NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2013

A Canadian warship has made a major drug bust after intercepting a boat transporting approximately $100 million Cdn worth of drugs in the Indian Ocean.

Emergency crews are on the scene of a plane crash in a snow-covered field just north of the community of Kisbey, Sask.

Monday marks British Columbia's official return to the provincial sales tax after an almost five-year crash-and-burn relationship with the harmonized sales tax.

The Pittsburgh Penguins say captain Sidney Crosby will be sidelined indefinitely after undergoing surgery for a broken jaw he suffered on Saturday in a game against the New York Islanders.

North Korea says it has entered 'a state of war' with South Korea in the latest of a string of threats that have raised tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

Former Vancouver mayor Art Phillips, known for ending the controversial plan to have freeways run through the city, died Friday afternoon at the age of 82.

The date of the Easter celebration changes every year, but it's actually based on an ancient misunderstanding of astronomy.

Scientists have finally created an invisibility cloak similar to the one foretold in the Harry Potter franchise and in Philip K. Dick's "A Scanner Darkly," though so far it only works on microwave light and is only available in a miniature prototype.

It's the stuff of nightmares for anyone with a shark phobia, but for scientists the discovery of a two-headed bull shark is a unique opportunity to study one of nature's rare glitches.

Devotees in villages in the northern Philippines took part in a bloody annual ritual to mark Good Friday, a celebration that mixes Roman Catholic devotion and Filipino folk beliefs and sees some reenact the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

A massive landslide engulfed a gold mining area in mountainous Tibet, burying 83 workers believed to have been asleep early Friday morning, Chinese state media said.

A campaign promising free shotguns for people to protect themselves in this Arizona city has divided some residents in a community still reeling from a shooting rampage in 2011 that killed six people, left a congresswoman and several others wounded, and m

Two Whitehorse skiers who survived an avalanche in the coastal Rockies last week say they won't be deterred from returning to the backcountry.

Four people believed to be members of the same family have died in a house fire in East Gwillimbury, Ont., about 50 kilometres north of Toronto.

Cory Schneider made 30 saves, and Daniel Sedin's third-period goal lifted the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Thursday.

Men in a Central African village are living in fear of having their penis snatched, an American anthropologist reports.

A Toronto elementary school teacher has been charged with 42 different sex-related charges, some involving students, police say.

North Korea's leader says his rocket forces are ready to settle accounts with the U.S. in response to U.S. nuclear-capable B-2 bombers joined military drills with South Korea.

Protecting children playing hockey, soccer, football, basketball and baseball from serious brain injuries could take simple solutions like padding goal posts and enforcing existing rules, a Canadian study suggests.

Canadians should count their lucky stars a long weekend is coming up because apparently the country ranks near low globally when it comes to the amount of paid and public holiday time, according to recent findings

Some Conservative backbenchers stirred up controversy in the House of Commons Tuesday when they accused their own party of preventing them from speaking out in Parliament.

Prisoners taking part in an expanding hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay leveled new complaints about their military jailers as a Red Cross team made a fact-finding trip to the U.S. base in Cuba.

A record-breaking cyberattack targeting an anti-spam watchdog group has sent ripples of disruption coursing across the Web, experts said Wednesday.

A woman who pushed for financial transparency on her First Nation was shouted down and drummed out of a news conference today with the visiting Minister of Aboriginal Affairs Bernard Valcourt.

Police need a wiretap order to seize text messages from your wireless provider, Canada's highest court has ruled.

Conservative Sen. Pierre-Hughes Boisvenu says the Senate ethics officer told him last year he couldn't keep his girlfriend on his office payroll, but he did nothing about it for six months.

Cory Schneider stopped 17 shots and Maxim Lapierre scored the only goal in a shootout as the Canucks won their fifth straight by defeating the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 on Tuesday night in Vancouver.

British police said Tuesday they have killed four aggressive dogs at a house where a 14-year-old girl was found dead.

A study says coal-fired power generation is likely to cause thousands of early deaths in Alberta and cost the province hundreds of millions of dollars before government regulations force plants to reduce emissions.

On the Arctic Circle, a chef is growing the kind of vegetables and herbs - potatoes, thyme, tomatoes, green peppers - more fitting for a suburban garden in a temperate zone than a land of Northern Lights, glaciers and musk oxen.

It's a tale of lost and found in the digital age; a Winnipeg woman who lost her wedding ring thought it was long gone when it turned up in an unexpected place.

At least one person is missing after a car drove off the Englishtown, N.S., ferry at about 9 p.m. AT Monday, RCMP say.

A year-long investigation into a bus passenger's million-dollar backpack has led to criminal charges.

