NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2010

SYDNEY - Some 200 news species of animals and plants, including an orange spider, a jabbing spiny-legged katydid (bush cricket) and a minute long-nosed frog, have been discovered in Papua New Guinea's remote jungle-clad mountains

The family of RCMP Special Const. Andrew Ooyoumut, who died 56 years ago in Canada's North, has won a partial victory in their bid to have him recognized alongside other RCMP officers who have died in the line of duty.

A Little League Baseball brawl between Saint John and Valleyfield, Que., in August has resulted in the suspensions of the coaches and managers for both teams and a moratorium on any further national level tournaments in Saint John.

An Ontario man charged with a weapons offence after being arrested just before the G20 summit in Toronto has been found unfit to stand trial.

A Quebec court judge delayed a bail hearing for David Abitbol on Wednesday after investigators found suspected child pornography on the Montreal man's computer

Col. Russell Williams, the former commander of CFB Trenton, is expected to plead guilty to all the charges laid against him, including two counts of first-degree murder, sexual assault and dozens of break and enters

The federal government will spend $155.5 million to expand prisons in Ontario and Quebec, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Thursday.

The Canadian military is poised to pull its forces out of a secret military base near Dubai that's used as a staging ground for troops serving in Afghanistan, rather than relent to demands made by the United Arab Emirates.

Parents at an elementary school in Quebec's Eastern Townships are upset about a new rule that forbids students from talking during part of the lunch hour

Friends and family of Ray Como, the 82-year-old Alberta farmer who was rescued from a combine last month, spent Wednesday harvesting the grain from his Morinville-area farm.

Some young drivers in Calgary want to know why they're flunking the beginner's test more often than teenagers in other provinces.

The Vancouver Canucks traded Darcy Hordichuk to the Florida Panthers in exchange for fellow forward Andrew Peters on Wednesday.

Saturn's rings may have formed when a large moon with an icy mantle and rocky core spiralled into the nascent planet.

The first dinosaur-like creatures emerged up to nine million years earlier than previously thought.

An increase in solar activity from the Sun actually cools the Earth, suggests new research that will renew the debate over the science behind climate change.

Two B.C. women are facing multiple prostitution charges for running what is described as a bawdy house in Vancouver.

In recent months, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has spoken openly about his desire to see franchises return to places where they've been lost -- hello Winnipeg and Quebec City --provided the right circumstances present themselves.

The International Luge Federation says it's making all the changes requested by a Canadian coroner to improve safety after Nodar Kumaritashvili's fatal crash at the Vancouver Olympics.

Roy Halladay threw the second no-hitter in post-season history, leading the Philadelphia Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in Game 1 of the NL division series on Wednesday.

Canada's plan to bring its troops home from Afghanistan in 2011 has the potential to hurt NATO's chances of success in Kandahar, a senior officer with the coalition said Wednesday.

The continuing slide in the U.S. dollar has pushed the loonie closer to parity than it has been in the past five months.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon issued a global appeal Wednesday for countries to ignore a claim by Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff that Canada doesn't deserve a seat on the United Nations Security Council.

The SPCA is recommending cat owners keep their pets indoors, after five cats were found mutilated in White Rock, South Surrey and Langley over the last couple of months.

They don't want Sheldon Souray involved with the franchise in any way, shape or form. The malcontent defenceman so polluted his relationship with the Oilers last spring that they don't even want their farm hands exposed to him.

A tornado warning continues to remain in effect for the area until 9:45 a.m., according to the National Weather Service in Bellemont.

In the past four decades, 459 deaths and 41 attempted homicides are believed to be linked to serial killers who are using the nation's highways to find and dispose of their victims.

A recent trial in central Newfoundland has some Newfoundland and Labrador hunters debating whether orange, highly-visible clothes should be mandatory.

A technical glitch that's causing the tolling system on the Golden Ears Bridge to charge some motorists too much still hasn't been fixed. CTV News has learned the system is over-charging more vehicles than first thought and that's not the only development

An archbishop who has held positions in a number of Canadian communities has stepped down amid allegations of sexual abuse involving pre-teen boys.

