NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2013

Randall Hopley has been sentenced to six years in prison and declared a long-term offender for the abduction of three-year-old Kienan Hebert in 2011. He got an additional year for an unrelated break-in.

Scottish officials say there are a number of casualties resulting from the crash of a police helicopter through the roof of a popular pub in Glasgow Friday night, and that some people remain trapped.

Soon tweets, public Facebook posts and YouTube videos could be subject to scrutiny round-the-clock by the federal government. A federal tender specifies the government is looking for continuous media monitoring of blogs and social media.

The Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams (ALERT) say a 33-year-old Edmonton man has been charged after allegedly printing child pornography at a local grocery store.

Former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Rick Vaive has asked that his name be removed from the concussion lawsuit against the NHL.

This may require a little prime ministerial stickhandling. Stephen J. Harper, hockey author, relied for ethical advice on the same former senior staffer he now says is solely responsible for an ethics scandal rattling his Conservative government.

"We need a hundred or more bras," says Ryan Davis, co-ordinator of the 5th Annual Mummer's Festival in St. John's.

A P.E.I. couple is safe at home in Cardigan after a holiday in Panama that ended with an attack by armed gunmen.

Canada has sold the John A. Macdonald building, the mansion in London that is home to some of the country's diplomatic activities in the U.K., for more than half a billion dollars to an Indian developer.

An alleged gang leader has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the execution deaths of six people in a Vancouver-area high-rise.

A German police officer has been arrested on suspicion of killing and chopping up a man he met on the internet who had long fantasized about being killed and eaten, authorities say.

The Canadian military mobilized search aircraft in a desperate hunt for a large passenger plane they believed had crashed in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, after a farm market inexplicably emitted an electronic SOS signal, CBC News has learned.

More than 200 former NHL players have joined a concussion lawsuit against the league that originally started with just 10 former players.

A Kamloops, B.C., woman is warning people about sharing too much information on Facebook, after she posted plans to leave town and thieves cleaned out her family's home.

In the latest mishap to befall the Olympic flame, a Russian torchbearer's clothing caught fire this week as he carried the flame through a Siberian city.

Top secret documents retrieved by U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden show the Harper government allowed the largest American spy agency to conduct widespread surveillance in Canada during the 2010 G8 and G20 summits.

Hampton Mayor Barry Layne Moore was arrested Monday for possessing and selling Oxycodone

NDP supporters and staff are reacting angrily after Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau invoked the dying words of former NDP leader Jack Layton in a victory speech Monday night.

The National Security Agency gathered records of porn-viewing habits and online sexual activity as part of a proposed plan to damage the reputation of a half-dozen Muslim men the agency suspected were radicalizing others through incendiary speeches, accor

Tax lawyer Jim Love, who the federal Conservatives have appointed to various posts, helped the heirs of a former Tory prime minister move a chunk of their fortune through offshore tax havens, CBC News has learned.

Whales are the suicide bombers of the sea. A TV crew in the Faroe Islands was recording when a scientist was nearly blown away by a tide of decomposing innards after the dead sperm whale he cut into exploded.

CBS ordered 60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan and her producer to take a leave of absence Tuesday following a critical internal review of their handling of the show's October story on the raid on the Benghazi raid, which relied on a supposed witness who

Canada, which led the world 15 years ago in banning landmines, has waited five years to ratify a cluster bomb ban signed in Oslo in 2008.

Social media in parts of Quebec and Ontario were buzzing with reports of a loud boom on Tuesday evening, and officials say it may have been caused by a meteor.

A California judge has given a dose of cold water to the hot sauce Sriracha, ruling Tuesday that the factory that manufactures the trendy condiment must partially shut down after neighbours complained of the spicy smells it was producing.

Rumours about Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan's alleged double life have been circulating for years, but now, the Israeli businessman behind hits like Pretty Woman, Fight Club and L.A. Confidential has admitted he served as an Israeli spy for years, buyi

Every year the nations surrounding the Persian Gulf report how much fish they pull from their shores. In 2005, the reported total was 5,260 metric tons. But scientists at the University of British Columbia smelled something fishy, so they turned to a new

Capt. Simon Mailloux, who lost his leg to an IED in Afghanistan in 2007, became the first Canadian military amputee to return to active service.

A proposal to bury radioactive waste 680 metres below the surface near Lake Huron is getting strong support from communities in Ontario.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is stuck in a box, with legal pressure on one side and political pressure on the other, says former parliamentary law clerk Rob Walsh.

The Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing classified documents because government lawyers said they could not do so without also prosecuting U.S. news organizations and j

The Harvard report also shows Canada and the U.S. are failing to meet their obligations to asylum-seekers under international and domestic laws.

Canada's Auditor General has raised red flags around food safety, border security, emergency plans on First Nations communities living on reserves and rail safety in his annual fall report tabled today.

A French contraceptive maker says it will begin warning women that its morning-after pill is ineffective when taken by women who weigh more than 80 kilograms or 176 pounds.

Anze Kopitar scored the winner 48 seconds into overtime Monday as the Los Angeles Kings defeated the Vancouver Canucks 3-2.

