NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2010

Fearing an invasion of the Great Lakes by the voracious Asian carp, five states are suing the U.S. government and Chicago's water department in federal court.

A huge leatherback turtle made an appearance close to the shores of Halifax on the weekend.

The Canadian War Museum has bought the medals of Canon Frederick G. Scott, a First World War chaplain and poet, for $28,000.

Pedophile John Murray Melanson gave notice in a Yellowknife courtroom on Monday that he might take legal action if the Crown doesn't expedite the process of applying to have him declared a dangerous offender.

RCMP divers have finished an unsuccessful underwater search for Const. Michael Potvin near Mayo, Yukon.

Arctic seismic testing in Hudson Strait and Foxe Basin has been given clearance by the Nunavut Impact Review Board.

A critical incident review is underway due to a mix-up involving biopsy results, said the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority. One woman was left not knowing she had cancer, while another was treated for cancer when she didn't have it.

Police have arrested two men in connection to the disappearance of an elderly Alberta couple, including a 38-year-old who has been called a person of interest by officers.

A labour dispute involving refuelling supervisors and administration staff at the Vancouver International Airport is causing flight delays in the middle of the busy summer season, union representatives say.

A woman accused of murdering her 12-year-old autistic neighbour awoke the morning after he was killed and thought it had all been a dream, a forensic psychiatrist testified at her trial Monday.

Breaking up can be painful, we all know. But now researchers are showing that heartbreak produces many of the same physical symptoms as cocaine withdrawal.

A telescope made by Utah State University's Space Dynamics Lab for NASA is on track to complete its first sky survey.

U.S. officials have detected a small leak in the capping stack that is plugging a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico, but tests of the cap's containment abilities will continue for another 24 hours.

Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney has seldom heard such unanimity about what he should do with interest rates at a time of economic uncertainty.

New Lightning GM Steve Yzerman added a big offensive chip to his club by trading for the longtime Philadelphia Flyers forward Monday. Tampa Bay sent defenceman Matt Walker and a fourth-round pick

Edmonton toddler Maddox Flynn was talking to his parents in a recovery room at a New York hospital Monday evening after a five-hour operation to remove a large growth from his face.

For the first time, a solid-state laser has successfully destroyed a flying drone in a naval environment. The tests, performed by Raytheon with the Navy, occurred off of San Nicholas Island, Calif. over several days in late May. Four UAVs were destroye

Canadian Forces Capt. Robert Semrau has been found not guilty of second degree murder and attempted murder in a battlefield death in Afghanistan. But he has been found guilty of disgraceful conduct.

Gaza's Hamas rulers have banned women from smoking water pipes in cafes, calling it a practice that destroys marriages and sullies the image of the Palestinian people.

A suicide bomber ripped through a line of anti-al Qaeda Sunni fighters waiting to collect their paychecks near an Iraqi military base as nearly 50 people were killed in violence west of Baghdad.

The deputy mayor of Okotoks, Alta., says a man who police shot dead Saturday night during an apparent armed standoff was the husband of a town councillor.

Investigators are calling two grass fires that broke out on the boundary of Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park this week suspicious, and are looking for witnesses who may have seen unusual activity in the area.

Provocative new research shows that treating people with the AIDS virus can provide a powerful bonus: It cuts the risk that they will infect others.

A speeding express train plowed into a stationary passenger train in eastern India on Monday, killing 61 people in a crash so powerful it sent the roof of one car flying onto an overpass. Officials said they could not rule out sabotage.

A desperate search for the last of four people lost at sea in a weekend boating mishap off of Newfoundland continues Monday.

Edmonton toddler Maddox Flynn will undergo a second life-changing surgery in New York today, to remove a massive growth from his face.

Popular U.S. service to offer an Internet subscription service that will deliver movies and TV episodes to televisions and computers for a monthly fee

Opposition to the proposal is coming mostly from Western nations, says Maude Barlow, a global water advocate and a founder of the Canada-based Blue Planet Project. "Canada is the worst. But Australia, the United States and Great Britain are also holdin

Photos taken by a mountaineer on Everest from the same spot where similar pictures were taken in 1921 have revealed an "alarming" ice loss.

Chicago cop who served in Afghanistan and Iraq has warning: Gang members are coming home with military training

Canada's navy is celebrating its centennial this year. Its birth, alas, was marked by farce and near-disaster.

One day your annual flu shot could come in the mail. At least that's the hope of researchers developing a new method of vaccine delivery that people could even use at home: a patch with microneedles.

Upcoming changes to the refugee system could further jam up an already backlogged process and set it up for failure, advocates say.

South Africans are celebrating Nelson Mandela's birthday by planting gardens, painting clinics and calling for unity.

BP says its new sealing cap has managed to block oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, with tests showing no damage to the undersea well.

