NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2008

The NDP says it may pursue criminal charges after the Conservatives covertly listened in, taped and distributed audio of a closed-door NDP strategy session.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - Muslims around the world, from the Middle East to communities in Britain and Austria, on Sunday condemned the Mumbai shooting rampage by suspected Islamic militants as senseless terrorism, but also found themselves on the defensive o

It's a vacation that has turned into a nightmare. Thousands of tourists remain stranded in Thailand, where anti-government protests have shut down major airports. Hundreds of Canadians are also waiting to come home, including a couple from North Vancouver

Dr. Pushpa Chandra has marathon medals for races she's run all over the world.

A new study of one of Canada's largest caribou herds seems to confirm fears that it is undergoing a steep and mysterious decline.

NEW DELHI - When gunmen started spraying Mumbai with bullets and seizing the city's landmarks, countless people around the globe turned not to the television or the radio for news, but to each other.

At least 46 people have been wounded in a grenade attack on anti-government protesters camped out at Thailand's Government House, the latest scene of violence in the country's growing political crisis.

Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques in Nigeria on Saturday in a second day of riots as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous country in years.

The only gunman captured by police after a string of attacks on Mumbai told authorities he belonged to a Pakistani militant group with links to the disputed region of Kashmir, a senior police officer said Sunday.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - To say thank you for sharing his life, Jeff Barber wants to give his adoptive father the gift of a lifetime - a trip to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

OTTAWA - Ottawa has quietly dropped plans to let the United States house a database of personal information about Canadians who hold special driver's licences aimed at better securing the border.

BRANDON, MAN. -- Two former Manitoba soldiers have been sentenced to 18 months in jail for child pornography.

Canadian spies are trying to recruit informants on a Quebec Mohawk reserve, telling their targets they're probing the national security threat posed by radical native groups and gathering intelligence on the murky, lucrative trade in contraband tobacco an

Global warming is for ever, some of the world's top climate scientists have concluded. Their research shows that carbon dioxide emitted from today's homes, cars and factories will continue to heat up the planet for hundreds of thousands of years.

WINNIPEG -- The Canadian embassy in Thailand has told 82 Canadians stuck in a hotel in Bangkok that the Canadian government will not send a plane to get them out of the country,

Friends are mourning the loss of a loveable junior hockey player killed in a car crash whose ultimate goal was to put others before himself.

This is Jennifer Moss' cautionary tale - one that involves a 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix, an exorbitant lease and masquerading creditors who used Facebook to hunt her down and humiliate her in front of family and friends.

The Canadian men's short-track speed skating team continued a successful weekend on Sunday with three more medals.

You can pick up after your pooch and make sure he plays nice, but it's your dog's breed that truly speaks volumes about what kind of owner you are.

When cutting calories from their diet, especially during the holiday season, conscientious eaters often start by eliminating sugar. But adding honey to tea or substituting "raw" sugar for white won't make a difference

European researchers warn that glacial ice is melting faster than previously thought after satellite images showed a massive chunk of Antarctic ice nearly disintegrate in only a few weeks.

A joint initiative between a Ryerson University computer science professor and his colleague in the school's fashion department has resulted in a device that allows rescue dogs to transmit video and audio of disaster victims that humans can't reach.

PASHMUL, Afghanistan - It gives a whole new meaning to "all in the family."

An upscale city contractor is suing the Flames captain for breach of contract on the construction of a home in southwest Calgary and is reportedly seeking more than $3 million in damages.

A children's birthday party in Oshawa, Ont., ended in horror when a man with a knife killed one person and wounded three others, including two small children, police said.

The federal Conservatives plan to deliver a federal budget on Jan. 27, amid opposition pressure to introduce an economic stimulus package.

