NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 02-2012

Some scientists at an international symposium in Vancouver warn most estimates for a rise in sea levels are too conservative and several B.C. communities will be vulnerable to flooding unless drastic action is taken.

Giant chunks of melting ice broke free on the Danube River, crashing hundreds of boats into each other, sweeping away several barges and sinking one of Belgrade's trademark floating nightclubs.

Russia needs to modernize its military arsenals to deter others from grabbing its resources, Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says in an article published Monday.

Trooper, the cat found frozen to a driveway on Newfoundland's west coast earlier this month, has been flown to P.E.I. for surgery at Charlottetown's Atlantic Veterinary College.

The Rideau Canal Skateway was closed on the final weekend of Winterlude, but the National Capital Commission said it's too early to say whether this year's skating season is over.

Saint John police have recovered Hermann the tortoise, which was stolen from Pets Unlimited on Feb. 1.

Police are looking for 42-year-old Michael Bearboy, a man serving time for manslaughter, after he escaped from the minimum-security institution where he is serving a seven-year sentence.

The Northwest Territories Power Corp. plans to bill the Department of National Defence and Joint Task Force North for repairs to a hydro transmission line brought down by a military helicopter.

A review of Veterans Affairs Canada's letters to former soldiers who have been denied disability benefits has revealed a pattern of providing information but no adequate explanation of how the decisions were made.

Maastricht University Professor Mark Post discussed his substitute meat, which would be grown from cow stem cells, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver on Sunday.

Two Thunder Bay-area New Democratic Party MPs have been punished for voting in favour of the abolition of the long-gun registry.

An Innu doctor from Quebec is about to undertake another leg of a 4,000-kilometre walk.

As millions watched the sequin-clad samba dancers at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Carnival parade Sunday, at least a few eyes turned toward the stars, or at least toward the VIP boxes hosting celebrities including Jennifer Lopez and Fergie.

A grieving widow was forced to pay her husband's car insurance after ICBC refused to acknowledge that he passed away.

Long considered a blight on Nova Scotia's shoreline, the area once known as the Sydney tar ponds may soon be able to bury its toxic reputation.

Residents of a blue-collar Paris suburb are irked that public money is being spent on a statue of France's controversial first lady as a way of honouring the community's Italian immigrants.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials plan to investigate whether inhalable caffeine sold in lipstick-sized canisters is safe for consumers and if its manufacturer was right to brand it as a dietary supplement.

Researchers at the University of British Columbia have developed a voice synthesizer that allows people to speak by simply moving their hands.

An avalanche near a popular ski resort in Washington state killed three people Sunday, and all those initially reported as missing have been accounted for, a resort official said.

South Korea on Monday conducted live-fire military drills from five islands near its disputed sea boundary with North Korea, despite Pyongyang's threat to attack.

Daniel and Henrik Sedin both had a goal and an assist as the Vancouver Canucks continued to be one of the hottest teams in the NHL with a dominating 5-2 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday.

HMCS Vancouver made a long-awaited call to its home port of Esquimalt, B.C., Sunday, to the delight of crew and their families.

One of the world's top climate scientists has calculated that emissions from Alberta's oilsands are unlikely to make a big difference to global warming and that the real threat to the planet comes from burning coal.

A seven-year-old girl from Langley is expected to make a full recovery after ingesting what police believe was the date-rape drug.

Track officials have cancelled plans to have pro golfer Bubba Watson drive the car from "The Dukes of Hazzard" because of concerns about a negative reaction to an image of the confederate flag.

Nearly 260 players participated in the 2011-12 NHLPA poll, which asked questions regarding skill categories, fighting, the instigator rule, favourite coaches, and which Canadian city next deserves a team.

The Vancouver Canucks look to extend its season-best point streak to 13 games Sunday night when they begin a road trip in Edmonton against the Oilers.

MONTREAL - A veteran British Columbia airport security screener has been charged and quietly convicted after being caught red-handed stealing a $100 bill from a passenger's bag at a security checkpoint.

There's little wiggle room to prolong the life of Canada's CF-18 jet fighters beyond 2020 and they may have to be flown gently if there are further delays in the F-35 program.

The head of the Royal Canadian Navy says Canada needs to bolster its military presence in the Arctic to prepare for a boom in human and economic activity resulting largely from climate change.

Authorities are now saying three people are dead and as many as eight are missing after an avalanche near a Washington state ski resort.

The Detroit Red Wings won their 23rd straight home game, setting an NHL multiple-season mark and holding on to beat the San Jose Sharks 3-2 Sunday.

People on Cape Breton Island were digging out Sunday after a major winter storm.

Hall of Famer passes away at 79

Iran halts oil sales to British and French companies, the nation's oil ministry says, ahead of a 1 July ban on Iranian oil imports imposed by the EU.

With their imposing armoured trucks and green camouflage, the troops from the south get the most attention as they train up here on the edge of the Arctic.

