NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2014

National Defence was warned a year before the devastating fire aboard HMCS Protecteur that the electrical system, main engine controls and navigation system aboard both of the navy's supply ships were on their last legs and prone to catastrophic failure.

Smoke followed by thunderclouds brought nightfall early to Yellowknife Wednesday. People took to social media to post photos of the skies described as everything from "eerie" to "the apocalypse."

B.C. pot advocate Marc Emery spoke to CBC News in his first interview since being transferred from a U.S. federal prison to a private deportation facility in Louisiana.

When FBI agents and police officers fanned out across the U.S. last month in a weeklong effort to rescue child sex trafficking victims, they pulled minors as young as 11 from hotel rooms, truck stops and homes.

A 17-year-old girl says she was raped at a Keith Urban concert at the Xfinity Center in Mansfield. Boston News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and Boston's Best

The Big Bang Theory contract talks have officially delayed production on the CBS hit comedy. Stars Jim Parsons, Johnny Galecki, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg and Kunal Nayyar have not yet reached a new deal with studio Warner Bros.

A Canadian doctor has put himself in quarantine as a precaution after spending weeks in West Africa treating patients with the deadly Ebola virus alongside an American doctor who is now infected, local media said Tuesday.

Israeli Colonel Tomer was literally tipped off to the tunnel snaking under a Palestinian village when the tank-churned earth gave way to the weight of one of his behemoth bulldozers' treads.

Germany and Russia have been working on a secret plan to broker a peaceful solution to end international tensions over the Ukraine.

The Australian federal police have issued warrants of arrest for two Aussie jihadists accused of fighting with the Islamic States. The two, Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, were also behind the posting of a viral photo in Twitter showing Elomar holding

It was a hundred years ago Friday when Europe's crumbling empires let loose "the guns of August" and plunged the globe into the First World War. As Brian Stewart writes, that reckless dance into the abyss set the stage for our times.

A devoted deep-sea octopus mom has broken a record for parental self-sacrifice after spending 4.5 years with her arms wrapped around her eggs until they hatched.

Al-Qaeda is increasingly funding terror operations thanks to at least $125 million in ransom paid since 2008, largely by European governments to free western hostages, the New York Times reported.

The United States plans to sell 5,000 Hellfire missiles to Iraq in a $700 million deal, officials said Tuesday, as Washington tries to help Baghdad retake ground captured by Sunni militants.

The annual Faroese whale hunt is easy to dislike. The organisation that is working hardest to stop it is no Prince Charming either

Argentina will hold further debt talks with "holdout" investors in New York on Wednesday, a government source said, as talks to avoid a second default in little over a decade went down to the wire.

The family of a Langley, B.C., man killed last year in a hit-and-run incident is angry, after a final report on the case cleared the civilian RCMP contractor who hit him.

In what should be a time of happiness when Muslims mark the end of Ramadan, Islamist militants in Iraq celebrated Eid by releasing a video showing scenes of them carrying out genocide.

Dating website OKCupid reveals that it experimented on its users, including putting the "wrong" people together to see if they would connect.

Kyle wrote in American Sniper that he decked a man whom he later identified as Ventura after the man allegedly said the Navy SEALs 'deserve to lose a few.'

An Australian airline apologized on Wednesday for a warning a flight attendant gave passengers who might have been flying high that there were drug-sniffer dogs awaiting them at Sydney airport.

RCMP say at least 17 people, mostly youths, went on a rampage in the arena on the Montreal Lake First Nation, causing considerable damage.

Police say a beaver is to blame for felling a tree that collapsed onto a car driven by Quebec tourists in Prince Edward Island on Saturday.

The last surviving member of the U.S. crew that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, hastening the end of the Second World War and moving the world into the atomic age, has died.

Retired lieutenant-general Charles Bouchard, former commander of the NATO-led mission in Libya, told CBC News he had hoped more would have been done to support the Libyan people in their transition toward democracy and stability once the military interven

Jared Bear, the 11-year-old boy who died following a crash involving a suspected drunk driver, pushed another boy out of harm's way but could not move his own bicycle out of danger, his mother tells CBC News.

In a little over a year, there have been at least three other reported cases of mutilated bears in northwestern Ontario.

