NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2008

Police have released photos a man suspected of sexually assaulting at least two women while trying to take photographs up their skirts in Markham.

NICOLAS Sarkozy saved the Georgian President from being hanged "by the balls" - a threat made in August by Vladimir Putin, according to an account that emerged yesterday from the Elysee Palace.

On October 17, 2008, Major Christopher Bard took over the reins of the squadron-known as Snowbirds-from outgoing commanding officer, Maj Robert Mitchell of Victoria, B.C.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A top Canadian commander Wednesday accused the Taliban of acting in "desperation" as a suicide bomber killed six people outside a government office in Kandahar city and unidentified attackers threw acid on a group of girls walking

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Archeologists have unearthed an 8th-century church believed to be the largest of several discovered at the famous dig in Palmyra, central Syria.

An international team of scientists led by a Canadian researcher has discovered three planets circling a star they say is 130 light years away.

In total, 15 ocean vessels loaded grain in Churchill between August 9 and October 20 this year bound for customers in Africa, Turkey and Europe. This included two shiploads of grain for the United Kingdom on vessels that unloaded Russian fertilizer at Chu

There should be concern within TSN for the upcoming Grey Cup. The sports cable network is staring at the possibility of an all-Alberta Grey Cup, which would not be good for ratings. If Edmonton manages to defeat Montreal in the East Division final on Satu

OTTAWA - The remains of an Alberta RCMP officer who was gunned down in the line of duty are heading to a new final resting place after the Supreme Court of Canada declined to intervene in a family battle over his burial site.

TORONTO - The search is on for a pair on Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup rings that were stolen during a break-in at a mansion belonging to the Bronfmans, one of Canada's wealthiest families.

WINNIPEG -- Samantha Kematch pointed the finger at her common-law husband for killing her five-year-old daughter Phoenix Sinclair, jurors heard yesterday.

KINGSTON - A Kingston man, who outstayed his welcome with a high school classmate and the man's girlfriend in ways they aren't likely to forget, has been placed on probation for three years and ordered to take psychological counselling.

CALGARY -- The woman kidnapped and sexually assaulted from a northeast business says she's lucky to be alive as sickening new details about the random attack emerged

Monopoly may have to add a new "Get out of Jail Free" card as a 195-kilogram Quebec prisoner was released early because his obese frame could not be accommodated.

REGINA -- A Regina judge ordered extra security for jury members Wednesday after they were threatened for finding two men not guilty of second-degree murder.

Canadian journalist Mellissa Fung said that no Taliban prisoners were exchanged for her release, but said some relatives of her capturers were set free by Afghan officials in order to secure her freedom

The first in Canada charged with the crime, Roxy's 'boyfriend' pleaded guilty to human trafficking this week

It's being billed as Canada's first aboriginal cartoon series.

Scientific research into neurological function has an uplifting message these days: It's never too late, and there's a lot you can do to preserve, and even improve, how your brain works. Because there is no joy in living a long life if your brain is in no

The world's developed economies have slid into recession and will shrink further in 2009, a top international organization said Thursday.

Their debts are already out of control; now they face a 24.75% Visa rate

A fake edition of the New York Times announcing the end of the Iraq war has been handed out to commuters in the US.

The Canada Line rapid-transit system conducted a first official ride Wednesday amid a looming class action lawsuit by merchants along Vancouver's Cambie Street.

Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo did more than break his own franchise record Wednesday night. He obliterated it.

Note: Strong Language This was recorded earlier this week in Vancouver. The bus was headed eastbound towards the eastend of the city, basically, through Chinatown. "Hong Kouver" comments by the guy roll off the shoulders of the many Asian passengers

Vancouver, BC - The Vancouver Canucks, in conjunction with the NHL, are proud to announce that three Canucks -- goaltender Roberto Luongo, centre Henrik Sedin and left wing Daniel Sedin -- have been named to the XM NHL All-Star Fan Ballot presented by 2K

It is a sigh of relief for drivers who use B.C.'s Highway 97 between Kelowna and Penticton.

MOSCOW - The Kremlin has rejected a second set of U.S. proposals offered to assuage increasingly strident Russian criticism of plans for an American missile-defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic, news agencies reported Wednesday

A ConocoPhillips Canada gas well is burning out of control in a remote area of northeastern B.C. near Chetwynd, the company says.

