NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2014

Canada is the fourth-best country in which to grow old, while Afghanistan is the worst, according to a new global index, which warns nations that they must work quickly to address the implications of a rapidly aging global population.

A building used in the popular sitcom 'Corner Gas' was destroyed Sunday evening by a fire.

The wreck of a 77-metre British-built steamship that sank off Lake Ontario's western New York shore after colliding with another vessel nearly 90 years ago has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Tuesday.

A Griffon military helicopter clipped the antenna of a coast guard ship during an exercise off Nova Scotia, forcing it to make a precautionary landing on the front lawn of a summer home.

The Conservative government is overturning an RCMP decision to replace their cold-weather muskrat fur hats with wool tuques.

Pedestrians are at the bottom of the traffic food chain, but that doesn't mean they can't cause trouble for themselves and others. We've identified seven issues pedestrians need to get sorted out

Canada's largest movie theatre chain is joining with top American cinemas in a boycott of Netflix's first original feature film, a sequel to the martial arts movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Kansas City Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah received a 15-yard penalty after he dropped to the ground and performed the Sajdah after a touchdown. He may now be fined as well by the NFL.

Microsoft has announced the name of the next Windows, and it's not the name anyone expected.

Civeo Corp., a Houston-based company that provides workplace accommodations in the Alberta oilsands, plans to move its headquarters to Canada after discovering it will gain a tax advantage.

Mike Sharpe is trying to lower the price of food in the southern N.W.T. by selling groceries out of a converted transit bus in communities from Fort Smith to Fort Simpson.

The 46-year-old physicist from Oldham believes there has been a lack of action from politicians. 'When you think about these things, you end up with your head in your hands,' he said.

Officials say legislation will begin a paradigm shift in how college campuses in California prevent and investigate sexual assaults

Researchers rode bikes on treadmills with taxpayer money

Censors on Weibo, China's massive Twitter-like microblogging platform, just had their biggest day of the year. And once again, it was events in the special administrative region of Hong Kong, not the Chinese mainland, that triggered it.

London (AFP) - A man was jailed for 18 weeks on Monday for a campaign of rape threats and other abuse on Twitter against a female MP.

Children who receive a lot of antibiotics before age 2 are slightly more likely than others to become obese, a new study shows.

Scientists at the University of Illinois, in Chicago, have found that the fat in olive oil kick-starts failing hearts

Police forces report a worrying rise in the number of schoolchildren having intimate pictures of them posted on social media sites

Theresa May to announce new Extremist Disruption Orders to strengthen counter-terrorism if the Tories win the next general election

Two Hells Angels members were arrested in Lethbridge Saturday night after dozens of bikers rolled into the city they had previously been told to stay away from.

A man was shot in the chest early Friday morning after trying to break in to a home of a former girlfriend, according to police.

More than 60 suspected extremists could now be brought before the courts.

An Ontario immigration consultant is under investigation for charging foreign clients up to $25,000 to help them enter Canada to work at low-skill jobs. In at least one case, the worker arrived to find the employer no longer existed.

The fighting is taking place just one mile to the west of the city, with government forces trying to hold off the militants, who allegedly killed up to 1,000 soldiers during clashes yesterday.

CBC News has learned Prime Minister Stephen Harper gave visiting European delegates a free flight home to Brussels last week, after adding a Toronto reception to their schedule that made it impossible for the visitors to make a planned commercial flight h

A rally of Ukrainian activists in Kharkiv ended with toppling a Soviet-era monument of Vladimir Lenin on the night of Sept. 28. The monument was standing on the city's central Svoboda Square (Freedom Square). It took protesters, some of them reportedl

Fast food isn't healthy for anyone. However, when employees at the fast food chain themselves warn patrons against certain items it should be considered a double red flag.

Derek Jeter hit a run-scoring infield single in the final at-bat of his 20-year major league career, leaving to a standing ovation at Fenway Park.

