NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 04-2014

A two-and-a-half-year-old boy was caught in a pepper spray attack in a Surrey park Monday, when his father was assaulted in an apparent act of road rage from a passing car.

Several CSX tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire along the James River in downtown Lynchburg, Va., leading to the evacuation of nearby buildings, but no injuries, city officials said.

Hani, one of two Siberian tigers brought from South Korea in 2012, was found dead this morning by her keepers at Greater Vancouver Zoo.

Al Feldstein, whose 28 years at the helm of Mad transformed the satirical magazine into a pop culture institution, has died. He was 88.

His might be the most unfortunate name ever for an accused flasher.

A "chance meeting" between two men on Toronto's Danforth Avenue last month ended in them fatally gunning each other down, police said today.

The sandwich chain said 'following a strong demand from our Muslim customers' 185 stores in the UK and Ireland are now halal-only.

Students at North Dundas High School in Winchester, Ont., suspected of drinking will have to take a breathalyzer test before entering prom because of the school board's zero-tolerance policy on alcohol consumption.

The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus has infected 345 people in the conservative Islamic kingdom since it was identified two years ago, causing fever, pneumonia and kidney failure in some, and killing around a third of sufferers.

The top one per cent of income earners have taken a disproportionate share of overall income growth over the last 30 years, in Canada and in most OECD countries, according to a study by OECD economists.

About a quarter of Canadian university graduates are functionally illiterate, according to recent data.

A botched execution using a disputed new drug combination left an Oklahoma inmate writhing and clenching his teeth on the gurney on Tuesday, leading prison officials to halt the proceedings before the inmate's eventual death from a heart attack.

British actor Bob Hoskins, who rose to fame for his performance in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and dozens of others, has died after a bout of pneumonia at the age of 71.

Canadian and American authorities are concerned about Alberta Mennonites bringing Mexican cartel drugs into Canada. Cocaine worth millions of dollars has crossed over the border and violence associated with the criminal activity is likely to ramp up, acco

Can bigger golf holes bring bigger crowds out to play? At least one B.C. golf course hopes so.

A 2,000 km journey and some "truthful and honest people" have allowed a Thunder Bay man to track down a treasured ring he got from his girlfriend and thought he had lost forever.

The Italian appeals court that reinstated the conviction against Amanda Knox in her British roommate's 2007 murder said in a lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that Knox herself delivered the fatal blow out of a desire to "overpower and humiliate" the

The 51-year-old American musician arrested at Dubai airport and sentenced to one month in prison

More than a third of Conservative Party members are considering voting for Ukip at the upcoming European elections.

A Canadian organization that provided humanitarian aid to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza has been formally branded a terrorist group before the start of a court battle over the revocation of its charitable status.

Activists on Parliament Hill today are hoping to ensure deadly fighting machines that pick their own targets are never allowed to roam future battlefields.

Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been suspended indefinitely and fined $5 million US by the NBA for purportedly making racist comments during a recorded conversation with a female companion, TMZ and NBCNews report. Watch the announcement liv

Getting rude and snobby service at a high-end retailer doesn't make you boycott the store, and in fact compels you to come back in the future, new research out of the University of British Columbia suggests.

A host of fresh faces will soon be joining original Star Wars stalwarts Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher in a galaxy far, far away.

A remote fly-in fishing resort in the Sioux Lookout area has donated a fishing trip to two visually-impaired Vietnam War veterans.

The gap between the earnings of a college or university degree graduate and what someone with a high school diploma makes is narrowing, new research from Statistics Canada shows.

A recent landmark court case sought to protect Canada from the fear-mongering tactics commonly used in the U.S. by film and music copyright holders. But a proposed law may render that attempt moot.

Severe weather threatens as many as 73 million Americans, after two days of powerful storms and tornadoes killed up to 28 people.

Parks Canada wants to install wireless Internet access hotspots at up to 50 of its parks this year, and it expects to triple that number soon afterward.

Police swarm a FedEx centre where a shooter opened fire Tuesday morning, injuring at least six people before killing himself.

In an unusually blunt public warning, a vice-president of the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday called the delayed preparations for the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro "the worst I have experienced."

The wife of a Royal Canadian Navy officer accused of leaving his post during a military operation is speaking out ahead of his court martial, and says her husband left his ship because of an intolerable atmosphere of harassment on board.

A few weeks after David Letterman announced he'd be retiring from the CBS late-night television lineup, Craig Ferguson did the same.

A Winnipeg woman who bought a $1-million house that turned out to be infested with mice is suing the former owner and the real estate agent who listed it, CBC News has learned.

Some Canadian university and college students are paying their way through school with the help of a website featuring "sugar daddies" willing to help pay their bills and loans in exchange for dates.

Harvard professor Robert Stavins (pictured) electrified the worldwide debate on climate change by publishing a letter in which he spelled out the interference.

