NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 12-2013

The National Security Agency is secretly piggybacking on the tools that enable Internet advertisers to track consumers, using "cookies" and location data to pinpoint targets for government hacking and to bolster surveillance. The agency's internal present

Since his arrival in Denmark to face hacking charges Gottfrid Svartholm has sat in solitary confinement, denied free access to mail and denied access to his books. The situation has outraged Wikileaks' Julian Assange who says Gottfrid is now a political p

A man who provided sign language interpretation on stage for Nelson Mandela's memorial service was a "fake," the national director of the Deaf Federation of South Africa says.

Canada Post is phasing out door-to-door delivery of regular mail to city dwellers and increasing the cost of stamps.

Uruguay's parliament votes to legalize the cultivation, sale and consumption of marijuana - the first country to do so.

Whether a father eats a healthy diet before conception could affect his children's risk of birth defects, suggests a new study from McGill University. The study looked at mice, but the results likely apply to humans.

Michael Rafferty, the man convicted of killing eight-year-old Victoria Stafford, should get a publicly funded lawyer as he tries to appeal, Ontario's highest court ruled Tuesday.

Economics, more than politics, is causing the greatest drag on wind power as Liberals look for light at the end of the wind tunnel.

Feeling chilly? Here's cold comfort: You could be in East Antarctica which new data says set a record for soul-crushing cold.

The National Security Agency isn't the only government entity secretly collecting data from people's cellphones. Local police are increasingly scooping it up, too.

More than 250 passengers on Calgary-bound flights were part of a "Christmas miracle" put on by WestJet. The Calgary-based airline had a virtual Santa ask passengers what they wanted for Christmas as they scanned their boarding passes in Toronto and Hamilt

Elmira, Ont., sculptor Timothy Schmalz says he feels 'uplifted' and 'happy' after his latest work was returned, along with a sorry note, to the downtown church from which it was stolen about a week ago.

A Louisiana man who slept through his layover in Houston and went unnoticed by the crew on his United Express flight woke up to find himself on a dark, cold plane with the doors locked, a local television station reports.

A Toronto police officer convicted of assaulting a protester during the G20 summit was sentenced Monday to 45 days in jail.

Ontario schools should allow students with asthma to carry puffers with them in case of emergencies, says the mother of a 12-year-old boy who died when no one could get his inhaler in time because it was locked in the principal's office.

Eight major tech giants call for tighter controls on government surveillance, joining forces to argue there should be reforms in the way the United States snoops on people.

The World Trade Organization has forged a deal that could add $1 trillion to the world economy. It's aimed at cutting red-tape to help poorer countries sell their goods to wealthier nations.

A cockroach from Asia that can withstand harsh winter cold has been confirmed in North America for the first time.

A businessman from Leamington, Ont., has been killed during a roadside robbery in Brazil.

The University of Waterloo has a reputation for excellence in engineering, math and science. But it turns out the school is also known in the professional poker world for breeding successful world-class players.

The push to hold a province-wide pot referendum in B.C. appears to be getting stamped out instead of sparking change.

Pearl Harbor survivor stories hard to come by as numbers dwindle

The Edmonton Police Service has approved the option for female officers of Muslim faith to wear a police-issued hijab headscarf while in uniform. The traditional hijab is worn by some Muslim women as an outward expression of religious and cultural identit

Chinese scientists have used x-rays to image the blood vessels in a heart with unprecedented detail. The trick? Injecting it with liquid gallium.

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the fine Canadian singer offered himself as a brand ambassador to his fellow Canadians for a mere $200,000 and 20 phones. He was rejected.

A rocket carrying a secret payload for the U.S. government has successfully launched from the central California coast.

Millions of Android users have been "deceived" by a developer who covertly gathered personal data, says the US Federal Trade Commission. GoldenShores Technologies took ID and location data from the millions using its Brightest Flashlight app.

