NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2017

A leisurely boating trip turned into an adrenaline-filled afternoon for a B.C. couple on Saturday afternoon.

Two German researchers say they have exposed the porn-browsing habits of a judge, a cyber-crime investigation and the drug preferences of a politician. The pair obtained huge amounts of information about the browsing habits of three million German citizen

The Canadian and Belgian royal families, Germany's foreign minister and descendants of some of those who died in one of the First World War's bloodiest battles gathered in western Belgium to mark the centenary of Passchendaele.

Facebook shut down one of its artificial intelligence systems after AI agents started communicating with one another in a language that they invented. The incident evokes images of the rise of Skynet in the iconic 'Terminator' series.

The man who killed one and injured six with a knife was known to police and had "psychological" issues.

A woman in China who had an abortion was shocked to find the midwife had taken the child and sold him to another family.

The Russian move reduces US diplomatic staff numbers to the same as Russian diplomats in the US.

A distraught family brought their dog into her practice after it had been left in a hot car.

Security is heightened in airports across the country following the alleged Islamic-inspired terror plot that was thwarted on Saturday with four men (one man pictured) arrested.

In Oregon, a state known for its avid bicycling culture, the state Legislature's approval of the first statewide bike tax in the nation has fallen flat with riders.

An intercontinental ballistic missile is believed to landed in Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone, but it is not yet known whether any vessels are aircraft were damaged.

A new study that looked at more than 70,000 Danes suggests that men and women who drink three to four times a week have a lower risk of diabetes compared to those who never drink.

A British driver has survived a major crash in his Ferrari, an hour after he bought it. Local police called it a "miracle escape," but the car was not so lucky.

Former premier Christy Clark will step down as leader of the B.C. Liberal Party on Aug. 4 and leave politics.

Edmonton police say they have made the largest seizure of fentanyl pills in Canada.

An auto repair shop is finding cars, fixing them and giving them to needy single-parent Calgarians, and one of the owners says everyone gets a little something out of it.

The ruling came after a probe into his family's wealth following the 2015 Panama Papers dump linking Sharif's children to offshore companies.

The ancient Canaanites, who were commanded to be exterminated in the Bible, did not die out, but lived on to become modern-day Lebanese, according to the first study to analyse their DNA.

Hundreds of people in Michigan came together to salute and say a tear-filled final goodbye to a cancer-stricken dog who served three tours in Afghanistan with the U.S. Marines.

Google has expelled 20 Android apps from its Play marketplace after finding they contained code for monitoring and extracting users' e-mail, text messages, locations, voice calls, and other sensitive data.

June Foray, who voiced some of Hollywood's most memorable cartoon characters, has died at the age of 99.

Former U.S. army medic Donnie Bumanglag looks back on the moment he saved Omar Khadr's life and explains why he has no regrets about his decisions that day.

The past few months in Calgary have been the hottest on record, in terms of consistently high temperatures, according to Environment Canada.

The Law Enforcement Review Board has launched an inquiry to find out why it took Alberta's police watchdog more than eight years to charge two Calgary officers after allegations of misconduct in 2008.

United Conservative Party leadership candidate Brian Jean was confronted by a small group of Alberta government employees Wednesday after his news conference in front of the Federal building on the Legislature grounds.

The U.S. State Department is warning tourists going to Mexico about reports of tainted or substandard alcohol causing drinkers to become sick or pass out.

A megateam of reproducibility-minded scientists is renewing a controversial proposal to raise the standard for statistical significance in research studies. They want researchers to dump the long-standing use of a probability value (p-value) of less than

The mayor of Coquitlam's sarcastic Facebook post over a near-accident he had with a pedestrian while on his bike has created quite the stir. "My deep apologies for almost striking a careless, preoccupied, selfish, rude jaywalker, potentially injuring or k

RCMP are investigating after more than two dozen Canada geese were slaughtered by a vehicle that ran through a gaggle of the birds on a road northeast of Innisfail, Alta.