Mohamed Hersi is on trial for allegedly trying to join a terror group. He insists he has an 'anti-Al Shabab mindset,' but he's been portrayed as a would-be jihadist

Just how many individuals on death row are incorrectly convicted? The question has dogged attorneys and civil rights advocates for years, but a simple answer is almost impossible because few wrongful cases are ever overturned. A new analysis is adding a l

Microsoft is making group video calls on Skype free.

Several First Nations leaders say they will target the Canadian economy if the Harper government doesn't scrap proposed legislation for aboriginal education.

A candidate in the European elections was arrested on suspicion of racial harrassment after quoting a passage about Islam, written by Winston Churchill, during a campaign speech.

Suheil Ahmed was struck off the medical register by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service at a hearing in Manchester. He admitted 12 sex offences at Exeter Crown Court and was jailed for 30 months last year.

TORONTO - An anti-immigration flyer has angered Ontario's premier and prompted calls for charges, but a legal expert is suggesting a successful prosecution faces an uphill climb.

A dead blue whale that is slowly rotting on the beach of the western Newfoundland community of Trout River has the community scrambling to find a way to get rid of it before it explodes.

The suspension of the federal foreign workers program is leaving some Calgary restaurants struggling with a labour shortage.

A woman who survived a six-hour swim in the Strait of Georgia was the sole survivor of a boating accident on Saturday evening off Texada Island, near B.C.'s Sunshine Coast.

The federal government's controversial proposed overhaul of election laws illustrates the ruthless, vindictive and hyper-partisan side of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's character, a former chief of staff says.

Hollywood leading man George Clooney, who has said he was not suited for marriage, is engaged to British lawyer Amal Alamuddin, according to media reports on Saturday.

Microsoft Corp is rushing to fix a bug in its widely used Internet Explorer web browser after a computer security firm disclosed the flaw over the weekend, saying hackers have already exploited it in attacks on some U.S. companies.

Critics are urging the Ontario government to tighten the rules for name changes to prevent people with criminal records from hiding their pasts.

The Los Angeles Clippers made a silent protest on Sunday of owner Donald Sterling's purported comments urging a woman to not bring black people to his team's games.

Canadians at risk of joining foreign terrorist groups in Syria and elsewhere are being tracked under a program led by the RCMP, a counter-terrorism officer said

National Defence is once again taking a look at establishing an around-the-clock 30-minute response time for Canada's search-and-rescue squadrons, an idea the air force has long dismissed as too costly and manpower-intensive.

A suspension of the federal government's temporary foreign workers program for the restaurant industry sends a clear message to employers that they must 'redouble' their efforts to hire Canadians first, according to Employment Minister Jason Kenney.

Cpl. Jamie MacWhirter has been through the nightmares and angry outbursts of post-traumatic stress disorder, and he has a message for those struggling alone: Talk to somebody.

Police are searching for two suspects after a pair of puppies was stolen from a home in an Internet sale gone wrong.

After a three-year effort, the Canada Revenue Agency has failed to produce a new national strategy to combat the underground economy -- despite repeated requests to do so from cash-starved provinces.

From smoked chorizo to flavoured goat cheese, delicatessen-inspired pizza toppings have become a standard menu item at many pizza joints. But one Vancouver-area pizzeria has possibly topped all of them, with a $450 gourmet pie.

Egypt's state news agency says authorities have detected the first case of a SARS-like virus in the country.

Pope Francis declared his two predecessors John XXIII and John Paul II saints on Sunday before hundreds of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square, an unprecedented ceremony made even more historic by the presence of retired Pope Benedict XVI.

In the U.S. police officers have intercepted batches of the highly addictive drug, that was bound for New York after being produced in Kim Jong-un's Communist state.

42-year-old Felicia Smith is free on a $30,000 bond after she gave 15-year-old Douglas Banos a lap dance for his birthday.

A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari E.T. The Extraterrestrial game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.

North Vancouver police were shocked to find a man and woman heavily intoxicated in a car Thursday morning - with the woman's three-year-old son in the backseat.

An alleged pyramid scheme involving ads for voice over internet phone services that may have defrauded Brazilians and Americans out of more than a billion dollars has surfaced in B.C. after U.S. regulators shut down the firm's American headquarters.

Parents will no longer have to leave their children cordoned-off beer gardens in order to enjoy a drink at some festivals and events in B.C.

Firefighters are still on the scene in Gibbons, Alta. where a fire tore through a grain processing plant Friday night.

Most homeless people in Alberta live in Calgary or Edmonton, but a growing number can now be found in rural areas.

A weaker currency may help boost exports, but it means domestic prices, like what you pay at the pumps, will rise

Attorney General Eric Holder canceled a speech to a graduating class of police cadets in Oklahoma City on Thursday, after crowds of Oklahomans flocked to the ceremony to protest his appearance.

The federal treasury has reported its biggest monthly surplus since the recession, suggesting that Ottawa will handily beat the current fiscal year's deficit projection the government released in last month's budget.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces have captured new underwater footage of the Breadalbane, a merchant ship that sank in the Barrow Strait in the High Arctic in 1853.

