing in on the latest incident of a Search and Rescue chopper being used for a fishing trip.

Knitters in Whitehorse plan to cover their airport's DC-3 weathervane with yarn on Aug. 11. Jessica Vellenga, one of the organizers of the yarn-bombing, said donations of knitting have come in from all across North America for the attempt at creating the

Astronomers in Toronto and the U.S. have discovered a large spiral galaxy, like the Milky Way, that was around 10.7 billion years ago, much earlier in the life of the universe than others of its type.

A Christina Lake boy at Pines Bible Camp in Grand Forks has died after a tree fell through the cabin he was in.

Fears about the possibility of a flash flood have led a city in British Columbia's Cariboo region to declare a state of local emergency.

Tanzania's government on Saturday halted rescue operations for a ferry accident that appears to have killed 146 people.

Authorities in southeastern British Columbia have identified the bodies of a father and daughter recovered from a landslide that devastated the town of Johnsons Landing.

Two men were arrested Saturday after reports of cottage break-ins escalated to news of a man on a bridge shooting at passing cars on a highway south of Sudbury, Ont. on Friday afternoon. Calls about shots being fired from the Bailey Bridge over Highway 60

The identities of the victims of the massacre at a Colorado movie theatre have emerged one by one after authorities told their families of their deaths. By late Saturday morning, relatives and family spokesmen had confirmed the identities of half of those

A former RAF rescue team leader tells for the first time how he sought evidence that a Sputnik crashed in the Highlands 50 years ago.

There were long lines of traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway near Banff Friday after a mudslide hit the area two kilometres west of town.

Authorities say they believe major threats have been eliminated from the booby-trapped apartment of the suspect in the movie theatre shootings in Aurora, Colorado, predicting that residents of the complex will likely be able to return home Sunday.

This weekend vintage vessels aren't only docked in the Halifax Harbour for the Tall Ships Festival, a fleet of historic vintage planes have touched down at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport.

Joe Burnett's two interceptions staked the Edmonton Eskimos to a 27-14 victory over the B.C. Lions in CFL action Friday night. Edmonton improved to 3-1, moving into a share of first place in the West Division with Saskatchewan.