For the first time in Canada, female family doctors outnumber their male colleagues. Although women are still woefully underrepresented in many specialities, the demographics of Canadian medicine are changing.

A Toronto man loses a bid to have his losses at the casino and racetrack written off against his income tax bill.

The chairman of Canada's truth and reconciliation commission says removing more than 100,000 aboriginal children from their homes and placing them in residential schools was an act of genocide.

Alex Burrows and the Sedin twins combined for 10 points as the Vancouver Canucks dumped the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-2 on Saturday. Burrows scored two goals while Daniel Sedin had a goal and three assists and Henrik Sedin added four helpers.

A Mohawk woman buried in Quebec will become the first Native American saint at a ceremony in October.

Beneath an old car dealership at the corner of Front Street and Berkeley Street sits one of Ontario's most significant historic sites, yet many walk past unaware of the memories the location holds.

Lawyers representing survivors of the Costa Concordia cruise ship wreck are asking for a repeat of drug tests done on the ship's captain, which found traces of cocaine on the outside of a hair sample.

Canadian researchers train sea lions to participate in an experiment to find out why the species is dying out.

Victoria police are a little red-faced after the disappearance of some of their riot gear, including a shotgun, tear gas and rubber bullets.

A star's astonishing Great Eruption during the 19th century has been re-observed through echoes visible today.

A major oil refinery near in Washington near the U.S.-Canada border is on fire and the billowing black smoke is visible from Metro Vancouver.

The Canadian military has withdrawn an application to conduct supersonic flight training in Labrador.

The B.C. Coroner's Service has solved the 25-year-old disappearance of a Vancouver man and along with it, another floating-foot mystery.

New prescriptions will need approval through Ontario's Exceptional Access Program

For more than a year, Bahia Honda State Park biologist Jim Duquesnel traversed the nature sanctuary with two hopes. He wanted to see a Miami blue butterfly and rid the Florida Keys outpost of as many iguanas as he could.

There's no good spot on Cape Cod for dolphins to continue this winter's massive and unexplained beachings, but a group of 11 has chosen one of the worst.

The hard of hearing, mute man who was roughly ejected from a Red Deer, Alta., courthouse wants to see more action against the sheriff who used unjustified force to remove him and later lost his job.

A 4.7-magnitude earthquake shivered across northern Vancouver Island late Wednesday, the second to strike the region in two days.

The prisoners who died in the Honduran prison fire had been locked inside an overcrowded penitentiary where most inmates had never been charged, let alone convicted, according to an internal Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press.

Defiantly declaring a day of victory, a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear.

An 87-year-old East Preston man was stunned with a Taser twice on Wednesday after he lunged at officers with a knife, say RCMP.

First Nations leaders say a health crisis is about to be unleashed on northern Ontario reserves because thousands of residents addicted to OxyContin will soon be cut off from the prescription opiate.

Hey, Canada: Americans like us. They really, really like us. In fact, they like us better than anyone, anywhere on the planet.

There were arrests on the ground and the whiff of pepper spray in the air Thursday as hundreds of protesters took to the streets of Montreal against planned university tuition increases.

Hall of Fame catcher Gary Carter has died at the age of 57. The former Montreal Expos star was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour last May.

A U.S. man suffered a heart attack while eating a Triple Bypass Burger at The Heart Attack Grill on Saturday

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A family dog has killed a newborn baby boy in a community just north of Calgary. RCMP said the infant was attacked Wednesday morning inside the family's home in Airdrie.

The parents of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal received the rite, which was also sought for relatives of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. Critics note that Mormons agreed in 1995 to stop baptizing Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

CSIS and the RCMP classify some animal rights, environmental and aboriginal activists alongside terrorists that pose a threat to national security, reveal documents obtained by two Canadian academics.

Canada's immigration system is broken and is being taken advantage of by "bogus" refugee claimants from democratic, human rights-respecting countries, said Immigration Minister Jason Kenney Thursday as he announced a major overhaul to the system.

The discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United States is raising new fears that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S.

After a noisy awakening Wednesday morning, an Alberta man stumbled out of bed to find two massive transport-truck tires in his kitchen.

Normally deeply divided, many MPs from across all three main federal political parties are united in their opposition to proposed cuts to parliamentary spending that could significantly affect the way they do their jobs

Which is the best approach: forbidding kids from drinking entirely; or allow them to drink at home, in hopes they won't binge drink later?

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Armed militias are threatening the security of large parts of Libya, Amnesty International warns, saying at least 12 detainees were tortured to death.

North Korea marks the 70th birthday of late leader Kim Jong-il, also dubbed the "day of the shining star", with tributes and gatherings.

The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good.

The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 off the Oregon coast caused no reported damage and only a smattering of reports from people who felt it as a weak jolt.

More than 650 people have died during a record-breaking cold snap in Eastern Europe, authorities said Wednesday, as officials in the Czech Republic blamed two massive car crashes on blinding snow.