After 24 hours of peering into a yawning political abyss, the Harper government took a step back on Saturday, dropping a plan to kill subsidies for political parties

Dave Frost, the vilified former hockey coach and NHL agent freshly acquitted on sexual exploitation charges involving teenage players, has launched a website designed to unleash secret stories about the NHL, closely-guarded playbooks and advice for young

The French male is not noted for modesty when it comes to discussing his sexual prowess, and a survey of condom size appears to underline the point.

QUEBEC - The federal government has filed a statement of claim of $487,000 against the seal hunt protest vessel Farley Mowat, owned by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

ANIZAI, Afghanistan - There was a time in Afghanistan when the Taliban controlled every aspect of daily life. In this tiny village in central Zhari district, the former rulers still maintain a tight grip on the local population, using the oldest tool in t

BANGKOK, Thailand - The vacation is over for tens of thousands of tourists in Thailand. But they can't go home.

TORONTO -- Health Canada says excessively high levels of lead have been found in a line of jewelry for children called Mood Chain.

Troops began searching through Mumbai's Taj Mahal Hotel on Saturday after a raid by Indian commandos killed the last three gunmen who had been barricaded inside the building

The Vancouver Canucks threw Cory Schneider into the fire, and although the rookie goalie held his own, he ended up getting singed by the Calgary Flames

A former volunteer at a Calgary church has been sentenced to two years in jail and two years probation for molesting three girls in his care.

Three boys under age 10 are in "extremely critical" condition after a horrific car accident involving three cars on a highway just outside Vancouver on Saturday morning

The amount of time Sea King pilots get in the air has increased considerably since a crash off Denmark nearly three years ago that investigators blamed on "an insidious combination of circumstances that led to a lowering of aircrew proficiency."

HOBART, Australia -- Officials rushed Sunday to reach about 80 whales stranded on a remote coast in southern Australia.

WINNIPEG -- Jason Smith was barely old enough to walk when he used the hose to make an ice rink in his family's Calgary-area yard.

Canada's Helen Upperton and Jenny Ciochetti captured gold at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Germany on Saturday.

A University of Calgary student got the thrill of a lifetime when she found bits of meteorite from a fireball that lit up the sky over Alberta and Saskatchewan last week.

A Calgary couple trapped in their room at the Trident-Oberoi hotel for more than 36 hours passed time reading books and finishing crossword puzzles, surviving on cookies, nuts and pop from the hotel fridge. Outside their doors, a bloody siege raged.

WINNIPEG - This city has joined the shortlist of four Canadian cities that have been tapped by the federal government as possible locations for an $88-million HIV vaccine manufacturing facility funded in part, by software billionaire Bill Gates.

EDMONTON - Two men ended up in a squeegee duel after one tried to rob the other at knifepoint Friday night on 118th Avenue, Edmonton police say.

SASKATOON - Disgraced First Nations leader David Ahenakew tried to explain his controversial comments about Nazism and the Jews during his hate-crimes trial Friday, saying Adolf Hitler "had his reasons" for his actions during the Second World War.

A B.C. scientist has made a discovery that could rescue the commercial tree industry from a billion-dollar blight. Stephen Takacs, a North Vancouver resident and animal behaviourist at Simon Fraser University, has discovered that an insect which has

OTTAWA - The angry mother of a man found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a bus passenger two years ago and emotional members of his victim's family confronted one another outside an Ottawa courtroom Friday.

HAMILTON - A lunch-hour fight club allegedly held in a Brantford, Ont., backyard has been shut down by the city's police, with charges laid against the home's tenants.

It was supposed to be a salty and tasty snack -- not slithery.

A Winnipeg man has been sentenced for the second time to eight years in prison for killing someone while he was drunk.

When 87-year-old Andrew Raskovics returned home from hospital last week, he was stunned to discover someone had cashed out almost $15,000 from his credit cards.

April Wine lead singer Myles Goodwin was hospitalized in Montreal on Friday, after he collapsed on his way to the airport.

A cartoon for the hollidays

The federal and Ontario governments have set a deadline of Dec. 5 for struggling automakers seeking financial support to crack open their books.