The Canadian military is looking for an air defence system to protect its VIP aircraft, including the one used by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, from surface-to-air missiles. The downing of Malaysian Airlines jet MH-17 may have given defence officials mor

Today, the president's Council of Economic Advisors (CEA) released a report that describes the costs that would ensue if the world fails to get its greenhouse gas emissions under control. The report doesn't break new ground, but it neatly summarizes the c

The Brooklyn Bridge caper is nearly a week old, yet it's still a whodunit despite the New York Police Department invoking every digital age investigative technique in the book to crack what appears to be a low-tech prank that included kitchen cookware to

Canadians Catharine Pendrel and Emily Batty won the gold and silver medals, respectively, in the women's mountain bike event Tuesday at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

A Chinese corruption probe into state-run China National Petroleum Corp. has reached into Canada and is threatening its purchase here of the Dover oilsands.

The vast majority of First Nations chiefs and band councils have yet to post online their financial statements, including the salaries and expenses of their chiefs and councillors, under new transparency rules passed by the federal government last year.

People trying to hack others' Facebook accounts ended up being hacked themselves, thanks to a new scam.

When the outcome is as terrible as this, it seems almost unfair to the dead to begin their story not with their demise, but at the beginning. Especially when the beginning involves something as trivial as a Facebook post.

A monument dedicated to eight Royal Canadian Navy ships that served in the Korean War was unveiled in Burlington, Ont., Monday, to mark the 61st anniversary of the armistice to end the war.

Mount Edith Cavell and several other peaks have been removed from the Bank of Canada's description of the new $10 banknotes and replaced with some other peaks.

Environment Canada has confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down in Grand Bend, Ont., on Sunday between 7 and 8 p.m., after area residents reported downed trees and hydro poles.

A group of Canadian military and ex-military members put their life-saving skills to good use on Sunday when they saved a woman from a burning vehicle in central Newfoundland.

Alberta's Stoney Nakoda First Nation says it has signed a "huge" deal with a Chinese petrochemical company to develop oil and gas on its land.

Tinnitus is a chronic ringing in the ears that can be debilitating. Now, an implant that stimulates a nerve in the neck could eliminate the sounds for good

Morgan Wienberg, a slight 22-year-old from Canada, was only 18 when she joined the wave of volunteers who flew to Haiti to help out after the catastrophic earthquake in 2010. Wienberg was living in Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon, Canada's westernmost te

Officials at some Denver homeless shelters say the legalization of marijuana has contributed to an increase in the number of younger people living on the city's streets.

A street performer dressed as Spider-Man in New York City's Times Square was arrested after punching a police officer who scolded him for demanding more money from a couple he had posed with for a picture, police said on Sunday.

Natural Gas Minister Rich Coleman has said B.C. could need temporary foreign workers to fill some of the 100,000 jobs that would be created if several B.C. LNG facilities materialize.

Two people have been killed in a small plane crash near Nanaimo on Vancouver Island.

A six-year-old girl who was hit by a car that crashed through the front of a Costco store in London, Ont., has died, police said Sunday.

Two carjackers who fled after ramming a stolen SUV into a family selling fruit for their church, killing three young siblings, were still on the run Saturday as the reward for their capture topped $100,000 US.

Unusually for an exoneration like this, the man wasn't pushing to clear his name.

In recent weeks there have been a string of unusual encounters between humans and bears in British Columbia - what should you do if you see a black bear?

A violent mob of more than a dozen men in France assaulted a Jew at his home in a Paris suburb after confirming that his photograph had been published by a French Facebook page identifying Jews to be targeted for physical intimidation

Montreal police are looking for a woman who shocked commuters by plucking and eating a raw bird on a moving subway train.

Canadian nuclear firm Candu has signed a deal with a Chinese company to build two nuclear reactors in Romania.

A Gatineau resident believes his wife and children were on Air Algerie Flight AH5017 that is presumed to have crashed over northern Mali.

A 62-year-old man from Dawson Creek, B.C., who survived a stroke in his washroom by drinking toilet water for seven days, is hoping his story will help others avoid a similar situation.

A new study finds more than 75 percent of recent water loss from the Colorado River Basin came from underground sources, with grave implications for the West's water supply.

B.C. Corrections is changing how prisoners are video-monitored after an inmate filed a sexual discrimination complaint alleging female staffers were able to view him naked in showers and dressing rooms.

Some 10,000 protest at the Gaza conflict and clash with soldiers and border police at a checkpoint between Ramallah and Jerusalem.

Scout leader Jim Fox says guards on the Canada to Alaska crossing threatened one boy with arrest and ten years in jail, before pointing a loaded gun at another child's head.

The longer individuals were exposed to socialism, the more likely they were to cheat on our task, according to a new study,

In Venezuela's Maiquetia Airport, every breath will cost you.

Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman sentenced to death for apostasy but subsequently pardoned, has arrived in Italy.

An insect with huge horn-like jaws and a wingspan similar to a sparrow's has been reported by Chinese state media as the largest aquatic insect in the world. A similar creature that's almost as big lives in Quebec.

The Canada Revenue Agency has launched a political-activities audit of Pen Canada, a small charity promoting freedom of expression that has criticized the Harper government in the past.

Jim Galloway mowed through treacherous Arctic weather to take supplies to the Allies during the Second World War. And on Wednesday, at his 90th birthday party, he finally got a medal for it.

The al-Qaeda-Inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has ordered all girls and women between the ages of 11 and 46 in and around Iraq's northern city of Mosul to undergo female genital mutilation, the United Nations said on Thursday.

The broadcast regulator is going to look into why some telecom and cable companies charge customers who want to receive paper bills instead of electronic ones.

A model drone has helped locate an elderly man in Wisconsin who had been missing for three days.

Victoria's Kirsten Sweetland has won Canada's first medal of the Commonwealth Games, capturing a silver in the women's triathlon today at Glasgow's Strathclyde Country Park.

A Ukrainian journalist working as a fixer for the U.S. news network CNN was abducted by pro-Russia separatists in Eastern Ukraine two days ago, CNN reports.

Dogs are a man's best friend, and new research says canines want to keep it that way. The study shows that dogs are capable of feeling jealousy.

The RCMP is getting far less than its asking price after the online auction of a controversial plane ordered by former commissioner Giuliano Zaccardelli. The luxury turboprop was listed on the government of Canada's surplus website last spring at $2.5 mil

An Air Algerie passenger plane has crashed with 116 people, including five Canadians, on board after losing radio contact on its route from Burkina Faso to Algiers in northern Africa.

Auguste Majkowski, 3, was born deaf, but after auditory brain stem implant surgery in California, the Montreal boy is now reacting to some sounds.

A pre-season friendly was ended prematurely when a group of pro-Palestinian protesters invaded the pitch and scuffled with Maccabi Haifa players

What should have been a straightforward ferry trip on Marine Atlantic became a stressful experience for Canadian war veterans who were travelling with a service dog.

A fox was found sleeping on an Ottawa city bus, and a photograph of the napping animal is making a big splash online.

New research from the Heiltsuk First Nation points to a sort of "bear highway" through the Great Bear Rainforest on B.C.'s Central Coast.

Heavy rain has begun to hit southern B.C., while dangerous hail and thunderstorms are forecast for Wednesday afternoon and Thursday.

The federal government will unveil plans today for new legislation covering ownership of firearms that aims to cut red tape, but also show Canada is taking gun safety seriously, CBC has learned. CBC will carry Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney's announ

Canada's crime rate fell by eight per cent in 2013 over the previous year, according to police-reported crime numbers released by Statistics Canada, although some offences were reported more frequently, including sexual violations against children.

Polls relating to publicly controversial scientific issues often trigger a great wailing and gnashing of teeth from science advocates. When large proportions of a population seem poorly informed about evolution, climate change, or genetically modified foo

The divorce between filmmaker, anti-capitalist Michael Moore and his wife is bringing many details to surface, including that the two own nine homes, and are worth $50 million.

A feisty Vancouver Island woman is being applauded by Mounties for taking down a male burglar who broke into her home.

Rashida Samji, a former notary public, perpetrated a fraud when she traded securities in a Ponzi scheme to at least 200 investors for about $100 million,

A young Comox girl is among the first 30 British Columbians to re-designate their gender on their birth certificates after new legislation was passed earlier this year

Statistical analysis of average global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 shows that the slowdown in global warming during this period is consistent with natural variations in temperature, according to research by McGill physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.

Researchers from the neuroscience department at Florida State University conducted an experiment on mice which, for the first time, made a scientific association between a bad diet and a reduced sense of smell.

A man shot at a baseball field in Manitoba on Sunday had already surrendered to police when they opened fire, Norway House First Nation chief Ron Evans says

Chantal Petitclerc has watched the Maple Leaf go up to the sounds of O Canada countless times over her illustrious 20-year career as a wheelchair racer.

Smoke from forest fires has pushed Yellowknife off the charts in terms of compromised air quality, resulting in a reading for more than 10 on the Air Quality Health Index, which represents the highest level of risk to health.

The Alberta sheriff fired two years ago for using excessive force on a disabled man at the Red Deer courthouse has been allowed to quietly return to his job, CBC News has learned.