NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 10-2015

Two blasts at a peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara kill at least 86 people in the deadliest attack of its kind in recent Turkish history.

The plastic vessel, given to Ida Lockett's son for his fifth birthday, features a bedraggled, black-skinned plastic man as one of its four characters, who comes with a shackle meant for his neck.

Wildlife Rescue Association staff and volunteers will spend their long weekend bathing and rehabilitating 14 ducks they rescued from a contaminated South Surrey pond.

An Edmonton not-for-profit venue laid off its entire fleet of parking attendants without cause earlier this week, after it said more than $1-million of revenue was unaccounted for.

Attacks like these do not occur in a vacuum. Such acts of pitiless slaughter are the direct result of a pervasive Palestinian infrastructure

A former Iowa lottery security officer convicted in July of rigging a Hot Lotto game so he could win a $14 million jackpot faces new allegations that he had close acquaintances cash in on lottery prizes in other states over several years, authorities said

Calgary police are reminding drivers to treat bicycles like other vehicles on the road after a video surfaced online where a downtown motorist lays non-stop on the horn for at least 40 seconds while waiting behind a cyclist at a red light.

The RCMP have been called in to investigate leaks of "sensitive" information from Citizenship and Immigration Canada, CBC News has learned. The probe comes after media stories based on internal documents leaked from the department have made waves in the f

A man with a Confederate flag covering his face disrupted a candidates debate in the riding of Calgary Rocky Ridge in an apparent protest of the niqab, according to witnesses at the forum.

The incident occurred when the quarterback was taking snaps under center during practice.

Remarkable body camera footage shows a Cleveland police officer acting heroically, trying to calm down a violent, suicidal man even after the man shot and wounded the cop.

A cyclist slapped a pedestrian in the face on a Toronto street last weekend, prompting the pedestrian to get into his car and run the cyclist over, police said Friday.

The obese extremist known only as 'The Bulldozer' (pictured) has beheaded unarmed men and amputated young children as part of the terror group's 'Chopping Committee'.

Germany has had almost 500 attacks on asylum hostels so far this year - three times more than in 2014.

A SAUDI woman faces jail after filming her husband allegedly cheating on her and posting the footage online.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT A man has a dagger removed from his rear yesterday at a hospital in China. He said he had tried to remove his piles by himself, but sat on the blade by accident.

Canada's economy added 12,000 jobs last month, but the unemployment rate increased slightly to 7.1 per cent because more people were also looking for work.

The Liberals and NDP are criticizing Stephen Harper for a temporary halt to the processing of one type of Syrian refugee earlier this year -- a decision the Conservatives say was needed to protect public safety, and make sure the right refugees were being

Violence continues in the West Bank and across Israel as a Palestinian attacker stabbed four people in central Tel Aviv with a screwdriver

The AUDS system uses high powered radio waves to disable drones, effectively blocking their communication and switching them off in midair.

NASA has discovered frozen water and earth-like blue skies on Pluto in another historic development in the search for extraterrestrial life.

The federal agency that has the job of protecting the environment doesn't seem to have too much concern for trees, at least the ones cut down to make furniture.

As President Obama doubles down on climate change as a legacy issue, the White House has appointed Thomas Reynolds, a top communications strategist at the Environmental Protection Agency and a seasoned political operative, to a new position dedicated sole

Bill Clinton's administration gathered enough evidence to send a top-secret communique accusing Iran of facilitating the deadly 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist bombing, but suppressed that information from the American public and some elements of U.S. intell

One woman interviewed in a refugee camp in Syria accuse men fleeing to Europe of abandoning the country in a time of crisis, while others saying it is 'haram' - forbidden under Islam - to leave.

Airman 1st Class Spencer Stone, who helped take down a gunman on a train in Belgium, was stabbed multiple times in the chest in Sacramento early Thursday morning.

It's hurtling through space at 40,000 miles per hour and this two mile wide lump of space rock will have a very close encounter with earth

Australia's highest court has ruled unanimously that a version of a gene that is linked to an increased risk for breast cancer cannot be patented.

The remnants of Hurricane Oho are bearing down on B.C.'s West Coast, bringing the first of two rounds of heavy rain and strong winds forecast for the region between now and Sunday.

Police say a woman in a Home Depot parking lot fired shots at the SUV of a fleeing shoplifter in southeastern Michigan.

Toronto Conservative candidate and former science teacher Sabrina Zuniga is facing criticism online for comments she made about how the ground is able to absorb oil spills. Zuniga is running in the Spadina-Fort York riding against Liberal Adam Vaughan and

Triggered by global warming and the El Nino, record hot ocean water is causing fragile coral to go white and often die, threatening picturesque reefs that are hotspots of marine life, experts say.

Five Toronto Blue Jays players honed their game in Vancouver. Marcus Stroman, Roberto Osuna, Kevin Pillar, Dalton Pompey and Aaron Sanchez all developed their skills while wearing the uniform of the Vancouver Canadians at Nat Bailey Stadium.

The Bradford-based Human Relief Foundation is set to pull the plug on aid to help 'refugees' at the camp in Calais after discovering most people there are economic migrants.

Police believe the victim, named only as Rokstan M, 20, was stabbed to death by her father and brothers in Dessau in the twisted logic that she had brought disgrace on her family through her sex attack.

An Edmonton law professor says he was taken aback when the Conservative candidate in his riding told him to "renounce his heritage" if he wants to feel safe under new citizenship legislation. Ubaka Ogbogu, who teaches at the University of Alberta, said

Wind power is now the cheapest electricity to produce in both Germany and the U.K., even without government subsidies, according to a new analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). It's the first time that threshold has been crossed by a G7 economy.

Former U.S. labour secretary Robert Reich says U.S capitalism is broken, and the only way to save it is for the American public to wrestle back control. But Don Pittis fears agreements like the TPP show the opposite is happening.

THE European Union is secretly planning to deport hundreds of thousands of failed asylum seekers within weeks, according to reports.

Audit of two Antarctic bases run by United States heard that alcohol was fuelling unpredictable behaviour with calls to deploy breathalysers

DEPRAVED Islamic State jihadis have savagely sliced of the fingertips of a 12-year-old Christian boy whose family refused to convert to Islam.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton signaled she's going all-out on a new push for gun controls Monday, driving distance between herself and top opponent Sen. Bernard Sanders even as she took aim at Republican critics in Congress, prono

Porcine protest led to eight months in prison for artist El Sexto

The footage posted on social media begins with a Los Angeles police officer getting out of his patrol car, followed by a shot of a handgun held by the person shooting the video. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of LA/OC

While overall crime is down since last year, