NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2015

As Taiwan was pounded by gale force winds from Typhoon Soudelor on Saturday, the Tapei 101 stood strong. The 508-metre skyscraper's tuned massive wind damper recorded its biggest movements ever as it helped offset the effects of 162 kilometres per hour wi

A couple of cougar sightings have put a sleepy neighbourhood in North Vancouver, B.C. on high alert.

Ontario Premier has been blasting Harper on various issues since the very beginning of the federal campaign

David Price pitched three-hit ball for seven innings, Justin Smoak lined Toronto's first grand slam in the Bronx and the Blue Jays beat the New York Yankees 6-0 Saturday for their seventh straight win.

Conservation officers are facing confrontation and intimidation from campers in B.C. who are determined to have a campfire despite a ban over much of the province.

"We found one animal dead and another one the next day, and two others the next day... it was too much," says zoo biologist Christine Gagnon.

A Victoria police officer who bought a plane ticket for an elderly woman with his own money so that she could be reunited with her family was quick to deflect praise for his kindness.

The Panama Canal Authority says it will impose new restrictions that will affect how much cargo ships can carry through the major seaway because drought has lowered water levels in Gatun and Alhajuela lakes.

The province is investigating after about 30 blue herons were killed at an oilsands mine in northern Alberta.

River levels in Southern B.C. are at record lows and water temperatures are at record highs. This is threatening the millions of salmon coming home to spawn and the billion-dollar freshwater fishing industry that depends on healthy rivers.

A skinny juvenile cougar was shot dead in Deep Cove by conservation officers Thursday evening after it clawed at a door and tried to get inside a home.

A city councillor from Langford on Vancouver Island is being characterized as off-base for his Facebook criticism of a teenage umpire.

A woman is facing impaired-driving charges in New Westminster after causing a multi-vehicle crash on the Pattullo Bridge Thursday evening that damaged 30 vehicles.

An Alberta mother says it's "unbelievable" that strangers have donated thousands of dollars to help pay the estimated $30,000 bill her family faces after the premature birth of her daughter in Ontario.

Stephen Harper's security detail was forced to take extra precautions at the Conservative leader's hotel after a group of bikers -- some wearing full-patched Hells Angels jackets -- rumbled into the parking lot Thursday.

A Victoria police officer who bought an airline ticket out of his own money for an elderly woman so that she could be reunited with her family is quick to deflect praise for his kindness.

Henry Burris scored on a one-yard quarterback sneak with 90 seconds left in the fourth quarter as the Ottawa Redblacks beat the Montreal Alouettes 26-23 Friday night.

Jose Bautista homered with one out in the 10th inning after two of the top slugging teams in the major leagues engaged in a tense pitchers' duel, lifting the surging Toronto Blue Jays over the New York Yankees 2-1 on Friday night, their sixth straight win

A Brazilian scientist has made the painful, first-hand discovery of the first frog capable of injecting a toxic venom into potential predators.

Absence may make the heart grow fonder, but holding hands may have kept it beating for two teens who doctors suspect were struck by lightning in California on Thursday when they were strolling hand in hand.

A church steeple on Nova Scotia's South Shore has been destroyed after it crashed to the ground as it was being moved by a crane on Friday afternoon.

A Manitouwadge family is feeling very lucky this week after a close encounter with a bear in their home.

Bus riders who commute from Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam are the big winners in TransLink's announcement it is introducing a one-zone fare system across the entire bus network.

North Korea says it will establish its own time zone next week by pulling back by 30 minutes its current standard time, a legacy of the Japanese colonial rule.

It looks like a creepy-crawly from an adventure movie set in a desert or tropical jungle, but this eight-legged creature with crab-like pincers makes its home in Canada's High Arctic.

Hundreds of tonnes of marine debris have been collected from the shores of Alaska and British Columbia as part of an unprecedented cleanup effort that an organizer says barely made a dent in the rubbish that remains on beaches.

An iceberg near Newfoundland starts to roll over then breaks apart, sending massive waves toward the shore - and it's all caught on camera.

Extra security precautions had to be taken for Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and his family Thursday when the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club rolled in to stay at the same east-end Toronto hotel.

Another group of beached whales in Nova Scotia has been helped back out to sea, marking the second time this week that concerned residents joined together to save a stranded pod.

