NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2010

High winds around Vancouver on Monday morning have downed trees, knocked out power to thousands of residents and blown at least one large sailboat onto the rocks.

A teenager who became a folk hero in the U.S. while eluding police for two years may one day face charges in B.C. for allegedly stealing a plane after finally being captured in the Bahamas on Sunday during a high-speed boat chase.

Staffing levels on a ship working in the oil industry off eastern Newfoundland have dropped, putting safety of employees at risk.

Got an idea for a smartphone app? If you've got an Android phone you might be able to build it yourself, thanks to App Inventor for Android, a new Google Labs program for Windows, OS X, and Linux that's designed to make building Android programs as easy a

While the hole in the Earth's protective ozone layer is slowly healing, its recovery might have a downside, scientists say: Climate change could change wind patterns and send ozone from high in the atmosphere down to the surface, where it is a major compo

BERN, Switzerland - The Swiss government declared renowned film director Roman Polanski a free man on Monday after rejecting a U.S. request to extradite him on a charge of having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

An anxious June 26 phone call from Russian spy Anna Chapman to her father, a KGB veteran working in Moscow's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, led the Obama administration to hasten the arrests the next day of Chapman and nine other "illegals" in the United St

One of the biggest daytime talk-shows in the United States has arrived in Canada's smallest province, and its two stars are soaking up the local culture.

Jerald Brown's interception return for a touchdown was the difference as the Montreal Alouettes got their first win of the season Sunday, defeating the Edmonton Eskimos 33-23.

Geared up at the top of Victoria Park Road, dozens of kids raced to the bottom of the hill in something that hasn't been seen in a few years; a soap box derby car.

Authorities have evacuated three trailer parks in Armstrong, B.C., as a large fire rages at a nearby sawmill.

An RCMP constable has been charged with second-degree murder after his wife's body was found inside the couple's southeast Edmonton home this weekend

"Barefoot bandit" Colton Harris-Moore, a notorious teenage fugitive who has been on the run for nearly two years, was arrested in the Bahamas, according to media reports Monday.

The controlled collapse of a building in downtown Edmonton resulted in debris tumbling into the street, blocking the eastbound lanes of Jasper Avenue.

TORONTO - A 48-year-old single mother of two is now the leader of the pack after winning the title of Miss Cougar Canada.

Organizers vow to sail on to Gaza, despite reports a humanitarian aid ship en route from Greece will have to dock in a nearby Egyptian port instead.

Spain has beaten the Netherlands 1-0 to win the World Cup for the first time in the country's history, with a shot that rocketed into the net in the final minutes of extra time.

A powerful earthquake has hit Chile for the second time this year.

Tens of thousands of grieving Bosnian Muslims gathered Sunday to bury the remains of 775 newly identified victims killed when Bosnian Serbs overran the eastern town of Srebrenica exactly 15 years ago.

More than 250 aboriginals and non-aboriginals from the Montreal region and further afield joined in a march through Oka on Sunday morning to mark the 20th anniversary of the Oka crisis.

And today the Sunday Mercury can reveal how he plied his secret trade in ... Birmingham. In the 1990s Sutyagin was a young research assistant working for the Moscow-based US-Canada Institute, when he attended a conference run by Birmingham University a

India's government has allocated 500 billion rupees (about 11 billion dollars) to build and buy six new-generation submarines in what is considered the costliest military contract in the South Asian nation's history, a newspaper reported Sunday.

A ship with supplies for Gaza will dock at el-Arish in Egypt, officials say, after Israeli pressure to stop the vessel breaking its Gaza blockade.

Europe's Rosetta space probe has flown past the Asteroid Lutetia, returning a stream of scientific data for analysis. The rock - some 120km (75 miles) in its longest dimension - is the biggest asteroid yet visited by a satellite.

Facebook does not allow images of female nipples on their site, including breast-feeding nipples and expensive doll nipples.

The summit may be over, but the outrage continues. Two weeks after thousands of demonstrators welcomed world leaders for a weekend of meetings in Toronto, protests over police handling of the event continues.

At least one thing is clear going into Sunday's World Cup Final between The Netherlands and Spain -- one soccer powerhouse is going home with its first title.

Officials say no one was harmed when a section of roof at a Surrey, B.C., elementary school crashed down late Friday afternoon, but the cause of the collapse remains a mystery.

Quarterback Darian Durant softened up the B.C. Lions with a lot of pinpoint passes, then the Saskatchewan Roughriders finished the job with some hard-nosed running in a 37-18 victory over the B.C. Lions on Saturday night in Vancouver.

New emission controls planned for Canada's coasts may threaten the country's multi-million-dollar cruise ship industry.

A veteran RCMP constable was arrested Saturday after his wife's body was found inside a home in a southeast Edmonton neighbourhood.

Saving you an arm and a leg, can make you hip, it seems. Sunday's Washington Post has a feature which describes why Ottawa is Canada's "cool capital."

Underwater robots removed a containment cap over the gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, the start of at least a two-day period where crude will flow freely into the water before a new cap is set in place.

HAMILTON, Ont. -- Rob Maver has been waiting since high school for the chance to kick a game-winning field goal. He made good on the opportunity Saturday, nailing a 23-yarder with 10 seconds remaining to give the Calgary Stampeders a 23-22 win over the

RIO DE JANEIRO - The bright pink colour gives them a striking appearance in the muddy jungle waters. That Amazon river dolphins are also gentle and curious makes them easy targets for nets and harpoons as they swim fearlessly up to fishing boats.

The Council of Ministers of the Harper government has approved in the last days of purchase of new fighter aircraft to replace the CF-18, Le Devoir has learned. Tel que le souhaitent les Forces canadiennes, Ottawa va acheter le F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (

Former NHL legend Bob Probert was remembered by friends Friday as a man whose passions could be summed up in four words: food, fun, friendship and family.

Baghdad officials said Saturday that 58,000 stray dogs have been killed in and around the Iraqi capital over the past three months as part of a campaign to curb an increasing number of strays blamed for attacks on residents.

Iran's government is denying reports that an Iranian woman convicted of adultery will be executed by stoning, though her death sentence may still be carried out by some other method.

A spate of thefts from gardens and washing lines in a southern English town had been puzzling police.

Canadians taking part in a global Internet campaign to save the life of an Iranian woman sentenced to death for adultery say they intend to keep the pressure on Iran's secretive theocratic government to draw more attention to the plight of Iranian women.

A 49-year-old Grande Prairie woman has died in an Edmonton hospital following a short stint in police custody. Alberta's Serious Response Team is now investigating the death as an in-custody death.

Celine Dion says the twins she's expecting are boys. The superstar singer revealed the sex of the babies in a brief statement Friday on her website.

A small black hole has been observed blowing a vast bubble of hot gas 1,000 light-years across. The gas is expanding because it is being heated by powerful particle "jets" being released by the black hole.

Members of Canada's disaster relief team deployed to earthquake-ravaged Haiti without proper gear and training, while confusion and conflicting priorities allowed reporters to board military flights into the country ahead of critical medical aid

Canada's spy chief believes Toronto could be a haven for terrorists trying to build weapons of mass destruction

Shots were fired at the Peace Arch international border crossing south of Vancouver on Friday as a driver heading from B.C. attempted to evade U.S. Customs.

Two Mounties in Kamloops, B.C. -- including a constable who shot and killed a burglary suspect in 2004 -- have been charged with assault in unrelated incidents, including a late night off-duty scuffle.

Just a day after conservation officers shot and killed a cougar near a school in Maple Ridge, B.C., another big cat has shown up in a different Fraser Valley neighbourhood.

RCMP have issued a Canada-wide warrant for Dale Koenders, a 46-year-old sex offender from Chilliwack, B.C., after he disappeared while on day parole.

Gen. David Petraeus, NATO's new troop commander in Afghanistan, landed in Kandahar Friday to visit the southern, war-torn region where Canadian troops have suffered heavy casualties.

Flooding, collapsed walls and power outages were reported as severe thunderstorms hit the Montreal region Friday afternoon.

The federal official leading the Gulf oil spill cleanup said Friday a new containment cap and an additional ship collecting oil could effectively contain the spill in the next three days.

Canada's new moves to control and regulate shipping through the Northwest Passage and the rest of its Arctic waters may violate international rules, says the world's largest group of shipping companies.

The most senior ranking Canadian military officer in Haiti has been relieved of command and is the subject of an internal investigation.

A popular U.S. website has a unique suggestion for Americans desperately seeking work. The advice? Move to Canada.

VANCOUVER -- The province of British Columbia says it spent $925 million to host the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The daughter of a Nazi U-boat captain who sank ships near St. John's during the Second World War struggled with mixed emotions on a pilgrimage to Newfoundland this week to make peace with her father's past.

Whether it is their residence, a second home or a house bought as an investment, the rich have stopped paying the mortgage at a rate that greatly exceeds the rest of the population.

The 250th anniversary of the last naval battle between England and France for North American land is being remembered this week on the Restigouche River, near Campbellton, N.B.

Tattoo Rock Parlour on Toronto's Queen West is going to be crawling with older women looking for fresh young meat Friday night with one lone woman hoping to be crowned Miss Cougar Canada at the end of the evening.

Biologists and health officials in southern Ontario are scrambling to contain an invasive plant that can cause blindness and severe burns.

Alberta officials are investigating a disturbing online video that appears to show a Calgary construction worker tossing a tool to a colleague while perched on scaffolding high above street level.

Canada's naval reserves are facing a five per cent budget cut. The $3-million rollback will affect sailors based in Nova Scotia.

Air quality in Metro Vancouver is forecast to deteriorate to "moderate" levels by Thursday night and into Friday, according to monitoring data released by the province.

After a long, cold and wet spring, it seems summer has finally arrived in B.C., with a high-pressure system that is breaking temperature records across the province.

What might be most surprising about Jason Mitschele is not that he's blind and works as a federal prosecutor. It's that he's blind, a federal prosecutor, and can't read braille. And neither can most vision-impaired people in Canada.

With a shortage of family doctors the country, and with many GP's refusing to take new patients, some doctors are coming up with an innovative solution: group medical visits.

British forces are to be pulled out of the Sangin district of Afghanistan, the scene of heavy UK casualties since the deployment of soldiers to Helmand province in 2006. Out of the 311 British service personnel to have died in Afghanistan, more than 100 w

Serial killer Clifford Olson has launched a grammatically-challenged legal threat at the Harper government over its plan to end pension payments to federal inmates.

The organizers said the flight was the longest and highest by a piloted solar-powered craft, reaching an altitude of just over 28,000 feet above sea level at an average speed of 23 knots, or about 26 miles per hour.

While Canadians have watched the Gulf of Mexico oil spill unfold from the safety of their living rooms, any number of the country's birds won't be so lucky as to escape the environmental catastrophe.

The Ottawa International Airport is demanding the owners of five abandoned vehicles to either move them, or lose them.

An Ontario man is facing charges of advocating or promoting genocide, under a rarely used section of the Criminal Code.

Olympic gold medallist Kevin Martin has been named the grand marshal for this year's Capital Ex parade and the Honda Indy Edmonton.

Following a three-month long police investigation, a 64-year-old Alberta man is facing several child pornography charges. CTV News has learned the man is a former Lethbridge College employee.

Sightings of an extremely rare creature are putting a tiny Vancouver Island beach town on the map in the worldwide birding community.

The company responsible for a botched demolition in downtown Vancouver last month didn't have a written safety plan or final clearance from building inspectors, according to a report from the city.

In the year since he retired from the NHL, former Vancouver Canucks captain Markus Naslund has had a chance to reflect on the good times and the disappointments.

Conservation officers have killed a cougar thought to be responsible for killing two goats in Maple Ridge, B.C

David Johnston said he is proud to have the opportunity to serve as Canada's next governor general, a position he will begin serving in this fall.

Ten people accused of being Russian spies embedded in the U.S. have been ordered deported from the country, in exchange for the release of four spies by the Kremlin.

One man has been taken to hospital in Windsor, Ont., following the collapse of an underground parking garage.

On Sunday near Okinawa, the Japanese navy spotted two Chinese warships sailing south into the Pacific. The Chinese vessels were in international waters, but their proximity to Okinawa, which hosts a preponderance of U.S. and Japanese military forces, alar

If China's satellites and spies were working properly, there was a flood of unsettling intelligence flowing into the Beijing headquarters of the Chinese Navy last week. A new class of U.S. super weapon had suddenly surfaced n

The Vancouver Canucks will retire former star player Markus Naslund's No. 19 jersey at Rogers Arena on Dec. 11, the team announced Wednesday night.

A lake in Manitoba will be named after homegrown National Hockey League champion Jonathan Toews, the provincial government announced Wednesday.

The prime minister has reached into the halls of academia to find the next governor general, and has chosen legal scholar David Johnston, CTV News has learned. "Queen Elizabeth has been informed and given her blessing," CTV's Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert

Travellers may be one step closer to flying on solar-powered aircraft if results from a 24-hour test flight, which began Wednesday morning, are positive, the aircraft's developers said.

Ancient man ventured into northern Europe far earlier than previously thought, settling on England's east coast more than 800,000 years ago, scientists said.

Two suspects have been arrested in connection with the theft of two camels and a tiger in June

Music fans are braving the heat with sunscreen, hats, and plenty of water for this year's Bluesfest.

Country superstar Carrie Underwood and Sens forward Mike Fisher will tie the knot this weekend.

Emotions ran high Wednesday at what was supposed to be a court appearance for two people charged in connection to the death of a mentally disabled woman.

More than 4,000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $5.6 million have been seized in what police are calling the largest coordinated marijuana bust in our province's history.

There is a delay in the drunk driving trial for Oilers goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin.

Police in New Westminster, B.C., hope an anonymous tipster will step up -- again -- as investigators try to crack a 14-year-old case.

Mourners are expected to gather in Abbotsford, B.C., Wednesday afternoon to remember and honour the life of young Clare Shelswell.

Canada's nuclear watchdog has declared the controversial nuclear facility at Chalk River, Ont., safe and has authorized its restart after more than a year of repairs.

Regina police have taken a local man into custody in connection with the suspected abduction of his daughter and his estranged partner, both of whom were the subject of a day-long Amber Alert.

Canadian and U.S. astronauts are exploring the depths of a unique B.C. lake alongside scientists, exchanging skills they hope will help them do science together in deep space.

If Internet pranksters have their way, Justin Bieber will be performing in one of the world's most oppressive regimes. Communist North Korea is currently leading an online poll on Bieber's My World Tour website, where the 16-year-old singer asked his fans

One uninsured woman's decision to put a bullet in her shoulder as a way to get free medical treatment for a painful injury turned out to be a shot in the dark.

A teenage thief who police say has brazenly made his way across the U.S. has apparently graduated to international fugitive, crash-landing a stolen plane and disappearing into the small sun-soaked Abaco islands of the Bahamas.