NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2018

Authorities in Peru have detained a truck driver accused of damaging part of the world-renowned Nazca lines, an ancient archeological treasure and UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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An estimated 90 migrants are feared to have drowned off the coast of Libya after a smuggler's boat capsized early on Friday, leaving three known survivors and 10 bodies washed up on shore, the International Organization for Migration says.

A father and daughter were among the three people killed after a helicopter crashed and then caught fire Thursday night in a field in Drummondville, Que.

Fidel Castro's eldest son was mourned in Cuba on Friday after the unusually public announcement of his suicide following a long depression. Fidelito was born a year after his parents married. The boy saw relatively little of his father, who was imprisoned

Avalanche experts are warning backcountry visitors not to push their luck as a snow storm is expected to create very dangerous conditions in parts of the Rockies this weekend.

The Supreme Court of Canada upholds a tribunal ruling siding with the Williams Lake Indian Band, which had argued pre-Confederation British Columbia failed to protect its territory from settlement.

The MOL Prestige is a 70,000-tonne ship nearly 300 metres in length. She's registered in Singapore and was heading to Tokyo from Vancouver. The MOL Prestige is now adrift southwest of Haida Gwaii without a working engine and with nearly two dozen more peo

Owners of a fish farm that collapsed in Puget Sound reject a scathing government report that concludes they dramatically underestimated escaped salmon numbers.

Residents in parts of the Municipal District of Foothills are tired of dodging bullets. No, their small-town streets have not been overrun by gangs.

'We are in what we refer to as 'high alert status,'' said a notice on the race website Friday, after a night of -45 C weather took its toll. As of Friday afternoon, several competitors had already been retrieved from the trail, and some have gone to hospi

Former B.C. Premier Dave Barrett, who has died at the age of 87, led the province's first New Democratic Party government from 1972 to 1975.

B.C. artist claims Canada 150 lottery tickets contain her maple leaf design. One expert says the case highlights the challenges of copyrighting representations of something so classically Canadian.

Six children were among eight injured after a minivan collided with a bus in Clearview, Ont. Ontario Provincial Police Const. Chris Lesage said the head-on collision occurred on Highway 26 near Wasaga Beach, about 45 kilometres west of Barrie, Ont.

Canada's famous forecasting groundhogs have differing opinions on whether the country will be in for an early spring or continuing frigid temperatures.

Experts using an aerial high-tech laser scanner have discovered thousands of ancient Mayan structures hidden under the thick jungle of northern Guatemala, officials said Thursday.

The skull was reportedly found by a construction worker on the Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk highway. It belonged to a much larger Ice age relative of the modern bison currently found in North America.

A controversial Republican memo charging bias in the FBI finally saw daylight after President Trump overruled top career law enforcement officials to order its release.

A human rights coalition looking into the alleged abuse of inmates at the Edmonton Remand Centre has sent a letter seeking support from Alberta Justice.

An angry and bitter cousin of Barry Sherman has failed a lie detector test after making unsubstantiated allegations that the former Apotex CEO was part of an aborted plot to kill his wife two decades ago.

Google, Facebook hidden trackers follow users around the web at alarming rates, says DuckDuckGo's CEO Gabriel Weinberg.

Downing Street says a new unit will counter "disinformation by state actors and others".

The Yazidi boy reunited with his mother in Winnipeg after enduring years as an Islamic State prisoner

Competition Bureau documents reveal allegations seven companies participated in a scheme that inflated the price of bread by at least $1.50 over a decade and a half

The rivalry may be dead, the Canucks are not. At least, not this week. The Canucks won their second consecutive NHL game, taking out the Chicago Blackhawks in a 4-2 decision Thursday at Rogers Arena.

Two crew members have been retrieved from a container ship after the ship's engine caught fire. The ship, the MOL Prestige, is now adrift southwest of Haida Gwaii.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock ahead by 30 seconds to two minutes to midnight, the symbolic time of civilization's destruction. The clock, first used in 1947, is a metaphor meant to measure how close we are to destroying th

Paleontologists from the University of Alberta have discovered a 90-million-year-old species of fish, all thanks to the help of a 10-year-old boy who accidentally stumbled across a fossil at the Monastery of La Candelaria in Colombia.

A senior naval commander is playing down an account from one of his sailors of a seemingly tense standoff between a Canadian warship and Russian vessels during a recent deployment.

Floodwaters have reached a peak in Paris and are threatening towns downstream along the rain-engorged Seine River. Rivers swollen by France's heaviest rains in 50 years have engulfed romantic quays in Paris, swallowed up gardens and roads, and halted rive

It's the first time in 35 years a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse, so-called a blood moon because of its red hue. For the trivia crowd, the moon was 360,200 kilometres away at the peak of the eclipse, close enough for su

A 12-year-old girl was taken into custody Thursday after a shooting in a Los Angeles middle-school classroom in which five people were injured, including a 15-year-old boy who was shot in the head but expected to survive, police said.

If you really had your heart set on buying that $500 US flame-thrower from tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, you're too late. The devices sold out in just days after Musk posted a video on Instragram of him messing around with one of them.

A 19-year-old Quebec hockey player didn't expect to meet Stanley Cup champion Sidney Crosby when he stepped onto fresh outdoor ice during a frigid morning last month.

Investigators are now calling 87-year-old actor Robert Wagner a 'person of interest' in the 1981 death of his wife, Natalie Wood. Investigators initially ruled it an accident but reopened the case in 2011 to see whether Wagner or anyone else played a role

On the 75th anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, what some call the most savage fighting in history, Russian volunteers say the job of recovering and burying the dead has no end in sight.

An interstate partnership has been established to help cover costs of operating a system proposed for a Chicago-area waterway that would help keep invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder said Wednesday.

Often tucked away behind thick forest or located in middle of a farm field, more than a dozen cemeteries containing the region's richest history rest hidden and some forgotten throughout Essex County.

Researchers say the effectiveness of this season's flu shot has been low, with the vaccine preventing only 10 to 20 per cent of infections caused by the dominant H3N2 strain affecting Canadians.

A rare tropical Brown Booby is undergoing treatment at a rehabilitation centre after it was found immobile and shivering in cold water off Victoria. The Brown Booby is rare for Victoria and this is only the fifth such sighting in the city since 2009.

Several women involved in a sexual harassment and discrimination case against the RCMP are citing a mocking, unofficial memo left in the mailboxes of female employees.

The Senate passed a bill that renders the national anthem gender neutral despite the entrenched opposition of some Conservative senators.