NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2010

NEW ORLEANS - Oil leaking from a sunken drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico oozed slowly toward the coast Monday, endangering hundreds of miles of marshes, barrier islands and white sand beaches in four states from Louisiana to Florida.

KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine's president warned Monday on the anniversary of the world's worst atomic accident that the Chernobyl nuclear reactor remains a serious threat to Europe.

Chimpanzees have remarkably complex, even human-like, responses to the deaths of their closest companions, new research suggests. Two separate studies published this week in the journal Current Biology document how chimps reacted to the deaths of others

The United Nations said Monday it was pulling some foreign workers out of Kandahar, amid a wave of violence in the Afghan city.

A 25-year-old mechanic has been killed after part of a mine collapsed on him and two other workers at Yukon Zinc Corp.'s Wolverine site in southeastern Yukon.

The first cruise ship of the season has sailed into Vancouver and plugged into a new eco-friendly power supply, but port officials say fewer ships are calling at the port, despite the improvements.

HOLLAND MARSH, Ont. - More locally grown and safe foods will end up on Canadian dinner tables if the Liberals form the next government, party leader Michael Ignatieff promised Monday in a bid to shore up support in key rural ridings.

Veterans' Affairs Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn met with residents at Canada's only federally controlled veterans hospital on Monday to reassure them about the government's plans to transfer responsibility for the facility to the province of Quebec.

A restaurant in a northwest suburb of Adelaide that refused a blind man entry because it thought his guide dog was "gay" was ordered by the Equal Opportunity Tribunal to pay him $1500.

The upcoming meeting of G8 development ministers is unlikely to top the scolding U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave the Conservative government for trying to keep abortions out of its maternal health project as far as headlines go.

Some GTA municipalities are scrambling to find markets for blue-box materials after three major recyclers suspended operations in recent months, including a Brampton plant that was the first and only dedicated recycler of polystyrene foam in Canada.

Daniel Sedin snapped a 2-2 tie with 2:03 left in the third period on Sunday to push the Vancouver Canucks past the Los Angeles Kings and into the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The first passenger flight between Iraq and the UK for 20 years has landed at London Gatwick airport.

Oil is leaking from a damaged well feeding a rig that sank off Louisiana on Thursday, in what US officials are calling "a very serious spill".

One of Spain's most revered matadors is in intensive care in a Mexican hospital after a 500-kilogram bull gored him in the groin, leading to massive blood loss.

There's a key job for members of the California Highway Patrol on Sunday night at the Staples Center. There, the Los Angeles Kings will be trying to beat the Vancouver Canucks and stave off elimination in a best-of-seven series currently sitting 3-2 again

The 48th Highlanders of Canada were honoured as a new memorial plaque was unveiled in Belgium Saturday to commemorate the Second Battle of Ypres in the spring of 1915.

A child's body found on the banks of the Nicolet River in central Quebec has been identified as that of four-year-old Nicolas Pineault, according to provincial police.

Animals riding transit have become a global phenomenon. What?

Once a wardrobe staple, pantyhose are being shunned by no less a style setter than first lady Michelle Obama

There is nothing funny about domestic violence.

A dusty 1854 bylaw has turned Meaford against Meaford, and friends into foes. All for a road.

Expect numbers of women victimized by priests as children to rise over next few years, say lawyers

New Delhi, India (CNN) -- The Oberoi, one of the hotels attacked and badly damaged in the Mumbai siege nearly 18 months ago, reopened Saturday after an extensive renovation.

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) -- An explosion at close range, and not a direct hit, caused the 1,200-ton patrol ship Cheonan to sink last month, a team of South Korean military and civilian investigators has tentatively concluded.

But the Nazi's wartime broadcasts had remained a largely hidden chapter in the history of the war until the transmissions were unearthed by a US scholar, who believes they have fuelled continuing unrest in the Middle East.

TORONTO - Three strikes and you're out.....Tracey Brown's daughter, Tianna, said she had to take off her MedicAlert bracelet during her Grade 1 gym class because jewelry was not allowed.

Canadian combat troops are slated to leave Afghanistan next summer, but RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said Saturday he expects his personnel will have to stay behind to undertake the "huge challenge" of training police officers.