Call it a Remembrance Day story that a leading genealogy website would rather not remember.

MONTREAL -- The navy has spent millions of dollars over the past three years to keep Canada's old supply ships afloat.

CALGARY -- Staff at a northeast business are reeling after a co-worker was abducted at gunpoint while at work and repeatedly sexually assaulted in a stolen vehicle.

More than 60 years after the end of the Second World War, a P.E.I. veteran has received the Bronze Star for his service with a joint Canadian-American commando unit.

The Vancouver Canucks have a three-game win streak on the line Wednesday at 7 p.m. PT when they meet rival Colorado for the first time this season.

PARIS - Canada has plunged 13 spots in a global "gender gap index" and has fallen behind the United States in the battle to narrow the gap between men and women in areas such as income, education, health and political participation.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two schoolgirls are in hospital with serious facial burns as doctors work to save their sight, after men on motorcycles sprayed acid in the faces of six teenage girls walking to school Wednesday morning.

CALGARY -- Outraged a convicted killer is being released briefly from behind bars today, one justice advocate says the public has a right to know why David Shearing will be in their midst.

LONDON -- A local hunter has been charged after bullet fragments hit a bus with 49 passengers on board as it headed east along Highway 401 in Elgin County

Oil prices slipped below $59 US a barrel Wednesday as investors grappled with the prospect that global growth next year will slow more than originally feared, cutting demand for gasoline and other crude products.

A man from Ardrossan, Alta., said Tuesday that his late grandfather is the mystery soldier who owned six Second World War medals that sat unclaimed for 13 years in an Edmonton framing shop.

The federal government is purchasing another $50 billion in residential mortgages to further stabilize the lending industry and encourage lower interest rates, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced Wednesday.

CTV News is reporting another development in a case that has baffled police and the public for over a year, drawing worldwide attention to British Columbia's southwest coast.

"On the topic of elder abuse, society is back where we were with woman abuse in the 1970s," says Lisa Manuel, whose Family Service Toronto team provides counselling to seniors and their caregivers.

A mosque asking that Canadian workplaces respect a strict Muslim dress code is at the same time disseminating slurs against Jews and Western societies, and warning members against social integration.

A breastfeeding brouhaha has broken out at a York Region swimming facility.

A Korean war veteran has been reunited with his precious collection of memoirs, thanks to the efforts of a flight crew, who took up the challenge of bringing them back together.

It's been nearly two years since Master Cpl. Jody Mitic has been in Afghanistan.

Quebec soldiers, veterans and supporters gathered at the province's Valcartier Garrison near Quebec City to mark the 90th anniversary of the Armistice Tuesday.

A soldier who was killed during the Second World War will be honoured at a ceremony in France this week

Listening to music that makes you happy, especially if it's country music, may be good for your heart, a new study suggests.

Canadians gathering for Remembrance Day ceremonies across the country on Tuesday will include a Vancouver-born veteran who was considered an alien when he signed up to fight.

After stunning conservationists by mating for the first time in decades, a giant tortoise from the Galapagos islands called Lonesome George, who is the last of his kind, still may not become a dad.

A Calgary restaurant has come to a compromise between allowing employees to wear Remembrance Day poppies and food safety.

C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, the Toronto high school where a teenager was shot to death last year, was in lockdown again Tuesday after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed and rushed to hospital

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon confirmed the government's plans to The Canadian Press on Wednesday, one day after Obama was elected to office.

Canada behind only Australia in national branding survey but eighth among countries people most want to visit

Speculation on the uniform's design includes a return of 'Johnny Canuck', a popular figure in the team's pre-NHL years

EDMONTON - An Edmonton-area man stepped forward late Monday to claim six Second World War medals and a portrait of a Canadian soldier after a national media search for the identity of the mystery soldier.

Afghan girl sends letter to thank Canadian soldiers for fighting to 'bring peace' to her homeland

A TV documentary crew has added to the mystery surrounding Ogopogo by finding an unknown biological specimen in the depths of Okanagan Lake.

It's debatable which is more remarkable, the story of the Victoria pilot who died after being shipped to a Nazi concentration camp, or the fact that it was left to a Belgian air force officer to tell the tale.

Pirates hijacked a Philippines chemical tanker with 23 crew members near Somalia, bringing the total number of attacks in waters off the impoverished African nation this year to 83, a maritime official said Tuesday.

