NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 08-2015

The heavily armed shooter who was taken down by three unarmed US men on a train outside Arras was reportedly carrying a Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle, along with nine magazines and up to 300 rounds of ammunition.

The owner of the home where Rosie O'Donnell's missing teen daughter was found has been arrested for allegedly having inappropriate online communications with the 17-year-old girl.

You may have heard of them: the Canada Revenue Scam, the Grandparent Scam and the Bank Inspector Scam. Hopefully, you haven't fallen victim to these three frauds, which are among the most common scams this summer.

From Quatchi to Klee Wyck, we look at some of most memorable mascots in British Columbia history.

British police say a single-seater jet has crashed at an airshow in southern England, causing several casualties.

Kamloops Fire and Rescue Capt. Jeff Bell said flames were leaping from a cedar hedge surrounding a townhouse complex as crews arrived Thursday evening.

Officer Matthew Zagursky embarrassed the Philadelphia police department and may have committed a crime, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said.

The Nordiques have advanced to the third and what's expected to be final stage in their bid to return to Quebec City as an NHL expansion franchise. It is unclear whether Las Vegas's bid to house an NHL franchise has moved onto the third phase.

David Price threw eight strong innings and Josh Donaldson had three RBIs while Ben Revere had four hits as the Blue Jays smoked the Angels 9-2 in their series opener Friday. Justin Smoak also added a two-run homer in the win. Toronto is 0.5 games back of

Two southern British Columbia communities have been warned that a wildfire burning just south of the Canadian border could force evacuations, although not all residents appear worried.

California has its first wolf pack since the state's grey wolf population went extinct in 1924.

For the past two months California towns have been besieged by bugs leaving residents frustrated.

Graffiti artist Banksy announced the opening of a dystopian theme park in a British seaside town on Thursday, featuring boats filled with migrants and an anarchist training camp.

A century-old message in a bottle, possibly the oldest ever found, has finally reached its destination.

Archeologists have found the main trophy rack of sacrificed human skulls at Mexico City's Templo Mayor Aztec ruin site, scientists said Thursday.

It's been a hot week for bears, leading one bear family to borrow this New Jersey backyard pool, including five cubs and their momma.

More than one in 10 people prescribed an opioid painkiller for the first time become chronic users, say Ontario researchers who also found the men are twice as likely as women to die from causes related to the drugs.

The B.C. Oil and Gas Commission is investigating the cause of a 4.6 magnitude earthquake earlier this week that triggered the shutdown of a major fracking operation just a few kilometres away.

Miners from the now-closed Lockerby Mine in Sudbury will not get severance for their years of work.

The Polar Bear Habitat in Cochrane, Ont. is getting ready to welcome Henry, the second polar bear to be born at Australia's Seaworld.

Satellites have captured awe-inspiring images of two powerful typhoons currently stirring up the warm waters of the western Pacific Ocean. Named Goni and Atsani, meteorologists expect Goni to edge towards the northern Philippines and Taiwan over the weeke

B.C. Ferries has announced a fall promotion that will see some off-peak passenger fares discounted by 50 per cent.

Climate change is forcing the boreal forest that covers much of northern Canada to a tipping point, concludes a newly published study.

A KU KLUX KLAN member planned to attack President Barack Obama using a remote-controlled X-ray machine hidden in a truck, a court has been told.

A doctor forced to treat the infected jihadists - most of whom were foreign - at a hospital in Syria, said they had caught it from sex with two Moroccan women who were later diagnosed with the HIV virus (file photo).

Gas prices have climbed all summer even as oil has renewed its slide. There's a few reasons, among them, pressure from oil firms to keep prices up, experts say.

The makers of a controversial female libido pill that has just received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration say they are now hoping to bring the drug to Canada.

A crazed gunman, who opened fire with an assault rifle onboard a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris was detained by a group of US Marines who were travelling on the service.

The hate-filled sign had been put on display earlier this week on the noticeboard at The Moon on the Square pub in Feltham, Middlesex, without the knowledge of staff.

Gilles Guibord is no longer running as a Conservative candidate in Montreal after some online comments he made in the past few years were called into question.

The Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation is joining the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario with a call for its members to work to defeat the governing Conservatives in the federal election

The New York parents of the baby girl found locked inside a Niagara Falls, Ont., hotel safe and freed by a maintenance worker earlier this week have contacted police, who say they have no concerns about the child's safety.

An elderly woman took hold of a firearm to scare off two men who entered her Big Sur home and attempted to rape her on Sunday, according to the Monterey County Sheriff's Office.

Women in Morocco have sparked a wave of controversy across the country by demanding an all-female beach in Tangier. They want to be able to sunbathe without unwanted male attention

The woman struck the animal rights activist with the bird while he was filming the annual 'duck chase' in the seaside town of Roses in north eastern Spain.