A golden retriever named Yolanda warned authorities about the house fire on Thursday morning at her home in the Holmesburg section of Philadelphia. She called on a special phone and firefighters responded.

Fox's GOP debate was watched by 24 million viewers on Thursday night, according to Nielsen data, making it the highest-rated primary debate in television history.

Alliance Pipeline has shut down a natural gas pipeline in Western Canada after poisonous hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas got into the system.

Yesterday, one of New Zealand's major energy producers announced that it is planning on shuttering the last of the country's coal-fired power stations in 2018. The plant's extended life comes despite the fact that running it has become economically margin

Read 'Georges St-Pierre lauds new UFC drug-testing program, wishes it came sooner' on Yahoo Sports Canada. The UFC legend says he lobbied for more strict testing when he was a champ and was roundly ignored.

A Sudanese national is charged after allegedly walking nearly the full length of the 50.5 km (31-mile) Channel Tunnel towards the UK.

The refugee crisis on three Greek islands near Turkey is

Wildfires force some 1,400 people to leave their homes in western Spain as dry, hot conditions spark warnings in other European countries.

Christian Lyons had just seen Mission Impossible with a friend and was walking home alone - through the woods - when he had a dark encounter with five foxes. 'They were then closing the gap toward me with some intent,' says Lyons, a practising lawyer.

An ordained United Church of Canada minister who believes in neither God nor Bible said Wednesday she is prepared to fight an unprecedented attempt to boot her from the pulpit for her beliefs.

In remote communities at the edge of the Bering Sea, it's become increasingly difficult to land a walrus. Alaska Natives and scientists say warmer temperatures are causing the ice used by walrus to recede, pushing animals further north.

​The federal government says it is agreeing to an offshore drilling plan that allows up to 21 days to bring in capping technology for a subsea well blowout because requiring a shorter response time would be too expensive for Shell Canada Ltd.

Lest anyone forget, the drought in California and across the Southwest is still raging on. And one of the places where its effects can be observed most clearly is Nevada's Lake Mead.

Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership the only way to secure markets and make Canada strong? Or is it a global corporate plot to undermine freedoms Canadians hold dear? Don Pittis says the federal election is about choosing the best negotiator.

An Alberta mother is struggling to pay an air-ambulance bill for thousands of dollars after she gave birth prematurely in a northern Ontario hospital and required a medical evacuation.

A ferocious typhoon that had been The planet's biggest storm of the year roared toward Taiwan on Wednesday, weakened somewhat but still posing an ominous threat to the island nation staggered by a similar storm six years ago that killed more than 600 peop

When Red Deer RCMP executed an arrest warrant at a hotel in the city on Thursday, they interrupted an alleged aggravated assault and forcible confinement, and ended up charging six people.

Now Windows 10 has launched, Microsoft is starting to fill in the blanks regarding features removed from Windows 7 and Windows 8 and it doesn�t make for pleasant reading. Why? Because behind this free upgrade are the first signs of where Microsoft will

Newfoundland and Labrador just made history as the first province to drop student loans in favour of non-repayable grants. Effective Aug. 1, the move comes more than a year after it was first announced in the governing Progressive Conservatives' provin

Radical UK preacher Anjem Choudary is one of two men charged with inviting support for Islamic State militants, Scotland Yard says.

Dozens of small communities have blazing fast home internet service because they've decided to install it themselves rather than wait for the big telecom companies.

Eating spicy food, especially fresh chilli, has been linked to a lower risk of death in a Chinese study, researchers said Tuesday.

Stephen Harper has delivered the first big-budget promise of the Conservative election campaign: a permanent home-renovation tax credit that will cost taxpayers $1.5 billion a year once implemented.

A maritime nation has let its naval fleet go to seed. Here's how the once-proud Royal Canadian Navy fell into such an embarrassing state of disrepair

The lifeless body of Christopher Hyndman, co-host of the afternoon lifestyles show Steven and Chris on CBC-TV, was found in Toronto's east end Monday night, police confirm.

The power went out in neighbourhoods all over Calgary after the city was slammed by hail as a severe thunderstorm passed through late Tuesday afternoon.

The Vancouver Canucks have signed forward Brandon Sutter to a five-year contract extension at an average annual value of $4.375 US per season.

A vast bloom of toxic algae off the West Coast is denser, more widespread and deeper than scientists feared even weeks ago, according to surveyors.

