NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2010

Indian organizers faced more embarrassment Sunday as a boxer's bed collapsed when he sat on it after moving into his accommodation at the Commonwealth Games athletes' village.

Chinese authorities say five people have been sickened with pneumonic plague in Tibet and that the deadly disease has killed one of them.

A slowdown in construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank expires at midnight local time Sunday, leaving negotiators with mere hours to find a compromise on the issue that would permit Mideast peace talks to continue

Henrik and Daniel Sedin each scored a goal and added an assist as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Anaheim Ducks 4-1 in pre-season action Saturday night.

EDMONTON - A young Edmonton woman is aiming even higher after beating out Olympic contenders to claim the title of Canada's best female closed trapshooter.

Times are tough for the mom made famous by her octuplet children. Nadya Suleman, dubbed Octomom by many, is holding a yard sale to try and avoid foreclosure on her house.

CALGARY - The hockey world is mourning the loss of former Calgary Hitmen owner Chuck Matson, who was killed in a plane crash near Sundre along with two other Albertans.

As many as 100 veterans are believed to be living on the streets of Toronto, but now there is help for those who have so proudly served our country.

Anti-Mafia prosecutors in Italy probing a powerful international crime network say they have uncovered the new face of the Mafia in Toronto, alleging there are seven dominant mob families in the city, each with a boss who sits on an influential board of c

Three years after he helped strangers caught in a fiery crash on the Trans-Canada Highway, one of the nine heroes being honoured with a Medal of Bravery says he feels a mix of emotions.

Mounties were forced to begin airlifting residents from a Vancouver Island reserve on Saturday as floodwaters continued to rise under heavy rain.

The B.C. Lions handed the Calgary Stampeders their first loss at home this season with a 29-10 victory Saturday night at McMahon Stadium.

Darian Durant threw his second touchdown pass of the game to Rob Bagg in the fourth quarter as the Saskatchewan Roughriders rallied from a 15-point deficit to defeat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats 32-25 on Saturday.

Hundreds of people flocked to a yard sale in Kingston, Ont., on Saturday after hearing a nine-year-old boy wanted to raise money to buy a headstone for his dead father.

Birds embarking on long distance migrations are more vulnerable to shifts in the climate than ones making shorter journeys, a study suggests.

EDMONTON - War veterans now have a sunny place to rest after a $75,000 donation helped build a rooftop garden in north Edmonton.

LONDON, Ont. - Just last month, Paula Chartrand was looking forward to moving to Sarnia from Sudbury with her two girls to start a new job and a new life as the school year began.

Call it Enviropig or Frankenswine, but a Canadian-made genetically enhanced pig could make its way on to North American dinner plates in the near future.

By the year 2050 Canada could be enjoying newfound status as a global superpower blessed with a developed north, plenty of fresh water, a growing population and new shipping lanes through the Arctic.

Canadian support staff are preparing to move into the athletes' village at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday, with the first group of athletes scheduled to follow closely behind.

She was the first Canadian female soldier killed in combat, and the highest-ranking officer to die in Afghanistan at the time. Her death and her story captivated the country.

Sailors from CFB Halifax are heading to Newfoundland to help repair the destruction brought by Hurricane Igor.

The Nova Scotia Archives has posted almost 100 films online, allowing greater access to some of the province's most celebrated moments, from Babe Ruth's visit to the Bluenose's last race.

The CFL has donated $75,000 to support minor football in the Maritimes. The money came from the anticipated profits of Sunday's game in Moncton, N.B., between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Toronto Argonauts.

At least 60 new positions will be added to Chrysler's factory in Windsor due to higher production levels for the 2011 minivans.

Five new provincial court judges have been appointed as British Columbia moves to fill a judicial void.

When the Vancouver Canucks take the ice on Saturday night against the Anaheim Ducks for their fourth pre-season game (CBC Sports, CBCSports.ca, 10 p.m. ET) there will be as much interest in who isn't playing as in who is.

The remains of one of serial killer Robert Pickton's victims were finally buried this weekend, more than a decade after she disappeared from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.

A state of emergency has been declared in Port Hardy, B.C., on northern Vancouver Island, after an intense rainstorm Friday night.

Military relief is arriving in Newfoundland and the lights are coming back on in the wake of Hurricane Igor. Canadian Forces soldiers have arrived to begin relief work in areas devastated by last Tuesday's devastating storm.

The Mounties say they are considering charging an anonymous tipster with perpetrating a hoax, following an international bomb scare that caused a flight from Toronto to be grounded and evacuated before it completed its journey to Pakistan.

A gang of six men arrested on suspicion burning copies of the Koran on YouTube said yesterday that they expected to be charged with stirring racial hatred.

One of the 492 Tamil migrants who arrived in B.C. last month has given birth to a baby girl.

Toronto residents are experiencing the city's highest temperature for Sept. 24 since record-keeping began in 1938.

