NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 09-2012

More than 100,000 people rally in Venezuela's capital Caracas for Henrique Capriles, a week before he challenges Hugo Chavez for the presidency.

The CIA cautiously assessed the "Boy from Baie Comeau" as a more amiable ally than the occasionally irascible Trudeau in a September 1984 memo written three weeks after Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives swept to power, ousting the long-entrenched Liber

The restored Bluenose II has finally hit the water. The slipway remained attached as the vessel was slowly launched in Lunenburg harbour.

Omar Khadr, who has been in a U.S. detention camp in Cuba since 2002 following his capture by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, has been returned to Canada and transferred to a maximum-security prison in eastern Ontario.

Community representatives express shock over attack; Jewish organizations offer support for Sweden's approximately 700 Jews.

A group of vigilantes evict Roma (Gypsies) from a Marseille housing estate and burn down their camp, French media report.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus escapes with minor bruising after plastic pellets were fired at him by a man with a replica pistol.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today that the first Armstrong-class Auxiliary General Oceanographic Research (AGOR) ship will be named Neil Armstrong. Mabus named the future R/V Neil Armstrong (AGOR 27) to honor the memory of Ne

July GDP expands by 0.2 per cent, kicking off third-quarter on stronger footing

Dead include seven British and five Chinese passengers

Three men, including one current and one former police officer from the Niagara Falls area, have been charged in connection with an international cheese-smuggling network.

Newfoundland and Labrador's child and youth advocate says gas-sniffing adolescents in Natuashish need an immediate intervention.

It's been 40 years since Paul Henderson scored the winning goal in the last 34 seconds of the eighth game in the 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series. Now the 69-year-old hockey icon tells us what he was thinking in that moment.

Saskatchewan has highest spike in immigration rate

Live-in boyfriend Li Ang convicted in 2002 death of B.C. exchange student

Uniform, sword of Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe to be returned to Ontario for permanent display

Charges laid against Newfoundlander allegedly involved in 15-person assault; charges recommended against 50 more

French unemployment has topped three million for first time since June 1999, as the economy continues to struggle.

Spain is due to set out its austerity budget later, amid expectations that the country will soon seek a bailout from its eurozone partners.

Nova Scotia RCMP are on the hunt for two men who allegedly kept a 16-year-old boy in chains and sexually assaulted him.

A man dressed his nephew in a sheet and sent him into a busy street with a fake grenade launcher, filming the masked teenager pointing the weapon at passing cars to see how long it took police to respond, authorities said.

United Nations officials say they are concerned that vulnerable Canadian children may be falling through the cracks in a fractious federal system that lacks accountability and a clear strategy.

The long wait for Justin Trudeau's difficult decision appears to be over: Radio-Canada is reporting that the Quebec MP and son of former prime minister Pierre Trudeau will announce early next week that he will run for the leadership of the federal Liberal

Homeowners across Canada are discovering cellphone towers popping up in residential neighbourhoods that slip just under height regulations that would require the company to notify those living nearby.

One of the most powerful foes of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline through northern British Columbia is not a lawyer or a conservation group or any of the many First Nations who have lined up against the project.

Lawmakers will vote tonight on a Conservative backbencher's motion that, if passed, would resurrect the contentious debate surrounding issues pertaining to abortion.

Police clashed with protesters hurling petrol bombs and bottles in central Athens Wednesday after an anti-government rally called as part of a general strike in Greece turned violent.

New research shows the terrorizing impact of drones in Pakistan, false statements from US officials, and how it increases the terror threat

The British agency in charge of the nation's pig industry says the world is on the verge of a significant pork and bacon shortage as early as next year because of rising feed costs.

NHL club officials hold talks in Seattle after Edmonton arena plan scuttled

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza has lost his final appeal against extradition to the US and could be sent away from Britain within weeks, but how did his ties with terrorism start?

China says its first aircraft carrier - a refurbished Soviet ship - has entered into service, expanding its ability to defend its sovereignty.

Mayors and councillors from across British Columbia kicked off the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention by crowding into a debate calling for the decriminalization of marijuana.

40 people taken to hospitals for treatment

Canadian journalist Henry Champ, who worked for CBC, CTV and NBC during a career that spanned more than four decades, has died at age 75.

Moderate intake of the ever-popular drink may help reduce pain, and has also been linked to protection from various health conditions

In a bit of Arctic irony, work done during the search for Sir John Franklin's lost ships this summer will help future mariners navigating through the dangerous waters of Nunavut where HMS Erebus and HMS Terror may have gone down.

