NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2010

An official with India's lawn bowls squad has contracted dengue fever, the first person affiliated with the Commonwealth Games to contract the mosquito-borne disease.

Visions of athletes spending hours in the broiling sun without water or bathrooms almost kept Canada from marching in Sunday's opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.

Paul McCallum kicked a 19-yard field goal with 12 seconds left Saturday as the B.C. Lions defeated Winnipeg 16-14 to put the Blue Bombers farther out of playoff contention

Veterans Shane O'Brien and Darcy Hordichuk were waived by the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.

KITTERY, Maine - The USS Virginia shed pieces of its sonar-absorbent skin while on patrol, giving the submarine's hull a pockmarked appearance as it arrived for repairs at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

AMERSFOORT, Netherlands - As a child, Frank Seiffers did not have a fond impression of his older cousin, Cornelis Brouwenstijn. He says he thought of the young man as something of a scoundrel.

CALGARY - Black-footed ferret love is in the air and more are running free, say researchers who are making inroads to reintroduce the most endangered mammal in North America back onto the Prairies.

More than 400 people have signed an online petition to rename the Delta, B.C., park where 15-year-old Laura Szendrei was brutally attacked last month in her name. The petition urges people across Canada who have heard Szendrei's story to sign in support

Road access has been restored to all Newfoundland communities that were cut off because of damage caused by Hurricane Igor, the department of Transportation and Works said Saturday.

A central Nova Scotia jail has been turning away inmates on the weekends and sending them home because of overcrowding.

Quebec City is a sea of Nordiques blue. Thousands of people are taking part in what's being dubbed the "Blue March." They're demanding the return of NHL hockey 15 years after the city's beloved Nordiques left town.

Travis Lulay says he won't hesitate to tread the tightrope stretched between risk and reward when the B.C. Lions face the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Saturday at Empire Field.

With the victory, Saskatchewan clinched a playoff spot, improved to 9-4 and is still two points back of Calgary for first in the Western Division with a home game against Toronto next week followed by a showdown with the Stampeders.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The Canadian military has confirmed that hostile fire forced down a Chinook helicopter in August, but remains uncertain about what weapon the insurgents used.

A train crashed into another parked at a railway station in central Indonesia early Saturday, killing at least 36 people and injuring dozens, many seriously, officials and witnesses said.

Former British MP George Galloway, who was told he was not welcome in Canada last year, will try to enter the country on Saturday.

Calgary (10-3) bounced back from two straight losses by shredding Montreal's defence. Burris was superlative a week after getting benched, and his receivers took his catches and added beaucoup yards as Als' defenders chased in vain.

Two women have vanished off the streets of Prince George, B.C., over the past two months and the RCMP are asking for the public's helping in finding them.

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning consumers to avoid eating raw oysters from a third B.C. processor. West Coast oysters have been linked to at least three clusters of a norovirus-type illness in the Vancouver area

A Regina-trained artist says her Facebook page has been deleted by the company over images of women breast-feeding children taken from her works of art.

The head of the Canadian Islamic Congress says he's hurt and insulted that Defence Minister Peter MacKay has cancelled his speech at the National Defence Headquarters over accusations that the Islamic organization holds extremist views.

After an absence of 22 years, fixed wing fighter aircraft have returned to New Brunswick. The 1988 stand-down of 434 Tactical Fighter Squadron at CFB Chatham, N.B., saw the CF-5 Freedom Fighter become the last military fixed-wing based in the province.

For three days in September HMC Ships Algonquin and Protecteur practised interoperability with ships and aircraft from the Chilean Navy during Exercise TERRA AUSTRALIS.

As many as one fifth of plant species around the world are at risk of becoming extinct, a new study says.

More than a third of mammal species considered extinct or missing have been rediscovered, a study says, and a lot of effort is wasted in trying to find species that have no chance of being found again.

Researchers who used a remote-controlled helicopter to collect whale snot, documented bats having oral sex and showed that swearing makes you feel better when you stub a toe were among the winners of spoof IgNobel prizes Thursday.

Scientists in Finland have come up with a way to transmit sound waves through the vacuum of space, a feat previously restricted to science fiction movies.

Two Hells Angels on their way to a funeral had their motorcycles impounded after police say they were spotted going double the speed limit in a construction zone.

Police have issued a warrant for a suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old man in the summer. Two other suspects are already in custody.

A woman accused of posing as a police officer and extorting money from a driver she stopped for speeding was arrested on Friday.

The language of the Epic of Gilgamesh and King Hammurabi has found a new life online after being dead for some 2,000 years. Academics from across the world have recorded audio of Babylonian epics, poems, and even a magic spell to the Internet in an effort

Google has launched its online Street View service in Antarctica with a 360-degree ground-level view of an area called Half Moon Island showing penguins and the coast.

Six communities in eastern Newfoundland are still cut off from the province's road network 10 days after Hurricane Igor struck.

Nova Scotia has confirmed the first case for 2010 of a mosquito-borne virus that is almost always fatal to horses.

A woman whose son was killed in a 2008 crash in New Brunswick says she has persuaded the federal transport minister to subject 15-passenger vans to crash-worthiness tests.

Severe weather warnings are in effect for parts of New Brunswick as remnants of Tropical Storm Nicole make their way to the northwest of the province.

Former Quebec soccer coach Thierry Massimo has received a six-year sentence for sexually assaulting some of his young players.

Torrential rain over the past two days has caused major flooding across Quebec's Eastern Townships, killing at least one person.

An Ottawa woman is facing an additional charge of manslaughter in connection with a fatal hit-and-run involving a teenage boy last month.

Toronto police are searching for a suspect in connection with a shot fired inside a high school on Thursday.

Eight rail cars containing liquefied propane gas left the tracks near Parry Sound on Friday morning, disrupting the popular cross-country train service between Toronto and Vancouver.

A U.S. judge is asking the Vatican to co-operate in serving the Pope and two other top officials with court papers that stem from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse by a priest in Wisconsin.

Mary Beth Harshbarger, a Pennsylvania woman who shot and killed her husband during a 2006 hunting trip in central Newfoundland, was found not guilty Friday of criminal negligence causing death.

Gov. Gen. David Johnston and his wife, Sharon, moved into their new residence at Rideau Hall after an installation ceremony for the 28th Governor General on Parliament Hill on Friday.

Police said Greathouse traveled from Kansas City early Wednesday to allegedly kill Jamison because she believed that he made derogatory postings about her on the internet. CKAers beware.

U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or permission more than 60 years ago.

In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the subject matter before posing an inane question I have no intention of really answering: is this an important scientific finding?