NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2011

Recordings of male humpback whales have shown that their haunting songs spread through the ocean to other whales.

Russia's Arctic foxes are under threat from an expanding population of red foxes, according to scientists.

Dozens of people have been injured as ultra-conservative Salafist Muslims clashed with pro-government supporters in Jordan's northern city of Zarqa.

Authorities in the west African state of Burkina Faso have placed the capital Ouagadougou under curfew as unrest continues after a mutiny in the army.

Tens of millions of Nigerians have taken part in Africa's biggest presidential election, amid hopes of the most credible poll in two decades.

The smart phone in the pocket of just about every young adult could be an instant portal for politicians to the demographic least likely to vote on May 2. Yet more than halfway through the federal election campaign, it seems the parties have yet to put th

The $50 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw was won by two tickets purchased in Ontario and one in Quebec.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in South Vancouver on Saturday for the annual Vaisakhi Parade, an event marking the birth of the Sikh faith in 1699.

The Calgary area is dealing with another blast of winter. Inside the city, the snow has been falling lightly all day. But a snowfall warning is in effect for areas to the south and west.

Constant rainfall and unfriendly winds are expected to stretch across southern Ontario and the Toronto area through the weekend, Environment Canada warns.

Additional charges against a priest facing numerous sex abuse charges against Inuit children include one count of bestiality

With just more than two weeks until the federal election, "vote mobs" popped up throughout the Maritimes on Saturday

An increasing number of pets are either euthanized or abandoned because owners can't pay the medical bills, and part of the problem is the impulsive purchase of "designer" pets, say Ottawa animal welfare workers and veterinarians.

Edmonton's Kevin Martin and Sweden's Niklas Edin will clash in the final at the GP Car and Home Players' Championship in Grande Prairie Alta.

Former Saskatchewan premier Allan Blakeney has died following a brief battle with cancer, the provincial NDP announced Saturday. He was 85

BARRIE, Ont. - A woman Tasered by Barrie police "tipped over like a log" after being subdued in a downtown neighbourhood Friday afternoon.

BEAUMONT, Alta. - A moose wandering into town is a rare enough site in this small community south of Edmonton, and this one didn't appear to want to leave.

After printing 3 billion copies of a new postage stamp bearing an image of the Statue of Liberty, the United States Postal Service received a strange question from a stamp collector.

A Quebec-based brand of seafood dips has been recalled over concerns the products might contain Listeria bacteria.

Calgary police are looking for suspects who destroyed a downtown bus shelter and the window of an office building with gunfire.

The death toll from powerful storms and tornadoes that have devastated parts of the U.S. South, toppling trees, smashing buildings and tearing up trailers, rose to at least 20 late Saturday.

An Egyptian court on Saturday ordered the dissolving of the country's former ruling party and the confiscation of its assets, meeting a major demand of the protest movement that ousted president Hosni Mubarak.

Winnipeg was bracing for both its big waterways to rise dramatically Saturday after an ice jam on the Assiniboine River broke up last week, part of the devastating effects of flooding affecting the Prairies.

Moammar Gadhafi's forces poured rocket fire after dawn Saturday into Misrata, the only western city still in rebel hands, and residents who have endured more than a month of fighting angrily lashed out at NATO for failing to halt the deadly assault.

The Boston Bruins will head to Lake Placid, N.Y., next week, needing a miracle to get back into their first-round playoff series against the Montreal Canadiens.

The Conservative party insisted Thursday their candidate in Scarborough Southwest, Ragavan Paranchothy, has no ties to the Tamil Tigers.

Five NATO, four Afghan soldiers and one interpreter died Saturday morning at the Afghan military's eastern headquarters after a suicide bomber dressed in an army uniform blew himself up.

Adobe gave a demo of HTTP Live Streaming, a protocol created by Apple, at the 2011 National Association of Broadcasters trade show. This new video capability is an addition to its Flash Media Server, which will now give support to iOS devices.

