NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2015

The owner of a B.C. wildlife shelter wants to use paintball guns to treat moose infested with ticks.

Two powerful cyclones smashed into northern Australia on Friday, knocking out power to thousands, tearing roofs and doors off houses and prompting coastal residents to flee their homes, but appeared to have spared the region earlier predictions of a 'cala

Canada has seen cases of young children who become lost in bitterly cold weather, and while many end in tragedy, there are also stories of hope and survival.

A German nurse has expressed regret for killing up to 30 patients by giving them an overdose of heart medication.

A Utah woman has been granted the ability to sue herself for negligence in the case of a deadly accident that killed her husband in 2011. FM News Radio 100.5 KXNT

Researchers recently identified an aggressive new strain of human immunodeficiency virus in Cuba that advances to Aids much faster than the average strain, but this variant of the virus may be the most aggressive ever studied in humans.

A woman who fell off an I-91 bridge and died after stopping to help the victims of a hit-and-run crash early Thursday morning will be remembered as a hero, her family said.

Conklin, NY (WBNG Binghamton) The local economy is pushing one organization in Upstate New York to pose a question: Is it possible to secede to Pennsylvania?

As John Nuttall outlines his plan to bomb the B.C. legislature, he becomes practically giddy when comparing the Canada Day fireworks in Victoria to the explosions.

A three-year-old Toronto boy has died after spending hours outside in the bitter cold after wandering away from the low-rise apartment building where he was staying with family.

The Vancouver Canucks came from behind three times to grab a shootout victory against the New York Rangers and former head coach Alain Vigneault.

De-classified documents reveal details of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's former life as a husband and office worker.

The House of Commons debate over Bill C-51, the anti-terrorism bill, began yesterday with strong opposition from the NDP, disappointing support from the Liberals, and an effort to politicize seemingly any criticism or analysis from the Conservative govern

The global obesity epidemic needs to be reconsidered in terms of regulatory controls to make it easier for people to choose healthier foods, according to a new medical journal series.

The Ontario Liberals have contravened of a bribery section of the Election Act in the recent Sudbury, Ont., byelection, the chief of Elections Ontario wrote in a letter released on Thursday.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising people with peanut allergies to avoid cumin after several shipments of the spice tested positive for peanuts not listed on the label.

The Town of Loon Lake, Sask., which is generally responsible for emergency services in the area, said it didn't respond to a fire that killed two toddlers on Makwa Sahgaiehcan First Nation this week because of a contract dispute and unpaid bills.

Global progress towards tackling obesity has been "unacceptably slow," health experts said on Wednesday, with only one in four countries implementing a policy on healthy eating before 2010. In a series of studies published in The Lancet medical journal

New satellite maps show the variation in ocean acidity across the globe, revealing a side effect of climate change that threatens marine life.

A Dryden couple had an unexpected visit from a bison at their home in northwestern Ontario, on Tuesday.

Chinese hardware manufacturer Lenovo has come under fire for allegedly shipping consumer Windows laptops with software that hijacks secure website connections, as well as inserting ads into search results.

Alberta Premier Jim Prentice has personally ordered documents from all general freedom of information requests be publicly posted, despite serious concerns from the civil servants responsible for implementing the new policy, CBC News has learned.

Citronella bug sprays are getting a second chance. After a long battle, Health Canada has decided to review its plan to ban the products.

There is a "real and present danger" of Russia trying to destabilise Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, the UK defence secretary says.

A broad-based coalition is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to halt proposed changes to federal aquaculture regulations, warning they could damage the environment and existing businesses.

The Lake Superior Binational Forum will shut down operations at the end of March, because of funding cuts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Herbert and Ellen Worthman did everything together, and that included dying. As Caroline Hillier writes, there's growing scientific interest in whether heartbreak can hasten death.

Scientists for the first time have mapped out the molecular "switches" that can turn on or silence individual genes in the DNA in more than 100 types of human cells and are responsible for differences between identical twins.