Traces of the bacteria Listeria have been detected in samples of smoked salmon bought at a Vancouver retailer

The most famous residence in America, which has already boosted its green credentials by planting a garden, plans to install solar panels atop the White House's living quarters. The solar panels are to be installed by spring 2011, and will heat water for

Who is the No. 1 player in the NHL today? That's the question that was posed to a special panel of hockey experts whose votes created the first TSN ranking of the Top 50 current NHL players.

Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people through their clothes. One official called it "an ecological disaster" that may threaten the D

With the New Westminster city budget just around the corner, it will be up to council to determine what kind a project to create a public art piece to honour the iconic "Wait For Me Daddy" photo taken 70 years ago Friday (Oct. 1).

A little less than a year-and-a-half ago, Andrew Boutlier, governor of the Fort McMurray Oil Barons, approached Sheldon Germain at a Christmas party.

In the Philippines, a land of passionate singers, taking on the national anthem is about to get a little more daunting - get it wrong and you could land in jail for a couple of years and be fined more than $2,000.

Jennifer Hanna hoped a camera full of honeymoon photos she snapped during a tropical getaway would be a permanent reminder of her adventure. Instead, the digital camera used to document her and her husband's Cuban vacation went missing when Air Canada re-

A Montreal man who sent more than four million spam e-mails to Facebook users over a two-month period was ordered to pay the social media giant more than $1 billion in compensation.

Climate change will reshape this country's landscape in the next century, touching everything from our health to our water resources and even our activities, like golf and skiing.

A Pakistani immigrant who tried to set off a car bomb in Times Square was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison by a judge who said she hopes he spends some of his time behind bars thinking "carefully about whether the Qur'an wants you to kill lots of peopl

The family of a Vancouver Island teen who suffered a "devastating" brain injury while playing minor hockey has lost its legal battle against the manufacturer of his helmet and the Canadian Standards Association.

The federal government has reintroduced legislation that would make it tougher for convicted multiple murderers to get parole.

Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is pledging $1 billion to help Canadians care for sick or elderly relatives, a key part of his party's election platform.

The North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper organization, which launched in Edmonton on Monday, aims at not just monitoring and protecting the watershed, which is roughly the size of England, but also the land surrounding the river and the water that drains into i

Saint John construction workers are altering a nursing home's renovation plans after discovering a rock formation that is estimated to be 500 million years old.

Scientists are accusing Premier Gordon Campbell's Liberal government of allowing the province's prehistoric heritage to be ground up for Kitty Litter.

The illegal trafficking of rare Alberta fossils and gemstones was highlighted by the Canada Border Services Agency and the RCMP on Monday.

The vast majority of Alberta drivers are so unclear on the basic rules of the road that they would fail the learner's licence test, according to a new study.

Organizers of B.C.'s anti-HST campaign say they've already signed up 1,500 canvassers across the province as they prepare to launch their recall campaigns against some B.C. Liberal MLAs.

The father of the Georgian luger killed during practice prior to the Vancouver Olympics has angrily dismissed a coroner's report saying lack of experience played a role in his son's death.

The Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday acquired defenceman Ryan Parent and forward Jonas Andersson in a trade with the Nashville Predators.

Robert Semrau has been demoted and also dismissed from the Canadian Forces as punishment after he was convicted of disgraceful conduct in the shooting of an unarmed Afghan insurgent.

After eight days of grisly testimony about a fatal Connecticut home invasion, a jury found paroled burglar Steven Hayes guilty Tuesday of capital murder in the July 2007 deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters Hayley, 17, and 11-year-old Michaela

Tea Party darling Christine O'Donnell may be brewing more ridicule for her fledgling Senate campaign after releasing her first TV ad.

The CFL wants the federal government to contribute $12 million to help finance the landmark 100th Grey Cup, which will take place in Toronto in 2012.

After nearly half a century, the Canadian Forces' vintage C-130 Hercules fleet is about to get a dramatic upgrade.

Canada is not going to make any concessions to Russia in terms of sharing Arctic riches. During the current year, Canada has considerably expanded its infrastructure in the Arctic modernizing its existent bases and building new ones.

MONTREAL (CBC) - CBC News has learned that Riverside School Board on Montreal's South Shore is spending $5,000 to replace English keyboards with French ones, while English laptops will have stickers put on to cover any English words, such as "delete."

A man has admitted taking pornographic pictures of a sleeping city woman as well as shooting multiple upskirt videos - including some taken in Hollywood.

Codeine might be a widely used painkiller, but it's also a risky medication that should be phased out until more research can be done, argues an editorial in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.

When it comes to losing weight, the amount of shut-eye a person is getting might be just as important as the amount of food they're eating.

The B.C. coroner is calling for an independent safety audit of the luge track at the Whistler Sliding Centre after a Georgian athlete died during a training run hours before the opening of the Vancouver Games.

An autopsy scheduled for Tuesday should reveal the identities of two bodies found near Calabogie this weekend, believed to be those of a missing elderly couple.

The faint whiff of marijuana smoke wafted through the air of the House of Commons Monday when a pot activist lit up a joint as Parliamentarians traded barbs during Question Period.

For the first time there are more single Canadian adults than married Canadians, a new report says.

TORONTO - British firebrand politician George Galloway is challenging Canada's immigration minister to high-noon style showdown and is vowing to make good on a threat to sue him.

Uncovering thousands of likely new species, and sending thousands of scientists on hundreds of expeditions from pole to pole, the ten-year Census of Marine Life, which ended Monday, can seem as overwhelming as the ocean itself.

Melting ice sheets and glaciers are exposing ancient artefacts that had been covered with thick layers of ice for millennia.

Texas officials renewed warnings Friday about pirates marauding on a U.S.-Mexico border lake after a Colorado tourist was gunned down in Mexican waters while his wife dodged bullets and raced her Jet Ski back to American soil.

A short film which starts with two school children being murdered for not showing any interest in climate change has been removed from a campaign's website.

The male-female orgasm gap. The sex lives of 14-year-olds. An intriguing breakdown of condom usage rates, by age and ethnicity, with teens emerging as more safe-sex-conscious than boomers.

Interactive video gamers should exercise some caution to avoid injury to themselves and bystanders, say researchers who have studied U.S. data on a broad range of injuries among traditional and interactive gamers.

A pair of scientists from the University of Manitoba may have worked out a way to get fuel out of the millions of cups of Tim Horton's coffee that Canadians discard every year.

A 6.3-magnitude earthquake has struck the island of Okinawa off the coast of Japan, triggering Tsunami warnings.

Two scientists, frustrated over the lack of information about global marine biodiversity, were chatting in a research office in Woods Hole, Mass., and posed a deceptively simple challenge -- find out what lives in the world's oceans and where.

Canada's pediatricians say all babies in Canada should be vaccinated against rotavirus. They're calling for public funding of the vaccine, which is not currently covered by any provincial or territorial health plan.

Swimmer Ryan Cochrane has won Canada's first medal at the Commonwealth Games. And it's a gold.

A British father's two-year search for his young daughter has led him to Toronto, where authorities believe the girl may be living with her mother under an assumed name.

Robert Edwards of Britain, the man credited with developing in-vitro fertilization, won the 2010 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday.

Several members of Canadian families whose loved ones were killed in Afghanistan are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to reconsider bringing the troops home next year.

Syria has accused a 19-year-old blogger who is in prison of being a spy, an official said Monday in the first comment from authorities on a case that sparked calls by the a leading rights group for the young woman's release.

Japan became the latest country Monday to issue a warning to its citizens regarding a rising terror threat in Europe, following similar precautions in Canada, the United States and Britain.

A guide dog was dragged along a British Columbia train platform last week when its leash got trapped in the doors.

A giant penguin more than 5 feet tall has been discovered in Peru.

Two hundred and forty dollars, and twenty-one cents. That's the exact price of democracy, when you're a soldier stationed 10,850 kilometres from the nearest voting booth, and the government back home hasn't made election provisions for troops overseas.

A burly hit-man scoffed at suggestions he would provide kinky sexual services for hire -- along with a plot to kill a multi-millionaire's wife -- when he visited a dominatrix's lair, an Ontario Superior Court jury heard Friday.

NFL fans never know what to expect from Chad Ochocinco but even they were probably surprised when dialing a number from a charity cereal box featuring the attention-seeking Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver and getting a phone-sex line.

Police are looking for a man who stuck his tongue in the ear of a dollar store clerk in Grimsby, Ont.