Next week, council's executive policy committee will review an administrative report that recommends Winnipeg give up $3.63 million worth of payments to boost its contribution to the federal museum by 18 per cent.

Proceedings have begun in Federal Court in Vancouver against a Port Coquitlam, B.C., man who may lose his Canadian citizenship for allegedly participating in war crimes in Bosnia.

As the conflict in Libya lurched toward a deadly stalemate Friday, forces loyal to embattled leader Moammar Gadhafi shelled the city of Misrata in an attempt to halt any rebel advances.

Manitoba Emergency Measures Minister Steve Ashton says the province is facing one of its worst flood situations in 150 years. And the crest of the Red River flood is still several days away.

The leaders of the US, the UK and France have said in a joint letter that there can be no peace in Libya while Muammar Gaddafi stays in power.

Founders of Internet gambling companies PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker and Absolute Poker were among 11 people charged by the U.S. in a case that seeks at least $3 billion in forfeitures and penalties.

Commercial fishing is off-limits in the Beaufort Sea, according to a new agreement between the federal government and the Inuvialuit people of the western Arctic.

The Magnetic Hill Zoo is looking after two black bear cubs that were caught stranded on top of a utility pole last weekend near Bathurst.

A commander hailed by Croats as a hero of the Balkan conflict was convicted of war crimes by a UN court Friday and sentenced to 24 years in prison for a campaign of shelling, shootings and expulsions aimed at driving Serbs out of a Croatian border region

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Friday it would try again to drop wolves in the western Great Lakes region from the federal endangered species list, although courts have overruled previous attempts.

Tens of thousands of protesters shouting "We want freedom!" made a bold march on the Syrian capital Friday, but security forces beat them back with tear gas and batons as the country's monthlong uprising swelled to the largest and most widespread gatherin

Two teenaged girls from Nanaimo, B.C., have been charged with assault in connection with a fight that was posted to YouTube.

Powerful spring storms roared through parts of the U.S. South on Friday, toppling trees, smashing buildings and killing at least nine people, including two sets of parents and children who were huddled together as the winds raged outside their homes.

Researchers from Australia and Japan have successfully teleported wave packets of light, potentially revolutionizing quantum communications and computing.

If the Vancouver Canucks depth players aided the cause in the series opener, it was the team's star Hart Trophy candidate who came to the forefront in Game 2 of their Western Conference quarter-final.

One day after a 20-year-old Drayton Valley man was killed in a head-on collision, the Whitecourt Wolverines released a statement saying they "were shocked and deeply saddened" to learn of the loss of a "fine young man with an infectious smile."

Police say two bodies found in a west-end subdivision Wednesday afternoon belong to Perry Kit Wong, 72, and his common-law wife Eloise Fendelet, 71 - an Edmonton pair who disappeared shortly after Christmas.

B.C.'s self-described Prince of Pot has been denied a transfer to Canada from a U.S. federal prison where he's serving a five-year sentence for selling marijuana seeds to Americans through the mail.

Toronto police have charged seven people in connection with an investigation into a gold bar heist that led to $1.8 million worth of gilt going missing.

A surge in prices at the pumps across Canada -- including an average of $1.37 per litre price tag in Vancouver -- has led frustrated drivers to call for a gas boycott.

Montreal police are looking for a woman who allegedly posed as a doctor and gave a hospitalized patient a fake brain-cancer diagnosis.

The Canadian government will make no further commitments in Libya until the federal election is over and a new Parliament has been summoned, Stephen Harper said Friday.

GUELPH No votes cast Wednesday in a special ballot at the University of Guelph should stand, according to the Conservative Party of Canada. The party wrote Elections Canada on Thursday to request that none of the votes collected during the U of G sess

The concentration levels of radioactive iodine and cesium in groundwater near the troubled Nos. 1 and 2 reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have increased up to several dozen times in one week, suggesting that toxic water has seeped from

CBC News has learned that the "serious allegations" Prime Minister Stephen Harper referred to last year in connection with former Conservative MP Helena Guergis included unsubstantiated claims of fraud, extortion and involvement with prostitutes.

Carey Price returned as Montreal's starting playoff goalie with his third postseason shutout, Brian Gionta scored twice and the Canadiens opened the series with a 2-0 win over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night.

A Seattle teen volunteering in a Grade 3 classroom says she wanted to put treats together for the children for Easter, but was told she'd have to call the eggs "spring spheres."

JERUSALEM - Could two of the nails used to crucify Jesus have been discovered in a 2,000-year-old tomb in Jerusalem?

TORONTO - Two kittens found in a dumpster, each with an eye gouged out, are on the mend and headed to a loving home.

BAGHDAD - A mass grave holding the remains of over 800 bodies, many believed to be opponents of ousted leader Saddam Hussein, has been discovered in western Iraq.

A school bus driver in Clearwater, B.C. has been charged with the sexual exploitation of a student passenger.

The B.C. government is dangling a carrot to British Columbians ahead of the June referendum on the HST, suggesting it's willing to "improve" the controversial tax before the vote.

If you spent Game 1 of the Canucks versus Blackhawks series wearing a lucky jersey or scratching at the beginnings of a playoff beard you're not alone.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff will be in Yellowknife early next week, making him the first federal party leader to come north of 60 during the election campaign

Hundreds of people have been forced from their homes across the Prairie provinces as spring floodwaters continue to rise.

A man with a history of launching numerous frivolous lawsuits in Yukon and Nunavut has been barred from the Federal Court, which labelled him as a serial litigant.

Zdeno Chara needn't be concerned about having handcuffs slapped on him when he returns to Canada in a few days.

Military police officers shot Uganda's top opposition politician in the arm Thursday and fired tear gas into a hospital as demonstrations against rising fuel and food prices broke out in several locations across the country, officials said.

A rockslide on the Sea-to-Sky Highway between Whistler and Vancouver destroyed one vehicle early Thursday morning as boulders the size of cars crashed down onto the road.

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff went ahead Thursday with an interview by a Sikh newspaper editor who once printed editorials praising the near-fatal beating of Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh.

NATO warplanes carried out airstrikes on the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Thursday, while state-run TV showed a defiant Moammar Gadhafi parading through the streets of the city pumping his fists.

The fear of coyotes in Souris, P.E.I. is stopping residents from exercising outside, says the Eastern Kings Sports Council.

An RCMP watchdog has filed a complaint about an incident in which an 11-year-old boy at a group home was subdued with a Taser last week in Prince George, B.C.

The Conservatives say they are willing amend an agreement with two opposition parties to allow for the release of secret documents about Canadian prisoners in Afghanistan.

The Quebec government has made Montreal City Hall the target of the very first investigation by the province's new permanent anti-corruption squad, Public Security Minister Robert Dutil announced on Wednesday.

Roberto Luongo was the star

Some federal candidates in the Northwest Territories are criticizing Ottawa's recent changes to a longtime northern food subsidy program, with some pledging to scrap the changes if they are elected.

Federal research says a loophole in environmental rules is allowing a growing number of unregulated waste incinerators to release extremely toxic chemicals onto the land and into the water at mines and exploration camps in the Arctic.

Eight people were arrested in two separate anti-nuclear protests in Quebec Wednesday.

With a major snowfall expected overnight, the city was warning motorists to be prepared for winter driving conditions for Thursday's morning commute.

EDMONTON - Edmonton Police are investigating two suspicious deaths after two bodies were found on the city's western outskirts shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Birds evolved a better sense of smell than their dinosaur ancestors, Canadian and U.S. researchers have found. That is contrary to what paleontologists had long believed.

A new study has found most Canadians think the internet is their best source for news, but they would not be willing to pay up if websites started charging them to read their stories online.

About 230 people on Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan had to be rushed out of their homes in the face of rapidly-rising flood waters.

RCMP Const. Desmond Sandboe has received a six-month conditional sentence for beating a prisoner in the Lac La Biche, Alta. detachment in 2009.

Women, children and students took to the streets in Syria on Wednesday, lending their voices to a month-long uprising that President Bashar Assad insists is the work of a foreign conspiracy.

An Ontario court ruling that could legalize the possession of marijuana in the province will be reviewed by the federal government, officials say.

Roberto Luongo notched a shutout as the Vancouver Canucks took Game 1 of their Western Conference quarter-final 2-0 over the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks at Rogers Arena on Wednesday.

The man who blew the whistle at Surrey, B.C., city hall over allegations of bribery by a city official suggests more people are involved in the scandal.

A Green Party candidate in British Columbia has resigned after concerns were raised about him posting a comment about rape on his Facebook page.

Escorted leaves for Allan Schoenborn, the father who killed his three children at their Merritt, B.C., trailer home, will be reconsidered by the B.C. Review Board, Attorney General Barry Penner says.

Gunmen loyal to the government attacked the forces of the Yemeni president's chief rival early Wednesday, killing one person and raising fears that popular unrest could evolve into pitched battles between military factions.

Would you cheer on a team called the Vancouver Vixens? What about the West Coast Wonder Girls?

The Ontario SPCA is investigating after two traumatized kittens were found, each with one eye gouged out.

NHL has rejected a report stating the Phoenix Coyotes are headed back to Winnipeg after the playoffs.

A Penticton, B.C., man has come up with a design that could reduce the kind of serious injury hockey player Max Pacioretty of Montreal suffered last month.

Vancouver's infamous Green Men have been working out in their spandex suits and gearing up for a long playoff run with their beloved Canucks, but injuries could hamper the performance of the spandex duo.

The Vancouver Canucks did everything right this season, overcoming a battery of injuries to not just survive but win the war of attrition that has become the NHL season.

An Italian publisher has yanked copies of a book on Catholic Church teaching after a translation error implied the Vatican approved of contraception, officials said Tuesday.

Taiwan's equipment-challenged air force demonstrated its improvisational skills Tuesday, landing six war planes on a normally busy highway to simulate a response to a Chinese attack on its air fields.

U.S. law enforcement authorities say modern DNA testing techniques and the willingness of a witness to testify have enabled them to file new charges against two men from Quebec in the slaying of two New Hampshire women 22 years ago.

The U.S. military is investigating what appears to be the first case of American troops killed by a missile fired from a U.S. drone.

This season, Marc Crawford guided the Dallas Stars to the most points of any team in NHL history that didn't make the playoffs.

Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was abruptly hospitalized Tuesday at a Red Sea resort on the day he was set to be summoned for questioning by prosecutors over corruption allegations and abuse of power, Egyptian officials said.

Higher-than-normal radiation levels have been detected in Ontario since last month's earthquake and tsunami created huge problems at some of Japan's nuclear reactors.

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, excluded from Tuesday's leaders debate by the broadcasters, blasted the event as a "sad spectacle of a partial leaders' debate."

The conversation will go a little differently when the braintrust of the Edmonton Oilers sits down to decide on this No. 1 draft pick.

TORONTO -- Here's something to take fans' minds off the Laffs missing the playoffs yet again.

The Chicago Blackhawks exposed some glaring weaknesses last spring when they eliminated the Vancouver Canucks from the second round of the NHL playoffs in six games.

They may not have ever played hockey or seen a game in real life, but a group of young orphans halfway around the world have become the most unlikely group of Vancouver Canucks fans leading up to the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Aspiring filmmaker Mark Twitchell has been found guilty of first-degree murder for bludgeoning, stabbing and dismembering stranger Johnny Altinger in an Edmonton garage in 2008.

Japanese officials have admitted that the nuclear crisis in Fukushima could become worse than Chernobyl.

Drawn from rock through a controversial "fracking" process, some hail the gas as a "stepping stone" to a low-carbon future and a route to energy security.

The US Navy has fired a laser gun from one of its ships for the first time. Researchers used the high-energy laser (HEL) to disable a boat by setting fire to its engines off the coast of California.