Kris LaBelle and his son love hiking in Kananaskis County. They get out as often as they can, but a recent trend has the Calgary man singing the blues.

The Canadian Forces says it is pressing ahead with improvements to its transgender policy, even as U.S. President Donald Trump looks to bar transgender people from military service south of the border.

Residents of a small Nova Scotia town gathered on the local wharf on Wednesday to eat cake, sip coffee and bid a celebratory farewell to MV Farley Mowat, the one-time flagship of an environmental crusader that had long since become a derelict, polluting e

It might be July but a frost warning has been issued for parts of northwestern New Brunswick. Environment Canada says temperatures will drop to 7 C but will dip to 2 C in low lying areas.

The mystery that has plagued a New Brunswick family for more than five decades has been solved, with a satisfying Cold War espionage-flavoured denouement. It turns out it was a high-altitude balloon-mounted spy camera developed in part by the CIA to secre

A fire in B.C.'s Lake Country that destroyed eight homes in the Central Okanagan was arson, Kelowna RCMP said Wednesday. The fire forced the evacuation of more than 300 homes in the Central Okanagan community and damaged more than 30 properties, in additi

With the gentle chime of a bell to keep them moving along, a flock of sheep carefully made its way from a Montreal park to new grazing grounds early Wednesday afternoon.

Conservation officers in Ontario and Quebec are using surveillance and other techniques to outsmart poachers bent on digging up Canada's most endangered plant: wild American ginseng, which can sell for anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dol

A tick species from the southeastern U.S, known to cause meat allergies, is hitching rides north. Attack by a lone star tick is difficult to diagnose because symptoms do not appear immediately

New satellite data has found numerous volcanic deposits across the moon that add to the growing weight of evidence that there's a surprising amount of water beneath its barren-looking surface.

The Trudeau government is committed in its recent defence policy to overhaul Norad in lockstep with Washington. But it could be a costly venture that forces Canada to make tough political and military decisions.

The B.C. NDP promised to end the grizzly bear trophy hunt, but there are few details about how and when a ban would be implemented as the September hunt rapidly approaches.

Great white sharks are only rarely seen in B.C.'s chilly waters now, but that's expected to change under a warming climate, says a UBC fisheries researcher.

Officers have killed a cougar that was spotted roaming around the Willow Park area in southeast Calgary this morning.

An injured bald eagle that couldn't fly has received a second-chance at life after being rescued by Sandy Lake residents and taken to an animal rehabilitation facility.

A former substitute teacher in Oklahoma who exposed herself to students when she did a cartwheel while wearing a long skirt but no underwear has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.

French authorities ordered the evacuation of up to 12,000 people around a picturesque hilltop town in the southern Cote d'Azur region as fires hopscotched around the Mediterranean coast for a third day Wednesday.

It was a woolly ride, but three wild rabbits managed to escape rising floodwaters in New Zealand by clambering aboard sheep and surfing to safety on their backs.

The head of the Canadian Coast Guard rescue team says it was her best day of five years on the job.The rescue began after the dog took to the waters at Conrad's Beach, at Lawrencetown on Nova Scotia's Eastern Shore.

Think of it as a stress test for democracy. Hackers plan to spend this weekend trying to break into more than 30 voting machines used in recent elections to see just how far they can get. U.S. election officials have consistently said that despite Russian

Ontario wasted more than a $1 billion worth of energy in 2016.

A Hamilton-area mother is trying to get her son back on Canadian soil after he fell ill while on vacation in Cuba.

The research may reveal basic, hidden rules that govern the structure and functioning of genomes. But it could also open the door to life with new and useful characteristics.

The Supreme Court of Canada has quashed plans for seismic testing in Nunavut, delivering a major victory to Inuit who argued they were inadequately consulted before the National Energy Board gave oil companies the go-ahead to conduct disruptive testing.

