NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2010

MONTREAL - High above the Earth, the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts depended on a series of calculations by Canadian engineers. The slightest miscalculation could have meant death for the three-man crew.

Do not mock the bald. God will curse you for it.

Naveen Sidhu is the creative developer and savvy businessman behind the world's most popular free iPhone app of the moment, The Impossible Test.

No more postcards from the edge at Statistics Canada.

A top Russian official demanded that all child adoptions by U.S. families be frozen Friday after a woman from Tennessee shipped her 7-year-old adopted Russian grandson on a one-way flight back to Moscow all alone.

A plane carrying Polish President Lech Kaczynski and much of the nation's ruling elite crashed landed in the Russian city of Smolensk on Saturday killing all 96 people on board.

WASHINGTON - A U.S. military doctor removed a live round of ammunition from the head of an Afghan soldier in an unusual and harrowing surgery.

Rescue crews at a West Virginia coal mine have found no more survivors, and all 29 workers trapped in an explosion are confirmed dead, officials said early Saturday.

Europe's Cryosat-2 spacecraft has launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on a mission to map the Earth's ice cover.

A rare first edition of The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, with a poignant handwritten note by the author to his young daughter, has been discovered.

A plan to scatter some of the ashes of explorer Sir Edmund Hillary at the peak of Mount Everest has been called off.

Today the Halifax-based frigate HMCS Fredericton completed her successful coalition deployment on Operation SAIPH, a counter-piracy and counter-terrorism mission. The ship and her crew of 240 personnel begin the 27-day transit back to their home port of H

Canada's long-retired and historically controversial Red Ensign -- the flag replaced in 1965 when the Maple Leaf was first raised across the country -- will make an official encore appearance in Ottawa at today's national remembrance commemoration marking

Retired Gen. Rick Hillier says Hamid Karzai's recent stunning comments are unacceptable, but he's not surprised the Afghan president feels frustrated.

Taken during the five-hour journey from Calgary to Red Deer that Stephanie and her Dad Peter Fuzessery made Thursday night.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has asked former cabinet minister Helena Guergis to sit outside the Conservative caucus while the RCMP investigates "serious" allegations over her conduct.

Russia threatened to suspend all child adoptions by U.S. families Friday after a seven-year-old boy adopted by a woman from Tennessee was sent alone on a one-way flight back to Moscow with a note saying he was violent and had severe psychological problems

Surface temperature readings from Venus suggest the planet has had active volcanoes some time in the last 2.5 million years, researchers say.

B.C.'s high-profile Solicitor General Kash Heed resigned from provincial cabinet after revealing the RCMP is investigating alleged violations of the Elections Act during the May 2009 provincial election campaign.

The downtown Regina offices of SGI, a provincial Crown corporation, were evacuated just before noon Friday amid safety concerns over intense winds.

A spring storm battered much of Saskatchewan Friday, with heavy wet snow falling in the Saskatoon region and 100 km/h winds battering Regina.

The number of narwhal in Baffin Bay is estimated at more than twice the previous figure after a recent survey using new techniques, say scientists with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

Nova Scotia is considering a bounty on coyotes after an attack on a woman Thursday

Is using the voice of Tiger Woods's deceased father in a TV commercial a piece of genius marketing or just plain creepy?

TORONTO - The Canadian dollar opened at 99.90 cents US on Friday.

Few people are laughing over a Maclean's magazine blog that invites readers to share "money and ethnics" jokes as an ailing Jacques Parizeau recovers in a Montreal hospital.

The Toronto police service has started an internal review on how officers conduct searches and arrests when dealing with people from various religions, CBC News has learned.

Montreal authorities say they will soon have results from laboratory tests on a bar of swastika-engraved soap alleged to be made from human remains.

Junior hockey player Chris Doyle was found not guilty of assault Friday, but received some harsh words from P.E.I. Judge John Douglas.

OTTAWA - Thousands of Canadians gathered at the National War Memorial Friday to mark the "End of an Era" and pay solemn tribute to those who fought and died in the First World War.

