NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2008

Feminists around the world have reacted with horror to a new line of lingerie that comes equipped with a GPS tracking system.

(CNN) -- Sen. Barack Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, has died following a bout with cancer, Obama and his sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng, said Monday.

Japanese scientists have cloned mice whose bodies were frozen for as long 16 years and said on Monday it may be possible to use the technique to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species.

Canadian scientists collaborating with U.S. counterparts to map the Arctic Ocean seabed say their most recent work bears promising results

The father of two girls who froze to death on a snowy reserve last January has pleaded guilty to criminal negligence.

The chase for Mats Sundin continues and the list of suitors continues to grow with the Anaheim Ducks becoming the latest to throw their hat into the ring.

For the first time in the province's history, Ontario will receive a federal equalization payment to the tune of $347 million, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced Monday. It is the first time Ontario has had to receive an equalization payment - a g

It didn't take the Saskatchewan Roughriders long to sell out their West Division semifinal contest against the B.C. Lions. The Riders made tickets to the game available to the general public Monday morning, and they were sold out within 35 minutes.

Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt almost certainly are strong contenders in the best actor category -- shining, word has it, in their respective upcoming movies, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" and "Revolutionary Road." But they and others might be

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says she would never join the Liberals and that NDP Leader Jack Layton's party is to blame for Prime Minister Stephen Harper's victory on Oct. 14. "I certainly don't blame myself at all," said Ms. May, who spoke to The

It will be one long and final march home for 68,000 lost Canadian souls. When the sun sets over the British capital tomorrow night, an ambitious act of remembrance begins when the first name is projected against the walls of Canada House in Trafalgar S

Groundbreaking research suggests that pregnancy rates are much higher among teens who watch a lot of TV with sexual dialogue and behaviour than among those who have tamer viewing tastes.

Chatty illusionist teams with Cirque du Soleil for new show, and the union faces some bumps

It would be easy to dismiss The Movie Network's new, dedicated HBO Canada channel as a mere rebranding of its existing service.

The '60s TV sitcom Get Smart brought us the shoe phone, but now a dress phone?

Canada's border guards are skeptical about a card that fast-tracks travellers across the Canada-U.S. border, fearing it's a "licence to smuggle," says a new report.

Saskatchewan reserve still healing after last winter's tragedy, but change has been slow

An Alberta film producer accused of the death of a missing man made a movie that police allege was a practice run for the real murder.

One southern Ontario woman has learned you don't have to be navigating a road to be charged with impaired driving

Health officials have reported five new cases of E. coli poisoning in Halton and Niagara regions, as they worked through the weekend to determine whether the outbreaks are related.

Starting this week, residents of single-family homes must use the bins provided by the city to take out the trash. Here's a guide to the scheme

On the Sunday before election day in America, politics and religion do mix. And few places are more fervently engaged than this town, steeped in civil rights lore.

Obama sprints to finish with comfortable lead; McCain tells voters 'we're coming back'

The Detroit Red Wings showed the Vancouver Canucks why they own the NHL's best power play Sunday night at General Motors Place in Vancouver

A young child is recovering after getting an unknown chemical in her eye after playing with a toy telescope at a park in Terwillegar.

Oct. 30, 2008: During the time it takes you to read this article, something will happen high overhead that until recently many scientists didn't believe in. A magnetic portal will open, linking Earth to the sun 93 million miles away. Tons of high-energy p

Nearly 70 per cent of Canadians may understand nutritional labels on food packages, a recent survey suggests, but do they really know what's good for them and what isn't?

About 1,000 people gathered in downtown Halifax on Sunday to celebrate the 100th birthday of Muriel Duckworth, a co-founder of the national peace group Voice of Women

memorial service was held Sunday in Ottawa for a Canadian Spitfire pilot who injured German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel during the Second World War

A piece of space station trash the size of a refrigerator is poised to plunge through the Earth's atmosphere late Sunday, more than a year after an astronaut tossed it overboard.

After Japan's air force chief was sacked over an essay in which he appeared to question his country's accepted role as an aggressor in World War II, the BBC's Andre Vornic reports from Tokyo on Japanese attitudes to the war.

THE Titanic sank two hours before help arrived because its bow and stern were bolted together with weak wrought-iron rivets, a new documentary will reveal.

OTTAWA -- With the gift-giving season only a few months away, the personnel and family-support services branch of the Canadian Forces is advising Canadians that individual gift packages for soldiers posted overseas are not practical.

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Lewis Hamilton of McLaren is Formula One's youngest ever champion after finishing fifth in the Brazilian Grand Prix.

ZHARI, Afghanistan -- The company of Canadian soldiers set off from the small base in southern Afghanistan a few hours before dawn. Combat boots crunching along the wide plains of the Kandahar desert, they moved slowly in a long line into the moonless bla

Seven orca whales that regularly visit the waters off British Columbia are feared dead, and scientists believe that the mammals starved to death

TOKYO -- The Dalai Lama said Sunday that the situation in his native Tibet is deteriorating and he has little faith that ongoing negotiations with the Chinese government will lead to greater autonomy for the region.

A new survey suggests Afghans are increasingly unimpressed with the direction their country is headed, and more than a third of its participants claim to be worse off today than when the Taliban ruled the war-torn country.

The Canadian Forces in Afghanistan destroyed about 680 kilograms of material that was to be used to make improvised explosive devices, Canadian military officials said Sunday.

BOULDER, Colo. - Police in Colorado have ticketed about a dozen people running naked on the street while sporting freshly gutted pumpkins on their heads as part of an annual Halloween event

The city of Florence in Italy is lifting the covers of an archeological dig under one of its most storied buildings, the Palazzo Vecchio, which was once the seat of local government.

When the Vancouver Canucks host the defending Stanley Cup champion Detroit Red Wings on Sunday, they will try for their third straight win, while Detroit tries to avoid a three-game skid (7 p.m. ET).

Hundreds of people cheered and waved flags in downtown Calgary on Saturday as they paid tribute to 250 reservists who are back home after serving in Afghanistan

Barack Obama said Saturday he was unaware that one of his relatives from Kenya was living in the United States illegally and added that believes the appropriate laws should be followed.

Hyacinths brighten up rooms in wintertime

Canada's changing social fabric calls for different ways to give thanks for the meal

You can plot history with Dutch museum's collection of handbags

The annual time change has long been sold as a way to save energy, but the opposite might be true

Turning your clock back one hour on Sunday for the end of daylight saving time could do your own ticker some good. Researchers have found a 5 per cent drop in heart attack deaths and hospitalizations the day after clocks are reset each year to standard

They may not drive the mean streets of Toronto, but bus drivers on the rambling routes of 905-area communities say they're increasingly subjected to the type of assault and abuse TTC drivers face. Now they're insisting on similar protections.

Regardless of size, however, each was somebody's pride and joy. But each needed just a little help to perform at its best. And so, suitably inspired by homes at both ends of the size scale, we've rounded up our best "space-management" tactics, which will

New plastic may shift unauthorized-transaction liabilities to the holder

TORONTO - It's impossible to fault John Mitchell for seeming a little out of breath in the wake of another comeback victory for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. - A four-goal, third-period comeback would be cause to celebrate for most NHL teams, but Montreal Canadiens still found reason to be disappointed in their effort.

The Calgary Flames won their sixth consecutive game on Saturday night against the Los Angeles Kings, and they can thank goaltender Mikka Kiprusoff for keeping the streak intact.

Police allege a local film producer who has been charged with the first degree murder of an Edmonton man who went missing three weeks ago, carefully plotted the death and even made a movie about how he would do it.

Three Calgary quarterbacks provided all the offence the Stampeders needed Saturday as the hosts wrapped up the CFL's regular season with a 41-30 victory over the B.C. Lions.

The once-mighty Liberal party has raised less money from fewer donors so far this year than the NDP, traditionally the poor sister of Canadian politics. http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/528985

He's a trash-talking, hairy, mean, green, perpetually grouchy garbage machine.

Team Canada may be forced to play without its familiar Maple Leaf logo at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the victim of an International Olympic Committee rule that is only now being enforced.

Blue Bombers rookie Alexis Serna continued to turn his season around with four field goals as his team closed the CFL regular season with a 44-30 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Saturday afternoon.

A free water taxi service has been put in place to transport people affected by the closure of Highway 97 between Kelowna and Penticton.

Three people were critically injured Saturday when a Greyhound bus tipped over on an icy stretch of the Alaska Highway near Prophet River, south of Fort Nelson, B.C.

You may have seen them, without knowing what they were: three white dots, each about the size of a dinner plate, painted on the road at intersections throughout the city.

A genetically-engineered purple tomato is being touted as a healthy new super food to fight cancer and heart disease.

Someone in your house have the sniffles? Watch out for the refrigerator door handle. The TV remote, too. A new study finds that cold sufferers often leave their germs there, where they can live for two days or longer.

Toronto hospitals are closely guarding their stocks of blood as Canada's donated blood reserves drop to dangerously low levels.

A man dressed as American gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson for Halloween was stabbed in the neck with a broken beer bottle last night by three masked men who didn't like his costume.

Victoria Beckham, a regular on lists of the best-dressed celebrities, is following the lead of her famous footballer husband and stripping down to her designer underwear for an advertising campaign.

The government is appealing a judgment that requires taxpayers to shell out $6,000 for the "pain and suffering" endured by a multiple murderer when prison authorities failed to promptly provide him with his annual pair of free running shoes.

A brutal and bizarre attack has left a Winnipeg woman facing reconstructive surgery after most or all of her nose was bitten off at a core-area home.

TORONTO - Ted Rogers, the self-made billionaire who founded Rogers Communications Inc. (TSX:RCI.B), was admitted to hospital Friday for what his company called an "existing cardiac condition" and handed over responsibility for the conglomerate to a truste

A judge has ruled that an Ottawa police officer who punched a university student in the head twice after he failed to abide by the officer's demands during a traffic stop did not use excessive force.

SUMTER, S.C. - A 12-year-old boy trick-or-treating with his family was shot from inside a home Friday and killed, and his father and brother were wounded by the gunfire, authorities said.

NANTICOKE, ONTARIO, Oct 31, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) -- The Canadian Nuclear Workers Council (CNWC) announced its support today for Bruce Power's project to consider two new nuclear units at Nanticoke. Once operational, the facility would mean 1,000

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know that one of his relatives was living in the United States illegally and believes the appropriate laws should be followed.

Defence scientists are working on a sonar system to detect enemy divers in Halifax Harbour

The federal government issued a tender Friday to scrap three surplus submarines that have been tied up in Dartmouth for seven years.

When Lawrence Bozak stumbled upon a murder victim while walking his dog yesterday morning on the city's north side, he thought it was all part of a gory Halloween prank.

In the 20 years veteran Alan Lawrence has been selling poppies he has never felt as dishonoured as he did yesterday when Hudson Bay Company security kicked him to the curb

Downtown ceremony to mark contributions of Calgary reservists to Afghan war

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A 13-year-old girl who said she had been raped was stoned to death in Somalia after being accused of adultery by Islamic militants

A North Vancouver Mountie was ordered to stand trial on two drunk driving charges at a recent court appearance, an RCMP spokeswoman said Friday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - The khaki plain is baked so hard that footsteps don't even raise dust. Only thorny desert weeds grow here now, but the checkerboard of low dirt irrigation ridges stretching for kilometres suggests that, given water, this sun-blaste

NATO troops in Afghanistan should learn to work more closely with the Afghan tribal leadership, Canada's top general in the country said Saturday

Most Canadians should be able to get a little extra sleep this weekend as they set their clocks back one hour.

TORONTO -- Erica Casselman still struggles to find words to describe how she felt watching an aggressive form of asbestos cancer kill her husband.

LONDON -- A British newspaper says the commander of the Special Air Service in Afghanistan has resigned over the poor standard of equipment given to troops