Fish and Wildlife officials are investigating the discovery of dozens of coyote carcasses near Cypress Hills Provincial Park in southeastern Alberta.

Possible completion of the B.C. government's proposed Site C dam is at least a decade away, but locals in the Peace River Valley are already feeling impacts from the mega project.

Pascal Dupuis scored 9:56 into overtime, giving the Pittsburgh Penguins a 4-3 win in Ottawa and eliminating the Senators from the playoffs in six games.

Six people died Saturday and dozens were injured as tornadoes tore across a swath of the U.S. southeast, crushing buildings and ripping up power lines.

James Cameron has a special affinity for the ocean. He's directed films such as "Titanic" and "The Abyss," not to mention his own deep-sea diving documentaries. So it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that his "Avatar" sequel will focus on underwater life

A mixed-race couple from Nova Scotia who awoke one February morning to find a burning cross on their lawn and saw their car go up in flames this past weekend say they're leaving town for their children's safety.

After Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a contentious immigration bill into a state law, President Barack Obama raised apprehensions that it could infringe on the civil rights of people and ordered the Justice Department to examine law.

�Vaginas are having a moment.' But not everyone is ecstatic about labia dyes and �vajazzling'

Bret Michaels is in critical condition suffering from a brain hemorrhage.

BAGHDAD - An influential anti-American Shiite cleric called on his followers to defend themselves and places of worship after deadly Baghdad mosque bombings but urged self-restraint to avoid giving the U.S. military an excuse for postponing withdrawal pla

The U.S. Coast Guard has called off its search for 11 workers who have been missing from an oil rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast this week.

There was a stillness on the Ottawa Senators' team bus as it headed to the airport after a triple overtime win over the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night.

Consumer waste from the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" is turning a Hawaiian beach "into plastic", Tropic of Cancer presenter Simon Reeve has found.

Mainstream Sikhs condemn recent outbreaks of violence in Ontario, threats in B.C., but admonish those who suggest extremism is flourishing

The nearly century-old statue of a bare-chested man whose right arm was partially lopped off at least 10 years ago could be put back together again after an area resident launched a war of words.

Canada Post is warning Canadians to ignore an email about a package delivery that appears to come from the company, but in fact is only trying to deliver a virus to their computers.

As the world marks World Malaria Day to commemorate the global effort to control the disease, experts note that with more than 250 million new malaria infections each year, there is still much work to be done.

General Motors is running ads on all the major networks this week claiming it has repaid its bailout from the taxpayers "in full." But the claim isn't standing up to scrutiny from lawmakers and government watchdogs who have found that the automaker was ab

The Hubble telescope marks two decades in space this month, where it has captured stunning images that have had a profound effect on our understanding of the universe.

Mumbai's renovated Oberoi hotel has reopened its doors, 18 months after an attack left several people dead and much of the building in shambles.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Ground will be broken Saturday on a unique new project that will offer respite to soldiers, police and other frontline emergency workers.

TORONTO - The Royal Canadian Mint wants Canadians to know that the Queen does in fact have two faces.

Mikael Samuelsson scored twice to push his NHL-leading playoff total to seven goals and added an assist as the Vancouver Canucks put together their best game of the playoffs with a 7-2 home victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday night.

An jury in Oregon has ordered the Boy Scouts of America to pay $18.5 million US in punitive damages in a sex abuse lawsuit. It is believed to be the largest award ever granted by a jury in a sex-abuse lawsuit against the organization.

A major hockey gear manufacturer and a national safety standards agency are being sued by a Victoria family whose son suffered a severe brain injury during a midget hockey game.

The Montreal Canadiens summoned some inspiration from the rival Ottawa Senators on Friday.

The biggest wildfire in B.C. so far this season was sparked by the Canadian military. The 212-hectare fire southwest of Williams Lake is still smouldering, but officials have declared it under control.

Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating the sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl in her home early Friday.

The Newfoundland and Labrador government admits it is on the hook for millions of dollars because it mistakenly expropriated a newsprint mill it doesn't want.

The national list of firefighters who have died in the line of duty since 1848 has surpassed 1,000 names.

The pilot of a water bomber died in a crash near Miramichi, N.B., on Friday. The water bomber, operated by Forest Protection Ltd., crashed shortly after taking off from Miramichi Airport just before 2 p.m. AT, according to a company spokesman.

