NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2011

On another brilliant day of golf, Rory McIlroy ran away with the U.S. Open title, winning by eight shots and breaking the tournament scoring record by a whopping four strokes.

Brazilian soldiers swooped on a crime-ridden slum this morning as part of an operation to rid Rio De Janeiro of gangs ahead of the 2014 World Cup. A group of marines, backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles, were joined by armed police and other offi

The U.S. State Department has made contact with the group in recent weeks, Gates said in an interview broadcast Sunday

After more than 20 years of the war on drugs, more than a dozen U.S. states are reducing penalties for many drug offences.

Johnston walked the sprawling site alongside museum president Stuart Murray, climbing nearly 25 metres to the museum's freshly poured fourth level.

VANCOUVER -- On streets scorched by flames, littered with broken glass and studded with the blackened hulls of torched cars, an army of citizens converged Thursday morning to cleanse the wounds and set things right.

Over 700,000 people who previously had no recourse under the Canadian Human Rights Act are now able to come to the Canadian Human Rights Commission to seek a remedy to improve their lives in First Nations communities and beyond.

The authorities here are obviously nervous. My crew and I are sitting in a local government building being questioned by six propaganda officials.

The mystery identity of the couple kissing while lying on a Vancouver street as riot police battled crowds following the Canucks' Stanley Cup loss has been revealed as Australian Scott Jones and his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas.

Rabbinical court rules spirit of secular lawyer who insulted judges 20 years ago transferred into wandering dog's body

While alcohol has a wide range of pharmacological effects on the body, the brain is a primary target. However, the molecular mechanisms by which alcohol alters neuronal activity in the brain are poorly understood.

The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office is opposing a proposed request for a new trial for a Detroit man who has spent 25 years in prison for a rape that, according to the University of Michigan's Innocence Clinic, he didn't commit.

Wednesday night's riots in Vancouver over the Canucks' lost to the Boston Bruins in the last game of the Stanley Cup finals may seem shocking to Americans who view Canadians as our mild-mannered polite cousins. But there's a long tradition of hockey-relat

A man whose Facebook posts went viral because of their claims of having "kicked a lot of riot pigs' shields" and been covered in "blood that wasn't his" denies having anything to do with a riot.

Almost 150 people required hospital treatment overnight as rioters swept through downtown Vancouver following a Canucks loss to the Boston Bruins in the decisive Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A potent symbol that Canada's war in Afghanistan is almost over came roaring through the gates of Kandahar Airfield Thursday as the first echelon of battle tanks arrived for transport home.

Vancouver police Chief Jim Chu said more than 100 people were arrested during the riots in the city's downtown core following the final game of the Stanley Cup on Wednesday night.

Amid the search for the criminals, hooligans and drunkards involved in the Vancouver hockey riots, Canadians are also using social media to find the identity of a lone man who was attacked for trying to stop the mob from damaging a department store.

The Boston Bruins blanked the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 to win the Stanley Cup in the seventh and deciding game, silencing an entire city ready to celebrate had the Canucks won the game.

The White House is telling Congress that President Obama has the legal authority to continue American participation in the NATO-led air war in Libya, even though lawmakers have not authorized it.

The Vancouver Canucks have a hidden advantage when they hit the ice against the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals, and it comes from how much time they spend on their backs. That secret weapon is sleep.

One of the strangest Stanley Cups anyone can remember is going to end with something everyone can understand: A single game, with everything on the line, winner-take-all.

NASA astronomers have discovered that a nearby galaxy contains not just one super-sized black hole, as previously thought, but two.

The biggest wildfire Alberta firefighters have ever faced continues to rage out of control in the province's northeast.

Thousands of noisy Canucks fans clad in the team's bright blue and green jerseys started filling the streets of downtown Vancouver by noon on Wednesday, anxious to claim their spots in front of the big screens for the big game.

More people in Ontario are drinking daily, smoking marijuana and taking anti-anxiety medications, a report from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health says.

