NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 06-2015

A severe solar storm slammed Earth on Monday afternoon, increasing the chances of fluctuations in the power grid and GPS.

Canadian small business owners looking to save money on credit and debit card transactions say the company they signed with ripped them off, in some cases for thousands of dollars.

An intense heatwave sweeping across Pakistan's southern Sindh province has killed around 400 people, including women and children, in the capital Karachi, prompting the army to step in to help victims of the worst heatstroke that has hit the country in mo

U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jason Hamilton, of Bainbridge Island, will lead a crew of 150 on an unprecedented expedition to study the Arctic Ocean, the Associated Press writes.

Evidence of what could be the oldest family camping trip in North America has been discovered below the shoreline of a remote British Columbia island.

A Nanaimo, B.C., man was surprised to see a black bear taking a dip in his backyard pool this morning.

Opposition raises alarm about government exempting police boards from ombudsman oversight

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag should be removed from the grounds of the state capitol, reversing her position on the divisive symbol amid growing calls for it to be removed.

ISIS has officially spread its bloody rule into Europe after a major extremist group (pictured, leader) based in the Caucuses region of southern Russia declared its loyalty to the terror group.

A man who lived about 40,000 years ago in Eastern Europe boasts the most Neanderthal ancestry ever seen in a member of our species.

U.S. President Barack Obama's use of a racial epithet in an interview with Marc Maron of the WTF podcast has reignited the ongoing debate on the use of the N-word.

Const. Kwesi Millington, the RCMP officer who fired a Taser the night Robert Dziekanski died at Vancouver International Airport, has been sentenced for perjury and colluding with his fellow officers at an inquiry into the death.

An Ontario man convicted of killing his wife in 1970 has won his 45-year battle to clear his name.

Conservation officials in British Columbia are investigating a video that shows a man jumping on a moose and briefly riding the animal as it tried to cross a body of water.

TV host Judy Nir Mozes Shalom, who is married to Interior Minister Silvan Shalom, uploaded the offensive message on Sunday before quickly deleting it, insisting it was a joke. She wrote: 'Do u know what Obama Coffee is? Black and weak.'

A new report from the Canadian Environmental Law Association says a subcommittee tasks with tackling chemical pollution has made little progress

The number of terrorist attacks worldwide spiked by 81 percent in 2014, according to a new State Department report.

A pilot gets the fright of his life as a cat appears on the wing of his plane while hundreds of feet in the air

As many as 10,000 dogs, many of them stolen pets, are slaughtered for the festival.

Is it made by man or by Mother Nature? That's what many are wondering about a giant face that appears to be carved into a cliff on a remote island near Vancouver Island.

Apple plans to pay royalties to artists and record labels during a free, three-month trial of its new streaming music service.

A co-ordinated Taliban attack on the Afghan parliament in Kabul ends with all six gunmen killed, the interior ministry says.

Officials say Georgian men were trying to get into the country on foot with about 4 pounds of highly radioactive cesium. Cesium-137 is a highly radioactive substance that is a waste product from nuclear reactors. It is used for scientific purposes, but co

A shocking new video reveals how ISIS is locking young boys into a giant steel cage in Iraq and forcing them to fight each other as a maniacal ISIS commander 'yells encouragement'.

Canadian drivers who are pumped for holiday road trips should be prepared to pay more to fill up their tanks, as experts predict gas prices to rise over the summer.

Forget supporting Baghdad and training its army; we must provide massive assistance to our real allies who can win on the battlefield

Soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army have been deployed to defend its border against North Korean trespassers.

London police have identified one suspect in the shooting death of Jeremy Cook, the teenager who died trying to track down his lost cellphone.

It started when three men were shot, one fatally, by gunmen who jumped from a maroon van in the Chatham neighborhood late Thursday afternoon..

A British military stunt team member whose chute failed to open properly owes a big thank you to a teammate who grabbed his parachute and got them both to a safe landing.

The shocking footage shows the Golden Tours bus driver, who is in her thirties, screaming at the 27-year-old woman as they grapple on Stamford Street, on London's South Bank.

Iqbal Ali, from Oldham, Greater Manchester, forced four women to become his personal slaves - subjecting them to beatings and public humiliation if they disobeyed (file image).

They came in by the thousands: tiny little red crabs on Orange County beaches Sunday, covering a shoreline much further north than their typical home.