The Harper government spent $750,462 in legal fees fighting veterans over the clawback of military pensions, documents tabled in Parliament show.

The last time Calgarians saw such a hot summer was the year Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead came to town. Environment Canada has tallied up the numbers, and the summer of 2012 was officially one for the record books.

Pakistan's Railways Minister has offered a $100,000 reward for the death of the person who made a controversial film of the Prophet Muhammad.

Paul McCallum booted a 46-yard field goal with one minute remaining as the league-leading B.C. Lions won their third game in a row, getting past the Eskimos 19-18 on Saturday night in Edmonton

The Harper government has been quietly studying private prisons in other countries as a possible model to save money in federal penitentiaries, CTV News has learned.

Oh, how lovely it is this weekend to be Argentine -- able to take a mini-vacation to the mountains or the sea, or simply relax at home for three days, blissfully enjoying yet another new government benefit: More paid national holidays this year than nearl

The world's largest beer festival has opened Saturday in Germany as Munich's mayor tapped the first keg to kick off the 16-day Oktoberfest, known for its oompah music and traditional costumes.

One Quebec student group says that with tuition hikes officially off the table, it will now champion the idea of free education.

If the pictures of those towering wildfires in Colorado haven't convinced you, or the size of your AC bill this summer, here are some hard numbers abo

Doctors should be recommending IUDs or hormonal implants long-lasting and more effective birth control to teens, a leading U.S. gynecologists group says.

Workers who get sick while on parental leave will be able to collect sickness benefits under new legislation introduced today, in a package that includes already announced benefits for parents of missing, murdered and critically injured or ill children.

In her first full day as Quebec's new premier, Pauline Marois has scrapped the tuition hike, cancelled Bill 78, confirmed the closure of the province's sole nuclear plant and floated an idea about cutting the health tax.

A federal jury found Samuel Mullet Sr., the leader of a renegade Amish sect, and 15 followers guilty of conspiracy and hate crimes in a series of beard- and hair-cutting attacks in Ohio.

Statistics Canada says almost a third of Canadian children are either overweight or obese.

A man in the U.S. has been awarded US$7.2 million after contracting a lung disease he said was brought on by years of inhaling the artificial butter smell of microwave popcorn.

Reports say both mother and the defence ministry had not been aware of her pregnancy

Arctic ice cover has reached another nadir, melting to its least coverage in recent history, according to scientists from the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Centre.

The city of Greenwood, the current title holder of best municipal water in the world, has been told not to touch its drinking water after someone tampered with the city's reservoir.

The U.S. space shuttle Endeavour began a journey to its new life as a museum piece Wednesday, heading west on the last ferry flight of its kind as NASA shuts down its shuttle program.

The U.S. intends to ask China to a send a ship to join the world's largest maritime exercises for the first time in Hawaiian waters in two years. The Navy will invite the Asian nation to send a ship to the 2014 Rim of the Pacific exercises, U.S. Defence S

A small package bomb exploded inside a kosher grocery store in a Paris suburb Wednesday, wounding at least one person, according to an agency that tracks anti-Semitic attacks in France.

The potential treatments, currently only at research stage in laboratories in Britain and the United States, would involve implanting genetically modified embryos into women for the first time

The world's richest woman, Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, drew international scorn recently after saying that people who are jealous of the wealthy should drink less and work harder.

Traditional marriage appears to be on the decline in Canada, while same-sex couples, step-families and common-law unions are on the rise, according to the latest census data.

If the NHL's latest labour dispute wipes out the entire season, a man responsible for guarding the Stanley Cup says he would be free to deliver the trophy to the winner of another competition.

Two unarmed female police officers are killed in a gun and grenade attack in Greater Manchester, as a suspect is held on suspicion of murder.

There is a presumption that for-profit facilities are more expensive, have worse outcomes and cater to wealthy queue-jumpers, but none of that is true of the Shouldice

Once an underdog to Research in Motion's Blackberry behemoth, Google's Android brand of smartphones is surging in popularity among Canadians, a new survey suggests.

As Quebec politicians were sworn in as Members of the National Assembly on Monday, one item was noticeably absent from the proceedings: the Canadian flag.

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Police name person of interest after 44-year-old father dies in apparent attempt to stop driver from leaving without paying for fuel

British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes unveils plans to set a new world record by leading the first team on foot across Antarctica during the southern winter.

The advances in HIV-AIDS treatment in the last decade have been nothing short of amazing, transforming the virus from what was once a death sentence to what is now a manageable disease.

