NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2009

Images a man allegedly made of his stepdaughter in her bedroom and a bathroom using hidden cameras were intercepted on a contractor's video equipment, Durham police say.

LONDON -- A distraught man flung television sets, stereos and furniture from a 9th-floor downtown apartment building and tried to set the place on fire yesterday before police broke down his door and subdued him

A 26-year old Greek woman has become an overnight national hero after setting fire to the genitals of a 23-year old drunken Briton who allegedly tried to sexually assault her in a crowded bar.

Pot-friendly lounges find jokes and tokes go hand in hand

Storied Spanish club's scrimmage a thrill a minute for excitement-starved fans

Canada expects 50.4 million doses of H1N1 vaccine to be enough to immunize everyone who needs and wants a shot in the arm to help protect against the global swine flu pandemic.

They can defuse roadside bombs and take out Taliban fighters but young Canadian soldiers can't seem to hang on to the big bonuses they earn risking their lives in Afghanistan.

A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has announced trade measures against Colombia, amid a growing diplomatic row between the two nations.

Icebreaker has survived two fires, six broken ribs and icy, perilous waters

CALGARY - The unique grip of geckos' toes that lets them effortlessly scale walls and hang upside down is activated by the feel of gravity tugging on their bodies,

GENEVA - Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier.

Canadian premiers had some tough talk about the Buy American provision in the U.S. stimulus package as they voiced their support for the federal government in its efforts to exempt Canada from the controversial policy.

An overnight ferry packed with sleeping passengers flipped in heavy seas near the Pacific island nation of Tonga, leaving more than 60 people missing and feared dead, officials said Thursday.

Rocket attacks carried out against Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups may constitute war crimes, a prominent human rights group said Thursday.

From the goose that laid the golden egg to the race between the tortoise and the hare, Aesop's fables are known for teaching moral lessons rather than literally being true

The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is suing the owner of a Vancouver-based website that gives tips on filing claims with the Crown corporation.

Three tourists from Nevada have a Downtown Eastside dumpster-diver to thank for saving their Alaskan cruise.

Cost has become the latest flashpoint between Conservatives and Liberals in their potentially election-provoking squabble over employment insurance reform.

They were on vacation, but members of a Finnish police hockey team visiting Vancouver found themselves suddenly back on duty when they came upon a city bus driver in trouble, according to police.

The federal government will order 50.4 million doses of swine flu vaccine, and will pick up 60 per cent of the cost, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced Thursday.

Lost Lagoon in Vancouver's renowned Stanley Park is suddenly looking strikingly different, and has authorities concerned as the usually dark waters of the 500-metre-wide pond have turned a stunning turquoise and nobody is sure why.

Outspoken president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship Dana White told the world something that he'd been telling The Sun for some time Thursday when he announced that the UFC would hold major mixed martial arts events in three Canadian cities in 2010.

John Hughes, the producer, writer and director whose 1980s films such as "Sixteen Candles," "The Breakfast Club" and "Some Kind of Wonderful" offered a sharp-eyed look at teenagers and their social habits, has died, according to a statement from his repre

MONTREAL -- The NAPA Auto Parts 200 will have many accomplished NASCAR drivers that could serve as motivation for Kyle Busch, including his closest rival in the Nationwide Series, Carl Edwards.

Another one for Newf ;-)

San Jose, CA (Sports Network) - Veteran center Jeremy Roenick made it official on Thursday and announced his retirement after a 20-year NHL career.

Polish police are questioning a woman suspected of fattening up dogs and slaughtering them to sell the lard as a health supplement, reports say.

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japan marked 64 years Thursday since Hiroshima was hit in the world's first atomic bomb attack with a call for a nuclear-weapons-free world, a goal backed by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Canadians planning to take advantage of the Home Renovation Tax Credit should know that it has not been passed into law, though one expert says it is almost a certainty that they will be able to file for it on their taxes.

The lawyer for a Canadian man sentenced to life in prison in Ethiopia says he is pushing forward with a lawsuit aimed at forcing Canada to halt development aid to Ethiopia.

VICTORIA, B.C. - A U.S. fire-fighting expert says evacuating communities to escape forest fires is not always the right thing to do.

An Edmonton tourist dove into Charlottetown Harbour to rescue a 67-year-old Charlottetown man Wednesday evening.

PHOENIX -- One week after the NHL rejected him as a potential franchise owner, Jim Balsillie's dream of buying the Phoenix Coyotes and moving them to southern Ontario has been given new life.

A one-night stay? Ninety dollars. Need to see a doctor? Ten bucks. Want toilet paper? Pay for it yourself.

WINNIPEG -- A Winnipeg man is suing the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Manitoba, claiming his son's fingers were burned by live wires sticking out of an electrical outlet in the parking lot at the organization's Donald Street headquarters.

Exhibitions coming to the AGO and the ROM explore the roots of today's celebrity portraiture

If your baby looks like Bill Gates, will he make money like Bill Gates? Have you always wanted a child that resembles Antonio Banderas? Tiger Woods? How about a bunch of Bob Sagets? A Los Angeles-based sperm bank is offering parents-to-be the choice.