At least 17 people were injured when a group of 50 refugees began rioting at an overcrowded refugee camp in Suhl, Germany, overnight after one resident tore pages out of the Koran (pictured today).

A confrontation over a drone flying above beachgoers ended with damaged equipment, a man behind bars and lingering questions over the line between public air space and personal space.

Parents sending kids back to school have another thing to worry about besides pens, paper and pencils.

A very shy man from a tiny Alberta hamlet made his wife blush and a room full of people laugh Thursday when asked why he was in the Mini Mart that day.

Caitlyn Jenner could face a vehicular manslaughter charge after sheriff's investigators found she was driving unsafely when she caused a chain-reaction crash that killed a woman last February, officials said Thursday.

Reports of a recently discovered Nazi train filled with lost treasure could trigger a massive reversal of fortune, as an art group readies itself for the possibility of reconnecting Jewish heirs with stolen valuables.

One of America's largest cinema chains, Regal, is now searching bags of film-goers in the wake of several attacks on movie theatres around the country.

The bottle was released into the sea by George Parker Bidder in the early 1900s

Researchers at the University of Virginia examined surveys of 236,000 voters and found 67 per cent of those on the right were 'very happy' in their marriages compared to 60 per cent on the left.

A former friend of Dr Dre's says the biopic about N.W.A., is missing one serious detail: the violent beatings the rapper has purportedly given three women on his road to becoming a music mogul.

Human beings have evolved into unsustainable "super predators" that kill adult fish and animals at many times the rate of natural hunters, says an extensive study published Thursday.

U.S. officials say July was Earth's hottest month on record, smashing old marks.

SAVAGE Islamic State terrorists are allegedly selling off the organs of thousands of women they have kept as sex slaves to fund their sickening regime.

The order decreed by authorities in Spino Adda, a town just south of Milan, will affect sex workers who line up along busy main roads

A Greek government-chartered ferry arrives at Piraeus port near Athens, after picking up almost 2,500 migrants from islands near Turkey.

Macedonia declares a state of emergency in its southern and northern border regions to cope with growing numbers of migrants.

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to call a snap election for 20 September, Greek media reports say.

A father and son from Conception Bay South have had a lucrative week fishing for tuna, with their most recent catch weighing over 700 pounds.

The arrest of a drug smuggler in scuba gear led to the discovery of a tunnel from Mexico that's partially underwater and ends in a canal.

Three U.S. Forest Service firefighters died after their vehicle crashed and was likely caught by flames as they battled a blaze Wednesday in Washington state, authorities said. Four other firefighters were injured.

An Edmonton man says he plans to fight a traffic ticket he was given for sticking a crude political message in the rear window of his car. Rob Wells posted the handmade, pink "F--- Harper" sign a week ago to voice his contempt for Stephen Harper.

The Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources says whoever started the devastating Rock Creek wildfire could be liable for "the total cost of fighting the fire."

The B.C. government is to install concrete barriers on Highway 99 near Lillooet, after a woman and her son were killed. But one resident says it's not nearly enough.

Five new cases of illness connected to raw-shellfish consumption have been reported in British Columbia. The Public Health Agency of Canada says 53 people have been sickened in B.C. and another 19 in neighbouring Alberta since June 1.

A 93-year-old veteran who was part of the famed Tuskegee Airmen was the victim of crimes twice within a few minutes in St. Louis, being robbed and then having his car stolen.

Yukon Conservation officers are warning people about a wolf in the area of the Whitehorse landfill site after it attacked a dog and followed its owners on Friday.

One of the iconic swans from the former beloved P.E.I. attraction Rainbow Valley has been souped up and is making waves in New London Bay on the Island's northern shore.

A volunteer firefighter in Midway, B.C. says he has no idea how a pet goat found in the rubble of a destroyed property managed to survive the raging Rock Creek wildfire.

The last three veterans of the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry stood as tall as they could for a trio of 90-year-olds, "overwhelmed" by the support at a ceremony marking the 73rd anniversary of the disaster at Dieppe.

A BASE jumper is in critical condition after he struck a cliff in the Cline River area of Kananaskis Country on Tuesday.

A new forecast predicting more hot, dry conditions in B.C. has Metro Vancouver water officials considering extending water restrictions past the usual end date.

Ex-Subway pitchman Jared Fogle said he agrees to pay $1.4 million in restitution to 14 minor victims, jail time.

The lawyer for Jahanzeb Malik, who was arrested in March 2015 for allegedly plotting a suicide bombing in downtown Toronto, says diplomats have met without result

Shaun King, an Oprah scholarship recipient and one of the leading voices speaking out against police brutality on social media, has claimed he is mixed but a new report claims that he is white.

