NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2011

The victim of a vicious videotaped beating said she was panhandling on Yonge St. when the crowd of younger girls approached.

The Vancouver Police Department announced Wednesday that 25 people face a total of 61 charges for allegedly taking part in the 2011 Stanley Cup riot.

An Arizona gun club is offering a chance for children and their families to pose for photos with Santa while holding pistols and military-style rifles.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe�s youth militia has seen the South African restaurant chain Nando�s new �last dictator standing� ad, and they are not amused

Loblaw Cos. Ltd. opens its long-awaited store in the Maple Leaf Gardens.

Students at St. Joseph high school in Barrhaven have been told not to wear popular form-fitting yoga pants unless covered by a long shirt.

Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information.

German scientists say they have discovered a gene that may explain why some people can get by with less sleep than others.

Boston takes back top spot from the Penguins, who drop to No. 2, and Detroit makes a big jump up the rankings.

Sports balls are making a rebound at an elementary school in the city's east end following parental outrage over a controversial all-out ban.

The Vancouver Canucks, who might again go with backup goalie Cory Schneider in goal, try to win a fifth straight game and beat Columbus for the ninth time in a row Tuesday (7 p.m. PT).

From Yahoo! News: MONTREAL - Within hours of a blast by a popular TV host suggesting he's ready to boycott the National Bank of Canada, the financial institution promised on Monday to beef up its use of French.

American Airlines and its parent company filed for bankruptcy protection as they try to cut costs and unload massive debt built up by years of high fuel prices and labour struggles. There will be no impact on travellers for now.

The House of Commons has voted 153-120 to strip the Canadian Wheat Board of its monopoly on western wheat and barley.

All Canadian Craigslist websites have been shut down for allegedly violating the popular online classified service's terms of use policy.

Hard-line Iranian students stormed the British diplomatic compounds in Tehran on Tuesday, bringing down the Union Jack flag and throwing documents from windows.

From Yahoo! News: MONTREAL - The leader of a new Quebec political party says it's time for his province to get angrier in defending its positions in Ottawa � especially after a recent string of controversial federal moves.

Quebec may have its crumbling overpasses and Ontario its aging power plants, but there is no doubt that many of Canada's most glaring infrastructure problems are on aboriginal reserves. In the first of a three-part series, we examine the challenges facing

St. Thomas University in Fredericton has imposed an indefinite alcohol ban on one of its student residences following incidents of vandalism.

Canada's new border action plan will feature a new entry-exit control system that will allow the United States to track everyone coming and leaving Canada by air, land and sea, CTV News has confirmed.

A new editorial in the Canadian Medical Journal argues that hospital parking fees for patients should be scrapped.

A Vermont hunter fatally shot a companion by accident while deer hunting and shot himself because he was so distraught, police said on Monday.

Calgary is picking up the pieces after a wild windstorm hit on the weekend, while an evacuation order remains in effect for dozens of people in Lethbridge, Alta., where the same winds fuelled a dangerous grass fire.

Syrian troops have killed hundreds of children and committed other "crimes against humanity" since the government crackdown began in March, a UN probe said Monday.

A four-year-old girl is recovering in hospital after she was shot by her five-year-old brother at a rural home near Deloraine.

Former Washington captain returns to franchise behind the bench

Game MVP Travis Lulay threw two second-half touchdown passes to lead the B.C. Lions to an exciting 34-23 Grey Cup win over the Winnipeg Blue Bombers on Sunday.

The federal Bureau of Public Debt was set up 50 years ago to accept donations to pay down the national debt. While Congress wrestles with the problem, many people are quietly sending in money.

While we've long believed that only six friends and friends-of-friends stand between us and actor Kevin Bacon -- or anyone else on the planet -- a new study shows we're actually even closer than we thought.

Australia says it will create the world's largest marine reserve in the Coral Sea.

After insisting that all of society's institutions and not just the Catholic church must be held to 'exacting' standards in their response to sex abuse of children, Pope Benedict XVI has drawn sharp criticism.

So you've just woken up with a killer headache, you feel feverish and you can't stop sneezing and coughing. It's the flu. Or is it? Maybe it's a cold. How does anyone know the difference? Here's a guide to navigating symptoms.

The spread of an odd new flu virus that has been jumping from pigs to people in parts of the United States has the World Health Organization gearing up its response planning, a senior official of the agency says.

The red-hot Lions are favoured by oddsmakers to win Sunday's Grey Cup by a converted touchdown, but there is something about the atmosphere that has surrounded the Winnipeg squad all week that suggests they have a battlers' chance to pull off an upset.

Experts say that Thursday's celebration of Canadian Forces' contribution to the NATO mission in Libya is just the latest sign of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's .

Rain-soaked football fans from across Canada got the party started early Saturday with a parade and plenty of Grey Cup festivities before Sunday's kickoff between the B.C. Lions and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

Here are ten interesting facts you might not know about the two teams battling it out for the Grey Cup on Sunday.

The Lions had a loose, relaxed final practice, even though security staff refused to let several players enter the building when they arrived early.

Cory Schneider got the nod over a healthy Roberto Luongo and didn't disappoint. The Vancouver goalie made 43 saves for his fourth-straight win as the Canucks defeated the Sharks 3-2.

A sled dog that went missing from its home in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut has returned with wounds that could be the result of a polar bear encounter.

A species of sea turtle that historically has no place in B.C. waters has been found near Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

Much of coastal B.C. is bracing for floods, after Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning and forecasted that anywhere from 50 to 100 millimetres would fall over Saturday and into Sunday.

A man in a Frosty the Snowman costume was arrested Saturday during the annual Christmas parade in Chestertown, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

The general manager of BC Place Stadium said it's actually a good thing that the new retractable roof is leaking on the eve of the Grey Cup football game.

After Melissa Kellerman tweeted about being knocked down by tight end Jason Witten during Thursday's game, she was reportedly told to delete her account by the professional football organization.

Bomb experts confirmed the death of a young wheelchair-bound mother was the result of an exploding package dropped off at her Innisfail apartment.

A young farmer has been thrown out of the visitor's gallery in the House of Commons for a one-man protest over the federal government's decision to end the Canadian Wheat Board's marketing monopoly.

Iran will target NATO's missile defence installations in Turkey if the U.S. or Israel attacks the Islamic Republic, a senior commander of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard said Saturday.

NASA is set to launch a rocket Saturday morning carrying a minivan-sized rover that will use a Canadian-made sensor to explore signs of life on the red planet.

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The Pakistani army said helicopters fired on a Pakistani border checkpost overnight.

Mexico's archaeology institute downplays theories that the ancient Mayas predicted some sort of apocalypse would occur in 2012, but on Thursday it acknowledged that a second reference to the date exists on a carved fragment found at a southern Mexico ruin

Winnipeg Mayor Sam Katz wore a Blue Bombers jersey on live TV Friday to detail his Grey Cup wager with Vancouver's Gregor Robertson - and to rib BC Lions fans about their chances.

BC Ferries is doubling the fuel surcharge on its major routes between the mainland and Vancouver Island just in time for Christmas.

A Vancouver Island man has been reunited with his grandfather's war medals 40 years later, after police recovered them from a crack house during a raid.

RCMP officers from British Columbia are heading to Texas next month to dig deeper into allegations of child trafficking.

Vancouver is in party mode as Grey Cup weekend gets underway, culimating in Sunday's game between the hometown BC Lions and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers.

An Edmonton man has been charged with 72 offences after RCMP seized 75 firearms and 100,000 rounds of ammunition at a home.

Police charged a trucker with watching television as he drove along one of Ontario's busiest highways.

A New Brunswick man is blown away that the snowblower classified advertisement he posted online has gone viral.

There were a number of violent early-morning incidents in the U.S. as shoppers came out in the millions on Black Friday to take advantage of massive pre-Christmas discounts.

Cory Schneider got his second shutout in a row, needing just 21 saves against Phoenix's anemic offense, and the Vancouver Canucks routed the Coyotes 5-0 on Friday night.

Giving to charity can be rewarding, but with so many causes to choose from it's easy for would-be philanthropists to feel overwhelmed. Here's a guide to banish that stress, find a charity that matches your passions, and share the best of yourself with tho

Canada has some new guidelines for alcohol consumption. For men, that means a limit of 15 drinks a week, with no more than three drinks a day most days. For women, that means 10 drinks a week, with no more than two drinks a day most days.

Mounties say a package delivered to an Innisfail apartment could have played a role in an explosion that killed a wheelchair bound mother Friday.

An Australian hospital is investigating after staff accidentally terminated a healthy fetus instead of its twin with heart defects a month before a full-term pregnancy.

The playgrounds, hallways and cafeterias of Quebec�s largest school board will soon be French-only zones as authorities move to silence other languages, even during recess

Here's a snapshot of each team through 20 or so games. Included for each: A debatable list of three stars, biggest individual disappontment, and a "same old"; that is, an issue that has carried over from last season.

BC Ferries has cancelled several mid-day sailings between Vancouver and Vancouver Island as the latest in a series of fall storms batters the West Coast on Thursday.

In the Arctic, the ground is melting benealth northerners' feet. This brings a new and costly infrastructure challenge to a region where building is already tricky.

A Yukon First Nations leader says Ottawa is sending contradictory messages when it comes to financial accountability in First Nations governments, since financial audits are already available by request from First Nations members.

The brazen hijacking of a commercial plane 40 years ago today is America's only unsolved hijacking, but one amateur sleuth is convinced a Canadian connection to the $200,000 in extorted cash will solve the puzzle.

India's Cabinet decided Thursday to allow more direct foreign investment in the nation's huge retail industry, a move that could strengthen the country's food supply chain and open India to giant global retailers such as Wal-Mart.

CTV Toronto - The Great Lakes are facing another invader. It's the bloody red shrimp, but research suggests the shrimp could serve a useful purpose.

A Kenyan group is hoping 2-litre bottles filled with water, a hole in the roof and sunlight will brighten the inside of a local slum.

Cory Schneider stopped 24 shots for his second career shutout, Manny Malhotra and Alexandre Burrows had early goals, and the Vancouver Canucks extended a run of dominance against Colorado with a 3-0 win on Wednesday night.

It's our theory that everyone can probably recognize a little bit of themselves in one of the Muppets - be it in the bold personality of Miss Piggy or the wild, hedonistic drives of Animal. In that spirit, we offer up character profiles of eight of th

Read 'Android models dominate 'Dirty Dozen' list of unsafe smartphones' from our blog The Right Click on Yahoo! News. Android can boast its strength in numbers since topping their Apple competitors in smartphone sales back in March, but a recent study is

Four former Vancouver mayors have endorsed a coalition calling for an end to pot prohibition in Canada that they blame for rampant gang violence.

Airline wins Federal Aviation Administration auction for flight slots at LaGuardia Airport

Daisy the labrador wanders around a metal carousel in a small centre outside Milton Keynes, sniffing at the different scents that are attached to its 12 spokes - to detect cancer.

From Yahoo! News: Bankers are promising to cease occupying Mario Batali's restaurants after the chef and restaurateur compared them to Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. The celebrity chef drew the comparison at a Time event about who should be the maga

New advancements in nanotechnology have opened the door to possibly reading your email with the blink of an eye. Researchers in the United States and Finland have developed a contact lens with the ability to display a single pixel to the user, which if mu

In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about a complicated issue. Today, Tamsin McMahon examines changes to the Criminal Code, reintroduced by the government on Tuesday, that would broaden the powers of citizen

Startling cases of suspected allergic reactions to hair dye springing up in the U.K. have raised serious concerns about the safety of the product, particularly the use of a known allergen used in hair dye sold in Canada.

It may not diminish your blinding hatred, but if nothing else you can now block Nickelback from creeping into your online browsing.

Iona Cockburn was born on Monday in San Francisco.

Heather Mallick takes on Huffington Post Canada and Danielle Crittenden, who recently tested the theory that young women get drunk using vodka-soaked tampons

All Canadian children should have access to publicly funded early childhood education starting at age 2 in their local school, new report says.

From Yahoo! News: China's state media Tuesday blasted the United States over its "ticking debt bomb" and urged American lawmakers to be more responsible after they failed to agree on deficit-cutting measures.

The Pakistani Taliban has declared a ceasefire to encourage nascent peace talks with the government, a senior commanders said, a move that appears to show the deadly group's willingness to strike a deal with state.

Victim One, the first known alleged victim of abuse by former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, had to leave his school in the middle of his senior year because of bullying, his counselor said Sunday. Officials at Central Mountain High School in Clinton Co

The US Navy's newest and mightiest nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS George H W Bush*, has been plagued by continual failures in its lavatories, according to reports. Sailors have been forced into increasingly desperate measures to relieve themselves.

Canada's shift from pariah to fiscal darling provides lessons for Washington as lawmakers find few easy answers to the huge U.S. deficit and debt burden, and for European countries staggering under their own massive budget problems

CTV Toronto - A 12-year-old boy accused of bullying a young classmate with muscular dystrophy who later committed suicide is expected to appear in an Ontario court on Monday.

Peter C. Newman set out to write a book about the coronation of Michael Ignatieff as prime minister, but ended up with one about the collapse of the Liberal party. Evan Solomon interviews Newman on The House.

A judge has ruled that Occupy Toronto protesters must end their five-week long encampment at a downtown park.

Images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars at dozens of locations and shifting up to several yards.

NASA engineers have produced a material that absorbs more than 99 percent of the light that hits it, across multiple wavelengths.

Warming temperatures in the world's oceans will cause major changes for the fishing industry, according to a study published Sunday involving a University of British Columbia researcher.

Chris Higgins scored 2:18 into overtime as the Vancouver Canucks held off the Ottawa Senators for a 2-1 victory Sunday.

The B.C. Lions are off to the 99th Grey Cup against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers after dismantling the visiting Edmonton Eskimos 40-16 on Sunday afternoon.

The Bombers rode a three-yard touchdown reception by Jason Vega and an outstanding ground game from Chris Garrett to an easy 19-3 Eastern Final victory over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats at a chilly CanadInns Stadium.

Ask Mark Derr about his recently deceased dog, Katie, and he�ll speak of her �two-brain� intelligence, a set of smarts that encompassed both athletic skill and mental acuity. He�ll tell you that she didn�t really care about food so long as she h

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Eviction orders have piled up for Canada's remaining "Occupiers" with Monday slated to be a defining day for demonstrators in cities across the country.

Canada's supply management system is a staple of the rural economy. And it's now the subject of an increasingly heated debate, amid international free-trade talks and growing doubt about its long-term future.

A vast herd of northern caribou that scientists feared had vanished from the face of the Earth has been found, safe and sound -- pretty much where aboriginal elders said it would be all along.

Intrepid shoppers save the date as a chance to seize rare bargains and door-crasher specials. But as one business professor explains, Black Friday can be a bleak day for Canadian retailers.

While any intervention in Syria would have to follow a series of United Nations sanctions, Canada's armed forces are "prepared for all inevitabilities," Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Sunday.

Black smoke billowed above Cairo's Tahrir Square on Sunday as Egyptian soldiers and police tried again to drive thousands of demonstrators out of the area.