An animal rights group wants to set up a roadside memorial sign in western Manitoba for cows killed in a highway crash.

Swiss scientists plan to launch a janitor satellite specially designed to get rid of space junk, the orbiting debris that can seriously damage satellites and manned space ships.

Jannik Hansen scored with 6:29 remaining Wednesday as the Vancouver Canucks defeated the Colorado Avalanche 3-1. The Canucks have not lost to the Avalanche since Nov. 1, 2009, posting a 13-0-2 record in that 15-game span.

A fire started by an inmate tore through a severely overcrowded Honduran prison, burning and suffocating inmates in their locked cells and killing as many as 356 people in one of the world's deadliest prison fires in a century, authorities said Wednesday.

A Fredericton girl was bullied so badly at school that her mother hired a bodyguard to protect her.

A new home has been found for a Prince Albert, Sask., puppy that was abandoned and nearly froze to death last month before being rescued by three hockey players.

A species of chameleon small enough to easily perch on a match head has been discovered on a tiny island off Madagascar, a group of scientists has announced.

Scientists have detected a sudden and dramatic slowdown in the rotation of Earth's sister planet Venus.

"Think of something smaller than an [American] robin, but a little larger than a finch raising young in the Arctic tundra and then a few months later foraging for food in Africa for the winter," said one of the lead researchers, Prof Ryan Norris from the

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A long-awaited report that's expected to provide a road map to austerity for deficit-plagued Ontario will contain some controversial recommendations on health care, Finance Minister Dwight Duncan said Tuesday.

Justin Trudeau says sovereignty is less of a bogeyman than it once was as he defends himself against accusations he's sympathetic to the desire to leave Canada.

Canada may find itself paying a much heftier price for 65 F-35 warplanes thanks to a production slowdown in the U.S.

U.S. inability to cut illegal drug consumption leaves Guatemala with no option but to consider legalizing the use and transport of drugs, President Otto Perez said Monday, a remarkable turnaround for an ex-general elected on a platform of crushing organiz

Almost 100 soldiers will depart Canadian Forces Base Gagetown on Monday night for Afghanistan, the start of a wave of troops that will relieve the first rotation of military personnel who have been training the country's security forces since last summer.

An injured full-grown male cat was rescued on Newfoundland's west coast Saturday afternoon after spending more than 24 hours frozen to a driveway.

A fire at a drydocked Russian nuclear submarine in December could have sparked a radiation disaster because it was carrying nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles and other weapons, despite official statements to the contrary, a Russian news magazine reported

Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas posted a quote from former U.S. president Calvin Coolidge on his Facebook page Monday, the latest in a string of messages that have brought attention to him.

Leading atmospheric scientists are warning that Canada's cuts to its ozone monitoring program are already having effects on the world's ability to monitor air quality and ozone depletion.

A HIV-positive Vancouver man has been sentenced to 39 months in prison for sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy and distributing massive amounts of child pornography.

Ryan Kesler scored the shootout winner Monday as the Vancouver Canucks continued their bid for the Western Conference lead with a 2-1 win over the Phoenix Coyotes. David Booth scored the Canucks' regulation goal and again in the shootout as the team close

Xinhua district sweeps up iPads, requests out to 20 more cities from Shenzhen Proview Technology, which claims its owns iPad name in mainland China

From Yahoo! News: Slain Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden urged his children to go live peacefully in the West and get a university education, his brother-in-law said in an interview published Sunday.

Stephen Harper's senior bureaucrats have been racking up some hefty airfares at a time of government restraint and controversy over travel.

Researchers in Montreal are working on tests that they hope could one day spot people on the brink of burnout, long before their work drains them of the last of their energy. And all it would take is a few samples of saliva and blood.

A 16-year-old has been shot by police in northern Alberta after officers allege he attempted to flee when they were trying to stop a stolen vehicle.

Rescuers have pulled a child alive from the rubble of a house flattened by a massive avalanche that killed both her parents and at least seven of her relatives in a remote mountain village in southern Kosovo.

Riots engulfed central Athens and at least 10 buildings went up in flames in mass protests late Sunday as lawmakers prepared for a parliamentary vote on harsh austerity measures aimed at keeping the country solvent.

Many parts of Newfoundland and Labrador have been whipped with high winds and either rain or snow depending on local temperatures.

In an exclusive interview Saturday on CBC Radio's The House, the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, Lobsang Sangay, sounded the alarm on the tragedy unfolding in Tibet and called on Canada to take action.

More than 600 newcomers per day have arrived in Canada since 2006, and many of them have settled in neighbourhoods like Richmond, B.C. The once-quiet farming community on the south end of Vancouver is now home to North America?s second-largest Asian commu

The constant freeze-thaw cycle in Ottawa has left many sidewalks covered in layers of ice centimetres thick, while ironically making the Rideau Canal more difficult to skate on.

Jarome Iginla scored the shootout winner Saturday night as the Calgary Flames earned an important two points with a 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks.