NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 07-2014

Last year, Despicable Me 2 alone grossed $143.1 million in its first five days after opening on the Wednesday before the Fourth of July...

Chicago's violent weekend began Thursday with two women being shot outside a two-flat and ended with at least 30 shot in 13 hours Sunday and Monday.

Christian bakery facing legal action from equality quango for refusing to make cake with Sesame Street characters saying support gay marriage

Edmonton Transit is facing legal action after anti-honour killing advertisements were removed from city transit, according to a press release posted online Monday.

More than 60 Nigerian girls and women abducted by Islamic extremists two weeks ago have managed to escape, officials said Monday, though more than 200 girls who were kidnapped in April remain missing.

The minors were diagnosed with the highly-contagious H1N1 virus on Friday following their arrivals at two separate military detention facilities near Brownsville, Texas.

Manitoba's attorney general led a call on the Harper government Monday to amend its new prostitution bill and remove a section that makes it illegal for sex workers to communicate for the purposes of selling their services.

WATERLOO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - July 7, 2014) - BlackBerry Limited a global leader in mobile communications, earned three acclaimed Red Dot Awards for the high design quality of its BlackBerry Q10, BlackBerry Q5 and BlackBerry Z30 smartphones. This year

Marc Emery, the so-called Prince of Pot, is due to be released from a U.S. prison this week. Many of his supporters criticized the American prosecution of the high-profile, Vancouver-based activist that began in 2005.

In 2006, reduced thickness of ice roads forced the Diavik Diamond Mine in Northern Canada to fly in fuel rather than try to transport cargo across melted pathways, at an extra cost of $11.25 million.

"Ten years from today the probability that you are depending on wires hanging on tree branches is as likely as that you'll still be installing land lines for telephones. Close to zero."

A float in a Nebraska Fourth of July parade displaying an outhouse as the Obama presidential library has sparked considerable controversy.

Eduard Shevardnadze, a groundbreaking Soviet foreign minister and later the president of an independent Georgia, died Monday at the age of 86, his spokeswoman said.

Passengers at some overseas airports that offer U.S.-bound flights will soon be required to power on their electronic devices in order to board their flights. The measure is intended to enhance aviation security at a time of increased threats.

Israeli police have arrested six Jewish suspects in the kidnapping and killing of a Palestinian teenager who was burned to death. Authorities say the suspects in the killing of 16-year-old Mohamme...

The vast majority of plastic littering the ocean may be disappearing, new research finds.

Two Palestinian fighters were killed and another wounded Sunday by an Israeli drone strike in the Gaza Strip, emergency services said.

A Montana Rail Link train derailed near Superior Thursday, sending Boeing aircraft fuselages into a river.

Israel Police on Sunday announced that an Israeli Arab was behind the murder of 20-year-old Shelly Dadon in an empty parking lot in northern Israel on May 1, and that the killer is suspected to have had nationalistic motives.

Shooter was acting strangely. Officials at Pocatello Zoo in Idaho were confused. But when they realized what Shooter was up to, they were simply blown away

Michelle Hui, 31 from County Kildare, Ireland, was devastated when she thought she had lost her unborn child at six weeks, but doctors later found a heartbeat.

Bantamweight champion (Rowdy) Ronda Rousey made short work of Alexis Davis, demolishing the Canadian in just 16 seconds in the co-main event of UFC 175 Saturday night.

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe calls on the country's remaining white farmers to cede land to black people.

All hell broke loose Friday afternoon as five people that were part of overflow crowd in a Southern California community where protesters turned back Homeland Security busloads were arrested.

Extremist Sunni militant group ISIS has taken control of a major Syrian oil field from other fighters, a UK-based monitoring group said Thursday.

Jennifer Butler, 29, is flying 5,000 miles from the UK to French Robertson Unit in Texas to marry Christopher Mosier, 23, leaving her three young kids who are all younger than 10.

Peel police called in all available units to help control a large crowd at the Palestine House on Thursday.

Manitoba declares a provincial state of emergency due to flooding and calls in the military for assistance.

A female teacher was stabbed to death Friday in front of her pupils at a primary school in the southern French town of Albi by a student's mother, who was immediately detained.

One of the keys to the treatment of disease is early and cheap detection. This is especially true for diseases that disproportionately affect developing nations, where high technology detection methods are often not affordable or even available. Cheap, se

More than 100 small-to-medium earthquakes have been triggered in Oklahoma in the past five years by drilling wastewater forced into the ground after extracting oil and gas via fracking.

The Federal Court says government changes to health care create two tiers of coverage between refugees who are from designated countries of origin and those who are not.

