NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 03-2016

President Barack Obama sparked outrage among some social media users when he was photographed in front of a mural of Che Guevara in Cuba.

Gunmen attack a hotel which was converted into a European Union military training base. One attacker was killed, witnesses say

The dissidents who were marching to demand improved human rights.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- While Republican front-runner Donald Trump continues to make waves nationally for his comments about banning Muslims from travelling to the country, lawmakers in two very different states are proposing that all refugees regis

A Turkish member of the Islamic State militant group was responsible for Saturday's suicide bombing in Istanbul that killed three Israelis and an Iranian and wounded dozens of others, Turkey's interior minister said.

Jessica Soto, 26, faces aggravated battery charges after she allegedly hit Bob Zwolinski, 30, with a beer bottle and punched him in the face before shooting the staple gun.

If you're planning on heading to Carmangay for the village's annual St. Patrick's Day parade, you'd best arrive on time. The parade starts promptly at 11 a.m. And it'll be over by 11:02.

Andrew Hammond stopped all 30 shots he faced to pick up his first shutout of the season and the Ottawa Senators scored three short-handed goals in a 5-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night.

Sunday may be the official start to spring, but Atlantic Canadians are bracing for another blast of wintry weather. Significant snowfall is expected on Monday, with up to 20 centimetres expected in parts of New Brunswick and P.E.I.

A former army warrant officer, accused of mouthing a schoolyard taunt to a junior officer at an official dinner, was acquitted of disciplinary charges before a court martial on Thursday, but has been left holding thousands of dollars in private legal bill

The 2016 Endangered Rivers List details the province's most imperiled rivers and what puts them in such jeopardy.

A nearly 40-year journey that started on a high school trip down the Coppermine River in the Northwest Territories brought a Norman Wells outfitter to Buckingham Palace earlier this month.

The RCMP has assembled a team of officers to coordinate their investigations of a rash of ATM thefts that have occurred mainly in rural Alberta since October. No arrests have yet been made.

The City of Montreal has cancelled the 2017 World Police and Fire Games following the intention of several unions to boycott the event.

In 2015, British Columbians saved 15 megawatt hours of electricity for Earth Hour, the lowest savings in the past eight years.

A proposal for new oil and gas drilling leases in the Beaufort Sea could re-ignite a long-simmering border dispute between the United States and Canada.

A Dubai airliner with 62 people on board crashed and caught fire early Saturday while landing in strong winds in the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, killing all aboard, officials said.

When his year-old dog fell off a fishing boat, fisherman Nick Haworth held out hope, but as the days passed he lost faith that Luna would return to him.

Police have warned elderly men to be on the lookout for black widow Melissa Ann Shepard following her release from prison yesterday

As stresses of mass migration in Europe build, a Washington think-tank claims that an army of 450,000 men are needed to stop the seismic turbulence in the Middle East, writes Max Hastings.

A suicide bomber hits a major shopping area in the Turkish city of Istanbul, killing four people and wounding up to 20, officials say.

The outcome comes after two weeks of testimony in a first-of-its-kind case where discussions of newsworthiness and decency dominated.

Earthquake Canada says the earthquake was not felt, and no tsunami is expected. The shaker was centred 205 kilometres west-southwest of Port Hardy at a depth of 10 kilometres, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The proposed City of Saskatoon anti-bullying bylaw would also outlaw rumour mongering, taunting, mocking and ostracizing.

The 18-year-old student, known only as Miss Choudhury, has been fined for wasting police time in Birmingham after CCTV proved she had lied

Crew members were interviewing Stockholm residents about the European migrant crisis in the suburb of Rinkeby when they were set upon by a group of masked men.

A gunman who appeared to be wearing Muslim dress was filmed chasing the teenagers past houses and parked cars before trying to shoot one of them in Edmonton, north London, yesterday.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is recommending the appointment of seven new senators -- the first appointees to the upper chamber in three years.

Prime minister Justin Trudeau's trip to the U.S. may have left too good an impression on the American public.

Hints of a new subatomic particle might be nothing. Or they might be something! Either way, physicists are writing lots of papers about it.

A Statistics Canada report paints a stark contrast between a robust national economy and one in Alberta that continues to shrink because of the collapse of the oil and gas sector.

A Toronto dad says he was left stunned this week after being questioned by police because someone thought that he and his son did not look alike.

Mohamed Belkaid, who was suspected of having links to the Paris massacre in November was gunned down in Brussels after a shoot-out with police on Tuesday.

An RCMP officer has been pronounced dead in hospital after he was found shot inside a building in downtown Ottawa.

The owner of Quebec's Davie shipyard, Canada's largest, says this country's shipbuilding strategy is not set up to provide the ships needed at a reasonable cost. Alex Vicefield, CEO of Inocea, calls the plan "bizarre" and says it is designed to create "ex

A member of the Ojibway Nation of Saugeen, near Pickle Lake, Ont., says the official list of band members includes people who are long dead.

Former high-ranking Quebec politician Nathalie Normandeau has been arrested as part of a sweep by Quebec's anti-corruption unit, UPAC, according to Radio-Canada sources.

An Ontario farmer recently participated in the birth of a calf that was born with two heads. In more than four decades of farming, Les Caldwell had never seen anything like it.

Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old University of Virginia undergraduate student, was convicted and sentenced in a one-hour trial in North Korea to 15 years in prison with hard labor on Wednesday.

The NHL presented its plans for a potential expansion draft to GMs on Wednesday morning. Essentially, teams would risk losing one player under a one-team expansion and a pair in a two-team scenario.

A cat stranded for almost three days on a 9 metre power pole near Stranraer, Sask., has been rescued. It wasn't until Wednesday morning, in the midst of wind and snow, that the Crown corporation came to rescue the cat.

A tourism operator in Georgetown, P.E.I., will soon be selling cans of Island sand and fog. Gotell hasn't set a price yet but he expects the cans of sand or fog will sell for between $5 and $10.

University of Chile researchers have grown chicken embryos with 'dinosaur-like' lower legs that have two connected lower leg bones instead of one big bone and a needle-like splinter.

One of three men killed earlier this week in avalanches in B.C. has been identified as extreme snowmobiler Dan Davidoff, the star of the Krazy Canadian video series. He was born Daniel Joseph Davidoff, but earned the nickname "the Krazy Canadian" starring

More than three years after a botched fresco restoration by an octogenarian painter became a major tourist attraction for a northern Spanish town, local officials are looking to inject new life into the phenomenon by opening a centre that celebrates the f

Mexico City authorities are banning more than 1 million cars from the roads and offering free subway and bus rides to coax people from their vehicles as the megalopolis' first air pollution alert in 11 years stretches into a third day.

Denmark, perhaps better known for its fictional, suicide-agonizing prince Hamlet and fierce marauding Vikings than being a nation of the happiest people, has just won that very accolade. Again.

Statistics Canada says the country's population topped 36 million this year for the first time. Population growth was positive in all provinces and territories, except the Yukon.

Fairy circles, mysterious landscape patterns previously known only in Namibia, have been discovered in Australia. Many theories have been raised over the years about how the mysterious patterns form in arid areas.

A prestigious South Vancouver riding club is closing immediately after a newly arrived rescue horse tested positive for the highly contagious equine disease known as strangles.

B.C. Wildlife Park in Kamloops says building a new animal hospital two years ago has paid off, because the centre is now accepting more than twice as many animal rescues.

Children kicking off their two-week spring break on Monday enjoyed a math-filled day at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver, and the number pi was at centre stage.

Nature lovers in Kelowna have had a rare treat for the past few weeks: a family of owls has been living in a pine tree near the Rotary Centre for the Arts downtown.

The District of Lillooet is lobbying higher levels of government to bring back passenger train service between Vancouver and Prince George, but the province says it is not on board with the idea.

Two species of stickleback fish in Enos Lake are becoming one, which is hurting biodiversity and is changing the local ecosystem, says a UBC researcher.

The city of Salmon Arm has been forced to stop using water from its primary intake after a spill of several thousand litres of run-off containing glue and fuel products.

A 21-year-old Red Deer man is accused of shooting up the downtown RCMP detachment with a replica firearm and allegedly threatening to torch the building. Shots were fired from a passing vehicle at the RCMP station at 4602 51st Avenue shortly before 4 p.m.

Via Rail confirms it is bringing in RCMP and sniffer dogs for an elevated police presence at some train stations in response to what it called an "unsubstantiated" threat.