A wave of bombings in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 100.

Eleven suspected Somali pirates are set to appear in a US court Friday afternoon, officials say.

Nato is preparing to hand control of parts of Afghanistan to the Afghan people this year, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said.

Olympic 400-metre champion LaShawn Merritt of the United States has been suspended after testing positive for an anabolic steroid contained in an over-the-counter penis enlargement product.

U.S. authorities have charged a former nurse from Minnesota with attempting to talk a Carleton University student into killing herself.

A convicted killer in Utah has chosen to be executed by firing squad instead of lethal injection, renewing a debate over what critics see as an antiquated, Old West-style of justice.

No oil appears to be leaking from a drilling rig that sank in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, the U.S. Coast Guard says.

The Vancouver Canucks are back on home ice on Friday night and thousands of people are expected head out to catch the game in busy bars and restaurants.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Many of them came charging into Kandahar last fall with visions in their minds of gun battles and light armoured vehicles laying down cannon fire across the desert. But for members of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, Princess Patric

A 73-year-old man whose head was crushed in an accident at a southwestern Ontario Tim Hortons drive-thru has died. George Weston went through the drive-thru Tuesday around 1 p.m. in Wallaceburg, a community of about 11,000 between Sarnia and Chatham.

The actions of police officers involved in a high-speed chase that led to two deaths in a fiery crash near Hinton, Alta., last November were justified, the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team said in a report released Friday.

The RCMP are investigating the possibility that a fatal vehicle crash in Metro Vancouver was caused by a driver who was distracted because he was on his cellphone...

NEW ORLEANS - A crew member from an oil platform that sank off the Louisiana coast Thursday reported an initial explosion three hours before the rig went up in flames in a second, larger explosion, the Coast Guard said.

A B.C. woman has been sentenced to eight years in prison for defrauding the sick and elderly and embezzling nearly $800,000 from a seniors care home.

The U.S. Coast Guard is attempting a highly unusual recovery technique on a sunken Canadian cruise ship in Alaska in the hope of avoiding an environmental disaster.

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton wants the Harper government to put off implementation of the harmonized sales tax in British Columbia until a proposed provincial referendum on cancelling it has been held.

The environment is not a top of mind issue for most Calgarians as the world marks Earth Day, according to an exclusive poll commissioned by CBC News and released Thursday.

A slaughterhouse in Fort Macleod, Alta., owned by a Calgary company is under investigation by the RCMP over allegations that it has been killing horses inhumanely at its facility.

The US space agency Nasa has unveiled a powerful new tool in its quest to unravel the mysteries of the Universe. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy is a modified Boeing 747-SP aircraft known as Sofia.

Conservationists are attempting to lure rare ospreys to new nesting sites in southern England using polystyrene models of the birds in "show homes".

Nato foreign ministers have agreed to launch a Membership Action Plan (MAP) for Bosnia-Hercegovina - a penultimate step to joining the military alliance.

The widow of New Zealand climber Rob Hall, who died on Mount Everest in 1996, says it is too risky to retrieve his remains from the mountain.

Matt Carkner scored at 7:06 of triple overtime as the Ottawa Senators fought back from the brink of elimination to force Game 6 in the Eastern Conference quarter-finals.

Debate in Commons proves to be lukewarm as Canada assesses whether to give general the go-ahead for UN-led peacekeeping mission

The rise of electronic communication may soon affect your bottom line in restrooms.

Jen McCreight was so dumbfounded by an Iranian cleric's hypothesis that scantily clad women have caused a spike in earthquakes, she decided to put his theory to the test.

TRENTON, ONT. - Military investigators are probing the case of a serviceman found dead at the Canadian Forces base in Trenton, Ont.

The trackless tundra reaches a fork in the road this weekend as scrutiny begins of a massive uranium mine proposed for a pristine patch of the central Arctic. Sunday night will see the first of two weeks of community meetings in seven Arctic hamlets to se

Munching on a pretzel usually doesn't lead to an inquisition and accusations of drug use.

A warning from a 3-D TV manufacturer may prompt parents and pregnant women to think twice about allowing space heroes and pirates to jump off the screen into their living rooms.