Firefighters are working to determine whether a building in Montreal's Rosemont borough is structurally sound after an explosion and fire tore through the building Sunday afternoon, leaving five people injured.

Former Iraqi asylum seekers have been raking in millions of pounds by illegally sub-letting luxury London flats paid for by taxpayers to super-rich tourists for thousands of pounds a week.

Chelsea Manning, the US army soldier who released hundreds of thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks, has filed a lawsuit in a federal court that charges her military jailers with violating her constitutional rights by denying medical treatment for ge

A U.S. Marine who vanished from his unit in Iraq and later wound up in Lebanon for eight years will face trial on desertion and other charges, the military said Friday.

A large number of extremists linked to Qatar are devoted to raising money for jihadists. How long can the Gulf state go on playing both sides?

Calgary Stampeders kicker Rene Paredes kicked four field goals and Jon Cornish rushed for 156 yards in a 14-7 win over the visiting B.C. Lions on Saturday.

Rookie Mossis Madu ran 22 yards for his first CFL touchdown as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeated the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 16-11 Saturday for their first road win of the season.

The Russian foreign minister issued a blistering attack on the West and NATO on Saturday, accusing them of being unable to change their Cold War 'genetic code' and saying the United States must abandon its claims to 'eternal uniqueness.'

A 4.5 magnitude rumbler has given the B.C. coastal islands of Haida Gwaii a shake.

Conservation officers say an enormous, sleepy bear that had a Port Coquitlam neighbourhood on high alert Thursday has likely returned to the wilderness it came from.

HMCS Toronto patrolled the Black Sea for the past week of its NATO exercise with a grounded Sea King helicopter and one broken generator on the 22-year-old Canadian war vessel.

A tractor-trailer crossed a southern Oklahoma highway median and plowed into the side of a Texas college softball team's bus, killing four women on the team and injuring more than a dozen others, authorities said

U.S.-led coalition warplanes struck Islamic State fighters in Syria attacking a town near the Turkish border for the first time Saturday, as well as positions in the country's east, activists and a Kurdish official said.

The Pacific Whale Watch Association says whale-watching boats have been reporting rare sightings of white-sided dolphins off the coast of Vancouver Island and the San Juan islands.

Gone are the days when you could benefit from Canada and the Gulf at the same time.

A volcano in central Japan erupted in spectacular fashion on Saturday, catching mountain climbers by surprise and stranding at least 40 injured people in areas that rescue workers have been unable to reach. One woman was reported dead and another seven pe

A whale watching tour group in the Bay of Fundy got a rare treat during the last trip of the season Friday.

Nearly a century after they died in battle, the remains of unidentified Canadian soldiers who fought in the First World War are still being found in Europe. Today the Department of National Defence announced the names of four who died during the Battle of

A Saskatoon widow scrambled to find a new venue for her husband's funeral after a local church cancelled her booking based on how the deceased looked in his obituary.

Bradley Halton, 18, a trainee decorator, sat an exam at Barking and Dagenham College in East London despite having been stabbed four times in the leg with a screwdriver.

Thousands of Britain's wind turbines will create more greenhouse gases than they save, according to potentially devastating scientific research to be published later this year.

OKLAHOMA CITY - A woman is stabbed by her ex-boyfriend and her 11-year-old daughter comes to the rescue, according to police. An Oklahoma City man is hospitalized after being shot multiple times by the 11-year-old girl.

Nate Phelps (son of Westboro Baptist Church's Fred Phelps) has begun his own protest against the church he once belonged and religion in general.

Canadian Dalton Pompey had a big night with two triples, a double and a spectacular catch in left field as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Baltimore Orioles 4-2 on Friday.

Sean Whyte's kicking was enough for Montreal as the Alouettes held off the Ottawa Redblacks for a 15-7 victory on Friday night.