Seven people in Alberta have developed a form of immune system suppression after consuming cocaine laced with a chemical compound, public health officials said Friday.

Seven Albertans who perished in a fiery crash on an interstate highway in Colorado have been identified.

They are the ghosts of the Liberal party's contributors list. Once, they numbered more than 300 and helped keep the party's electoral machine running smoothly with annual donations of $5,000, the maximum then allowed.

The Toronto Maple Leafs confirmed the worst-kept secret in the NHL Friday, announcing that Brian Burke will be introduced as the team's new general manager at a Saturday afternoon press conference.

Prime Minister Stephen is trying to buy time and stave off a possible defeat by opposition parties by announcing the government will delay any confidence votes on the controversial economic update for one week.

The Canadian Coast Guard has confirmed that in a major first, a commercial ship travelled through the Northwest Passage this fall to deliver supplies to communities in western Nunavut.

A court in Iran has ruled that a man who blinded a woman with acid after she spurned his marriage proposals will also be blinded with acid.

One man is dead after a car plunged off a government dock into the Fraser River in Fort Langley, B.C. Friday afternoon.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas -- A series of small earthquakes that rattled central Arkansas in recent weeks could be a sign of something much bigger to come.

GENEVA -- Dr. Daniele Zullino keeps glass bottles full of white powder in a safe in a locked room of his office.

A worker was killed in the crush Friday after a throng of shoppers eager for post-Thanksgiving bargains burst through the doors at a suburban Wal-Mart, authorities said.

QUEBEC -- The Quebec and Labrador Assembly of First Nations said Thursday that the provincial and federal governments have failed them and that they intend to unilaterally declare their sovereignty.

OTTAWA -- A study in this month's issue of the peer-reviewed Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences predicts a major population of Atlantic cod will be gone within decades, even if fishing is halted completely.

CAEN, France (AP) _ The memories are 64 years old but retold with the clarity of yesterday: a young boy lowered by rope into a deep dark cave, watching the sky above shrink to a small and distant patch of blue.

CANBERRA, Australia - Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he won't change the number of Australian troops deployed in Afghanistan following the country's seventh combat death in the central Asian country.

The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany

LONDON -- Britain will carefully examine any request from the incoming U.S. administration to send more troops to Afghanistan, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said in an interview published Friday.

VANCOUVER -- The Pickton family has lost a legal bid to change the zoning classification of the notorious pig farm where Robert Pickton killed six women

MUMBAI, India - Fighting room-by-room through two luxury hotels, over dozens of bodies and through darkened corridors slick with blood, the commandos came up against well-trained and determined gunmen.

Freezing rain has caused the closure of a regional highway in central Labrador, and police on Friday are urging drivers in other areas to be extremely cautious

Five hostages were discovered dead at the Mumbai Jewish centre on Friday, the city's police chief confirmed, hours after police recovered 24 bodies at the Trident-Oberoi luxury hotel, raising the death toll to more than 150 in the series of attacks on sit

Canadian soldiers have just completed one of their largest operations ever in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 insurgent fighters and capturing several others, according to the Canadian military.

On a night when Oshawa celebrated the career of hockey legend Bobby Orr, the Generals put on a show for one of the best player the franchise has ever seen.

OTTAWA - When NASA returns to the moon, Canadian-built eyes could show its lunar rovers where to drive.

MONTREAL - The Conservative government is set to announce details later today of hotly debated reforms to Canada's immigration system that it says will benefit skilled workers in more than three dozen fields. TT

Seven British men have all been handed life sentences for the murder of a Canadian biker who was shot dead on a highway in the U.K. last year.

OTTAWA -- When the Carleton University Students' Association voted to scrap a popular cystic fibrosis fundraiser because the disease "only affect(s) white people, and primarily men," Christine Skobe was shocked.

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says a Canadian has been killed in Mumbai where terrorists have staged a series of deadly attacks.