At least 12 people have been taken to hospital, three in serious condition, as dozens of firefighters battle a six-alarm fire at a high-rise apartment building in downtown Toronto.

Calvillo erased a nine-point deficit in the fourth quarter, leading the CFL East-leading Montreal Alouettes to a 44-40 victory over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Friday night in front of 26,154 stunned fans at Canad Inns Stadium.

A teenage girl says she was mugged during rush hour at a bus stop in downtown Edmonton and nobody stopped to help.

B.C.'s labour minister is the latest MLA to face potential recall by those fighting the harmonized sales tax.

Neanderthals were keen on innovation and technology and developed tools all on their own, scientists say.

The surfaces of the oceans went through a short period of rapid temperature change 40 years ago, scientists have found - but the cause is unknown.

A black bear cub has received a 12-hour free ride to Winnipeg, Canada, from the town of Foxwarren, after getting stuck on the bottom of a train car.

CALGARY - On a wing and a prayer, the feathered focus of a high-flying rescue operation is recovering following a twisted adventure in northwest Calgary.

Wildlife officials on P.E.I. released two battling bald eagles that had locked their talons together on the weekend

Archaeologists say scrawl on the back of a letter recovered from a 17th century dig site reveals a previously unknown language spoken by indigenous peoples in northern Peru.

B.C.'s chiefs want the freedom to pull over anyone, anywhere, at any time of day and ask them to take random breathalyzer tests. Currently, an officer requires cause to get a breath sample.

A man once described by police as "one of the most prolific distributors of child pornography over the internet in British Columbia" has been sentenced to six years in prison for six sex-related offences involving children.

A funeral was held Friday for a man whose skeletal remains were discovered at the bottom of a well in southwestern Ontario 35 years after he disappeared.

Three people have been killed in a small plane crash about 130 kilometres northwest of Calgary, the RCMP said Friday afternoon.

Environment Canada is warning the first big storm of the fall season is already bearing down on the West Coast, bringing with it high winds and heavy rain.

India was yesterday building its chaotic Commonwealth Games venues with the toil and sweat of the country's children. Distressing pictures show children apparently as young as seven carrying hods and buckets as part of the Delhi's desperate bid to comple

Political satirist Stephen Colbert took his show to Capitol Hill today, where he testified at a hearing about illegal immigrant farm workers and prevaricated that "the obvious answer is for all of us to stop eating fruits and vegetables."

They originated in Canada, are marketed and branded as Canadian, but are locally owned no longer.

ATLANTA - Researchers weighed in on the controversial question of how much oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico during the BP Plc spill and said Thursday the total amount was around 4.4 million barrels.

A solar physicist at NASA says there's no reason to think that strong solar flares expected in 2013 will disrupt life on earth, a day after a British official warned they could bring power and communications systems to a grinding halt.

After a summer that included some of the driest stretches of weather on record, this September is shaping up to be one of the wettest.

Almost 40 years after the October Crisis of 1970, a pair of Radio-Canada documentaries has revealed new details about events surrounding the kidnappings of former British trade commissioner James Cross and ex-Quebec labour minister Pierre Laporte.

The Canadian Jewish Congress has come to the defence of a cartoonist accused by another Jewish group of anti-Semitism for drawing Parliament Hill's Peace Tower with a Star of David.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman remains optimistic that he will find a buyer for the owner-less Phoenix Coyotes by the end of the calendar year.

Almost three in five Canadians would like to see NHL franchises back in Winnipeg and Quebec City, but far fewer support federal money being spent to make it happen, a survey suggests.

A Winnipeg woman has been charged with human trafficking, the first time such a charge has been laid in Manitoba, police say.

A proposal for a Buddhist Temple with a controversial plan to give out free food is going to Regina city council.

The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have taken to lighthearted mockery in an effort to drum up fan support with the release of a pseudo-news report about a new hair-care product from the Saskatchewan Roughrider's Andy Fantuz.

A newlywed woman discovered her husband was already married when she saw his wedding pictures on Facebook, an Australian report said on Thursday.

Just five weeks after pledging to hold the line on coffee prices, Starbucks has announced "targeted price adjustments on certain beverages in certain markets."

A Canadian study confirms international declines in new breast cancer cases among post-menopausal women when the use of hormone replacement therapy fell sharply.

A Canadian instrument designed to analyze elements on Mars is ready to help scientists figure out whether the red planet was ever able to support life.

Leaders of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations want First Nations people to be exempt from the federal gun registry, saying the use of firearms for hunting is a basic treaty right that should not be limited in any way.

The first oilsands company to operate in Alberta is celebrating its transformation of a tailings pond into 220 hectares of earth and trees.

The world's most northern mosque has arrived by barge in Inuvik, N.W.T., giving Muslims in the Arctic town a proper place of worship.

The mayor of a small village in B.C.'s West Kootenay region says she had no idea her family was allegedly running a marijuana grow-op, and she won't step down over what she considers a private affair.