Professor Benjamin Levin has broken the silence about his child pornography charges.

Two teenage girls have been charged in connection with a violent confrontation with a police officer in Brampton, Ont., that was caught on video.

Documents obtained by Greenpeace raise environmentalists’ fears they’ll be targets of surveillance and dirty tricks under Bill C-51

A Toronto woman says she tested positive for gun powder during an airport screening and believes her hand cream may have been the cause of the false alarm.

A ski resort in southwestern Alberta was forced to end its season early on Monday because of a lack of snow.

A brief exchange between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May did nothing to allay concerns about the broad powers proposed for Canada's spies in the government's anti-terrorism bill, May said Tuesday.

A B.C. beagle honoured the family name when she won Best in Show at the 139th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York City on Tuesday evening.

A woman who missed out on her dream home in San Diego has been convicted of stalking the young family who outbid her.

The longtime head of a suburban Chicago Islamic school has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman who worked there, and a civil suit filed Tuesday accuses him of abusing that employee and three teenage students. The legal actions shed light on an i

A baby in India has survived after its mother gave birth in a train toilet and the newborn fell through onto the tracks, according to the Daily Mail Online.

Islamic State militants are planning a takeover of Libya as a "gateway" to wage war across the whole of southern Europe, letters written by the group's supporters have revealed.

Canadian IP addresses were among the targets of a newly-revealed exploit aimed at banks and financial institutions around the world from a group that could have netted as much as US$1 billion over the last two years.

A long-running study concludes that the well-being of northerners in Canada's Arctic compares poorly with those in many other Arctic regions around the world.

Teens are getting less sleep, a "concerning trend" for their development, the authors of a 20-year study say.

Teenage skipper Jake Bowman-Davies keeps head while boat fills with water off Lleyn Peninsula in North Wales and decides to abandon ship

The BCHL hockey player penalized for knocking a referee into next week says he has apologized for the hit that's gone viral on social media.

David Cameron says it is 'not big hearted' to leave people claiming sickness allowances for obesity and alcohol dependency

It took the help of engineers, surveyors and more than a month to construct, but Fort William Historical Park says it shattered a Guinness record on Sunday for the world's largest snow maze.

The company that owns Tim Hortons swung to a huge $514-million loss in the fourth quarter, largely because of costs associated with the mega-merger of Burger King to Canada's ubiquitous coffee and doughnut chain.

Lindsay Kantha Souvannarath and Randall Steven Shepherd are set to appear in court today on charges of conspiracy to commit murder after police say they foiled a plan for a Valentine's Day mass shooting at the Halifax Shopping Centre.

Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine claim to have taken the key transportation hub of Debaltseve, as both parties face a deadline to start pulling back heavy weapons from the front line.

The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.

Ten days and 250 hours later, 40 hockey players are now taking a well-earned break after setting the new record for the world's longest hockey game.

Looking every bit like a weapon from a science fiction movie, the latest integrated assault rifle prototype being developed for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) is packed with some very smart weapons technology. Along with the ability to fire new lightweig

When Large Hadron Collider fires up again after its upgrade, scientists will be hoping to find a new particle they say could "rock the world".

The Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) poses massive threats to users in a dizzying number of ways. It will force other TPP signatories to accept the United States' excessive copyright terms of a minimum of life of the author plus 70 years, while

Ian Bush, an Ottawa man accused of invading the home of a Second World War veteran and leaving him bound with a plastic bag over his head, has been linked to a 2007 triple homicide investigation involving retired federal court judge Alban Garon, CBC News

A three-man arbitration panel has ordered Lance Armstrong and Tailwind Sports to pay $10 million US in a fraud dispute with a promotions company.

Roads remain packed with ice and snow, and drivers have been asked to stay home if possible, the day after a severe winter storm brought blizzard conditions across much of the Maritimes and eastern Quebec.

