NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2014

University of Calgary officials are banning intramural sports team names deemed offensive, sexist or that refer to the use of drugs and alcohol after concerns were raised by students, who say some of the monikers perpetuate rape culture on campus.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is claiming that Muslim sailors reached the Americas more than 300 years before explorer Christopher Columbus.

Buddy, a part-beagle, had been sitting on the side step of the ambulance for 20 miles en route to a hospital in Fredericksburg, Texas, before a motorist flagged down the driver.

Assistant Commissary Officer Walter Dunne's rare handwritten letter describes how he and a vastly outnumbered group of soldiers successfully defended the outpost in South Africa.

A suspected coyote attack on a Brampton woman and two recent attacks on dogs in the GTA have prompted demands for municipalities to take more aggressive action.

We ask the new inductees who they think should be joining them in the Hall in coming years.

A Quebec man accused of impersonating a soldier at a Remembrance Day ceremony this week has been arrested and faces four charges.

A video released onto the internet claims to show that Islamic State militants have killed the captured US aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig.

A new governmental agreement drafted by Russia and North Korea will see Moscow hand over Koreans who have fled the totalitarian regime in their native country.

Photographer Robyn Arout thought she had seen it all.Then one day she stumbled upon an abandoned trio of animals in a neighbors yard, a Yorkie, and two kittens.

A social worker wanted to stop a three-year-old girl, who was a quarter Jewish, being adopted by a Jewish couple as the household would have been too religious, Supreme Court judge Lord Wilson said.

Jihadi John, the Briton who beheaded two British and two American hostages held by Islamic State terrorists, has been injured in a US-led air strike, according to reports received by the Foreign Office.

The U.S. Navy has deployed on a command ship in the Persian Gulf its first laser weapon capable of destroying a target.

For years, airlines have struggled to figure out best way to board a plane. Air Canada is adopting a new five-zone policy designed to simplify process.

White widow Samantha Lewthwaite is alive and well and living in southern Somalia with her jihadist husband, a wanted al-Qaeda suspect who calls himself Marco Costa, Kenyan sources say.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia plans to create its own Wikipedia to ensure its citizens have access to more detailed and reliable information about their country, the presidential library said on Friday.Citing

Three people charged with killing at least two women, eating parts of their bodies and using their flesh to make and sell stuffed pastries went on trial Thursday in northeastern Brazil.

If the bird outside your window sounds like it's singing a familiar tune, it might not be your imagination.

An Idaho high school teacher under fire for killing and skinning a rabbit in front of his students to demonstrate how animals are processed for food has apologized to children disturbed by the incident, a school official said on Friday.

The B.C. SPCA says it is pursuing charges in two separate apparently violent dog deaths last month: one, a Pomerianian stabbed to death in Richmond, and the other a French bulldog found dead with apparent head trauma in Vancouver.

A veteran escorting the body of Private Steven Allen, the solder who died after a military training exercise in Alberta, was given a ticket by police while part of the funeral procession.

Stephen Harper and other G20 leaders began their annual summit in a tense atmosphere dominated by Western anger towards Russian President Vladimir Putin and pressure to address climate change, fight Ebola and kickstart economic growth.

Argentina is complaining about a British military training exercise near the Falkland Islands. Argentina lost a brief but bloody 1982 war with Britain over the South Atlantic archipelago and still claims the islands.

A 7.3-magnitude quake hit Indonesian waters Saturday morning and has the potential to generate tsunami waves along nearby coasts, a monitoring agency said.

A spell of cold weather is settling in throughout B.C., and the coldest temperatures in the province are in the Peace region. The cold snap is good news for Tim Ewart, who is a grain farmer in Pouce Coupe.

Joan O'Malley, who sewed the first prototype of Canada's modern flag, was honoured in a special commemoration on Parliament Hill Friday.

A man who claimed to be a decorated soldier at a Remembrance Day ceremony has been temporarily suspended from his job at a construction company.

Vladimir Putin is underlining his presence at a major summit of world leaders in Australia by stationing warships in waters off the country's northeastern coast, prompting the Australian prime minister to angrily accuse Russia of trying to reclaim the "lo

Montreal Canadiens winger Dale Weise had quite the performance in his first game against the Boston Bruins since the infamous handshake threat, completing the Gordie Howe hat trick Thursday night at the Bell Centre.

A Polish doctor says she has been in "deep shock" since learning that a 91-year-old woman she pronounced dead woke up in a morgue hours later.

An Ontario judge has dismissed an application by doctors at McMaster Children's hospital that would have removed an aboriginal girl from her family for chemotherapy.

John Cleese has documented his career and early life in a new autobiography entitled 'So Anyway'.

Biologists say they don't know for certain why a grizzly bear mauled Claudia Huber near her home in Teslin, Yukon, last month. Though attacks are rare, many members of the community are still fearful.

A New York court has been asked by an animal rights group to consider chimpanzees legal persons instead of things that can be owned so that captive ones can be freed.

Your car may be spying on you, but a group of automakers have pledged they will keep that information private.

