NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2016

A series of spectacular underwater images have revealed what is left of a 600-foot long American luxury liner-turned troop ship that was sunk in World War II, the SS President Coolidge.

The leader of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Frauke Petry, says people should be able to arm themselves with guns following a series of violent gun and axe attacks.

Some talk about how Downie helped rescue their youth through his patriotic poetry. Barry also talks of how Downie rescued his cat.

An anonymous group released thousands of hacked documents from the Open Society Foundations this week.

The shocking advert claiming Sweden has the world's highest rape rate is in the terminal of Istanbul's Ataturk airport and is a response to criticism by Stockholm over Turkey's child sex abuse laws.

Nice has become the latest French seaside resort to ban the burkini, the body-concealing Islamic swimsuit that has sparked heated debate in secular France. Pictured is a model in a burkini

A Montreal man was charged on Thursday for allegedly committing a terrorism hoax and misleading both Canadian and American authorities.

The previous government swung between two extremes, where initially "the gates were open," to where "no one was let in,"

Lethbridge police deployed an armoured rescue vehicle on one of the city's main roads Thursday, closing Whoop-Up Drive for several hours before taking a heavily armed man into custody.

Two independent sources told EurActiv.com that the US has started transferring nuclear weapons stationed in Turkey to Romania, against the background of worsening relations between Washington and Ankara. According to one of the sources, the transfer ha

The attacker, who has been arrested, reportedly shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as he stabbed the 55-year-old man in Strasbourg, France.

Goodbye to Gawker. Nick Denton's snarky gossip site will cease operations next week after Univision struck an agreement to acquire parent company Gawker Media Group out of bankruptcy.

In 2003, researchers declared Coral Castles dead. Then in 2015, a team of marine biologists was stunned and overjoyed to find Coral Castles, genus Acropora, once again teeming with life.

The number of businesses to shutter their doors in Calgary during the economic downturn continues to grow.

Neonicotinoids, a widely used class of insecticide, are suspected of harming honeybee populations. But there is growing evidence that they might also have detrimental effects on other important pollinators.

A study of lakes near one of Canada's most contaminated industrial sites suggests that the water immediately around Yellowknife's Giant Mine won't return to its natural state for generations -- if ever.

The countdown is on. Tragically Hip fans across Canada are prepping for the Man Machine Poem tour finale in the band's hometown of Kingston, Ont., on Saturday.

​Sgt. Maurice Brodeur has been removed from his position as president of the Edmonton Police Association.

Syrian opposition activists release haunting footage showing a young boy rescued from the rubble in the aftermath of a devastating airstrike in Aleppo.

Arctic char is a staple of many Nunavut fishermen's catch, but something's different this year, with a strange colouration prompting plenty of theories, but few answers.

A senior Olympic executive from Ireland was arrested and taken to the hospital Wednesday after police carried out a raid at his beachfront hotel as part of an investigation into the illegal sale of tickets for the Rio de Janeiro Games.

The number of UK workers from eight eastern European countries that joined the EU in 2004 has passed one million for the first time, Office for National Statistics figures show.

provincial court Judge Henrik Tonning fined Do $1,700 and Chaffin $1,000. Their guns were destroyed, and both men were told to leave the country.

Authorities in Puerto Rico say a ferry carrying more than 500 passengers has been evacuated after a small fire erupted on the ship, which runs between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

Danny My Ho has pleaded guilty to four violations of the Fisheries Act for catching Dungeness crab in an area of the Sunshine Coast closed due to dioxin contamination.

Seven pit bulls were leashed and out for a walk when a cat jumped out of a bush and attacked her three-year-old dog, says owner Javiera Rodriguez.

Niagara Falls is the latest natural wonder to add a zip line, offering honeymooners and everyone else the chance to take an adrenaline-pumping plunge toward churning mist at speeds topping 60 km/h.