A retired social worker was prevented from boarding his flight when his artificial hip set off the metal detector at airport security and the all-female CATSA crew refused to frisk him.

During a Conservative campaign stop this morning, hecklers tried to shout down reporters asking questions about Senator Mike Duffy's expense scandal while, later, an irate supporter called one journalist a "lying piece of shit."

They are the clowns of federal election campaigns, they are proud of it, and they're back with a 1,000-year plan. The Rhinoceros party has been on and off the election trail since 1963 and it's ready to run again.

A massive El Nino could bring relief to some drought-stricken areas, but climatologists are debating the outcome of the battle between this 'Godzilla' El Nino and another Pacific ocean phenomenon called The Blob.

Islamic State militants beheaded a leading Syrian antiquities scholar who spent most of his life looking after the ancient ruins of Palmyra, then hung his body from a pole in a main square of the historic town, Syrian activists and the scholar's relatives

Police in Colorado rescued a bear cub whose head was stuck in a large plastic tub of protein powder. The officers gave the cub a ride in the back of a cruiser before a wildlife ranger tranquillized it so it could be set free.

The governments of Ontario and Alberta have agreed to split the cost of an air ambulance bill for a woman who went into labour two months early while she was on vacation.

Josh Donaldson hit two homers, Edwin Encarnacion also went deep and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Philadelphia Phillies 8-5 Tuesday night.

A B.C. forest fire forced Highway 3 to close Tuesday evening -- for the second time this month.

Denise Diering didn't expect to see a big black bear standing at the edge of her swimming pool when she looked out the back door of her North Vancouver home.

Hillary to Black Lives Matter Organizer: 'I Will Talk Only to White People' About 'Real Problems'

A Liberal candidate in Calgary has apologized unreservedly for posting offensive tweets several years ago when she was a teenager.

Recent missives to Justice Canada employees 'go too far and seem designed to discourage our members from exercising their legitimate rights,' unions say

The aircraft whizzed through the air over Biggin Hill, London, in memory of those who lost their lives throughout the lengthy summer fight to stop the Nazis from invading the British shores.

At a fundraiser to help cover the funeral costs of a friend who died trying to stop a fight outside a Saskatoon bar, a group of young men ended up embroiled in a fight that led to two of them facing assault charges.

NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says Stephen Harper is putting Canadian tourism jobs at risk, presiding over a steep drop in American visitors during his time as prime minister.

Justin Trudeau is flatly ruling out a Liberal-NDP coalition to prevent Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives from forming another government if no party has a majority after the Oct. 19 vote.

A Toronto boy is promising "it won't happen again" after the book he borrowed from the library ripped when it fell off his bed.

Islamic fanatics are preying on unattached females who are off to Turkey in the hope of a holiday fling

If the female members of the 'Sun Girls' batallion (pictured) are ever captured by ISIS in battle, they will either be killed or, more likely, be held by the vile extremists as their personal sex slaves.

Indonesian authorities have discovered and prevented a potential IS attack led by an Indonesian fighter in Syria on Independence Day.

The United States has sent a warning to Beijing about Chinese agents it says are operating covertly in America while working to pressure fugitives such as defector Ling Wancheng to return to China.

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A Winnipeg man who allegedly assaulted his wife in front of police and told an officer he could do what he wants with his property.

Experts say Canada's permissive approach to regulating commercial drones has made it a world leader in the burgeoning field, while others warn that inadequate enforcement of the soaring number of amateur flyers is putting the public at risk.

A Surrey man dressed in full camouflage and carrying a replica rifle found himself surrounded by police brandishing real guns Saturday while on his way to an Airsoft competition.

Young people showing up at Conservative rallies admit they are hoping to catch a glimpse of Ben and Rachel Harper.

Canadian director Paul Haggis hopes the recent HBO documentary "Going Clear" is bringing light to the "truth" about the Church of Scientology.

A British Columbia scientist is hoping to use a few cold ones to get the public thinking about really big cold ones -- glaciers.

American analysts confirm that Islamic State used chemical weapons on a Kurdish militia

They arrived two decades before the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts, but the 115 colonists then vanished

The three-year-old boy's plastic toy was allegedly seen as a threat and taken away

Uh oh! A slip of the type caused a new poster for "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2" to make headlines on account of the c-word inadvertently appearing across Jennifer Lawrence's face.

B.C. proponents, expecting a production surge, argue more refineries and upgraders would help Canada keep more of its oil wealth here. And where Alberta falters, B.C. hopes to rise with refining projects of its own

A Quebec bill presents a serious threat to free speech

The Liberal Party's new black and red posters that are going up in Quebec are being mocked online, with an actual parody sign popping up in a Montreal riding as well.

Four people are dead and more than a dozen others are injured after police in Alberta say they believe a pickup truck crashed into oncoming traffic near Jasper.