Two prolific offenders have been arrested in connection with a Surrey-based fraud operation that cost credit card companies almost $350,000

General Motors is adding more than 243,000 compact hatchbacks in the U.S. and Canada to the growing recall for air bags that can explode with too much force.

If the Department of Education was trying to showcase diversity, they couldn't have chosen a worse example. The Mulberry School is probably one of the least diverse schools in Britain.

A German man wreaked his revenge on his ex by cutting their TV, sofa and even their car in two.

Industry Minister James Moore will not be running again in the upcoming federal election, CBC News has learned.

American power will wane, and chaos will take its place.

More and more attention is being paid to the act of "texting while walking" lately as reports of injuries, embarrassments and even deaths related to mobile distraction rise.

Scientists go to great lengths to catch sturgeon in B.C.'s Fraser River in order to study them and help them recover.

Denmark's opposition beats the ruling coalition in the general election, with an anti-immigration party becoming the second largest in parliament.

For a young boy, there are few things more terrifying than losing your favorite stuffed animal. So when six year-old Owen Lake lost his toy tiger Hobbes in the Tampa, Fla. airport, he feared the worst. Little did he know Hobbes was about to embark on an a

British holidaymakers risk 'running the gauntlet' by driving through Calais and have been advised to lock their doors and windows if they travel in the French port town.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced the federal government will provide funding for up to one-third of the cost for Toronto's SmartTrack transit line.

An Alberta woman whose bizarre reaction during a traffic stop was caught on a dashcam video will not go to jail despite convictions of assaulting a peace officer and resisting arrest.

A Vancouver-area mother and blogger is outraged that a biomedical company used a family photo of her daughter to advertise prenatal tests for Down syndrome without her permission.

VIENNA -- An Austrian construction worker knew he had struck metal with the shovel of his excavator. But it took police to determine what he had unearthed -- nearly 400 live World War II grenades.

A 20-year-old Daytona Beach woman drove her car into the Halifax River and falsely claimed that her children were inside on Tuesday morning, police say.

In anonymous email, activists with a group known as Animal Liberation Front say they planted two incendiary devices under the vehicles

Environmental group says an internal review found lapses in how it dealt with crimes against women and gender sensitivity in the workplace

When a temp agency worker loses their job, who takes responsibility? Often, activists say, the answer is nobody.

Senator Don Meredith is no longer with the Conservative caucus, CBC News has confirmed, after an Ottawa teenager alleged she had an inappropriate sexual relationship with him that began when she was 16.

Pope calls for revolutionized economy and environment 'to recover the values and the great goals swept away by our unrestrained delusions of grandeur'

Police in Timmins, Ont., say a man who broke into a Canadian Tire early Wednesday morning is not in the store and is still at large. Police are advising people to take precautions as officers believe firearms were the target of the break-in.

Danny Valencia hit a three-run homer and Kevin Pillar had a solo shot as the Toronto Blue Jays kicked off a five-game homestand Wednesday night by dumping the New York Mets 8-0.

Three years after she moved to Canada following the murder of her father, 19-year-old girl from Afghanistan graduated from high school over the weekend and started making plans for university.

Light armoured vehicles that carried Canadians troops through wartorn Afghanistan are being turned into monuments. The LAV III, which was first introduced in 1999, served as an eight-wheeled, armour-plated military workhorse for Canadian soldiers during t

Human water use is sucking dry around a third of the world's largest underground water basins at an alarming rate, with potentially risky consequences for farmers and other consumers, researchers say.

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Serbia's prime minister says he is

Denial-of-service attack on gc.ca domain server, minister Tony Clement says

The Toronto District School Board revealed Tuesday it will deploy staff to help input grades and get report cards out.

The bill is controversial for both its content, which includes raising the age of marriage to 16 and making it possible to deport polygamists, and its name

Travel records show Jim Love, whose term ended last year, took a boat trip to the Great Barrier Reef and had dinner at a crocodile farm at public expense, among other things.

Dechinta, Blachford Lake's land-based aboriginal learning centre, is graduating its spring semester cohort in N'dilo today. The unique program mixes academic lectures with traditional aboriginal practices, including fish drying and moosehide tanning.

Members of the Druze sect in Israel and the occupied Golan Heights are terrified for the fates of the family members, located just a few miles away in Syria, as Assad's army defeats leave the community exposed to attacks from both al-Qaeda and Islamic Sta

At 2359 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) on June 30, the world will experience a minute that will last 61 seconds.