If successful, 22-year-old entrepreneur Taylor More would be the first person ever to accept the fast-rising virtual currency in exchange for property.

One couple is giving away their home in an essay-writing contest with a $100 entry fee.

A second Canadian is now suspected of involvement in the deadly terrorist attack at a natural gas plant in Algeria earlier this year, authorities said Saturday.

Never mind the Internet. A Vancouver schoolteacher is sounding the alarm after stumbling upon another medium that she thinks may corrupt young minds: 19th-century whale etchings

A US Marine has shot dead a male and female colleague before turning the gun on himself at a base in the state of Virginia, say military officials.

A museum exhibit featuring the corpses of thousands of birds killed while travelling Toronto's skies is meant to raise awareness of the perils facing the city's feathered residents, organizers said Thursday.

A space telescope that spent over a year mapping the birth of the universe has revealed the cosmos is older than originally thought, but began with a single 'Big Bang' explosion that caused the universe to burst from subatomic size to a sprawling expanse

The major extinction that paved the way for the rise of the dinosaurs was caused by the eruption of massive volcanoes in what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, the northeastern U.S. and Morocco, a new study says.

Millions of homes and businesses around the world will be in the dark tonight as part of Earth Hour, an annual event meant to raise awareness about climate change and the environment.

Cory Schneider made 20 saves en route to his sixth NHL shutout, Mason Raymond scored in the first period, and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 on Saturday for their third straight victory.

Yellowknife's army reservists will be training using live ammunition on Yellowknife Bay this weekend.

The Canadian Avalanche Centre has issued a special warning for the northwest coastal and inland regions.

Government officials gathered in Coquitlam Saturday to announce the Evergreen rapid transit line is on track for completion in 2016 and the station names have been finalized.

Joe Weider, a legendary figure in bodybuilding who helped popularize the sport worldwide and played a key role in introducing a charismatic young weightlifter named Arnold Schwarzenegger to the world, died Saturday at age 93.

Six months after the release of the Cohen Commission's final report on the decline of Fraser River sockeye salmon, the B.C. government says it will implement a number of the report's recommendations, including putting a cap on future open-net fish farms.

The QEII Highway south of Edmonton has reopened after a series of crashes that injured 100 people during a storm that dumped as much as 25 centimetres of snow yesterday.

The City of Vancouver beat out 66 other cities around the world for the title of Global Earth Hour Capital in a challenged issued by the World Wildlife Fund.

Montreal police arrested 294 people during a protest to underline the anniversary of a massive rally that marked a turning point in last year's Quebec student crisis.

A B.C. man who suffered a potentially deadly snake bite in Costa Rica that left him weeping tears of blood is recovering in a Vancouver hospital thanks to the quick work of a medical team and an emergency flight to Seattle to pick up an antidote to the ve

Officer secretly recorded conversation with his supervisor in which he is apparently told to target 'male blacks 14 to 21'

Police have recovered the body of a 32-year-old female from the car that broke through a barrier gate and drove off a docked BC Ferries boat near Gabriola Island, B.C.

Jordan Schroeder scored midway through the third period, Cory Schneider stopped 33 shots and the Canucks grinded out a 2-1 win over the struggling Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night.

B.C. Place Stadium will host the first-ever World Cup soccer final on artificial turf in 2015. The Vancouver venue was named Thursday as the site for the 2015 Women's World Cup championship game.

German police helicopter crash.

The federal government is trying to make Canada's favourite pastime a little more affordable, and also ease the financial burden for new parents, by proposing $76 million in tariff relief for sports equipment and baby clothes.

Scientists with ongoing projects at the Experimental Lakes Area in northern Ontario had to contact the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to find out they would not be allowed to work at the facility this summer.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is asking consumers and telemarketers for their views on how to reduce unwanted calls and is taking a close look at the rules for automated calls.

NHL GMs discussed reducing the size of goalie equipment and increasing video review Wednesday, while both the league and NHL Players' Association sounded a desire to grandfather in mandatory visors.

Transit police in Metro Vancouver say the two teenage girls arrested late Monday night for allegedly attacking people with a knife on and around the SkyTrain transit line are well known to them.

A speeding car broke through a barrier gate and drove off a docked BC Ferries boat early Wednesday.

Spending on courts, prisons and policing has increased sharply in Canada over the past decade, at a time when crime rates in the country continue to decline

Around a third of seniors living at home are at risk of not getting adequate nutrition, which could lead to a number of health problems, a new report from Statistics Canada finds.

An alliance of First Nations leaders from the U.S. and Canada say they are gearing up to fight the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines both in the courts and through unspecified direct action.

Marijuana use was a contributing cause to a fatal Air Tindi crash in the Northwest Territories 18 months ago, says the Transportation Safety Board.