Ryan Miller and Joacim Eriksson teamed for a shutout and Henrik Sedin had three assists in the Vancouver Canucks' 3-0 exhibition victory over the Calgary Flames on Friday night.

The bizarre stabbing of an 11-year-old boy while playing soccer on a field is something that should not be happening in eastern Newfoundland, let alone Canada, says the province's newly sworn-in Premier Paul Davis.

A nasty confrontation between two TTC passengers and the viral video it spawned is raising questions about shaming on social media.

A Sudbury scientist says there should be tighter controls on construction around the city's lakes.

Mining company Vale is hoping honey bees will encourage its re-vegetation project in Sudbury.

CN is facing criticism from an Alberta mayor after two of its freight trains derailed in the province in less than 24 hours.

Helpful rains and more than 8,000 firefighters brought solid advances against a huge wildfire in Northern California as evacuations dwindled and the number of threatened homes was reduced from thousands to just a few hundred.

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released a report Thursday that says the chicken Marsala served at a buffet lunch on April 9 during the 2014 Food Safety Summit at the Baltimore Convention Center caused a gastroenteritis outbreak that

The Federal Court of Appeal has granted leave to the Gitxaala First Nation to apply for judicial review of the Northern Gateway pipeline project's approval.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is suffering from "discomfort", state media has said in the first official acknowledgement of ill health after a prolonged period out of the public eye.

A man fatally stabbed four elementary school students Friday while they were on their way to school in southern China, and six schoolchildren also died in a stampede at a primary school in another Chinese city.

A B.C. paramedic who watched her colleagues plunge off a cliff in a horrific accident says the province's outdated rules mean first responders who suffer psychological trauma on the job are treated like "disposable heroes."

Researchers from McGill University and the Quebec government have discovered plastic microbeads -- likely from cosmetic scrubs and household and industrial cleaners -- widely distributed across the bottom of the St. Lawrence River.

A couple were thrown off a bus and branded racists after singing the Peppa Pig theme tune to their autistic daughter, it has been claimed.

A woman has been beheaded in an Oklahoma food processing plant by a sacked employee who had allegedly tried to convert his colleagues to Islam.

Why is the prime minister so much chattier about his government's intentions when he's outside the country rather than in Parliament?

BlackBerry reports a $207-million US loss for the second quarter, much better than analysts were expecting, despite a $50-million drop in revenues.

Jordan Staal will undergo surgery on his broken right leg and is expected to miss three to four months, the Carolina Hurricanes announced. Staal suffered a fractured fibula during Tuesday night's game at the Buffalo Sabres.

A photo snapped by a passerby shows Melora Rivera cowering under an eave, calling for help on her cellphone, while the intruder comes up the other side of the roof

It's a story that is gaining traction on social media, and it played out right here in Toronto.

Interviewed from Iraq by the U.S. website Vice.com, Farah Mohamed Shirdon, a former Calgary movie theatre employee, appeared erratic and became increasingly enraged as he dished out threats and claimed God was on his side.

TORONTO - A Canadian man facing charges in the U.S. over an alleged reptile smuggling operation was caught at the border with 51 live turtles stuffed down his pants, recently unsealed court documents say.

Villagers in India sprung into action after one of their neighbours was suffered a high voltage electric shock - by burying her up to her neck in the ground, believing the soil would naturally cure her.

For the second day in a row, a large black bear is continuing to make itself at home in several yards in one neighbourhood of a Metro Vancouver suburb.

A monument was unveiled Thursday to honour Cpl. Paul Davis, a soldier from Nova Scotia who was killed in 2006 while serving in Afghanistan.

Police in St. John's say they now have a suspect in custody in connection with the stabbing of a boy, believed to be 11, at a soccer field in Topsail on Thursday evening.

The federal cabinet will meet next week to discuss deploying Canada's CF-18 fighter jets to join a U.S.-led campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, CBC News has learned.