A complaint has been filed about Eric Pomerleau, the RCMP constable who was caught on video punching Cory Nielsen and throwing him to the ground at the Red Deer detachment two years ago.

Almost 100,000 people have joined the campaign to keep self-styled dating guru Julien Blanc out of the UK. Mr Blanc, 25, advises men to treat women with chilling disrespect and contempt.

Microsoft Corp issued patches on Tuesday to fix a bug in its Windows operating system that remained undiscovered for 19 years.

The biggest seller of off-brand coffee in Canada has lodged a formal complaint with the Competition Bureau, alleging Keurig is unfairly prohibiting other companies from making single-serve pods for their ubiquitous coffee machines and driving up prices fo

Crown lawyers argue in a Nova Scotia court that fisherman Philip Boudreau's death was murder for lobster, not a lapse of judgment.

A group of angry veterans, who want the Harper government defeated in the next election, is appealing to serving members of the military to join them in protest.

An Ottawa university instructor has lost his bid to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear his appeal on his extradition to France, where he's a suspect in a deadly bombing.

When Stephen Lewis went to the doctor in February and went to get weighed, he was off the scale. The reading he got was, "Error."

Governments now agree that they must act to stop climate change, but whether rich or poor, some estimates say countries around the globe spend up to a trillion dollars a year to counteract the market forces that would discourage greenhouse gas production.

Twelve Turkish nationalists detained after an attack on U.S. sailors in Istanbul were released on Thursday but could still face charges for causing insult and injury, local media reports say.

The director of a Florida health resort where two Ontario First Nations girls with leukemia have sought treatment is not a licensed doctor or naturopath in that state, CBC News has found.

A fleet of Russian warships continued to steam south closer to the G20 host city of Brisbane on Thursday as experts stressed the show of force was aimed at the world as a whole, not just Australia.

Members of Canada's public health community are expressing concern about intended changes to the authority of the country's chief public health officer, changes that strip the office holder of the responsibility of running the Public Health Agency of Cana

Thirteen people are arrested over a trafficking ring which saw a pregnant woman almost tricked into an abortion following a sham marriage.

Stephen Gordon explains why it's pointless to talk about raising corporate income taxes

After a barrage of hilarious memes and a rash of criticism and plaudits, MailOnline can reveal more pictures from the the Jean-Paul Goude shoot, courtesy of Paper magazine.

For more than an hour on Wednesday afternoon, two window washers commanded the concern of New York City.

U.S. Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu said she will propose debate later on Wednesday and a vote on Thursday to approve the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

The 17-year-old had initially accepted her father's wish for her to marry a man in his 20s after meeting the groom-to-be at her house in the southern area of Jazan.

Montgomery County Board of Education voted Tuesday to remove religious labels off school holidays. But members of the Islamic community say the adjustments to the school calendar do nothing to gain parity and a day off for the Muslim holiday of Eid.

Tragic L'Wren Scott's family have spoken of their fury at Sir Mick Jagger over the Rolling Stones' legal battle to claim $13million from insurers after canceling tour dates in the wake of her death.

Bankers, who called themselves as the 'A-Team', 'Three Musketeers' and 'The Players', colluded online by sharing sensitive information to make "free money".

A European spacecraft made history today by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet

Samantha Lewthwaite, 30, was gunned down by a Russian sniper two weeks ago, alleged Regnum news agency in Moscow.

Nato's top commander says alliance officials have seen Russian military vehicles and combat troops entering Ukraine.

Recently, Verizon was caught tampering with its customer's web requests to inject a tracking super-cookie. Another network-tampering threat to user safety has come to light from other providers: email encryption downgrade attacks.

Many Canadians have a love-hate relationship with the energy sector. We love it for the jobs but hate the fact that Canada is often seen as a climate change villain, whether the description is fair or not.

Conservative commentator Ezra Levant is appalled that a school board in Ontario wanted to keep its students safe from possible harassment on Remembrance Day.

An Australian woman who had a child using in-vitro fertilization fell in love with the man who was her anonymous sperm donor. Eventually, trapped on the island because of a road closure, they went for a beer and she told him: 'I think you should kiss me'

A stealthy selfie has turned Stacey Wallace into an instant Internet sensation.

Israeli parliamentarians will honour Canada's sergeant-at-arms, Kevin Vickers, on Wednesday for the actions he took during the shooting last month on Parliament Hill.

ArAn elderly former soldier had his regimental beret and medals ripped off him by a gang of youths as he walked to a cenotaph to honour his fallen comrades on Remembrance Sunday.

Daniel Sedin scored 4:05 into overtime as the Vancouver Canucks beat the Ottawa Senators 4-3 on Tuesday night. The upstart Canucks (12-5-0) gained a share of first place overall as they posted their eighth win in 10 games under new coach Willie Desjardins

Dorothy Scott's job during the Second World War was to plot airplanes, both friend and foe, for the Royal Air Force from a farmhouse in the south of Cornwall. The Guelph resident shares her stories from the war with The Morning Edition host Craig Norris.

Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Air Force veterans who served as Lancaster bomber aircrew reunited in Hamilton for Remembrance Day events.

A disturbing video posted to LiveLeak of an apparently homeless man setting his hair on fire, as others egg him on is generating a lot of discussion online and elsewhere about compassion.

An Arctic high pressure system continues to usher in cold northeasterly winds across B.C. creating gusts of up to 60 km/h across the South Coast that left more than 10,000 people without power Tuesday.

The owner of a fishing lodge says he has questions about that group of teenagers rescued yesterday. He said a number of the lodge's buildings were broken into.

Five missing teenagers have been found on an island in Reindeer Lake in northern Saskatchewan.

In May 1945, George Emmerson was a young Canadian private stationed in Enschede, Holland, when he met a starving man who had just been liberated from a Nazi labour camp. Nearly 70 years later, a chance encounter brought them back together.

Colder than normal temperatures across the Prairies are expected to stretch until at least the weekend, while weather warnings are in effect for large parts of Ontario and Quebec.

Researchers have uncovered the remains of two Ice Age infants in Alaska's interior, a discovery archaeologists call the youngest human remains from that era found in northern North America.

A woman from British Columbia who emigrated to Israel has become the first foreign woman to join Kurds battling the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Israeli media are reporting.

The Department of National Defence says the Canadian Forces hit another ISIS target in Iraq today.

Every evening in Ypres, a crowd stands silently under the imposing Menin Gate - a nightly ritual since the late 1920s grand archway covering the route Allied soldiers took to the front lines during the First World War.

An appeals court has cleared seven experts charged with failing to adequately warn residents of the risk before an earthquake struck central Italy in 2009, killing more than 300 people.

The Battle of Ontario spilled into the stands on Sunday night when Leafs and Senators fans brawled during the teams' game in Ottawa. A nearby fan who wasn't involved in the fight captured it on video.

Shorter overseas deployments of U.K. armed forces can help prevent mental illness, say researchers who looked at risks of developing post-traumatic stress disorder, harmful drinking and family problems.

Our soldiers fought for the shared values of freedom and democratic rights for all, but these soldiers returned from the war and quickly realized those freedoms and rights did not equally apply to them as they did their non-native comrades, writes Gordon

Victoria Badcock, 100, remembers life after her father returned from Beaumont-Hamel, after leaving for war when she was just a baby, writes Ramona Dearing.

More than a dozen flags featuring the war time photos of veterans are flying on lamp poles along Water Street.

A minister on Prince Edward Island is bringing the history of a fellow military chaplain to life through drama. Rev. Tom Hamilton has created a 20-minute monologue about the life and death of World War II chaplain, Padre Alfred Seaman.

At 95 years of age, Rollack had never attended a public Remembrance Day service, choosing to watch the services at home, on television.

A group of 27 students from Eaglesham, Alta., left school Friday, marching single file carrying picks, shovels and backpacks to spend a night fighting mock battles and sleeping in frozen trenches.

The most decorated First Nations soldier in the history of the Canadian military will get the recognition he never received in his lifetime. A life-size bronze statue of Francis Pegahmagabow, a little known WW I hero, will be erected in Parry Sound, Ont.,

An Ontario school board allowed some of its students to be exempt from certain Remembrance Day ceremonies today after families said they feared for their children's safety.

British Columbia stood still for two minutes Tuesday morning in recognition of Remembrance Day. No crowd was bigger than at the cenotaph in Vancouver.

A crew of divers from Conception Bay South visited the site of a WW II shipwreck on Monday to lay a wreath in memory of the sailors who perished.

Canada's National War Memorial, the scene of a horrifying shooting less than a month ago, is rededicated to add the dates of the Afghanistan mission and the South African War.

The first cold snap this season is set to last for the next several days and outreach workers are busy helping homeless people find shelter spaces in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley

A man is caught breaking into a Butler County house, escapes from the police cruiser, then tries to break into another nearby home. In the end, a 15-year-old is the one who comes to the rescue.

As Canadians observe Remembrance Day across the country, veterans are sharing their personal stories of military service and reflecting on what the day means to them.

Seven Royal Canadian Air Force veterans who served as Lancaster bomber aircrew are reuniting in Hamilton for Remembrance Day events.

Brian Whitlock, 28, has been charged with the second-degree murder of his mother, Barbara, whose body was found inside her home on Vancouver's west side Saturday.

Assailants stabbed several Israelis on Monday, killing a young woman at a bus stop in the West Bank and gravely wounding an Israeli soldier in Tel Aviv, the latest in an ongoing wave of Arab violence that has put the country on edge.

RCMP are reporting what they believe may be a sighting of five teenagers who have been missing in northern Saskatchewan for the past week.

Think tank says Russian forces have been involved in dozens of close encounters with Western militaries since Moscow annexed Crimea

Nearly half of us could be infected with a virus which makes us more stupid, scientists have found. The startling discovery suggests that millions may be carrying a long-lasting infection which dulls the brain.

As the polar vortex gets displaced to the south, the door will open for arctic air to plunge down as far as most of the United States as the new week progresses.