The Saskatoon Referees Association has seen a decline in young officials because of verbal abuse from fans and coaches.

The images are startling. Billowing black clouds darken the daytime sky as wind-driven grit pelts homes and cars and forces bewildered residents to take cover. The onslaught, captured in photos and video footage from Detroit and Chicago this year, was

A Calgary couple are accusing General Motors of misleading them, after they bought a Chevy Cruze that they said guzzles 50 per cent more gas than the automaker advertised.

CAMP GEIGER, N.C. Three female Marines have become the first women to graduate from the Corps' tough-as-nails enlisted infantry training school in North Carolina, officials said Thursday. The three completed the rigorous 59-day course and met the same

Swiss voters are going to the polls to decide on strict new laws to limit executive pay to no more than 12 times the wage of the lowest-paid worker in the same company.

Two Saudi men who offered free hugs to passers-by in Riyadh are arrested by the country's religious police for offending public order.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Shoppers Drug Mart and the Katz Group, owner of Rexall and Pharma ​Plus pharmacies, which had argued that the province of Ontario couldn't stop them from selling their own cheaper versions of popular gene

The Boeing 747 jumbo jet that mistakenly landed at a small Kansas airport not far from the air force base where it was supposed to land has, on its second attempt, successfully reached its destination, although questions still remain as to what brought th

A volcanic eruption is creating a tiny new island off the coast of Japan. The Japanese Coast Guard snapped images and video of the eruption taking place, showing the new island being formed. Footage showed heavy smoke, ash and rocks

Historic rule change means presidential nominees require only a simple majority to proceed to Senate confirmation

Canadian cross-border shoppers aren't just looking for great deals this holiday season. Many are also looking for tires, because they can be had in the U.S. for up to half the price, and November and December are the most popular months for purchasing the

The RCMP say they've found no evidence of human trafficking on ships travelling between Thunder Bay and Duluth, contradicting the findings of a US researcher.

SEATTLE -- Most of us do it -- walk around staring at our phones oblivious to what's going on around us. That is leaving us wide open to criminals. We've had multiple violent attacks over smart phones in just one week. Three cases in one week

A woman's leg was run over by her own car in a bizarre accident caused by a strong gust of wind, paramedics in Ottawa say.

Lab testing for "Clueless" actress' father says she may have died from exposure to heavy metals

Cayce, SC (WLTX) -- An elementary school in Cayce is canceling a Christmas toy drive after a threat of legal action.

Christian 'motivational' speaker Justin Lookadoo got way more than he bargained for when he agreed to speak at Richardson High School in Texas on Wednesday.

Tens of thousands joined peaceful marches through Greece's two biggest cities Sunday to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a bloody student uprising against the then dictatorship.

Intense thunderstorms and tornadoes swept across the Midwest on Sunday, causing extensive damage in several central Illinois communities while sending people to their basements for shelter and even prompting officials at Soldier Field in Chicago to delay

Russia has been told by the the World Anti-Doping Agency to get its drug-testing lab up to standard for the Winter Games in Sochi or the facility will be banned for six months.

A former priest who this week is to face 76 sex charges involving Inuit children may have been tried years ago but for a quiet nod from Canada that allowed him to leave the country, says a church leader.

Anxious relatives of a brutally beaten inmate are accusing prison authorities of deliberately stonewalling their efforts to find out exactly what happened and treating them disrespectfully.

The federal government expects to fast-track hundreds of visa applications, and perhaps many more, from Filipinos affected by Typhoon Haiyan.

An Ontario election is not expected until next spring, but the governing Liberals released a TV ad of the premier jogging through rural Ontario.

Canada's own Georges St-Pierre puts his welterweight title on the line against Johny "Bigg Rigg" Hendricks this Saturday at UFC 167 in Las Vegas. A look inside some key fight metrics reveals which man has the upper hand.

McDonald's has lost its taste for Heinz ketchup and said in a statement that it is cutting ties with the condiment company after 40 years due to management changes there.

RealClimate: A new study by British and Canadian researchers shows that the global temperature rise of the past 15 years has been greatly underestimated. The reason is the data gaps in the weather station network, especially in the Arctic. If you fill the

A junior Conservative staffer in Guelph, Ont., charged with elections offences bragged about his allegedly fraudulent exploits to other young partisans, newly released court documents show. A judge partially lifted a publication ban Wednesday that preven

A record-smashing experiment in a Canadian physics lab has brought room temperature quantum computers and money that can't be counterfeited one step closer to reality.

The Transportation Safety Administration has long relied on singling out airline passengers that agents believe are behaving suspiciously, even as outside groups like the General Accounting Office maintain that these behavioral indicators are unreliable.

The Essex Region Conservation Authority becomes the first of the 36 conservation authorities in Ontario to approve a total smoking ban at its outdoor conservation areas.

Earlier goal of a 25 per cent reduction in greenhouse gases from the 1990 level was unrealistic, says government spokesman

The cards are beginning to fall and Cyprus-run ioption appears to be the first casualty, unfortunately for its customers they will lose all their deposits. It begs the question, why would anyone seek to be regulated in Cyprus? Largely thought to be a corr

The Ontario government says it will once again allow the hunting of bears this spring.

Researchers from Australia and the US discover signs of 'complex microbial ecosystems' dated at 3.5bn years old

H.J. Heinz Co. will close its Leamington processing plant in 2014. The company made the announce Thursday.

Toronto police reveal details of an international child sex abuse and pornography investigation in six continents that has led to hundreds of arrests, including 50 in Ontario and 58 in the rest of Canada.

A former Quebec doctor ordered to face a new trial in the fatal stabbings of his children is in custody again. Police in Quebec say Guy Turcotte surrendered Wednesday just hours after Quebec's top court ordered a new trial in the case. The Crown said it i

The world is losing the battle against diabetes as the number of people estimated to be living with the disease soars to a new record of 382 million this year, medical experts say.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the House of Representatives plan to introduce articles of impeachment against Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday, in the hopes of removing a cabinet member

Jamie Leung (pictured), who has been living in Crossens, Southport, with his mother Sara since June last year, has been told he could be 'forcibly removed'.

Newly released police documents reveal more allegations about Mayor Rob Ford's erratic behaviour, ranging from having prostitutes in his office to driving drunk and getting physically aggressive with staffers.

Latest images show several kilometres of water between the iceberg, estimated to be about 700 sq km (270 sq miles), and the glacier that spawned the block.

The first office tower to be completed at Ground Zero since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center will open on Wednesday, marking a comeback for the Lower Manhattan site.

From the blog Daily Brew: The police call them mobile Molotov cocktails, with good reason. Another suspected mobile black market gas van was involved in a minor collision this weekend, then burst into flames as the driver fled. With some of the highest ga

WikiLeaks has exposed details of secret trade negotiations that could leave Australians paying more for drugs and medicines, movies, computer games and software, and be placed under surveillance as part of a US-led crackdown on internet piracy.

Quebec's Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial in the notorious case of Guy Turcotte.

There have been a lot of jokes about how senators should be smart enough to know where they live, but there's no consensus about whether senators should have to live in the province they are appointed to represent.

This was meant to be the week when Ukraine turned a corner: its parliament was expected to approve a face-saving deal to free the detained former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, to meet conditions for a historic trade and political agreement with the EU

A 21-year-old Owen Sound man is recovering from his injuries after accidentally shooting himself in his buttock while hunting near the Township of Georgian Bluffs.

William Bicknell has pleaded guilty to 14 charges in hostage taking and shootout with RCMP in northern Alberta in March 2011.

Edwin Black: US and UK taxpayers fund the Palestinian Authority, which in turn funds prisoners in Israeli jails. It's dangerously dysfunctional

Members of the Asian-Canadian community are demanding an apology from Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, following his comments on Thursday expressing admiration for China's "basic dictatorship."

Canada is sending members of its Disaster Assistance Response Team to the Philippines to aid the emergency response in the typhoon-battered country, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced Monday.

A Russian performance artist nailed his genitals to the ground outside Moscow's Red Square in protest over Russia's "police state" as the country marked Police Day, a day when the Interior Ministry honours its service members.

Hundreds of strangers heeded the call Monday to attend the funeral of a 99-year-old British veteran of the Second World War who died without any living family or close friends.

A young couple from Revelstoke, B.C., were hit with a staggering $4,600 bill when an Aeroplan booking mistake forced them to buy a last-minute Air Canada ticket to fly their two-year-old home from Europe.

Kessie, a three-year-old Bardino-Galgo mix, was stolen from outside an Edeka supermarket in the Neuk�lln area of Berlin while her owner was inside on Wednesday.

While President Rouhani is busy working the US-Iran angle in the overall focus on Middle East peace talks, nuclear progress and possible sanction lifting from the US, the internal workings of Iran go on. Apparently, so does the legalization of pedophilia.

The relative obscurity of Canada's role in the Korean War had its roots in the conflict itself, according to experts who studied the period.

Calgary police have a suspect in custody after the theft of a poppy donation box at the Calgary airport Saturday afternoon.

Veterans at the Bridgeport Royal Canadian Legion in Richmond are devastated after thieves stole 10 flags intended for Remembrance Day ceremonies.

Prospect of Saturday signing scuppered by France's insistence on harsher terms; sides to meet again in Geneva on November 20

A group of concert goers were moved to tears by a rock star's generous gesture on Saturday night. Bon Jovi guitarist Phil Xenidis, known as Phil X, was playing a young Ontario woman's guitar to honour her memory and love of music. In September, 25-year-

A strange comet with half a dozen tails has been spotted in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Saying "we talk more than we act," former prime minister Joe Clark bemoans the "almost adolescent tone" of the Harper government's foreign policy in his new book, Brian Stewart writes.

CBS News said Friday that it was misled by a 60 Minutes source who claimed he was on the scene of a 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. It now turns out there are serious doubts about whether or not he was there.

A Charlottetown woman intends to break the law to honour her late husband this Remembrance Day.

Winnipeg police released information Wednesday on the search for a suspect in a shooting this past summer that seriously injured a 17-year-old boy.

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