The poll, conducted by research firm EKOS and released Thursday exclusively to CBC News, found 59 per cent of respondents think all federal prison inmates should lose their federal pension benefits while in prison.

Joe Thornton scored his first goal since returning from injury and the San Jose Sharks moved a step closer to clinching the top spot in the Western Conference with a 4-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night.

It was hailed just four months ago by Environment Minister Jim Prentice as one of Canada's "richest ecological areas" when he announced a landmark $5-million study aimed at declaring it a National Marine Conservation Area.

The imam of Ottawa's largest mosque will be able to stay in Canada and continue his work in the capital now that the government has renewed his visa.

Massive staff and program cutbacks proposed by the Vancouver School Board this week could soon become a province-wide reality as school districts stare down multi-million dollar shortfalls.

The University of Victoria is considering a cull for its out-of-control rabbit population -- a proposal that has some animal lovers hopping mad.

MONTCOAL, West Virginia (Reuters) - Rescuers ventured back into a West Virginia coal mine Friday to search for four miners missing deep underground since an explosion nearly four days ago killed 25 others.

It was a stop on a tour that will take him from coast to coast to tell Canadians the day will come when Quebec becomes a sovereign country.

The B.C. Lions appointed Dennis Skulsky president and chief executive officer Thursday.

A Slovenian hockey team released six players Thursday after their U.S. coach was beaten up despite winning a league title.

The RCMP hopes the return of Heckler & Koch MP5 guns to Parliament Hill and embassy guard duties will go off without a bang.

Canadian archeologists in Turkey have unearthed an ancient treaty written in cuneiform that could have served as a model for the biblical description of God's covenant with the Israelites.

Scientists searching the floor of the Mediterranean say they have found the first multi-cellular creatures that live their lives entirely without oxygen.

The Vancouver Canucks and San Jose Sharks have clinched their respective division titles for the second straight season, and it's possible they could meet for a spot in the Stanley Cup finals.

As the seal cull gets underway north of Newfoundland and Labrador, one of its most gutsy champions returns home in support of the beleaguered hunt.

At least 200 people were buried in the latest landslide in the Rio de Janeiro area and are feared dead, a state security official said Thursday

OTTAWA - From ramming a car into a police cruiser, to shoplifting sandwich baggies, a number of diplomats were behaving badly in 2009.

Two fossil skeletons found in South Africa are members of a previously unknown species that fits in the transition between ancient "ape-men" and humans, scientists say.

EDMONTON - Ducks aren't the only animals dying in Alberta's oilsands region. As one company stands trial on wildlife charges over the deaths of 1,600 migrating waterfowl, government documents released by Greenpeace show the toll over eight years at three

The Yukon government is seeking protection for the Gold Rush-era boat sitting at the bottom of Lake Laberge.

Retired colonel Donald Stewart Ethell, a distinguished soldier who has served on 14 international peacekeeping missions, has been named Alberta's new lieutenant governor.

In a suburb of Guatemala City, a 90-day non-stop televised fundraiser for a Pentecostal church is in full swing. At one end of a courtyard is a make-shift TV studio, where a steady stream of believers are queuing to present gifts to a pastor live on air.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Defence Minister Peter MacKay reinforced Ottawa's dismay with Hamid Karzai's Taliban musings in face-to-face meetings Thursday with senior members of the Afghan president's cabinet.

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests that Do Not Call listings sharply reduce unwanted telemarketer calls.

The federal government privately approved Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's plan to visit St. John's last year, according to government documents.

Vancouver's Olympic Organizing Committee is suing the former owners of an inn in Squamish, B.C., who allegedly sold the hotel just prior to the 2010 Winter Games, leaving guests without accommodation.

Winds gusting up to nearly 100 kilometres an hour tore across the south coast of B.C. on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, cutting power to thousands and creating traffic problems across the region.

CAMPBELLFORD, Ont. - When you feel like streaking in a small town and there's nothing else open at night, where do you turn? One man apparently had the answer: The local Tim Hortons.