Four people have come forward to identify a soldier whose Second World War medals went unclaimed in an Edmonton framing shop for 13 years, a spokesman for the Canadian Forces said on Tuesday.

It was hardly the most regal moment in the QE2's glittering career when the supreme luxury ocean liner ran into a sandbank off Southampton this morning on its final voyage before metamorphosing into a floating hotel in Dubai.

Private George Lawrence Price died minutes before the end of WW1, waving to a pretty face

SAQQARA, Egypt -- Egypt's chief archeologist has announced the discovery of a 4,300-year-old pyramid in Saqqara, the sprawling necropolis and burial site of the rulers of ancient Memphis.

For the children of Charley Fox -- a Canadian war hero credited with hitting 56 ground targets and injuring one of Hitler's top commanders -- Remembrance Day has special meaning this year.

Veterans, world leaders and everyday citizens attended ceremonies around the world Tuesday to mark the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War, which devastated Europe and claimed millions of lives.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The families of six Canadian soldiers completed a pilgrimage of sorts today, taking part in a Remembrance Day ceremony in the barren and dangerous country where their loved ones lost their lives in the war against the Taliban.

Canadian and coalition troops gathered in a square at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan to mark Remembrance Day and honour their fallen comrades on Tuesday.

Thousands of Canadians gathered under grey skies at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Tuesday morning for Canada's largest Remembrance Day ceremony.

"We fought like tigers," recalls George MacDonell, 86. He'd run away from home at 17 to join the army, and two years later was among the 2,000 Canadian soldiers sent on the ill-fated mission to help defend Hong Kong, a British colony.

The first rule: Don't cry. At least not when you're with the blinded soldiers. "We'd cry when we got off duty," sighs Verna Ritchie, a Toronto girl who took off for England in 1944, age 26, to be a Red Cross aide. "Sometimes we'd have real occasion to

A one-eyed, three-legged dog that won the title of world's ugliest pooch this summer has died.

Man, 43, charged with assault, but moms say it's a hate crime

A rare collection of Second World War memorabilia, once belonging to the first Canadian to win a double honour for sinking enemy submarines, is currently up for auction in the U.K.

When you live in the house where a world-famous musician grew up, it's expected to be a bit of a draw.

An internet scam has been using the photo of a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan to try to sell supposed used vehicles.

Feeling lucky? What if the big prize for the lottery ticket you just bought has already been won? And no one told you?

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif - One nightmare haunts the producers of Dexter, the controversial television series about a serial killer. It's that nightmare that sees the show encouraging copycat killings in real life.

VANCOUVER - Police have known for years who is behind the slaying of journalist Tara Singh Hayer, his son told a memorial service Sunday in Surrey, B.C.

Instead of shivering outside Calgary's cenotaph this Remembrance Day with a plastic poppy pinned to his coat, 19-year-old Benjamin Wallace will be lacing up combat boots. He starts basic training in Quebec today.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - As much of the developed world slides into a recession after almost a decade of economic prosperity, Canadians may find they're winning a resilient economy at the cost of an environmental hangover. High energy and commodity prices ov

TORONTO -- Two fugitives sought by Interpol while hiding in the Toronto area were among 215 suspects arrested this year as they tried to slip into the U.S. at Niagara Falls, say U.S. border patrol officials.

CALGARY -- The grandson of a Second World War veteran and proud Canadian says he feels ashamed his employer won't let him wear a Remembrance Day poppy to work.

VANCOUVER -- Several dozen First Nations veterans and their supporters came together in Vancouver over the weekend to pay tribute to those who have served in armed conflicts in defence of Canada.

TORONTO -- A Montreal-based philosopher and a biologist working at a Toronto hospital Monday became the first Canadians to receive the Kyoto Prize -- Japan's equivalent of the Nobel Prize.

EDMONTON -- Michael Kalmanovitch might not be allowed to sell white poppies this Remembrance Day, but that hasn't stopped him from keeping the message of the controversial flower alive.

Abducted CBC reporter Mellissa Fung was released in exchange for two prisoners connected to the criminal gang holding her captive in Afghanistan, according to reports from a Pakistani news agency.

E. coli outbreaks in Halton, Niagara and Waterloo have been linked by DNA tests showing they share the same rare genetic makeup.