Derek Jeter capped his Yankee Stadium farewell with a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning, the latest storybook moment in a charmed and illustrious career, to give New York a 6-5 victory Thursday night over the Baltimore Orioles.

A Canadian researcher is being touted as a potential Nobel Prize winner by an organization that predicts which scientists are most likely to take home one of the coveted awards.

A powerful earthquake shook a large swath of Alaska on Thursday morning, knocking things off shelves and causing people to take cover but bringing no immediate reports of major damages.

Major Mariam Al Mansouri, 35, led the air strike against ISIS targets earlier this week.

Choudary, 47, and eight other men aged 22, 31, 31, 32, 36, 38, 39 and 51 were arrested in London this morning, and have all been taken to police stations

Qatar have pulled out of the women's basketball competition at the Asian Games after refusing to abide by international regulations preventing them from wearing hijabs.

Washinton Post: "President Obama will announce Thursday Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is stepping down from his post as soon as a successor is confirmed, according to White House officials."

Folk musician Cat Stevens, also known as Yusuf Islam, pulls New York concert just weeks after announcing a rare six-city tour, starting in Toronto.

New warnings are emerging of a security flaw known as the "Bash" bug, which cyber experts say may pose a serious threat to computers using Unix-based operating systems such as Linux and Mac OS X.

The number of shootings in which a gunman wounds or kills multiple people has increased dramatically in recent years, with the majority of attacks in the last decade occurring at a business or a school, according to an FBI report released Wednesday.

Arctic sea ice coverage continued its below-average trend this year as the ice declined to its annual minimum on Sept. 17, according to the NASA-supported National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

A day after scoring his first goal in a Canuck jersey, Jordan Subban answered questions this morning regarding an insensitive photo caption that appeared on the websites of both the Vancouver Sun and The Province.

Mortar fire struck an apartment block in the rebel-held east Ukraine city of Donetsk overnight, yet another violation of a ceasefire between government forces and pro-Russian insurgents.

Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper say they'll work to reduce the calories Americans get from beverages by 20 per cent over the next decade by more aggressively marketing smaller sizes, bottled water and diet drinks.

Naturally occurring changes in winds, not human-caused climate change, are responsible for most of the warming on land and in the sea along the West Coast of North America over the last century, a study has found.

Residents in a suburban Calgary neighbourood didn't have to travel far for their cup of coffee this morning thanks to a public relations stunt by Tim Hortons

Jordan-based institution transferred millions to terror group for attacks carried out during Second Intifada

Canada's largest oil and gas producer, Suncor Energy Inc, is shipping its first ever tanker of Western Canadian heavy crude from Canada's East Coast to Europe, a company spokeswoman said on Tuesday.

EDMONTON - An 11-year-old girl suffered serious injuries after she became stuck in the door of an ETS bus as it pulled away from a stop Tuesday morning.

Researchers using a robotic underwater vehicle off British Columbia's northern coast believe they may have found the earliest evidence of human habitation in Canada.

The Ebola epidemic in West Africa could reach up to 1.4 million cases by late January 2015 under a worst-case scenario, says a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that comes as experts from the World Health Organization call for drastic improve

Dalton Pompey hit his first major league homer and the Toronto Blue Jays roughed up Felix Hernandez for a career worst-tying eight earned runs in a 10-2 victory over the Mariners that further dented Seattle's fading wild-card chances.

News Corp reports the dead man was a person of interest in a counter-terrorism operation and had been under surveillance. There is intelligence that suggests the dead man had been waving an Islamic State flag.

TORONTO - The Ontario government is putting an extra $74 million into the growing Pan Am Games budget and has not ruled out spending more on security in response to international terrorist threats.

The cash-strapped Ontario government is bailing out the troubled MaRS Discovery District tower at the corner of College and University to the tune of $309 million.

Young British Muslims are using the hashtag #notinmyname to take a stand against extremist group "Islamic State." DW takes a look at the campaign which has received global attention.