Sixteen-year-old Alex Atkin was on a lunch break from his summer job at Purk's Place, selling bait and renting boats, when he saw a man rip off his shirt and shoes and run into the water.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen took the helm of NATO yesterday with a pledge to prevent Afghanistan from once more becoming the hub of international terrorism and to build a new strategic partnership with Russia.

Another high-profile member of Stephen Harper's inner circle is leaving the Prime Minister's Office as the minority Conservative government readies for a possible fall election.

In advertising, leprechauns are cutesy little elves who love to jig and giggle. In Irish mythology, though, leprechauns are pernicious troublemakers, sometimes evil and destructive

Neanderthals may have been actively killed off by modern humans, scientists believe, after a skeleton buried in an Iraqi cave was found to have a man-made spear wound

A top Russian general says two nuclear-powered Russian attack submarines that have been spotted off the U.S. East Coast are part of regular patrols.

Smoking pot can cause as much damage to cells and DNA as tobacco smoke, according to a group of Canadian researchers who are challenging the belief that marijuana is less harmful than cigarettes.

Three Minnesota girls won't forget the time they became stranded and spent a night in central Manitoba's unspoiled wilderness after their canoe washed away in the middle of nowhere

Grossed-out, excited and then concerned -- that's how a nine-year-old London girl felt when she pulled from her backyard pond a frog with five legs

A man is dead after being stabbed in Surrey, B.C. on Wednesday night.

A French hiker is lucky to be alive after falling more than 45 metres down a popular North Shore mountain.

PORT HOPE, Ont. - An Ontario driver has learned a hard lesson about respecting authority.

CARACAS, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez said Wednesday his government will buy dozens of Russian tanks because Venezuela feels threatened by a pending deal for the U.S. military to increase its presence in neighbouring Colombia.

HOUSTON - The Charles Manson follower convicted of attempting to assassinate President Gerald Ford is set to be released from a federal prison in Texas later this month after serving more than 30 years behind bars.

A gas hailed as a possible sign of life on Mars disappears from the planet's atmosphere hundreds of times faster than expected.

Dozens of so-called jumbo squid have washed ashore along Vancouver Island beaches in recent weeks, although a local biologist believes their deaths were likely natural.

A 14-year-old boy is in police custody in New Westminster, B.C., in connection with a pair of sexual assaults.

Cooler weather and the work of forest fire crews have resulted in the lifting of evacuation orders for more than 400 people in two areas of B.C.

Mont-Laurier was savaged Tuesday by the strongest tornado to hit Quebec since the one that destroyed more than 400 homes in Aylmer on the same date in 1994, according to Environment Canada

In 1967, a Vancouver businessman who caught some news on the radio impulsively took a trip to Chicago and saved a section of brick wall from a derelict warehouse that was slated for demolition.

LONDON - Alternative rock superstars Radiohead on Wednesday released a musical tribute to Harry Patch, the last soldier to fight in the trenches of Europe in World War I, who died at the age of 111.

The Fredericton Playhouse is commissioning a new musical detailing the controversial story of the Bricklin, the infamous automobile that etched itself into provincial history for its massive failure.

Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien was found not guilty of influence peddling Wednesday morning in one of the city's most closely followed criminal trials.

BELP, Switzerland - Swiss cheese is supposed to have holes in it, not bits of metal.

CALGARY -- While a Calgary family desperately hunts for their missing dog, a 13-year-old has been charged with theft and assault in connection with the pet's disappearance.

ST. CATHARINES -- A Merritton, pub owner who won $5 million on a lottery scratch ticket will get to keep all the cash, after a judge found his ex-friend's claim to half the jackpot was a "brazen fabrication.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - The community of Barriere, B.C., has finally found a way to give back for the help it received in 2003 as a fast moving forest fire ravaged the town

The San Jose Sharks have scheduled a news conference for Thursday, when it is expected that veteran centre Jeremy Roenick will announce his retirement.

Two American journalists, detained in North Korea since March, arrived in California today after former President Bill Clinton helped secure their release.

Paula Abdul announced Tuesday she is quitting American Idol, a show that she said became an international phenomenon with her help.

The man killed in a Muskoka plane crash yesterday afternoon was Bay St. luminary Jack Lawrence, founder and chief executive officer of the Toronto investments firm Lawrence and Co. Carol Richardson, a woman the company identified as Lawrence's companion,

Got an urge to post video of your kid at the wheel? Think. Think really hard

Crews battling the Mount McLean wildfire set off a series of controlled fires late Tuesday in an effort to contain the blaze that has forced the evacuation of Lillooet, B.C.

After days of record high temperatures, almost all of the province of B.C. is on a fire alert, and as one wildfire is brought under control, others flare up

Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it's likely British Columbia will need federal government financial disaster relief as vast parts of the province's forests go up in flames.