There is a battle brewing in the Similkameen town of Princeton, B.C. over who owns and operates the local museum. The town of Princeton owns the museum building and grants funds to run it, including paying the salary of the museum manager among other thin

The 2016 election campaign is now underway in Manitoba. Manitobans head to the polls on April 19.

A Transportation Safety Board report cites poor track conditions and maintenance deficiencies as the causes of a CN train derailment two years ago near Fort Frances, Ont. in northwestern Ontario.

Tracy Dodds has been given until April 8 to remove the boat from the Shelburne Marine Terminal. The boat used to be an anti-sealing vessel belonging to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

French anti-terrorism police arrested four Islamist radicals on Wednesday on suspicion they were planning an imminent attack in central Paris, TF1 television said.

Sources say the RCMP investigators expect to clear the remaining six senators of any wrongdoing due to lack of strong evidence

Molson Coors Canada is pulling an ad after backlash from search-and-rescue groups claiming it encourages mountain users to go out of bounds.

President Barack Obama will nominate federal appeals court judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court, congressional sources said Wednesday. CBCnews.ca will carry the formal announcement live at 11 a.m. ET.

The Indian government is proposing legislation which would allow federal agencies access to its biometric database holding one billion citizen records.

Internal RCMP reports and emails obtained by CBC News show that Shared Services Canada's takeover of the Mounties' tech support has been a costly disaster that has jeopardized court cases and investigations while putting the safety of officers and members

Scientists are struggling to find an answer as to why common murres, one of the northern hemisphere's most common seabirds, are dying off in great numbers in Alaska.

Argentina's navy announced Tuesday that it used gunfire to sink a Chinese-flagged boat that was fishing illegally in national waters. The statement said the boat did not heed warning calls and instead tried to ram an Argentine naval vessel. Sailors then s

Dallas Seavey won his third straight Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Tuesday morning, crossing under the burled arch on Front Street in Nome for his fourth overall title in the last five years.

A Tyrannosaurus rex that died 68 million years ago in what is now Montana was pregnant at the time, U.S. researchers have confirmed.

Many people are still reeling from the collapse of Elephant Rock at Hopewell Rocks, but tourism and park officials say it's all part of the site's natural wonder.

The chief of the Sayisi Dene in Tadoule Lake in northern Manitoba says he's disturbed that people are overhunting the caribou in his community and calls it an 'atrocity.'

The B.C. Search and Rescue Association is criticizing Molson Coor's ad campaign that shows skiers having fun as they go out of bounds. It shows three skiers heading down a trail while a narrator asks, "will you brave going out of bounds?"

The brother of an American tourist who died after a snowmobile crash north of Quebec City earlier this month says paramedics refused to help his brother because they didn't want to go to the scene of the accident, a wooded area three kilometres from the n

A relaxing Sunday in the mountains near Jasper took a terrifying turn when Dana Ruddy found himself being carried down the side of a mountain by an avalanche.

Yukon conservation officers are urging Whitehorse residents to use caution while walking the city's trails after a coyote nipped at the legs of a jogger in McIntyre Creek Monday.

An oil tanker that ran aground in Nunavut in 2014 did so in part because of a fatigued crew says the Transportation Safety Board. It was the second time in three years the Nanny, owned by Coastal Shipping Limited of Goose Bay, had run aground in the regio

NHL goaltending equipment will be shrinking again soon. Starting next season, goalies will be will wearing equipment better suited to body size with strict new enforcements coming into place.

When a young man refused to help his mother and younger brother, she sent him an invoice for nearly $40,000 so that he was aware of how she'd been supporting him.

A pair of Japanese paleontologists have named a marine bird species after a Thornhill, Man., homeowner after an 80-million-year-old fossil was dug up on his property.

Laurie Rimon was near some ruins in northern Israel when something shiny caught her eye. It was a 2,000-year-old coin so rare the only other copy is in the British Museum.

B.C.'s newest park will protect thousand-year-old cedars east of Prince George in the world's only known inland temperate rainforest. The Ancient Forest Park, or Chun T'oh Wudujut in the local Lheidli language, is located 120 kilometres east of Prince Geo

Albertans are struggling as the energy industry continues to sputter. Making matters worse, there is a pervasive feeling that some Canadians enjoy watching the province's hard times. But does the rest of Canada really take pleasure in Alberta's pain?

Belgian security forces are hunting for at least two men believed to be linked to last year's attacks in Paris, after shots were fired during an anti-terrorism raid.