Officials from the European Union are travelling to Ottawa for what is scheduled to be the penultimate session in their long-running trade talks road show -- the final is set for Brussels in October -- intended to finally close at year's end.

The National Hockey League entered its fourth work stoppage in 20 years after the collective bargaining agreement quietly expired at midnight on Saturday and the NHL locked out its players.

Allegations of misleading advertising practices among Canada's big telecom companies has been a recurring subject for some time, and it's now been b

The Nunavut Impact Review Board has issued its final report allowing Baffinland's $4-billion Mary River iron project to proceed, with conditions.

Police firing rubber bullets and tear gas sent men, women and children scattering as they herded them into their shacks in a crackdown on striking miners at a platinum mine.

After 10 years of ups and downs, the legislation that protects precarious wildlife is ready for an overhaul that will kick into high gear this fall, Environment Minister Peter Kent says.

A deadly outbreak of the Ebola virus has killed 31 people in northeastern Congo, more than doubling the death toll from a week ago, the UN health agency said Friday.

An Alberta grandfather is being called a hero after saving the lives of his two grandchildren in a fiery crash near Three Hills, Alta., that claimed his own life Friday night.

A young star surrounded by a planet-forming disc of gas is being pulled towards the huge black hole at the centre of our galaxy, astronomers say.

An international team of weather experts has named California's Death Valley the world's hottest place.

NASA says Neil Armstrong's cremated remains were buried in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday during a ceremony aboard the USS Philippine Sea.

With only hours until a threatened NHL lockout, the league and the players' union appear no closer to a deal. For nearly a year, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman has vowed to lock out players for the second time in eight years if a new collective bargaining

The Vancouver Canucks re-signed left-winger Alex Burrows to a four-year, $18-million US contract extension Friday. The 31-year-old Burrows had 52 points (28 goals, 24 assists) in 80 games with Vancouver last season. He registered a career-high seven winni

A 25-year-old B.C. woman is thanking her rescuers after spending a frightening night alone in a Fraser Valley forest, dressed in little more than a bikini.

The fury over an anti-Islam film has spread to include other Western facilities in the Muslim world, raising the specter Saturday of a widening protest.

An Edmonton teacher who refused to go along with his school's no-zero policy has been fired.

Hundreds of prison guards will rally in the prime minister's riding Saturday to protest rising gang violence, budget cuts and overcrowded conditions.

Biodegradable, natural and non-toxic are environmentally friendly promises plastered across many household products, but a CBC Marketplace investigation found that a number of them amount to little more than greenwashing.

Only one "eh?" joke. We promise.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet around the Middle East and other Muslim countries Friday. Protesters smashed into the German Embassy in the Sudanese... - 9/14/2012 9:49:47 AM | Newser

Crowds gathered to protest the California-made film in Yemen, Egypt, Sudan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Bangaldesh and Iraq

Conservation authorities have ended a day-long pursuit of an adult black bear in Burnaby, B.C., by finally chasing the animal up a tree, tranquilizing it and transporting it away.

A long-simmering volcano exploded into a series of powerful eruptions outside one of Guatemala's most famous tourist attractions on Thursday.

Invasive species can be bad times pretty much anywhere, but nowhere do they cause so much trouble as an island. In the closed environment of an island, just a couple of out of place animals can utterly transform an entire ecosystem. Invasive brown tree sn

Looks like Godwin's Law is still in full effect. At least in the case of the Internet discussion on incoming Quebec premier Pauline Marois.

Police fired warning shots Thursday to disperse protesters outside the U.S. embassy in Egypt, while protesters attempted to storm the embassy in Yemen.

Two Dutch centrist parties may form a left-right coalition after securing an absolute majority between them in the election

The the NHL and the NHL Players' Association have exchanged proposals as collective bargaining talks picked up Wednesday in the face of a potential lockout.

A group representing Vancouver's best-known nude beach is asking Metro Vancouver to ban noisy water craft and their ogling occupants from coming within 300 metres of the shore.

Gasoline prices rose in many parts of Canada overnight but nowhere as high as in the Montreal area, where prices hit a near all-time high of $1.53 per litre at some stations -- an overnight increase of 13 cents.

The Czech Republic announced emergency measures Wednesday to combat a wave of alcohol poisoning, saying that 19 people have died and 24 have been hospitalized after drinking vodka and rum laced with methanol.

The Bakersfield Condors believe Justin Bieber is more than a sweet voice with slick dance moves.