The RCMP has announced the arrests of four men in relation to the seized Ocean Lady, a freighter that brought 76 Sri Lankan refugees to British Columbia's coast in 2009.

Fraser River sockeye could be getting sick or even dying because of a daily cocktail of household chemicals entering the watershed, a judicial inquiry has heard.

The Conservative government continues to claim that Canada's chrysotile asbestos can be used safely "under controlled conditions."

A total of 500 officers from several police forces carried out drug raids on Mohawk territory around Montreal on Tuesday.

The federal government says that it's preparing to table legislation that would compel striking Air Canada staff back to work, if the air carrier and the union can't agree to a deal.

The union representing 48,000 Canada Post workers says that its rotating 24-hour strikes will move to three smaller communities next: Salmon Arm, B.C., Sioux Lookout, Ont., and Carbonear, N.L.

A woman was shot when a man allegedly posing as a police officer fired a gun into an apartment in Halifax early Tuesday

Ticket prices for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Vancouver are skyrocketing as desperate fans scramble to secure seats to what could be most important game in the team's 40-year history.

The Canucks forward suffered a vertebrae compression fracture during the first shift of Monday night's 5-2 loss at Boston

And to think they put newspaper tycoon Conrad Black in jail for non-compete clauses.

Humankind's most distant emissaries are flying through a turbulent sea of magnetism as they seek to break free of our Solar System.

Vancouver Canucks fans seem undaunted by the rollercoaster swings in the Stanley Cup final series, with a pattern of close wins at home and embarrassing losses in Boston against the Bruins.

The Vancouver Canucks left their bench, walked through the tunnel with their heads hung low and their spirit in short supply on Monday.

It has cradled newborn babies and bid farewell to the dying, stood tall in the middle of a war zone and gazed down upon Paris from the heights of the Eiffel Tower.

A narrow majority of decided B.C. voters still want to scrap the Harmonized Sales Tax, according to a new poll, but referendum confusion could factor in the levy's fate.

The world needs to get serious about fighting climate change if it wants to stop an increasing number of natural disasters seen in recent years, because just changing the type of light bulbs we use and recycling our newspapers is not nearly enough to save

A program to buy new trucks for the Canadian Forces has been delayed once again, this time because government officials have to translate into French the equipment specifications and paperwork to be provided to bidding firms.

Hundreds of people descended on downtown Edmonton Saturday as a loud and colourful parade wound through the streets for the city's annual Pride Parade.

A single living cell has been coaxed into producing laser light, researchers report in Nature Photonics.

Folkert Wydenes was last seen on May 30 when his skiff overturned after he and partner Elaine Campbell had put down their fishing boat's anchor off Graham Island and the couple was headed ashore.

The verbal jabs between Tim Thomas and Roberto Luongo started after Game 5, when the Vancouver goalie made some curious comments regarding his counterpart's approach of playing Kevin Bieksa's point shot aggressively. After Bieksa planted the puck off the

Suspended Vancouver Canucks defenceman Aaron Rome stated that he doesn't regret his decision to nail Nathan Horton, but he was repentant that Boston Bruins forward suffered a concussion.

The death toll from the tornado that destroyed much of Joplin has risen to 151, and three of the latest victims suffered from a rare fungal infection that can occur when dirt becomes embedded under the skin, authorities said.

Hundreds of Canucks fans gathered at Vancouver's airport Saturday to see their team off as the Canucks headed to Boston for Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final on Monday night.

Jenson Button spent 69 laps soaked by the spray spinning off the tires of the rest of the field at the Canadian Grand Prix.

Championship leader Sebastian Vettel won another pole position on Saturday, outracing a pair of Ferraris and a looming rainstorm to record the top qualifying lap at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal.

Whether it was Vancouver Canucks forward Alexandre Burrows biting the gloved index finger of his Boston Bruins opponent, Patrice Bergeron, in the series opener. Or the back-and-forth taunts about the bitten digit between Vancouver's Maxim Lapierre and Bru

As ice hockey approaches its season finale in the Stanley Cup final, a group of Ottawa players is gearing up for the year's big moment in another form of the sport.

The Moose will no longer skate in the American Hockey League but Winnipeg's 15-year franchise has found a new home in St. John's, N.L.

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has told his Nato allies they need to invest greater resources in the organisation or risk it becoming irrelevant.

Maxim Lapierre feigned an injury in the first period in an attempt to draw a penalty, but there was nothing bogus about his third-period goal that has enabled the Vancouver Canucks to bounce back in the Stanley Cup Final.

The century-old remains of four men who were executed during the Klondike Gold Rush will be laid to rest this weekend in Dawson City, Yukon.

A jet used to train fighter pilots crashed just before noon MT Friday near CFB Cold Lake in northern Alberta.

A fuming bride decked her kilt wearing hubby when he sat on her knee at the reception and left a skid mark on her wedding dress.

Liberal president Alfred Apps is urging his party to adopt a U.S.-style primary leadership process, something he says is key to recovering from its disastrous showing in the May election.

Canada's military mission in Libya has cost $26 million and the price tag could more than double if it's extended until the fall, Defence Minister Peter MacKay said during a NATO summit in Brussels.

The snowpack across the northern Rocky Mountains has shrunk far more quickly in the past 50 years than in the previous 800, a new study shows.

B.C. now has its own "Highway of Heroes" after the provincial government renamed a stretch of the Trans-Canada to honour 13 soldiers from the province who have died in Afghanistan.

The Chicago jury also convicted the Pakistani-born Canadian of helping an aborted attack on a Danish newspaper.

South Africa's programme to prevent HIV in babies has achieved a 96.5 percent success rate in wiping out transmission from infected pregnant mothers, the Medical Research Council said Thursday.

But he was an NBA basketball player, after all, a forward well into an 11-year career. Didn't basketball players' kids want to be basketball players too? He looked at his three sons, amazed. "You want to play ice hockey?" he asked.

Of all the foreclosure warnings issued during the housing crisis, perhaps oddest is the one demanding no money at all.

the officers separated the couple to question them individually. Moore was interviewed privately in her bedroom. According to Moore, the officer who questioned her then came on to her, groped her breast and slipped her his home phone number.

The UN nuclear watchdog has decided to report Syria to the UN Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme, diplomats have said. The board of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted to rebuke the country over claims it had bui

People across Nunavut are shocked by the deaths of four Iqaluit family members, whose bodies were discovered late Tuesday in what police have described as connected cases.

Chimps have "replayed" an ancient fable, a team says in Plos One journal.

A letter by Adolf Hitler - said to be the earliest expression of his ideas on anti-Semitism - has been shown publicly for the first time in New York.

Two new elements have been added to the periodic table after a three-year review by the governing bodies of chemistry and physics.

An Alberta man facing a deadline to close his private zoo has decided to call his property a place of worship in hopes that the designation will help him keep his animals.

A small school bus packed full of teenage students collided with two cars on a British Columbia highway Tuesday evening, leaving one driver dead and more than 10 people injured.

The moose is among Canada's most beloved national symbols, but in Newfoundland, the creature's proliferation is being blamed for a growing number of accidents on the island's highways.

As Canadian troops complete their final combat mission before departing Kandahar officially next month I find myself struggling with very mixed feelings about our war effort there.

Police say a man was carrying a dead weasel when he burst into an apartment and assaulted a man in Washington state.

Severe weather is sweeping across southern and central Ontario, leading to at least one reported death on Wednesday and spawning several tornado reports.

Bar wars are erupting on Canal Street, in the heart of Bruins country, with TD Garden taverns fighting to keep the Vancouver faithful off their barstools.

Two players made two bad decisions in an instant, something that happens fairly often in the NHL. Boston's Nathan Horton watched his pass an instant too long, and Vancouver's Aaron Rome checked him an instant too late.