A black Labrador belonging to a Surrey, B.C., man is recovering from a brutal attack after RCMP arrested a 24-year-old woman covered in the dog's blood.

Although the data is still being studied, preliminary results suggest 39 per cent of military members had been slapped or spanked more than three times as children; comparable research on the general population indicates some 22 per cent of civilians had

Witnesses said staff had to wipe blood off the seats before the next screening at the Glasgow cinema while drunk women were vomiting in the aisles

Researchers from ETH Zurich encased DNA in silica and subjected the spheres to extreme temperatures. This was designed to mimic degradation seen naturally on DNA (stock image)

The cream was created by a PhD student at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and makes use of the natural healing process that takes place after skin is tattooed in the first place.

Benjamin Miller was hurt at Ciudad Rodrigo's Carnaval del Toro yesterday. The Georgia native had a three-hour operation to repair his thighs, sphincter and back Miller is recovering in an intensive-care unit.

Vancouver native found unconscious in his home in Mississauga

A team from Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute and the Global Challenges Foundation has come up with the first scientific assessment of the apocalyptic risks we face.

Paul Cummins created 888,246 poppies for the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red installation at the Tower of London, but has received death threats about money from sales going to military charities.

A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed in southwestern Alberta earlier today.

Two people were arrested at the airport and have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder after an alleged plot was foiled to kill a large number of people at the Halifax Shopping Centre in the city's west end on Valentine's Day.

More than 3,000 Teamsters members have gone on strike at the Canadian Pacific Railway after contract talks failed to reach an agreement before the midnight deadline.

A Canadian veteran is home safe after a stint in northern Iraq fighting alongside Kurdish troops battling ISIS, but despite an experience on the front lines that Dillon Hillier admits was "terrifying," he says he would return in a heartbeat if he could.

Homicide investigators are probing the suspicious death of a three-year-old girl in Surrey, B.C.

Some Nunavummiut say this is the coldest winter in a long time. CBC North's Christy Climenhaga say Iqaluit's February temperatures have been 5 degrees colder than normal.

Ottawa police have issued an Amber Alert for two young children they believed were abducted by a woman. Police say they are looking for: Jaden Khalifa, 3. Caleb Brisebois, 1.

One man is dead and another is in hospital following an avalanche in southern Alberta this afternoon.

Police allege a woman in Vaudreuil, Que., a Montreal suburb, used a sharp object to kill her seven-year-old daughter in their home late Thursday and then turned the weapon on herself, causing multiple injuries.

Snowy weather and freezing temperatures forced the first-ever Red Bull Kite Farm event to be rescheduled.

Another major winter storm is headed for the Maritime provinces, creating potentially hazardous conditions, Environment Canada warned Saturday morning.

Richard III suffered serious trauma to the left base of his skull more than five centuries ago, likely leading to his death at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, according to pathologists.

A 66-year-old man is facing charges that he unlawfully used military uniforms and medals when attending oath ceremonies held by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

RCMP have arrested three people allegedly involved in a plot to commit mass murder in Halifax on Valentine's Day.

For an 11-year-old girl, a routine appointment to get her teeth cleaned resulted in a shocking diagnosis

Fallen Canadian hero Steve Fonyo is in an induced coma after being stabbed in the back and beaten by attackers at his Whalley home early Friday morning,

One person has died after shots were fired at Copenhagen cafe where a controversial cartoonist was attending a free speech debate, Danish police say.

Despite dedicating more than 32 minutes of airtime to the 70th anniversary of the Dresden bombings, the BBC barely mentioned the British airmen who lost their lives.

Islamic State fighters led a suicide attack on an air base where U.S. and coalition troops are training Iraqi forces after taking a nearby town, the first territorial gain by the militant group in months, the Pentagon said Friday.