In Sderot, one rocket scored a direct hit on a day care center located in an apartment building

Now charged with aggravated first-degree murder, Ali Muhammad Brown is alleged to have executed two men on June 1 at a Leschi neighborhood home. Police contend Ahmed Said and Dwone Anderson-Young met Brown outside a Capitol Hill club after Said contacted

From a prison cell, serial sex killer Paul Bernardo has charmed and manipulated an attractive, university-educated woman into planning to marry him, QMI Agency has learned.

A man in Sioux Lookout was awoken by a bear biting his hand Wednesday evening.

At least 10 Palestinians reported injured; several streets in Sderot without electricity after 3 Kassams slam into city, damaging buildings, vehicles

Officials say they will not remove a family of bobcats living under the deck of a house under renovation in Oakridge.

Eugenie Bouchard has become the first Canadian women's singles tennis player to make a Grand Slam final after defeating Romania's Simona Halep at Wimbledon on Thursday.

Shannon Maureen Conley, 19, allegedly told FBI agents before her arrest that she was going to be with a member of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, that she had met through the Internet.

A case of what is being called possible demonic possession in Saskatoon has prompted local church officials to consider the need for an exorcist.

Moody's credit rating agency has changed Ontario's debt and issuer ratings to negative from stable, while at the same time reaffirming its Aa2 ratings.

Environment versus the economy. It would be an easier, less vitriolic debate if Ottawa had done more to create a truly national economy.

U.S. intelligence officials are concerned that al-Qaeda is trying to develop a new and improved bomb that could go undetected through airport security.

An actor best known from the 1960s sitcom McHale's Navy has died. Bob Hastings was 89.

A 91-year-old former RCAF captain is back in the cockpit of the very same plane he flew in 1945, thanks to the incredible efforts of a group of farmers from Fairview, Alta.

22 maps that illustrate Canada as you've never seen it before.

Making the electricity grid greener is boosting its vulnerability to computer hacking, increasing the risk that spies or criminals can cause blackouts.

At least 14 people reported killed as forces loyal to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki clash with supporters of Shia cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi

Philadelphia Flyers captain Claude Giroux spent the night locked up at the downtown Ottawa police station after allegedly grabbing a police officer's buttocks in the ByWard Market on Canada Day.

The speed limits on some multi-lane highways in B.C. are going up to 120 kilometres per hour, Transportation Minister Todd Stone announced on Wednesday morning in Kamloops.

A toxic caffeine level was found in the system of a high school student who died unexpectedly, says a U.S. coroner who warns young people need to be educated about the dangers of taking the potent powder that is sold online.

Hessy Taft's baby photograph was selected by Nazi party as the ideal Aryan infant, but Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine never discovered that she was in fact Jewish

Scientists analyzed more than 30 hair samples reportedly left behind by Bigfoot and similar mythical beasts like the Himalayan Yeti, and found all of them came from more mundane creatures like bears, wolves, cows and racoons.

A frightened New Jersey bear cub got its head stuck in an oversized cookie jar while rummaging through some trash and then got wedged up a tree had to be rescued by firefighters and environmental protection officers.

Canadians are happier, smarter and live longer than their southern neighbors. We have the charts to prove it.

A young male Starbucks employee stood up for a nursing Ottawa mother after another customer complained about her breastfeeding her newborn son in the coffee shop.

A Good Samaritan showed "superhuman strength" when he bent the door of a burning sport utility vehicle and rescued another motorist on a Minnesota freeway, a state trooper said.

What you do today matters. Your daily habits may be a major determinant of your wealth.

Clean energy is no longer just the bastion of crunchy granola types and companies hoping to improve their public image. Increasing the use of renewable energy has become a targeted goal of almost half of Fortune 500 companies, and with good reason. Accord

The National Security Agency programs that collect huge volumes of Internet data within the U.S. are constitutional and employ 'reasonable' safeguards designed to protect the rights of Americans, an independent privacy and civil liberties board has found.

Japan took a historic step away from its post-war pacifism on Tuesday by ending a ban that has kept the military from fighting abroad since 1945, a victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe but a move that has riled China and worries many Japanese voters.

Richmond RCMP are investigating after a drone was reported flying dangerously close to aircraft at Vancouver's YVR airport on Monday.

GRAPHIC CONTENT WARNING: The RSPCA released the disturbing image of the lifeless animal in a bid to catch the thugs who left him in Dudley, West Midlands.

Jim Acho confirmed death of John Bieniewicz, who was attacked Sunday at a park in Livonia. Baseel Abdul-Amir Saad was arraigned Monday in Livonia District Court a charge of assault with intent to do great bodily harm.