Robin Elgie, a Fort St. John man who was injured in a dog attack Christmas Day, is home after seven surgeries to repair his damaged arms.

Will Quigg once tweeted his support for Donald Trump but now says he is behind Democrat candidate's "hidden agenda" - although hate-group watchers are sceptical

Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders says a 27-year-old man is under arrest after two members of the Canadian Forces were stabbed in north Toronto earlier on Monday.

Leading military lawyer says refinements of technology already used on stealth bombers could breach international laws

President Putin orders Russian military to start withdrawing the "main part" of forces in Syria, saying their goals have been largely achieved.

A 'mortified' Chris Evans has been forced to apologise 'unreservedly' after Matt LeBlanc's Ford Mustang did 'donuts' and wheelspins on Whitehall close to Britain's great war memorials yesterday.

Kuldeep Singh, a clerk at the Burien, Washington store, was sliced two to three times before his 60-year-old regular customer then shot the attacker dead with a pistol.

Scores of migrants from the Idomeni camp in northern Greece cross into Macedonia after finding a way through the barbed-wire border fence.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vows to bring terrorism "to its knees" following an attack in the capital Ankara that killed at least 34 people.

The party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffers defeats in two of three states holding regional elections, exit polls suggest.

The size of a lynx family photographed on the Haines Road earlier this week fits with the feline's current population cycles, according to an Yukon Environment biologist.

Groups responsible for monitoring polar bear populations in the U.S. and Canadian Beaufort Sea are hoping to do an aerial survey over two years starting in 2017.

Scientists using the Canadian High Arctic Research Station in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, will now be focusing more on climate change than resource development, according to Polar Knowledge Canada.

Spring is arriving early across much of the Yukon, prompting bears to wake up earlier than usual. A Yukon carnivore biologist, said she's had report of bears that have already left their dens.

A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion US heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said.

Hayley Wickenheiser and her Calgary Inferno teammates captured their first ever Clarkson Cup on Sunday with an impressive 8-3 victory over Montreal's Les Canadiennes.

Pictures and video on-line show that the roof of a 130-year-old abandoned building has collapsed in New Westminster, B.C. The building was originally constructed in 1886 to manufacture coal gas for the lighting of city streets.

Environment Canada has issued wind warnings for parts of the southern B.C. coast, with gusts of up to 90 kilometres an hour expected this evening.

A recently published study suggests climate change may encourage longer and more frequent blooms of toxic algae along Canada's Pacific coast.

A dog that was left in a garbage bag behind a South Korea meat market has a new life -- and new limbs -- on the other side of the world in Arizona.

Take a look through our amazing audience photo gallery from the week of March 7.

At least 27 people were killed and 75 injured in an explosion in the Turkish capital Ankara on Sunday, says Ankara governor's office.

Developing tools with which to slice and mash their food meant our ancestors needed to chew much less, leaving more time for honing language and other skills instead, evolutionary scientists said Wednesday.

Four gunmen armed with machine-guns and hand grenades have gone on the rampage at a popular hotel in Ivory Coast, leaving at least 12 people dead.

For cross-border travelers, the odds of getting on one of those impossible-to-escape American security lists have just increased.

A baby bird abandoned in 2014 is in training to become a wildlife ambassador for the Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre, who took her in when no one else could.

As parts of the South Coast have finally recovered from a vicious storm, heavy winds are on their way back to at least Victoria and the Southern Gulf Islands, according to Environment Canada.

Bo Horvat had a goal and an assist Saturday as the Vancouver Canucks defeated Nashville 4-2 to snap the Predators' franchise-record 14-game point streak.

Record-breaking weather came to the Greater Toronto Area on Saturday as the city and much of southern Ontario eases into a warm March weekend. Environment Canada recorded a high of 17 C at Pearson airport in Mississauga on Saturday at 2 p.m., beating the

Keith Emerson, founder and keyboardist of the progressive-rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died. He was 71. Emerson had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, and authorities are investigating his death as a possible suicide.

Residents in parts of the U.S. South are taking stock of damage Saturday after a massive deluge of rain submerged roads and cars, washed out bridges and forced residents to flee homes.

Cain's Quest may be officially over, but one disqualified team still won the hearts of many Labradorians when racers approached the finish line Saturday afternoon.