But of course it never ends, for Canada is renowned and admired for its peacekeeping and foreign military operations. Since the end of World War II, 150,000 Canadian troops have served, and we currently have 2,500 men and women serving in Afghanistan. As

Russian navy veterans and experts say that overcrowding and human error likely contributed to the accident on a brand-new nuclear submarine that killed 20 people.

Hamilton councillors are considering taking the gloves off in the fight over a new NHL team coming to Canada.

Provincial police are investigating a bizarre incident in which a 77-year-old Hamilton woman jumped out of a moving SUV on a highway yesterday, sustaining serious injuries.

NEW YORK -- A 90-year-old who says she's the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of the Second World War's most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday.

BEIJING - A strong magnitude 6.5 earthquake has struck remote northwestern China but there have been no immediate reports of casualties.

A small group of Canadian veterans and others gathered at a park in London, U.K., to honour soldiers on Remembrance Sunday.

VIMY RIDGE, France - Students, soldiers, and grateful French citizens shivered under the shadow of a towering war memorial today to honour those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in one of Canada's greatest military coups - the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

WASHINGTON -- A city of brittle stars off the coast of New Zealand, an Antarctic expressway where octopuses ride along in a flow of extra salty water and a carpet of tiny crustaceans on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor are among the wonders discovered by rese

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Chained, blindfolded and imprisoned in a tiny hole in a remote mountain area - that was Mellissa Fung's world for the month she spent in the hands of kidnappers in Afghanistan.

TORONTO - The big moment is finally set to arrive for Mork and The Professor.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving says 75,000 people are arrested annually in Canada for drinking and driving.

As Remembrance Day approaches, homeless veterans in Calgary are being urged to come forward and seek support. George Bittman, chair of the Poppy Fund and Veterans' Food Bank, yesterday said the organization recently assisted two homeless vets.

OTTAWA -- Aging veterans, fresh-faced students and Canadian Forces soldiers are travelling to sacred battlegrounds and towering memorials in France and Belgium to pay homage to Canada's war dead.

Sue McGill stared straight ahead, helpless and horrified, as a car raced head-on towards the Jeep her husband was driving -- and prepared for her life to end.

A passenger who punched the pilot aboard a Summit Air flight from Fort Simpson, N.W.T., to Yellowknife Thursday was arrested shortly after the plane touched down

TORONTO -- Astronauts circling high above the earth should expect a call from four Toronto college students who have surpassed expectations by coupling a simple-looking antenna with a complex communications device capable of contacting the International S

WINNIPEG -- Highway crews in western Manitoba's Riding Mountain National Park have a unique problem to solve after freezing rain and high winds downed over 100 trees there.

BERLIN -- Canadian world champion Jeremy Wotherspoon has been taken to hospital after a crash at the season-opening speedskating World Cup meet.

The ink on cherished family photos and letters from loved ones who fought in the Great War has faded in the 90 years since the Armistice. But modern has technology made "leaps and bounds" in an effort to preserve rare artifacts and changing the way we acc

Intelligence officials in Afghanistan said Sunday they have arrested three people involved in the kidnapping of Canadian journalist Mellissa Fung, who was released Saturday after nearly four weeks in captivity.

Canadian troops fighting in Afghanistan are up against two dangerous adversaries. The first, the elusive enemy; the second, the less-tangible threat of mental breakdown.

The Saviour of Ceylon has become the hero of St. Catharines. The southwestern Ontario town where Air Commodore Len Birchall was born and went to school in the early part of this century has officially recognized him for his wartime service and sacrifice

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Afghanistan kidnapping of CBC reporter Mellissa Fung, a 28-day ordeal that finally came to an end Saturday, shouldn't be taken as a sign that the Taliban are running rampant and escalating activity against westerners.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - During his first visit to dusty Kandahar Airfield, Barry Mellish was moved to tears by the modest marble cenotaph that commemorates the Canadian lives lost to the war in Afghanistan - including that of his son, Frank.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - It'll be the pictures - 97 of them, engraved in sombre black stone on the small square in the Canadian section of Kandahar Airfield - that'll get Cpl. Orson Martinez

The federal Liberal party national executive decided Saturday to turn a policy meeting scheduled for next spring into a leadership convention, while almost doubling the entry fee paid by candidates

The death toll after the collapse of a school on the outskirts of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, rose to 92 on Saturday as rescue workers continued to pull bodies and survivors from the rubble.