The second oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes, an American-built, Canadian-owned sloop that sank in Lake Ontario more than 200 years ago, has been found, a team of underwater explorers said Wednesday.

Two months after a dog escaped its yard and killed a woman in her fifties, Montreal is introducing new regulations to restrict pit bulls and other dangerous dogs.

Ukrainian separatists and the Kiev government believe a fresh outbreak in hostilities with Russia is imminent.

The first defendant in the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge early this year has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for his role in it.

A 12-year-old girl is in "grave condition" in a Lower Mainland hospital after being pulled unconscious from a popular man-made lake in Dawson Creek, B.C.

Pte. Andrew Fitzgerald, 19, from Cape Breton, has been missing since Saturday, when he was last seen around 4:30 a.m. ET at a Petro-Canada gas station in Owen Sound, Ont.

Air ambulance services to seven hospitals on the South Coast and Vancouver Island have been suspended and likely won't be restored for about two more days, according to the company that provides the service.

The IOC has stripped Russia of its gold medal in the women's 4x100-metre relay from the 2008 Beijing Olympics after one of the runners tested positive in a reanalysis of her doping samples.

It turns out that the giant panda that gave birth at Vienna's Schoenbrunn Zoo last week was hiding a tiny little secret -- an extra cub.

A shallow, magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook southern Peru's picturesque Colca Valley, killing at least four people, including a U.S. tourist, and injuring 52 as it toppled adobe homes, authorities said Monday.

Sweden is not backing away from its campaign to ban the import of live lobsters into the European Union, arguing a "precautionary approach" justifies its claim that the presence of North American lobsters in European waters constitutes an invasive species

China on Tuesday launched the world's first quantum satellite, designed to help it establish "hack-proof" communications between space and the ground.

One of the largest yellow fever outbreaks in decades could soon spread globally, aid group Save the Children warns as WHO prepares for one of the largest emergency vaccination campaigns ever attempted in Africa.

The area around Kluane Lake continues to change, thanks to the Kaskawulsh glacier. Cultus Bay is now a small lake, separated from Kluane Lake by a wide gravel bar.

Earth just broiled to its hottest month in recorded history, according to NASA. NASA's five hottest months on record are July 2016, July 2011, July 2015, July 2009 and August 2014. Only July 2015 was during an El Nino. Records go back to 1880.

​Explorers in Poland begin digging for a legendary Nazi train said to be laden with treasure and armaments. The search in southwestern Poland attests to the power of a local legend claiming a Nazi "gold train" disappeared in a mountain tunnel as the

A Washington couple resplendent in Victorian-era attire were asked to leave the Butchart Gardens tourist attraction for looking a little too authentic.

Prince George and Princess Charlotte will visit Canada for the first time this fall when they accompany parents Prince William and Kate during their royal tour, according to multiple reports.

The Olympic Games in Rio have been hit by half-empty stadiums, pool water turning green, a TV camera crashing to the ground, and athletes being mugged. Now, organizers acknowledge they're also having trouble keeping volunteers.

Species that feed most on the bright yellow flowers of the crop treated with controversial neonicotinoids have fallen by as much as 30%

The Pentagon says 61 detainees now remain at the prison in Cuba, opened in January 2002 to hold foreign fighters suspected of links to the Taliban or the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization.

Firefighters are battling to control a Northern California blaze that destroyed at least 175 homes and businesses as it grew to 4,000 acres and forced 4,000 people from their homes.

As waters begin to recede in parts of Louisiana's capital city, some residents struggled to return to flood-damaged homes on foot, in cars and by boat. But though the rain had mostly stopped, new places in the state faced flood dangers from the deluge tha

The family of a man with epilepsy says police beat him severely in his home then arrested him after they had called 911 for help with violent symptoms from a seizure.