Former NHL head coach Pat Burns has been hospitalized with pneumonia, according to several reports.

Hello Kitty, the kitsch cartoon cat from Japan, is being used to market Italian wine.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Canada will send an additional 90 troops to Afghanistan to help train both the fledgling army and local police forces.

TORONTO - Sometimes you have to tear down some history in order to create some more.

A Qatari diplomat is in custody after U.S. air marshals wrestled him to the ground on a Denver-bound flight Wednesday evening, but officials said they found no explosives in his shoes and the whole incident have resulted from a misunderstanding.

Ottawa's transportation committee voted down a motion to charge the U.S. Embassy an encroachment fee for the use of portions of Sussex Drive and MacKenzie Avenue

About 37,000 lives a year would be saved if more Canadians simply increased their daily vitamin D intake to recommended levels, says a study funded by a non-profit group dedicated to raising awareness of the vitamin

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe said a sovereign Quebec would work well with a sovereign Newfoundland and Labrador.

The RCMP has issued a warning about vigilante justice after shots were fired at a home in Richmond, B.C., early Wednesday morning.

A young grey whale that washed up on a Vancouver Island beach last weekend likely died of starvation, not from an attack by another whale as was suspected.

Australian maritime authorities are preparing to remove tonnes of heavy fuel oil from a Chinese ship which is stranded on the Great Barrier Reef.

South Korean sailors who escaped a warship which sank last month have said they felt a large "external blast" before the ship went down.

It's a field in which one major discovery might be a career highlight. But a Canadian scientist working in China has scored a paleontological hat trick in the past month alone, co-authoring three papers that detail the discovery of two new species of the

MOSCOW - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attended a memorial ceremony on Wednesday for 22,000 Polish prisoners who were killed by Soviet secret police during World War II in an unprecedented gesture of good will and reconciliation to Poland.

Hours after seizing Kyrgyzstan's state television headquarters Wednesday, the country's opposition leaders announced on a broadcast that they have formed a new acting government

U.S. astronomers have observed a thin, dark cloud passing in front of a distant star, helping explain a mysterious eclipse first observed in the 19th century.

The arrival of spring on the West Coast signals the arrival of new families for the region's bald eagles, and for thousands of fans from all over the world, that means checking out a bird's progress via the internet every day.

Vancouver police are warning West Side residents about an attempted attack on a 13-year-old girl on Monday evening, marking the third assault on a girl in the neighbourhood this year.

'I'm not looking forward to when I have to quit.'

Broadcast Date: April 7, 1977 The Blue Jays' first game leaves many wondering if putting a major league team in Toronto was such a good idea. The weather is freezing cold and the entire field is covered in snow. Players and fans alike wonder if it will b

The crowd of about 150 people was yelling obscenities and threats outside the Sikh Lehar Centre in Brampton when three temple officials stepped out to pacify them.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper slammed Hamid Karzai following reports that the Afghan president threatened to quit politics and join the Taliban.

An ad for group sex with a "soccer mom" posted on Craigslist was a fake, sending a number of people to an unsuspecting household in Connecticut, say police.

A judge banned a 19-year-old from Hartland, N.B., - the smallest town in the province - as part of his release conditions for assault and other charges.

TORONTO - Two men are in serious condition in hospital after a bizarre fight in which one victim allegedly was beaten and another thrown from a third-floor window.

TORONTO -- A skateboarder is dead after crashing while being towed behind a car.

Police in Kelowna, B.C., came up with a unique way to deal with a noisy neighbour -- he wouldn't turn down the volume, so the RCMP turned up the heat.

The federal government and province of British Columbia have signed an agreement to tackle climate change.

Police in Surrey, B.C., saw more than 20,000 false 911 calls last year as South Asian residents attempted to call family and friends in India using the country code 91.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A dragon-sized, fruit-eating lizard that lives in the trees on the northern Philippines island of Luzon has been confirmed as a new species, scientists reported Tuesday.