Russia is expressing confusion over critical comments made by Defence Minister Peter MacKay about a planned Russian paratrooper jump at the North Pole next spring, insisting that the mission should pose no problem since the top-of-the-world drop site is b

OTTAWA - The navy's proposed Arctic patrol ship project has been put on hold until the federal government works out a shipbuilding strategy with industry.

TORONTO - The Toronto stock market reached a symbolic landmark Tuesday, with its main index closing above 11,000 points for the first time since Oct. 1

Hot dry weather is among the more obvious reasons for the large number of wildfires in British Columbia this summer.

Canucks Sports & Entertainment announced on Tuesday that Chris Zimmerman is stepping down after three seasons as president of the Vancouver Canucks, with general manager Mike Gillis taking over the role.

MIAMI -- Forecasters say Tropical Storm Felicia has formed in the Pacific while Tropical Storm Enrique is strengthening not far from it.

VANCOUVER -- With the Who still deciding what's next, frontman Roger Daltrey has decided to kick off his first solo tour in 25 years with a show in Vancouver.

TOKYO -- A magnitude-6.5 earthquake hit off Japan's southern coast Wednesday, the country's Meteorological Agency said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

BEIJING - Chinese police have formally arrested 83 people on charges including murder and arson in connection with last month's deadly rioting in the western region of Xinjiang, state media reported Tuesday.

Police in Australia arrested four men Tuesday in connection with an alleged plot to launch a suicide attack on a military base west of Sydney.

NATO's governing body approved a plan Tuesday to reorganize the alliance's command structure in Afghanistan by setting up a new headquarters to handle the day-to-day running of the war.

Five people are dead after a gunman opened fire Tuesday evening at a health club near Pittsburgh, Pa., local police and a hospital said.

One of only two flyable Avro Lancasters left in the world landed at Winnipeg's Richardson International Airport Monday afternoon and was taxied over to the Western Canada Aviation Museum for public display.

Vancouver police are investigating the death of a woman that they say is the city's 17th homicide of the year

Vancouver's newest addition to the SkyTrain system, the Canada Line, will officially begin service on Monday, Aug. 17, two months earlier than originally scheduled and with a special treat for transit riders.

Wildlife officials in Western Canada are looking for three men who posted a YouTube video showing them shooting ducks, sometimes from inside a car.

Crews battling the Mount McLean wildfire were reporting some success late Tuesday in their efforts to contain the blaze that has forced the evacuation of Lillooet, B.C.

Residents of a tiny community in B.C.'s Cariboo Region got a break late Tuesday as fire crews managed to open up the one access route into town long enough to allow trucks through with food supplies after wildfires had cut the road off.

A tornado tore through the town of Mont-Laurier, Que., late Tuesday afternoon, damaging homes, uprooting trees and downing power lines.

Canadians are socking away more money and spending less than people of many other industrialized nations in the current global economic downturn, a new survey suggests.

Holmes says there have been a number of boats within the restricted area, saying they're 'lining up' to get a look. He adds that pilots fighting the fire are battling a number of factors and don't need the added hassle of navigating between boats.

LONGUEUIL, Que. -- Lined up single file, and giddy as grade school students, a group of Canadian teachers looked more like their pupils Tuesday as they waited to speak directly with astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

SUFFIELD, Alta. -- A British soldier training at a southern Alberta military base has been assaulted and badly injured.

Punjabi singer holds makeup show in park

BEIJING - A year after the Beijing Olympics, reminders of the Games' physical effect are visible throughout the capital, but so are signs of the many ways in which the event could not change China.

The Canadian dollar may be headed towards parity with the U.S. greenback as its recent meteoric rise shows no sign of slowing down.

The head of Formula One has told a Swiss magazine on Tuesday that the circuit will return to Montreal in 2010.

Nine wiener products have been recalled by Maple Leaf Foods Inc. because of concerns the meat may contain traces of listeria monocytogenes.

The next two or three days will be critical as crews try to get the upper hand on a wildfire that now covers 33 square kilometres and threatens to engulf the town of Lillooet, B.C.

A federal judge has cleared the way for the government's seizure of a creationism theme park in Pensacola owned by a couple convicted of tax fraud.

EDMONTON -- When the police officer came to Allison Crowell's door, her heart nearly stopped

LONDON -- The photographs of smiling women holding wrenches, rolling tires or showering with strategically located soap suds have already made it to the front lines with Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.

TORONTO - A human foot has been found in a load of garbage from Toronto that had been shipped to Seneca, N.Y.

What seems like an innocent remark raises hackles among women who wear the veil

Iran has perfected the technology to create and detonate a nuclear warhead and is merely awaiting the word from its Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to produce its first bomb.

The sleek four-engine A.V. Roe Canada C-102 built at Malton Airport, now Pearson International, lifted off Aug. 10, 1949, reaching speeds of 800 km/h 14 days after the world's first passenger jet flew in England.

The Mount McLean fire near Lillooet, B.C. continued to rage out of control Monday night after taking a turn for the worse over the weekend.

TORONTO - Treacherous water, howling winds and an angry buffalo all contributed to deaths or suspected deaths across Canada this long weekend.