The tech giant and a leading US fusion company have developed a new computer algorithm that has significantly speeded up progress towards the goal of unlimited energy

In 1962 woodsman David McPherson Sr. found himself deep in the forest of Lutes Mountain staring upwards at a 181-kilogram white box with cameras and hanging from a tree by a deteriorated parachute.

The situation could change but lower-than-expected returns for two early runs means there's no fishing allowed on Fraser River sockeye, the regulatory panel decided Tuesday.

A St. Anthony, N.L., mother who says she was told assisted suicide is an option for her 25-year-old daughter wants an apology from Labrador-Grenfell Health.

The British biologist had been due to speak at an event hosted by California-based station KPFA about his latest book, but it was cancelled because of 'hurful' statements.

A Montreal man accused of stabbing his pregnant wife, who remains in hospital, and prompting the baby's death has been charged with attempted murder and first-degree murder.

Zoe Lucas, 67, has spent more than 40 years living on Sable Island, a large smile-shaped sandbar off the coast of Canada measuring around 26 miles long.

A Chatham, Ont., court has ordered three people accused of running a dogfighting ring to surrender ownership of the banned pit bulls to the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which has been holding the animals since seizing them in

Thick-cut and double-fried, frites are a Belgian delicacy. When it looked like a European Union proposal could threaten the way Belgians have been making their national dish for centuries, they put up a fight.

Former U.S. Army medic Donnie Bumanglag, in a series of Canadian Press interviews and in a podcast he co-hosts, said he doesn't regret saving Omar Khadr's life in 2002.

The photos mark a potential milestone in the cleanup of one of the worst atomic disasters in history

The 95 per cent approval to merge Alberta's Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties has drawn a mix of reactions from Albertans of all political stripes.

A resident of Dorion, Ont., a small rural community just east of Thunder Bay, was able to capture a quick encounter with a young black bear.

Bears feeding on berries near Canmore have prompted a warning from Alberta officials. An Alberta Parks official said the warning is meant to give people a heads up about bear activity in the area.

The sport involves navigating a series of courses, ducking, running, bobbing and weaving as you shoot a handgun at targets, reloading your weapon as you go. Approximately 380 competitors were on hand for the nationals.

Parents might want to shield their children from unpleasant experiences but experts say that playing it too safe is actually harmful. "The movement now is towards overprotective parenting, this constant need to avoid any stress on our children".

A Campbell river high school teacher is gearing up to hit the river, rod and reel in hand, with 30 students.

With more than 700 wildfires burning through British Columbia's forests since this spring, environmental experts fear the increasing use of chemical fire retardants may be putting wild fish at risk.

People in Norman's Cove witnessed an unusual sight this week, when codfish began coming close to the beach in search of food.

How a 25-year-old from Trois-Rivieres, Que., became the mastermind behind the largest dark web marketplace in the world.

Boost Environmental Systems, a new firm, is testing a system that uses microwave heat and hydrogen peroxide to drastically reduce the volume and the composition of manure and sewage solids. The resulting waste is easily digestible with existing systems an

Witness says the Salomons opened the door to stabber Omar al-Abed thinking he had come to celebrate their newborn grandson with them

Alberta Wildrose and Progressive Conservative Party members have voted 95 per cent in favour of ratifying the agreement to join forces and form the new United Conservative Party.

General Tony Thomas, who leads Special Operations Command, said Friday at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that his teams were 'particularly close' to al-Baghdadi in 2015.

On the day the Islamic State overran the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2014, it laid claim to one of the greatest weapons bonanzas ever to fall to a terrorist group: a large metropolis dotted with military bases and garrisons stocked with guns, bombs, rockets an

The Iraqi army is sharing photos of ISIS fighters trying to escape Mosul dressed as women, in full make-up, who have forgotten the key element of shaving off their beards and moustaches.

Scientists studying the genetic basis for dog friendliness have found it comes from a portion of their genome that is similar to the area in the human genome that relates to sociability.