British Columbia logger Walter Thomas is still haunted by the smell, sound and the terror of being confronted and attacked by a grizzly bear.

The countdown clock for the 2010 Winter Olympics may have taken a licking since its unveiling, but today it has stopped ticking.

Mike Cammalleri scored a hat trick and Curtis Glencross notched the winner late in the third period to give the Calgary Flames a 4-3 road win over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night.

Indian forces have launched an offensive on a Jewish centre in Mumbai, where gunmen are believed to be holding several hostages.

MONTERREY, Mexico - A driver in Mexico got himself into a sticky situation when he pulled over to help a woman whose pickup appeared to be broken down by the highway.

B.C. New Democrats voted with the Liberal government Thursday on a tax-relief bill aimed at helping the province weather the global economic storm.

A Canadian Inuit leader applauded Greenlanders voting in favour of more independence from Denmark this week, saying the vote benefits not only Greenland's mostly Inuit population, but all Inuit around the world as well.

Oh joy : - ) Even with that awful new logo on their new uniforms :O

After more than a year of living exclusively online, Mukmuk the marmot has been freed from his online cage and escaped to store shelves as an official 2010 Games mascot.

OTTAWA -- Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China.

OTTAWA -- Acid rain, one of the biggest environmental scourges of recent decades, has sapped the calcium from lakes across the Canadian Shield, slowly wiping out tiny creatures that need high doses of the nutrient to survive, new research shows.

The son of a man whose wartime exploits on the high seas inspired a major motion picture is "disappointed" after failing to repatriate his father's naval medals.

Coalition forces, including Canadians, have completed three operations throughout Kandahar, killing a number of Taliban and seizing large amounts of weapons and narcotics.

The Taliban have earned up to $470 million US from the Afghan opium trade this year alone, money that is being used to finance the insurgency against international and Afghan forces, the United Nations said on Thursday.

An Air New Zealand Airbus A320 airplane crashed in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday during a training flight off the coast of southern France, killing at least one of seven people on board, French authorities said.

Canada's opposition parties said Thursday they will vote against the Conservative government's fiscal update, sparking speculation the country could face another election in the midst of a global economic crisis.

The car is registered in Alberta, Canada, according to CSP. The Canadian Consulate has been notified and the Larimer County Coroner says all the occupants were from Alberta, Canada.

Security in Afghanistan has deteriorated to a seven-year low, Canada admitted yesterday, as President Hamid Karzai continued to vent frustration at the slow pace of progress and accidental civilian deaths caused by Western forces.

The U.S. has offered Canada early delivery on new C-130J military transport aircraft, but the Defence Department has taken months to decide whether it will accept.

Witness testifies through tears that Steinke gave details of triple murder hours after slaughter

Police in Kelowna, B.C. are advising parents to go through their children's Facebook messages to see if they are talking to someone named "Doc Raymond."

Backup goaltender Curtis Sanford will never be mistaken for Roberto Luongo, but the Ontario native is certainly doing his best impersonation of the Vancouver Canucks stalwart.

About 10 to 12 gunmen remained inside two hotels and a Jewish centre in Mumbai on Thursday as Indian commandos surrounded the buildings trying to free hostages a day after a series of co-ordinated attacks left more than 100 people dead

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has issued a statement calling the attacks in Mumbai, India, "despicable and cowardly," and says Canada condemns them.

The federal government has confirmed that at least two Canadians were among the hundreds of people injured in a series of deadly attacks on India's financial capital of Mumbai.

SURREY, B.C. - A Sikh man has been banned from coaching hockey because his turban makes it impossible for him to wear a helmet

TORONTO - A man convicted of killing his sister-in-law in India 11 years ago by dousing her in kerosene and setting her on fire will be allowed to sponsor his new wife for immigration to Canada, the Federal Court has ruled.

WINNIPEG - A veteran Winnipeg police officer calls it one of the most disturbing cases of his career