A man with cystic fibrosis says a drug that could potentially help him live longer is unaffordable for those who need it.

A suspended member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who is facing three cocaine trafficking-related charges in New Brunswick has had his bail hearing adjourned again.

Nelson Mandela, one of the greatest leaders of modern times, passed away Thursday at his home in Johannesburg. He was 95.

Starting today, a company in southern Alberta hopes to turn manure and other farm waste into money, with government help. Lethbridge Biogas LP says its $30 million plant, which produces electricity, is the largest project of its type in Canada.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services proposed to protect wolverines, which inhabit Alaska, Canada, and colder regions of the continental United States including parts of Utah, Montana, Idaho, California, Colorado, Wyoming, Oregon, and Washington, in Febru

The RCMP have issued warrants for the arrest of two men they say are responsible for a long-standing and sophisticated fraud linked to a Toronto-based online currency exchange known as InvestTechFX.

The New Brunswick SPCA has seized 143 animals from a home in Fredericton, a menagerie that included everything from dogs and cats to potbellied pigs and chinchillas.

Stephen Harper has ordered government bureaucrats back to the drawing board to craft a more expansive international claim for seabed riches in the Arctic after the proposed submission they showed him failed to include the geographic North Pole, The Globe

The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said Wednesday that one of its commanders has been "assassinated" outside of his home in southern Beirut, blaming Israel for his killing.

Thieves have stolen a truck in Mexico carrying a dangerous radioactive material used in medical treatments, the United Nations atomic watchdog said on Wednesday.

Entombed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in an upended tugboat, all Harrison Odjegba Okene had was an ever-dwindling supply of oxygen in an air pocket.

He's the first and only Canadian to be part of the U.S. Coast Guard team that protects the airspace above the White House. Capt. Jeffery Powell is used to doing search and rescue in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, but now flies air defence missions over the

Scientists plumbing the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaii coast have discovered a Second World War era Japanese submarine, a technological marvel that had been preparing to attack the Panama Canal before being scuttled by U.S. forces.

Secret 5-Eyes document shows surveillance partners discussing what data they can pool about their citizens, DSD indicated it could provide material without some privacy restraints imposed by other countries such as Canada

A former Harper government appointee used a keynote speech at a Washington event Monday to trample Canadian authorities' message on oil pipelines while describing the country as an environmental "rogue state."

Cellphone customers will get caps on their excess data and roaming fees and other new rights starting today, under the CRTC's new wireless code.

Toronto police Const. John Zivcic died Monday of injuries suffered in a car crash on Saturday when he was on duty.

Australian scientists have tracked a minke whale from the Great Barrier Reef deep into the subantarctic for the first time, sharply raising the stakes of Japanese whaling.

In 2001 dead porpoises with yeast-packed lungs washed up on the southeastern shore of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. The bloated organs were several times normal weight, with barely any room for air. The island's veterinarians had never seen anythi

The team from the University of Bonn in Germany imaged the hearts of 17 people an hour after they had an energy drink. The study showed contractions were more forceful after the drink. The team told the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North

The surprise discovery of traces of European ancestry in the 24,000-yearold bones of a boy unearthed in the heart of Siberia has caught the attention of Canadian experts, who say the find could rewrite the story of the people who first populated ancient C

A St. John's woman is angry that a George Street pub charged her a 25 per cent gratuity because she accidentally left her credit card at the bar.

A SWAT team boarded a ferry that had been set adrift off Seattle, Wash., and arrested the man who allegedly stole the vessel earlier Sunday morning.

The RCMP say they disrupted a "threat to Canadian security" this week after arresting and charging a Canadian citizen who they allege was trying to pass on classified shipbuilding information to the Chinese government.

Cliff Chadderton, who served as chief executive officer of The War Amps until 2009, has died. He was 94.

Some time this week, Canada is expected to make its case to the world to dramatically expand its boundaries by an area equivalent to the size of all three Prairie provinces.