A group of Florida teenagers who recorded a man drowning on cellphones and laughed about it rather than calling for help could face charges, according the police chief in Cocoa, Fla.

Anti-fascist leader arrested after California Capitol brawl

Google's experiment in digital counter-terrorism begins rolling out today. Collaborating with its own in-house think tank, Jigsaw, the new effort seeks to..

Transgender inmate Fallon Aubee is making history as Canada's first federal inmate to be placed in a prison based on gender identity rather than physical anatomy.

Efforts to douse a townhouse fire in Surrey overnight were momentarily delayed because of the ammo.

One-third of small and medium Ontario businesses are considering selling, moving to the U.S. or closing shop in response to provincial government plans to hike the minimum wage to $15 an hour, a Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CIF

White House press secretary Sean Spicer has resigned, according to sources, after U.S. President Donald Trump picked Wall Street financier and his longtime supporter Anthony Scaramucci to be his White House communications director.

INDIANAPOLIS - A new billboard on the city's east side is up for motorists to see. The ad was put in place as a measure to counter what Muslim leaders have said is an anti-Muslim ad that could incite violence. Last month, a billboard went up that has been

Kenny Shields, lead singer of classic Canadian rock band Streetheart, has died at age 69 in a Winnipeg hospital.

More than $200K has been donated to help owners of dogs, cats, chickens and even bearded dragons.

Americans hankering for a drink at the Pyongyang beer festival or to run the city marathon in October are set to be sorely disappointed by a proposed US government ban on tourism to North Korea.

As the wrongful death case against Omar Khadr winds its way through the Ontario courts, his legal battle in the U.S. to quash his war crime convictions remains on hold, pending the outcome of a case involving a former propagandist for Osama bin Laden.

New measurement could help explain a mystery of the universe

Chinese buyers snapped up more than 140,000 live Canadian lobsters within 24 hours last week through a Beijing-based online retailer, and the demand can only grow, says a New Brunswick supplier.

Darren Davis had to call a friend to come with a gun and fire a few shots to get a bear to let him leave. "I was on the phone with my buddy saying, 'For the love of God don't fire your last shot because you don't know what's gonna happen in a second.'

The team of six was attending a robotics competition designed to encourage youths to pursue careers in math and science

DNA tests show the world's largest kokanee salmon came out of Arrow Lakes in the Kootenays but the man who caught it has already smoked and eaten it.

The Ebola-like virus is found mainly in North Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.

The Trump administration has decided to halt the CIA's covert program to equip and train certain rebel groups fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, two U.S. officials said, a move sought by Assad ally Russia.

Ontario energy prices have skyrocketed significantly higher and faster than the rest of the country over the last nine years, with Torontonians paying twice the national average, according to a report from the right-leaning Fraser Institute.

Using 3D printing, Raspberry Pi computers and other components you could pick up at at your local electronics store, researchers have pioneered a do-it-yourself alternative for prohibitively expensive lab equipment.

The ship that may have cost the military's second-in-command his career will be formally unveiled in an elaborate ceremony Thursday at Quebec's Chantier Davie Shipyard.

A group of self-described national socialists in Nova Scotia has posted personal information about people who have shown interest in protests calling for the removal of an Edward Cornwallis statue in Halifax, labelling them as "potentially dangerous."

BlackBerry Ltd said on Thursday it has won the right to sell tools for encrypting phone calls and text messages to the U.S. federal government, garnering an endorsement from the National Security Agency for the products.

The 80-year-old US senator may undergo chemotherapy and radiation treatment, a statement says.

Reports citing an Iraqi counterterrorism official say two Canadians were among 20 females found in a secret tunnel during an assault on the former Daesh stronghold.

Snopes.com is sometimes derided by conservatives as a liberal news operation disguised as a fact-checking site. But this month, Snopes put out a report favorable to President Trump, concluding that, yes, he is the victim of lies in the news and in social