Local residents rushed to rescue 16 pilot whales this morning that were beached near Judique, Cape Breton, managing to save 10 of them.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations have attracted considerable attention in Canada in recent weeks as the political consequences of dismantling agricultural protections loom large with a national elections scheduled for the fall.

Russia says it has submitted its bid for vast territories in the Arctic to the United Nations. The ministry said in a statement that Russia is claiming 1.2 million square kilometres of Arctic sea shelf extending more than 650 kilometres from the shore.

It was a beautiful day again in Calgary, and it seems it's not just residents who were taking a moment to relax in the backyard.

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper promises to bring back a home renovation tax credit and make it permanently available to Canadians, arguing it would inject $4.3 billion into the economy.

The new research challenges long-held beliefs about disorder and could lead to policy changes over screening

Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says that Canada is "head and shoulders" above the rest of the G7 when it comes to economic growth and job creation, putting the economy front and centre in his campaign. How does that claim stack up? We put it through t

U.S. President Barack Obama announces even steeper greenhouse gas cuts from U.S. power plants than previously expected.

The National Baseball Congress has suspended using batboys and batgirls during its World Series games in Kansas following the death of a 9-year-old boy who was accidentally hit in the head with a bat during a game.

Police are investigating after a man was seen committing an obscene act to the National War Memorial. Officers say bystanders saw the man climb the statue and begin the lewd activity late Sunday night.

Environment Canada has confirmed that a tornado touched down in southwestern Ontario on Sunday, when a band of intense thunderstorms rolled through the province.

Less than a month after an online bully attributed Serena Williams' sixth Wimbledon win to her being 'built like a man', Ronda received similar criticisms about her frame being too muscular.

When Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez attacked the U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center on July 16 with a handgun and an assault rifle, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Tim White opened fire.

Five years before he was shot to death in the failed terrorist attack in Garland, Texas, Nadir Soofi walked into a suburban Phoenix gun shop to buy a 9-millimeter pistol.

The Seattle CEO who reaped a publicity bonanza when he boosted the salaries of his employees to a minimum of $70,000 a year has fallen on hard times following the decision.

The old vowels are 'oot': Canadians are changing how we speak, though none of us are noticing. Linguists might know why.

State-run agencies and semi-official websites run articles in effort to discredit Ahmed Shaheed

A database of doping test results leaked by a whistle-blower reveal that one third of medals at the Olympics and World Championships held in the 21st century/this century were awarded to athletes with suspicious test results.

Just about everyone can agree that mosquitoes are an irritating part of the summer months.

After meeting the stem cell donor whose act of kindness saved his life, Alan Dickeson was left speechless.

TORONTO - A pair of Ontario college students is facing a tough crowd as they try to design an audible hockey puck that can be used by visually impaired players.

HitchBOT, a friendly hitchhiking robot has been destroyed while on a trip across the United States. HitchBOT was designed by a team of Canadian researchers as a social experiment to explore the relationship between humans and technology.

A lonely East Texas highway at 3 a.m., a man with a gun, an armadillo. What could go wrong? Only a head wound -- to the gunman, KLTV reports.

Black Lives Matter Toronto aims to make Canadians face the realities of how black communities are still affected by systemic racism

A wing flap that washed up on the beach of an Indian Ocean island has been verified by French authorities and others, including Boeing, as being from a Boeing 777, Malaysia Airlines said on Sunday.

Trump claims 'Hillary is giving confidential, top-of-the-line secrets to Huma ... who's telling her husband, who's a deviant and now works for a public relations firm.'

Rapid development and testing of drug may bring current epidemic in west Africa to an end and control future outbreaks, experts say

Baltimore reached a grim milestone on Friday, three months after riots erupted in response to the death of Freddie Gray in police custody: With 45 homicides in July, the city has seen more bloodshed in a single month than it has in 43 years.

The married gay couple, who are white, said they had been left frantic with worry about the boy's future, and blamed the authorities for focusing on his ethnicity 'rather than his best interests'.

Division 30, group of US trained moderate rebels in Syria, attacked by al-Qaeda linked al-Nusra, with five killed following abduction of commander

William H. Merideth, 47, from Kentucky has been charged with first degree criminal mischief and first-degree wanton endangerment after shooting at and destroying the $1,800 gadget.

The Changying Precision Technology Company factory in Dongguan City, in the country's central Guangdong province, has replaced 90 per cent of its workers with machines.