The Government of Canada today announced it is acquiring the fifth generation Joint Strike Fighter F-35 Lightning II aircraft to contribute to the modernization of the Canadian Forces, while bringing significant economic benefits and opportunities to regi

OTTAWA -- From masturbating in a cruiser and surfing porn on the job to drunk driving and sexual assault, Mounties from all ranks have been busted for bad behaviour.

U.S. researchers say the outlawed drug Ecstasy can help victims of post-traumatic stress recover.

Annie Welsh, who as a toddler survived the Halifax Explosion and came to be known as Ashpan Annie, died recently at a Halifax seniors residence. She was 95.

MA'SUM GHAR, Afghanistan - With Canada set to begin its troop pullout from Afghanistan in a year, a number of veterans are allowing themselves to march down memory lane to reflect on the mission.

Will Power pulled himself out of the cockpit on victory lane, leaned over and kissed the front end of his Penske-Dallara.

An Okotoks, Alta., man was shot and killed during an armed standoff with police in the town south of Calgary on Saturday night.

The bodies of one man and two boys were pulled from the waters north of Twillingate, N.L., on Sunday after their boat was reported missing.

In one of the largest viral video ad campaign ever launched, Old Spice is swarming YouTube.

Courtney Purvin got a shock when she visited Facebook last month. The site was suggesting that she get back in touch with an old family friend who played piano at her wedding four years ago. The friend had died in April.

Justin Wilson makes a big impression.

The celebration begins with a hometown party for the release of the beloved graphic novel's final instalment

Christophe Riblon took the first Pyrenees stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, leading the field from the first few kilometres to a solo victory high in the mountains.

HELSINKI - A group of divers exploring a shipwreck in the Baltic Sea have found bottles containing what is thought to be the oldest drinkable champagne in the world, made in the late 18th century.

Canada's special forces command is creating a new quick-reaction task force to be led by a Petawawa-based officer and capable of responding to an international crisis.

Several residents in the Niton Junction area report seeing the man identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of a St. Albert couple as recently as last Tuesday.

Authorities believe that thick fog may have caused a float plane to crash in northern Quebec, killing four people and critically injuring two others.

James Cameron's futuristic vision in the "Terminator" series of predator robots flying the skies took another step towards becoming reality this week, when the British military unveiled a top-secret long-range unmanned drone.

Darian Durant hooked up with Andy Fantuz for a fourth-quarter touchdown as the Saskatchewan Roughriders remained the only unbeaten CFL team, with the Edmonton Eskimos still winless after more self-inflicted wounds.

More than 400 motorcyclists took to Canada's busiest highway Saturday to raise money for wounded soldiers.

The Ottawa River in the National Capital Region is at its lowest level in decades.

The Vatican newspaper reported Saturday that a new Caravaggio painting may have been found in Rome, but cautioned that further analyses are required before it can be attributed for certain to the Italian master.

BP's experimental cap was holding Saturday as the final hours ticked away in a two-day trial run to make sure it keeps oil from pouring into the Gulf of Mexico without blowing a new leak in the busted well.

The fate of a Canadian Forces captain charged in a battlefield murder in Afghanistan is now in the hands of a jury of his uniformed peers.

Mexican drug traffickers' first car-bomb attack against police has revealed a new level of cold-blooded planning that is forcing this border city and security forces to change the way they confront violence.

Charges against a 19-year-old Cambridge father have been upgraded to second-degree murder in the death of his four-month-old daughter.

The federal government's plan to change the Canadian census in 2011 will mean government and business won't have the information they need, a prominent Nova Scotia economist says.

Ten people were injured Friday night when the mechanical arm of a midway ride tore loose at the Calgary Stampede, flinging passengers into the ride's safety net.

TORONTO - Eco fees may be just the beginning. The Dalton McGuinty government has encouraged its ministries to pursue new fees to stay on budget and to pay for additional programs, according to a 2010-11 Results-Based Planning document obtained by QMI A

Bethesda defense giant Lockheed Martin said Friday that it secured a roughly $9 billion deal to sell the Canadian government 65 of its new fighter jets, a move that industry analysts called a positive sign for one of the company's biggest and most closely

Just as BP stopped oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, the company faces unwelcome attention from the U.S. Congress on another issue: whether it sought the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to help get a $900 million explo

A man and a woman suffered serious injuries when they received electric shocks after she tried pull him from his truck after it crashed into an electrical pole.

They arrived on Canada's doorstep with overnight bags, a birthday cake and plans to celebrate.

The BC Lottery Corporation's expanded online gambling website PlayNow.com crashed hours after its launch Thursday due to overwhelming popular demand, an official says.

A police chase through Smiths Falls, south east of Ottawa, had motorists stopping along the highway to scoop up thousands of contraband cigarettes scattered on the road.

A few weeks after one of its horses came down with an infectious virus, the problem has been solved and the Musical Ride is back on the road again.

Little Maddox and his family are preparing to leave for New York a second time for what doctors hope will be a life-changing surgery for the Edmonton toddler.

Having won a Grey Cup championship with the Montreal Alouettes has mellowed Davis Sanchez some.