Church of England makes Satan optional as new pacifist baptism service also removes words such as fight, because of violent overtones

Many people rely on making healthy food choices to lower their risk of chronic illnesses or because they are concerned about their weight. But how much can you rely on labels? CBC's Marketplace found some labels on food shelves are misleading, or appear t

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirms it has found a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease, in a beef cow in Alberta.

Sun News Network, dubbed by pundits as "Fox News North" when it launched in April 2011, went off the air Friday morning after failing to find a new owner.

Intelligence leaker Chelsea Manning will receive trans-gender hormone therapy at Fort Leavenworth prison, according to a new report.

The dramatic incident was caught on camera as it unfolded on a busy street in Texas on Wednesday afternoon at around 3.30pm.

Ford announced at the Canadian International AutoShow on Thursday that its long-anticipated successor to the original GT will be built in Markham, Ont. in partnership with Multimatic. Production is slated to begin in late-2016.

Arabs living in Sinjar in Iraq's Nineveh province say groups of heavily armed Yazidis have made four raids on the villages over the past two weeks, leaving 21 people dead and a further 17 missing.

Sweden's central bank cuts its key interest rate from 0% to a record low of -0.1% and starts a programme of quantitative easing.

A court in Egypt orders the release on bail of two Al Jazeera journalists at the start of their retrial for aiding the banned Muslim Brotherhood.

The adult sex toy business is red hot thanks to more average average folk getting in on the act, seduced by kinky toys popping up in popular culture including the bestselling Fifty Shades novels. The movie version debuting Thursday evening in Canadian the

The RCMP watchdog says Mounties improperly took guns from flood-stricken homes in Alberta two years ago -- seizures that angered High River residents and fostered mistrust of the national police force.

Bombardier Inc. has made a major change in top management, announcing the retirement of its chairman, Laurent Beaudoin, and the hiring of a new chief executive.

Planet Earth was once like Middle Earth, with many kinds of hominins, says Canadian anthropologist and filmmaker Niobe Thompson. In a new documentary series, he explores why we're the only one left and how we became who we are.

A Seoul court on Thursday sentenced a former Korean Air executive to a year in prison for aviation law violations that stemmed from her inflight tantrum over how she was served macadamia nuts.

Longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Bob Simon was killed in a car crash in Manhattan on Wednesday, police said. He was 73.

Assistant deputy minister Tom Ethier told CBC News the 180 wolves being shot from helicopter in the South Peace and South Selkirk regions this winter are just the beginning.

A puppy that went blind after a child intentionally rubbed hair dye in his eyes is receiving treatment in Winnipeg and in need of a loving Manitoba home.

A B.C. Coroners Service report is calling for a review of the province's Graduated Licensing Program after the deaths of 106 young drivers.

Four members of the arts community are being identified by friends and colleagues as among the five people killed in a crash on a Saskatchewan highway.

Scientists raising questions about the ethics of Alberta's wolf cull are calling it cruel and unnecessary. Conservation biologists have published a letter in a scientific journal about the program, which has killed hundreds of wolves in an attempt to help

A former soldier who hatched a plan to attack the Veterans Affairs office in Calgary apologized for his actions at his sentencing hearing Wednesday.

The body of a military search-and-rescue technician who died after being buried in deep snow during a training exercise on an Alberta mountain was recovered late Wednesday.

The Winnipeg Jets dealt injured winger Evander Kane, defenceman Zach Bogosian and goaltending prospect Jason Kasdorf to the Buffalo Sabres for defenceman Tyler Myers, winger Drew Stafford, prospects Joel Armia and Brendan Lemieux and a 2015 first-round pi

The moment will be out of context, but Dylan Armstrong can't wait to have that Olympic medal around his neck. Six and a half years to the day after just missing the podium at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, the Canadian shot putter will receive a bronze me

Daniel Sedin scored his second goal at 1:20 of overtime, and the Vancouver Canucks recovered after blowing a late two-goal lead, beating the Chicago Blackhawks 5-4 on Wednesday night.