Two men and two youths have been charged in connection with alleged multiple sexual assaults on a four-year-old girl over several years, Toronto police say.

RCMP have arrested two people as part of the police investigation into the death of homeless man Harley Lawrence in Berwick, N.S., in October.

Parliament cannot go it alone when it comes to substantial Senate reform, the Supreme Court of Canada says in a unanimous decision released today.

Employment Minister Jason Kenny has announced an immediate moratorium on the fast-food industry's access to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

A Saskatoon man covered a piece of public art with a tarp, calling the compressed recycling bales "unsightly" and offensive to the neighbourhood.

At least 40 U.S. veterans died waiting for appointments at the Phoenix Veterans Affairs Health Care system, many of whom were placed on a secret waiting list.

After the federal government paid nearly $2 million to destroy homes on a condemned Manitoba First Nations reserve slated for demolition, dozens of buildings were moved off the land and sold, CTV News has learned.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper called Ukrainian counterpart Arseniy Yatsenyuk on Thursday to discuss the latest developments in the region. Harper's office said the two leaders condemned Russia's illegal occupation of Crimea and its continuing military pro

Wranglers in the West who have for decades cashed in on the allure of getting on a horse and setting out on an open trail say they have had to add bigger horses to their stables to help carry larger tourists over the rugged terrain.

A Whitehorse family got a little wild surprise this week when it turned out the abandoned puppy they rescued wasn't a puppy at all but most likely a fox.

The CEO of McDonald's Canada branded recent criticism of its use of temporary foreign workers 'bullshit' in a conference call to franchisees, according to a recording of the call given to the CBC.

The documentary is not even seven minutes long, but it has over the last few weeks suddenly become a flash point in one of the most highly charged issues at the museum: how it should talk about Islam and Muslims.

A 49-year-old man stopped for driving 181 km/h in his Ferrari, with a child in the car, has been fined $483 for excessive speeding and his vehicle impounded for seven days.

There's evidence that the government's Temporary Foreign Worker Program nudges the unemployment rate higher in some sectors of the economy and parts of the country, think-tank C.D. Howe says in a report.

Tape measures confirm that a Douglas fir tree on Vancouver Island is officially the second-largest in Canada.

'The idiot in Brussels' and his like may keep their jobs for now, but trust is evaporating fast

Broken water pumps at CFS Alert triggered an 11,000-kilometre house call this winter by an elite squad of navy divers from Halifax.

Abdilahi Yusuf Abdi, who lives in Santa Clara, said he was shocked when Hawaiian authorities called him on Sunday to reveal they had found his son, Yahya Abdi.

A video of the Detroit Red Wings' Jordin Tootoo making a kid's day has gone viral.

Drivers looking for a good reason for major gasoline price jumps across Canada overnight will be left lacking, as the usual seasonal influences don't add up to those types of increases.

An investigation into misleading and nuisance robocalls made to voters across Canada didn't find an intention to prevent them from casting ballots, so no one will be charged, Elections Canada says.

The police constable charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim aboard a streetcar last summer has returned to work with the Toronto Police Service, despite an ongoing inquiry into the case against him.

The IRS has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes, a government investigator said on Tuesday

VANCOUVER, April 23 - The Canadian unit of McDonald's Corp has suspended all of its applications under the country's temporary foreign worker program as it undergoes a third party audit on its use.

The British Columbia Health Ministry has admitted that the remains of babies destroyed by abortion in B.C. facilities are ending up in a waste-to-power facility in the United States, providing electricity for residents of Oregon.

A Canadian man and his British girlfriend have posted video of themselves being robbed at gunpoint in Guatemala as a warning to others touring the area.

After nearly two decades, an Ontario court has dismissed two lawsuits involving investors who lost millions of dollars in the Bre-X Minerals scandal back in the 1990s.

A degenerative eye disease slowly robbed Roger Pontz of his vision.

America chose al-Qaeda over Muammar Gaddafi and ignored his offer to abdicate amid civil war, says the Citizens Commission on Benghazi, a group of former top military brass and CIA insiders.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison hit back after the regional representative for U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said that Australia's policy of sending asylum seekers to third countries for lengthy detention might violate its treaty obligations.

A man with the word 'MURDER' prominently tattooed on his neck has been accused of killing a man - and now he wants the inking removed before his trial.

The city of Hamilton is putting food allergy auto-injectors into two local food courts this summer as part of a pilot project that could eventually see them placed in every food court and restaurant in the city.

High-risk holiday activities can end up being the furthest thing from a cheap thrill, especially when insurers dismiss a claim following a costly injury.

Google Street View now gives you the option to see what neighborhoods and landmarks looked like at different times in the past.

The son of a 49-year-old woman who died after she was found in her Orleans home with her throat slashed will face a first-degree murder charge, CBC News has learned.