KFC wants to advertise its bunless burger on the buns of college girls

The State of Virginia is set to execute a woman for the first time in nearly 100 years Thursday evening, despite allegations she is mentally challenged.

A British Columbia school district is starting English language classes this week for the Tamil migrant children being held in a B.C. youth prison.

The American diplomats at the United Nations were prepared to give Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a chance.

In the quest to save the endangered Florida panther, their Texas cousins were the cat's meow. Wildlife biologists moved eight female panthers from Texas -- close relatives yet genetically distinct -- into south Florida 15 years ago in hopes of boosting re

Jose Bautista swings the bat with all his might, turning on pitches with a brute force that sends scorching line drives hundreds of feet away.

Move over fake lake: new documents show taxpayers shelled out millions for everything from glow sticks to port-a-potties for the G8 and G20 summits.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is flying to Newfoundland Thursday evening to witness first-hand the damage done by hurricane Igor.

Canadian officials in New Delhi said Thursday they are pleased with recent preparations for the Commonwealth Games and expect the event to proceed without further delay, after a new Indian official assumed responsibility for the project.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked the United Nations general assembly for a seat on the Security Council, in a speech Thursday afternoon that touched on Canada's work in Afghanistan and Haiti, as well as its hosting of the recent G20 meeting in Toronto.

Police say two witnesses have come forward in the case of an alleged teen gang rape at a B.C. rave, but no charges have been laid because of a lack of hard evidence.

Israel's military broke international laws during a raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla, a UN Human Rights Council investigation says. Its report said the action by commandos, which left nine dead, was "disproportionate" and "betrayed an unacceptable lev

Germany's wartime past played a part in encouraging young Germans to take an interest in Scottish culture, according to a Scots academic.

Muslims in Spain are campaigning to be allowed to worship alongside Christians in Cordoba Cathedral -- formerly the Great Mosque of Cordoba.

Greg Stewart's third-period power-play goal gave the Edmonton Oilers a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks Wednesday in an NHL pre-season game.

A 12-year-old boy is being recognized by the governor general and city council for his incredible courage and quick thinking that helped save his mother.

Officers raided a number of locations in Winnipeg on Wednesday morning. Members of the organized crime unit, street gang unit and tactical team targeted nine locations inside the city, carrying out search warrants and hunting for high-level cocaine dealer

The startling results of a CTV News sobriety test have some critics saying that B.C. needs to go even further when it comes to preventing drunk driving.

A new report from the University of Victoria suggests that the abuse of girls and women online is rampant and on the rise.

The $300 million sewage treatment system in Halifax Harbour is now keeping the water clean, but that is causing new problems for the Canadian navy.

A bystander is being credited with saving a teenaged girl's life after pulling her from the Ottawa River on Tuesday morning. Rescue crews were called to the river under the Portage Bridge at about 10:30 a.m. ET after reports someone had fallen into the wa

A 27-year-old hydro worker in Port Elgin, Ont., was electrocuted Tuesday night while working on a repair as severe thunderstorms swept southern and central Ontario.

Increased pollution of the Great Lakes is among the consequences of Ontario failing to follow through on its environmental promises, the province's environmental commissioner said Wednesday.

The change of season brings an end to what some people in Saskatchewan are calling the summer that never was. "It was awful, just awful," Kim Sakundiak, a produce vendor at Regina's farmers' market, told CBC News Wednesday. "The worst summer ever."

The massive wind turbine atop Grouse Mountain on Vancouver's North Shore has finally been approved by BC Hydro, allowing it to push electricity into the ski resort's power system.

Filmed over 5,000m up in the highlands of Bhutan in the Himalayas, the baby leopard investigates a camera trap set by a BBC Natural history film crew.

WASHINGTON - Researchers who discovered stem cells and the appetite hormone leptin, who proposed that dark energy is helping the universe expand and who developed "gene chips" are named in the 2010 Thomson Reuters predictions to win Nobel Prizes for medic

LONDON - The Titanic hit an iceberg in 1912 because of a basic steering error, and only sank as fast as it did because an official persuaded the captain to continue sailing, an author said in an interview published on Wednesday.

TORONTO - Stress, depression and a history of sexual abuse are all factors that Elaine Campione was dealing with in the months before she killed her two baby daughters, a jury heard Wednesday.

CALGARY - Police say a woman claims she moved to Calgary and found herself trapped as a sex slave before she escaped by fleeing the northeast home where her alleged captor forced her to work.

An international meeting to try to prevent the Arctic becoming the next battleground over mineral wealth is taking place in Moscow.

Tens of thousands of people across Newfoundland were without power Wednesday as crews tackled the aftermath of Hurricane Igor, a storm that swept a man to sea and crumbled bridges and highways.

LONGUEUIL, Que. - Canada's space program is entering a new era: it's moving beyond robotic arms, and is now working on space rovers.

OTTAWA - The Canadian army captured 439 suspected Taliban fighters in the first seven years of the Afghan war, and has been setting free an increasing number of those prisoners, newly released statistics show.