For the second consecutive year, the Quaqtaq Uumajulirijiit - or local hunters and trappers association - will not harvest a bowhead whale, saying it doesn't have the money or the time to prepare.

Muslims around the world will mark the start of Ramadan on Thursday, a month of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting and nightly feasts.

Police in Timmins, Ont., say an armed person is believed to be inside a Canadian Tire store in the city.

A funeral procession for slain Edmonton police Const. Daniel Woodall is underway, with thousands lining the streets to honour Woodall, who was shot and killed while trying to serve an arrest warrant last week.

A crossword-loving British lawyer hid a marriage proposal in The Times newspaper's daily puzzle. Matthew Dick thought of the cryptic way of popping the question to girlfriend Delyth Hughes and persuaded the newspaper to agree.

When a fisherman hauled up his lobster trap in the Bay of Fundy earlier this week, he had two significant finds.

A tiger that broke loose after severe flooding at the Tbilisi Zoo in the country of Georgia mauled a man to death Wednesday before being shot by police.

Ancient hunting and trapping trails in Old Crow, Yukon are currently being traced using GPS technologies, with an ultimate goal of creating a map and detailed atlas.

Searchers say the bodies of all three fishermen who failed to return home Tuesday have been recovered from Newfoundland's Placentia Bay.

An officer went out on a limb to catch a black bear on the loose in North Battleford, Sask. Wednesday morning.

No one was more pleased by the Food and Drug Administration's decision Tuesday to eliminate artificial trans fats from the U.S. food supply than Fred Kummerow, a 100-year-old University of Illinois professor who has warned about the dangers of the artery-

A bid to colour Vancouver's Burrard Bridge into the biggest pride rainbow in the world has gathered hundreds of supporters.

Many Canadian cities stop short of testing drinking water for all possible harmful contaminants, and experts say the long-term consequences could be detrimental to people's health, a CBC News investigation has found.

A toxic algae bloom in the Pacific Ocean stretching from California north to B.C. might be the largest ever detected off the West Coast, according to scientists in California.

France's ecology minister wants her people to end their addiction to Nutella, saying the popular cocoa and hazelnut spread is destroying the planet.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is at Pluto's doorstep, following an incredible journey of nine years and 4.8 billion kilometres.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes removing the eastern cougar from the endangered species list.

Sexual harassment is still an issue in the Canadian Forces because people are "biologically wired in a certain way," Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Tom Lawson said Tuesday, before issuing an apology for his "awkward" comment.

Surrey RCMP have handed more than $13,000 in fines to the owner of a motorcycle that was famously caught on surveillance video riding down an escalator in a bid to elude police.

A cougar in Vancouver was shot and killed after mauling two small animals. Conservation officers are now warning locals that its sibling could also be in the area.

The honesty of a homeless man who turned in more than $2,000 he found on a suburban Victoria street could pay off for the unidentified Good Samaritan.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau presents part of the vision for what a future Liberal government would look like, including replacing the first-past-the-post voting system and ensuring gender parity in government appointments.

Migrants have massed close to Italy's border with France demanding they be allowed to move into northern Europe after being blocked by the French from entering the country.

Tom Mulcair made his pitch to Bay Street Tuesday, telling the Economic Club of Canada that, if elected to form the next federal government, NDP policies would be good for Canadian small businesses.

On social media and red carpets, from New York to China, hairy underarms are having a mainstream moment.

An 18-year-old man has been shot and killed after he tracked down his lost cellphone in London, Ont.

Policies that give more money to the wealthy in the hopes that it will spread through the economy don't work and hurt the overall economy more in the long run than giving that same money to the poor would have done.

Patiently waiting for just the right weather conditions paid off for a Labrador high-school student, who happened to capture the stunning sight of an iceberg falling to pieces.

Canadians already find themselves confused about carry-on luggage size limits, which vary between airlines. Now, a new international campaign to standardize carry-on size appears to have created more confusion.

Gap plans to close 175 of its namesake stores, including an unknown number in Canada, as the company tries to strengthen the struggling brand.

The shooting death of an 18-year-old man trying to retrieve his lost smartphone has prompted a manhunt in London, Ont., for three young men who were at the scene.

The Chicago Blackhawks are the Stanley Cup champions for the third time in six years after defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-0 in Game 6 on Monday in Chicago.

Federal Justice Minister Peter MacKay plans to introduce legislation Tuesday morning aimed at creating tougher penalties for drunk drivers who kill people, CBC News has learned.