West Edmonton Mall Marine Life workers threw the birthday bash of a lifetime Saturday for their beloved African penguin Mulder.

Three dangerous immigration offenders are being rounded up each week in the Toronto-area by a heavily-armed joint-forces Immigration Task Force headed by the RCMP.

Children who would otherwise endure numerous painful surgeries to repair a cleft palate may one day be able to rely on a new Canadian invention that can expand the upper jaw and smooth the lip -- no operation required.

Bedbugs may be striking fear in the hearts of homeowners these days, but another entomological pest is raising a real stink south of the border.

Special underwater microphones aboard a BP ship in the Beaufort Sea didn't always detect whales -- even though the animals were in plain view of the crew, new documents show.

Suspected militants attacked and set fire to at least 20 tankers carrying oil for NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan on Monday, the third such strike inside Pakistan in as many days, police said.

Hundreds of firefighters and family members gathered as the names of 31 of their fallen brothers and sisters were added to Ontario's firefighter memorial at Queen's Park in Toronto on Sunday.

The man who could hold in his hands the life of the only Canadian on death row in the United States says the Harper government's plea for clemency will have only a limited influence on him.

Three English bulldog puppies were recovered Saturday night, just hours after the purebred pets were snatched from their owners' back yard.

The public inquiry examining why so many women fell victim to serial killer Robert Pickton could also focus on why his victims were forced into sex work in the first place, the commission's top lawyer says.

The federal government is spending $3.5 million to guard its computer system from hackers and cyber attacks.

A Montreal man has been arrested for allegedly making death threats on Facebook.

A controversial former British MP finally spoke in Toronto Sunday, 18 months after he was effectively barred from entering Canada.

Canadian actor-director Paul Gross was one of fifteen Ontarians honoured Sunday for their efforts to promote the care, well-being and memories of Canadian veterans.

Germany's president celebrated the country's new-found national pride but also stressed that more needs to be done to integrate Muslim and other immigrants as he marked the 20th anniversary of reunification on Sunday.

A team of researchers has discovered a field of untouched fossilized dinosaur remains near Tumbler Ridge, B.C., proving that giant plant- and meat-eating prehistoric animals roamed northeastern British Columbia millions of years ago.

Canadian athletes were greeted by loud cheers in New Delhi Sunday as they made their entrance at the opening ceremony for the Commonwealth Games.

Dozens of Muslim militants with European citizenship are believed to be hiding out in the lawless tribal area of northwestern Pakistan, Pakistani and Western intelligence officials say, training for missions that could include terror attacks in European c

The Department of Foreign Affairs is advising Canadians travelling in Europe to be aware of their surroundings and take precautions to ensure their safety, after U.S. officials warned Americans of potential terrorist attacks on the continent.

Over the past nine months, 25-year-old Cole Choken ran more than 7,000 km through three countries, 12 states and three provinces - all in the name of cancer research. The Winnipeg man began his journey Jan. 1 in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and finally made it h

The 33 Chilean miners trapped for almost two months could be freed in the second half of this month as rescuers drill closer to their refuge deep below the Atacama desert.

Three eight-week-old puppies worth $3,000 each were stolen from an east-side backyard during the 30 seconds one of their owners was in her kitchen.

Microsoft is suing Motorola for allegedly infringing on its smartphone patents.

The first documentation of fellatio in bats, the use of a remote-controlled helicopter to collect whale snot and the finding that swearing can relieve pain won top honours at the annual Ig Nobel awards ceremony on Thursday.

Electronic Arts has given in to protests and pulled the ability to play as Taliban fighters from its upcoming Medal of Honor video game.

The U.S. government has apologized for experiments in which government researchers used prostitutes to deliberately infect prison inmates in Guatemala with syphilis.

You'll see them at every 5K charity race: eager exercisers lunging and quad stretching, hoping to "loosen up." Too bad so few of them know that stretching before the run is probably the last thing they should do.

Thousands of blue-shirted hockey fans flocked to the Plains of Abraham Saturday to call for the return of their beloved National Hockey League team, the Nordiques, to Quebec City.

One year after Ottawa branded George Galloway a terrorist, effectively barring him from entry into Canada, one of Britain's most controversial public figures touched down in Toronto Saturday.