Recent findings indicating the possible discovery of a previously unknown subatomic particle may be evidence of a fifth fundamental force of nature, according to a paper published in the journal Physical Review Letters by theoretical physicists at the Uni

A London memorial commemorating one million Canadians who fought alongside Britain armed forces in two World Wars is being used as a water slide and paddling pool causing outrage.

Activist group issues a series of demands to Ontario's Special Investigations Unit in wake of Ottawa man's death.

Dale James is regularly being stopped by Toronto police and is suing over it. The thing is, he has already reached a settlement with the cops after his 2013 suit.

The nine men are accused of drugging the woman and takingher from Vienna's downtown Schwedenplatz station to an apartment where two of the lived before gang raping her.

Maggie Papik of Aklavik, N.W.T., says her uncle died from the effects of a stroke after health care staff mistook the signs of the stroke for drunkenness.

Ontario Provincial Police are looking for suspects after $1.5 million worth of moose, elk and stag antlers were stolen from a taxidermy shop in Caledon, Ontario.

For the first time in nearly 40 years, male boxers will be competing without protective headgear at the Olympic Games, but female fighters will still wear the safety apparatus.

The governing Liberals are moving further to reassure Canadians that they have a grip on combating the threat of terrorism in the wake of last week's death of a man suspected of plotting an attack.

A 10-year-old girl walking with her father on a hiking trail in Port Coquitlam, B.C. was attacked by a black bear that witnesses say tried to drag her off into the woods.

Celebrations have erupted in the strategic Syrian city of Manbij following the rout of Islamic State fighters by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.

Forty people have been reportedly injured in a stampede in the French Mediterranean resort of Juan-Les-Pins after fears of gunfire led to panic.

A new research paper says a 1967 storm on the sun, which can cause spectacular aurora borealis, nearly led to a nuclear war between the West and the Soviet Union.

The U.S. Olympic Committee says Ryan Lochte and three other American swimmers were robbed overnight by armed men who stopped their taxi.

Ontario's auto sector absorbed a far greater economic wallop during the financial crisis than the damage low oil prices have inflicted on Alberta, says an internal federal analysis.

It has been 15 years since the so-called "lucky loonie" was buried at centre ice in the hockey arena during the Salt Lake City Olympics, and the good-luck ritual continues at the Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.

A busy stretch of the German Autobahn near Hannover has been shut down after unexploded World War II-era bombs were located during construction work.

A rescue group says an endangered leatherback turtle that washed up on the shores of Newfoundland died because it ingested a garbage bag.

Crowd Gathers After Milwaukee Officer Fatally Shoots Man

American decathlete Ashton Eaton's choice of headgear while watching Canadian heptathlete Brianne Theisen-Eaton, his wife, compete at the Rio Olympic Games sparked a lot of mixed emotions from fans.

The IAAF says it has banned the only Russian in Olympic track and field from competition and that she is appealing the ruling. The governing body revoked eligibility for long jumper Darya Klishina based on new information it received last week from Richar

Officials say one person is being taken to hospital following a bear attack in Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Are humpback whales naturally altruistic creatures? Sort of, according to a surprising new study into an unusual behaviour of one of the ocean's gentle giants.

A French court has rejected a demand by a group of French Muslims in Cannes to overturn a ban on full-body, head-covering swimwear on city beaches.

A former Calgary woman whose 22-year-old radicalized son was killed while fighting alongside Islamic extremists in Syria two years ago says the federal government failed both Aaron Driver and his family.

It was the second time a six-year-old was shot in Philadelphia this week -- another 6-year-old, a girl, was struck in the arm Tuesday

Seven people have been injured after a man attacked passengers on a train in Switzerland with 'fire and a knife'. Swiss police have confirmed the train has been sealed off an it is understood the county's interior minister is holding an emergency meeting

A woman who snapped a photo of a drink menu at a Wings restaurant in Surrey says she can't believe the restaurant would name a drink after the convicted killer. She says it's "insulting" and would cause "huge emotional distress" to families of victims.