A 35-year-old space probe has become the first human-made object to make it beyond our solar system, a new study suggests.

It was a threshold crossed in the deepest reaches of space: A spacecraft launched from Earth has now entered new and unexplored territory that may or may not be outside our solar system. A press release issued at 11:05 a.m.

Quebec's corruption inquiry is asking questions about the relationship between a Conservative senator and an engineering firm linked to illegal commissions.

Frank Thornton, the actor, who has died aged 92, played the lugubrious, disdainful and immaculately tailored Capt Peacock in the long-running BBC Television sitcom Are You Being Served? for 12 years from 1973.

A man from Fort Good Hope, N.W.T., spent three years with a knife blade in his shoulder, despite having been checked by multiple doctors and nurses.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has decided that a proposed assault weapons ban won't be part of a gun control bill the Senate plans to debate next month, the sponsor of the ban said Tuesday, a decision that means the ban stands little chance of surviva

The OPP have concluded a teenager lied when he said Thunder Bay police officers abandoned him on the outskirts of the city.

A planet several times more massive than Jupiter, orbiting a star 130 light years away, is part of a solar system that is likely very similar to our own, a new study suggests.

Gold could be deposited almost instantaneously in the Earth's crust during earthquakes, say Australian researchers.

The federal government rolled out eight new measures on Monday at the Port Metro Vancouver office that it says will create a world class tanker safety system.

A Manitoba woman credits a childhood lesson for saving her life when she was attacked and bit by a wolf at the side of a highway.

A delegation is going before councillors in Richmond, B.C., to complain about the lack of English on signs in a city where more than half of the population is of Chinese descent.

Workers digging a new railway line in London have uncovered what they believe is a burial ground containing victims of the Black Death -- a plague that wiped out as much as half of London's inhabitants when it swept the city in the mid-14th century.

A private jet apparently experiencing mechanical trouble crashed Sunday in a northern Indiana neighbourhood, hitting three homes and killing two people aboard the plane, authorities said.

An estimated 300,000 people packed St. Peter's Square today to see Pope Francis deliver his first prayer address from a window of the papal apartment.

A teen had a close call Saturday afternoon after a piece of ice he jumped onto broke away and began floating downriver in Cornwall, P.E.I.

B.C.'s Highway 5, the Coquihalla, experienced heavy snow, slushy road surfaces and delays on Sunday.

A dramatic daylight jailbreak involving two Quebec inmates climbing a rope into a hovering helicopter swiftly escalated into a large police operation on Sunday which saw both men tracked down hours after they fled.

Two high school footballers in the US state of Ohio are found guilty of rape, in a case that attracted nationwide attention through social media.

An aquatic expert warns that despite improved policies and extensive clean-up, the Great Lakes remain stressed and threatened.

North Korea test-fired a pair of short-range missiles into its eastern waters this past week in a likely response to ongoing U.S.-South Korean military drills, a South Korean official says.

The number of Monarch butterflies making it to their winter refuge in Mexico dropped 59 per cent this year, falling to the lowest level since comparable record-keeping began 20 years ago, scientists reported Wednesday.

Calvin and Diana Bridges are hoping a creative contest will help them off-load their three-bedroom home in Alymer, Ont. Entrants write an essay on why they deserve to win the house, and pay a $100 entrance fee.

How polar bears got their white coat remains a scientific mystery, but newly published research suggests a way they could turn brown again.

New fragrance brings that chapel smell home

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Port Authority warns that ship can't be moved without insurance, examination for seaworthiness

Toronto man James McTurk, 78, has been convicted twice on child porn charges, and now faces charges of child sex tourism for abusing children in Cuba.

Canada is lax when it comes to stopping its sex offenders from going to Cuba and preying on underage prostitutes.

People in Cyprus react with shock to news of a one-off levy of up to 10% on savings as part of the 10bn-euro bailout agreed in Brussels.

Gary Freeman, convicted in 1969 Chicago cop shooting, believes the colour of his skin has barred his return to Canada

A British soldier who died in southern Afghanistan last year as he protected his colleagues from a grenade blast is to be awarded the Victoria Cross.

The laws come in the wake of a series of undercover camera exposes that have led to a public outrage and calls for reform on large-scale, so-called "factory farms."

Review finds company had failed to plan for short drilling season and its equipment did not stand up to harsh conditions

Detectives are examining an estimated 600 fresh allegations of phone-hacking incidents at Rupert Murdoch's now closed News of the World on the back of fresh evidence obtained by the Metropolitan police from a suspect turned supergrass.

Calgary-based energy giant Enbridge is being ordered by U.S. authorities to do more to clean up a big oil spill that happened in southwest Michigan more than two-and-a-half years ago.