NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2009

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Improvised explosive device. A decade ago, the words had no place in the common Canadian lexicon.

BALTIMORE - Baltimore police say a burglary suspect mistakenly declared dead by medics after he was shot by an officer lay on a convenience store floor for half an hour before anyone noticed he was still alive.

A bright idea hatched in Winnipeg may just help astronauts get to Mars well-rested and content

The B.C. Lions signed linebacker JoJuan Armour, running back A.J. Harris and defensive lineman James Edwards on Monday.

Vancouver Canucks forward Alex Burrows is reportedly under investigation and could face charges as a result of an incident during a summer hockey league game.

Ticket sales are looking for good for Thursday's AC/DC concert in Moncton, which could lead to an unusual number of people calling in sick on Friday, predicts a human resources consultant.

CALGARY - The 44 Canadian peacekeepers who died while serving in Korea after the war will now have a lasting tribute on the memorial wall in Calgary's Peacekeeper Park.

CALGARY - Hundreds of upset concertgoers spilled onto the streets around the Telus Convention Centre Sunday night after a show by a popular Punjabi singer was shut down in mid-performance.

SASKATOON -- A 12-year-old Saskatoon boy has been charged with possession of stolen property, assault with a weapon, failure to stop for police, two counts of hit and run, and failure to hold a driver's licence after leading police on a car chase.

Witnesses foiled the escape of a man accused of stabbing a clerk at a North End gas station yesterday morning.

British Columbians are on edge Monday morning as scorching temperatures, dry conditions and winds continue to stoke a series of dangerous wildfires around the province

ROME -- Injured Ferrari driver Felipe Massa left a Budapest hospital after nine days of treatment on Monday and said he hoped to make a swift return to Formula One.

BEIJING -- A second man has died of pneumonic plague in northwest China, in an outbreak that prompted authorities to lock down a town where about a dozen people were infected with the highly contagious deadly lung disease, a state news agency said.

CALGARY - A heavy thunderstorm lit up the skies over Calgary early Monday morning - hours after Environment Canada issued a severe storm watch for much of Alberta Sunday.

OTTAWA -- Nearly 50 years after the New Democratic Party was founded, its members are soon to decide whether to lop "new" from their name

BRUSSELS -- Anders Fogh Rasmussen started work on Monday as NATO's new secretary-general, part of a team assembled by President Barack Obama to lead the war effort in Afghanistan.

The Ethiopian High Court in Addis Ababa sentenced a Canadian citizen to life imprisonment Monday for being a member of an Ethiopian rebel group and engaging in terrorist activities.

Karlheinz Schreiber, a key figure in a political party financing scandal involving former prime minister Brian Mulroney and former German chancellor Helmut Kohl, arrived in Germany on Monday and has been jailed after losing a decade-long extradition battl

Canadian military officials in Kandahar on Monday identified the second soldier killed in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan on Saturday.

We watched 159 cyclists approach a busy intersection. Only 21 came to a full stop It drives motorists crazy, but some cyclists believe it's safer to ignore stop signs

OTTAWA -- Federal officials got no warning that a Russian rocket would soar through Canadian airspace last December before splashing down, newly released documents show.

Karlheinz Schreiber has surrendered himself to the Toronto West Detention Centre.

A Canadian scientist and his U.S. colleague have discovered fossil evidence of two key moments in the evolution of higher-order animals, including humans: The emergence of both an "opposable thumb" and a "tree-climbing lifestyle" in a mammal-like, vertebr

One day after the Edmonton Oilers announced they're out of the running for Dany Heatley's services; it appears that the disgruntled winger's request to leave the nation's capital isn't dead.

Israeli police evicted about 50 people from a neighbourhood in East Jerusalem, the UN said, before Jewish settlers were allowed to move in and occupy the homes.

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- Two Canadian soldiers who were the best of friends died together Saturday when an improvised explosive device blew up as they investigated another IED in an area west of Kandahar City long regarded as a Taliban bastion.

If you had asked anyone to describe Donald Bakker they would likely have said he was just an ordinary Canadian -- a loving father and husband who lived a middle-class lifestyle, working regular hours at Vancouver banquet halls and donating part of his mod

A second autopsy performed at the request of former boxer Arturo Gatti's family has not ruled out homicide in his death.

After posting video of themselves showing off their shooting skills on YouTube, three men with a penchant for killing ducks are being hunted by the law.

Falling debris from a construction site killed a three-year-old girl last night, as witnesses watched in horror.

Pockets of more extensive winter freezing and concentrations of thicker, older ice at key "choke points" in the passage are hampering ship travel, the Canadian Ice Service says.

Canadian photographer loves shooting for Playboy but admits he still gets jitters in front of the models

TORONTO - It was one big, colourful party Saturday as throngs of revellers at the 42nd annual Caribana parade turned Toronto into Caribbean North

A 15-year-old girl from Bolton, Ont., has become the youngest person to swim solo across Lake Ontario.

About 1,200 residents of Fintry, B.C., were ordered to evacuate once again on Saturday, just two days after being allowed to return home.

It was a media cage fight, televised every weeknight at 8 p.m. But the match was halted when the blood started to spray executives in the high-priced seats.

Astronomers are puzzled by a strange bright spot which has appeared in the clouds of Venus.

Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for much of eastern B.C. near the Alberta border.

A wildfire burning near Lillooet, B.C., continued to grow in size Friday night, and officials said Saturday morning the blaze was less than one kilometre from the town.

Despite giving up seven turnovers, the Toronto Argonauts somehow found themselves in a position to beat the visiting Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday afternoon.

OTTAWA -- Some economists and small business leaders fear Michael Ignatieff is trying to revive employment insurance reforms that proved disastrous to the economy and Liberal political fortunes 38 years ago.

Twenty years ago today, Stephen Arnold Ford hacked his parents to death with an axe in their Airdrie bedroom.

TORONTO -- Honda is recalling 50,000 cars in Canada and almost 400,000 in the United States because of an airbag problem.

EDMONTON -- When the University of Alberta totalled up its applications from international graduate students wanting to study in Edmonton this September, the school noticed something it hadn't seen before.

NEW YORK -- The main terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport was evacuated Saturday morning, stranding hundreds of passengers, after a man entered the building with a fake bomb in a bag, police said.

The Dany Heatley situation took another strange twist Friday with Edmonton Oilers GM Steve Tambellini publicly announcing he's no longer interested in the disgruntled Ottawa Senators sniper.

Crystal Fisher of Stewiacke thought she had lots of time when she went into labour with her second child at 9 p.m. Thursday. As it turned out, she didn't have much time at all.

For many who own convertibles, what was love at first sight has turned into a lifelong affair

Robert Latimer, the Saskatchewan farmer who is serving a life sentence for killing his disabled daughter, has been given permission to take ten days away from his current residence, a half-way house in Ottawa.

An investigation is underway in Montreal into what's been described in two new lawsuits as another Ponzi scheme.

Thrift is in, but where to draw the line? A shopping expedition shows both sides

It's hard to believe this person was conscious, let alone driving.

After a day of political theatre, city endorses contentious deal ending record 39-day strike

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper will get a close look this month at Canada's efforts to beef up its military presence in the Arctic.

Premier Gordon Campbell urged British Columbians on Friday to stay out of the backcountry, saying the danger of forest fires is now the most extreme in memory.