The NHL is considering dropping the "blindside" component of Rule 48, which deals with hits to the head, but it hasn't committed to banning headshots altogether.

Former NHL official Dan Marouelli retired last year, but he still has opinions on how the game of hockey should be called.

It is the most visible symbol of China's rising military power.

Skeptical questions from three federal judges in Atlanta suggest they may be ready to declare unconstitutional all or part of the healthcare law promoted by the Obama administration and passed last year by Congress.

Japan admitted Tuesday it was unprepared for a severe nuclear accident like the tsunami-caused Fukushima disaster and said damage to the reactors and radiation leakage were worse than it previously thought.

Two men are dead after a shooting involving police in downtown Montreal on Tuesday morning, including a bystander who was on his way to work.

The Lord Elgin Hotel in Ottawa has a mystery on its hands after a statuette stolen 50 years ago turned up in one of its bathrooms.

A New Brunswick fisherman is selling a behemoth 10-kilogram (22.3 pound) lobster that he and his son hauled up Monday from the Bay of Fundy.

NHL senior vice-president Mike Murphy imposed a harsh four-game suspension on Rome for his late shoulder-to-head hit that forced Horton out of the playoffs with a severe head injury early in Boston's 8-1 victory in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.

The best-known grizzly bear in B.C.'s Kootenays is on the lam again.

Rescuers say it's a miracle a woman was found after spending six days alone on a remote beach on B.C.'s North Coast after losing her common-law husband in a boat accident.

A nasty shoulder-to-head hit from Vancouver Canucks defenceman Aaron Rome on Boston Bruins sniper Nathan Horton has roused the Beantowners to life in the Stanley Cup Final.

Considered by scientists the most important space mission of the decade, the James Webb Space Telescope project is being overhauled for the second time in five years because of skyrocketing costs and cascading schedule delays.

Thirty years ago from Sunday, the Centers for Disease Control issued the first report on the emerging AIDS epidemic. Now, after years of progress in holding back the disease, there is finally an apparent case of one successful cure.

A NEIGHBOUR of Donald Trump's golf course was stunned when the tycoon put a fence around his house - then billed him for it.

Thousands of fans gathered in downtown Vancouver erupted in cheers and shouts Saturday night as the Canucks won Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals to take a 2-0 series lead.

A Chinese media, Chaoxian.com.cn, reported on Thursday that North Korea's Chosun Central TV recently released the survey result of a 'Happiness Index (Gross National Happiness) of each nation,' which was conducted in North Korea. According to the index

Burrows scored the overtime winner on a brilliant wraparound goal 11 seconds into the extra period, when he not only beat Boston goalie Tim Thomas but Bruins captain Zdeno Chara for a 3-2 victory on Saturday.

A 71-year-old pilot survived the crash of his plane during an air show in Nanaimo, B.C.

TRUE NORTH is holding back its official stamp of approval but former Newfoundland premier Danny Williams is so confident of a deal that he held a press conference late Wednesday to announce his agreement to relocate the AHL's Manitoba Moose to St. John's

Ford is working on a nifty new car seat that can monitor a driver's heart rate, with the aim of reducing the number of car accidents caused by drivers having heart attacks behind the wheel.

Another massive data breach at Sony has left hackers exulting, customers steaming and security experts questioning why basic fixes haven't been made to the company's stricken cybersecurity program.

Analysis of the fossilized teeth of our early ancestors living in southern Africa shows it was the women who ventured out when they came of age, while men tended to remain close to home, researchers say.

Canada Post workers began a two-day strike in Hamilton, Ont. on Saturday, as their union tried to increase pressure during continuing negotiations with the postal service.

An al Qaeda leader sought in the 2008 Mumbai siege and rumoured to be a longshot choice to succeed Osama bin Laden was believed killed in a U.S. drone attack as he met with other militants in an apple orchard in Pakistan, an intelligence official said Sat