Police have located the SUV belonging to 78-year-old Lyle McCann and his 77-year-old wife Marie, who vanished earlier this month.

Scientists have discovered a cave filled with 15-million-year-old fossils of prehistoric marsupials in the Outback, a rare find that has revealed some surprising similarities between the creatures and modern-day kangaroos and koalas.

The federal broadcast regulator says almost one million Canadian households aren't yet ready for the switch to digital TV signals that's set for Aug. 31, 2011.

After tens of thousands of years under the Siberian frost, a baby woolly mammoth is taking a summer vacation in southeast France.

A late-night fire at a hotel in northern Iraq has claimed the lives of 28 people and it is believed that a Canadian is among the dead.

The family of an eastern Ontario Mountie is in the Yukon to desperately search for their son who went missing when his police boat capsized earlier this week.

Ted Boutilier is torn about the profits his oyster business is earning in wake of the U.S. Gulf Coast oil spill.

Toronto Police say they have made two more arrests of individuals suspected of damaging police cruisers during last month's G20 Summit.

Indian Affairs Minister Chuck Strahl says there's little he can do to help an aboriginal lacrosse team at the centre of a passport dispute.

A sixth horse died Thursday at the Calgary Stampede, as a growing number of animal welfare advocates condemn the event for what they consider cruel practices.

BP said its capped-off well appeared to be holding steady Friday morning, almost midway into a tense waiting period in which engineers watched the pressure gauges for signs of a leak

The Alberta RCMP have named a person of interest in the case of an elderly Alberta couple who vanished during a road trip through the Rockies nearly two weeks ago

Darwin Alert! Dallas police are investigating the bizarre death of a man who they say asked a friend to shoot him so he could blame his injuries on his ex's new boyfriend and gain custody of his son.

One of Winnipeg�s most notorious convicted car thieves is back in custody after he allegedly stole a vehicle earlier this month. Gene Michael Soldat, who�s still serving a five-year sentence for auto theft offences but was wanted for a parole viola

Last month was the hottest June ever recorded on Earth, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday, amid global climate warming worries.

Scientists analysing data from Nasa's Messenger spacecraft say they have located some of Mercury's most recent volcanic activity. This indicates that rather than being a tiny, long-dead planet, as scientists had assumed, Mercury was volcanically active fo

Science has pursued its fascination with the Mona Lisa once again, this time by applying X-ray techniques to understand the shadowing in her face.

A newly-developed heat-ray gun that burns the skin but doesn't cause permanent injury is now with US troops in Afghanistan.

Every year, thousands of military members and civilians from around the world gather in the Netherlands to take part in a famous testament to true physical courage: the Nijmegen March or International Four Day March.

OTTAWA - It's definitely a dogfight. If the Liberals form government, they will shoot down - or at least ground - a Conservative contract for new fighter jets worth $16 billion.

CALGARY -- The Stampede is circling the wagons with the reported death of a sixth horse Thursday at the Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth.

NEW YORK - The decayed hull of a centuries old ship was unearthed at the World Trade Center construction site in New York city, providing a glimpse into the history of Manhattan

GUATEMALA CITY - Archeologists in Guatemala have discovered a Mayan king's tomb packed with a well-preserved hoard of carvings, ceramics and children's bones that cast fresh light on the vanished civilization.

People in Red Deer, Alta., want the city to move, rather than kill, beavers that have attacked at least six dogs in an off-leash park.

A large area of coastal waters off the south coast of British Columbia were officially named the Salish Sea by both First Nations and government leaders at a ceremony in Victoria on Thursday.

A nasal spray version of the flu vaccine has been approved for use in Canada, the vaccine maker says.

Officers handed out more than 100 tickets in Winnipeg to drivers as the cellphone ban took effect Thursday.

The federal transportation board is investigating after a hot air balloon was forced to make an emergency landing in west Ottawa when a hole was torn through the balloon's lower panels and part of the balloon caught fire.

Just one day after a U.S. company launched its anti-oilsands campaign against Alberta, it is admitting to an error.

A local woman admits her debit card has been compromised at least four times in a six-month period.

Police believe that the burnt body found on Vancouver Island on Monday could belong to a missing Duncan woman, and they are now investigating the case as a murder.

An Alberta senior is in remarkably good spirits despite spending almost two days at the bottom of a 200-foot B.C. embankment after losing control of her car.

A woman accused of killing a 12-year-old autistic boy in British Columbia believed her son was "the chosen one," and her daughters were an angel and the Virgin Mary, the eldest daughter testified at her trial.

The RCMP is facing harsh criticism over what some experts call a botched investigation in the disappearance of an elderly Alberta couple.

The St. Lawrence Seaway has reopened after an oil spill although authorities believe it will be two days before traffic along the waterway gets back to normal.

Members of an aboriginal lacrosse team at the centre of an international dispute have travelled for decades using the special Iroquois-issued passports that are now at issue, they said Thursday.