Immigration Minister John McCallum said he wants to "substantially increase" the number of immigrants coming to Canada beyond record levels as a way to fill the country's labour needs, during a speech to the Canadian Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines

A seven-year-old boy was seen trying to sell his stuffed animal for food and now an officer is being praised for helping the young boy out of his unfortunate situation.

The Russian military announces the delivery of new air defence missiles to Crimea, in a move scheduled before the latest tension with Ukraine.

Although tiny, a proton takes up a finite amount of space, enough to fit three quarks, a host of virtual particles, and their associated gluons. The size of a proton's radius is determined by these particles and their interactions, and so is fundamentally

This is the first time local police have copped to owning the devices.

The Canadian industry�s biggest international buyer is preparing to enact a highly restrictive rule at the start of September

The government is advising Canadians to check where their produce comes from after an outbreak of cyclospora was reported in four provinces.

Gabriella Taylor was playing in Wimbledon�s junior tournament when she became sick on July 6, was hospitalized and diagnosed with leptospirosis

So who is going to investigate how all this happened?

A probe into corruption around former Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman (pictured) has revealed voting fraud in Muslim communities in the UK due to a 'culture of political correctness'.

Scientists now calculate that Greenland sharks are Earth's oldest living animals with backbones. They estimate that one of those grey sharks was born in icy Arctic waters roughly 400 years ago and lived until only a couple of years ago.

A Vancouver-area man used a rock to battle a cougar during a recent wild animal attack on a remote logging road on Vancouver Island.

The new-age fighter jet once poised to replace Canada's aging CF-18 fleet, but whose ballooning price tag and controversial selection process threw its purchase into doubt, has made its inaugural visit to Canada.

A Haida Gwaii company has developed a technology that may one day provide power to parts of Haida Gwaii by harnessing the energy from tides.

The Olympic diving pool in Rio caused a buzz when its water turned an eye-catching green colour earlier this week. Here's a scientific look at the explanations offered by Olympic officials.

An Edmonton couple's romantic mountain engagement photo shoot got a little wild when a nut-munching ground squirrel stole their shot.

The 16-year-old swimmer captured gold in the 100-metre freestyle, a stunning fourth medal in Rio, the most by a Canadian at a single Summer Olympics. Here's a look at her road to Canadian Olympic history.

Canadian swimmer Penny Oleksiak, an incredible surprise at these Olympic Games, added to her record medal haul on Thursday, tying American Simone Manuel for gold in the 100-metre freestyle. The 16-year-old sensation became the first Canadian summer athlet

A woman in Russia claimed a Pokemon Go character raped a her as she slept. The unidentified woman said she leapt out of bed and called police after she woke to find a monster on top of her.

The son of Parliament Hill shooting hero Kevin Vickers is being commended for his part in saving a woman's life -- again.

The East is underwater and taking Canada down with it.

WHITTIER Authorities at the U.S.-Mexico border arrested a Whittier couple who allegedly tried to leave the country with the body of a dead 2-year-old girl in a duffel bag Tuesday.

An NDP MLA has proposed a motion for taxpayers to cover half of political party and candidate expenses during elections.

David Bollinger said that he lied because a North Carolina police detective told him to and threatened to arrest him for murder if he didn't cooperate

CBC News has confirmed that Aaron Driver, a suspect being sought in connection with a terror threat, has been killed in a confrontation with police in Strathroy, Ont.

A Niagara, Ont.-region woman is facing 36 charges stemming from allegations that she sexually assaulted both of her children with a weapon, made them available to be sexually abused by others, and was involved in the production of child pornography.

Carol Bujold is being called a hero for rushing to help his fellow truck driver after the tanker went up in flames on the Metropolitan highway following a rush-hour collision Tuesday.

The Canadian Forces Military Police Group says it has charged a leading seaman who is a crewmember of HMCS Athabaskan. The charges were laid Aug. 5. Here are the details provided by military police: The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service (CFNI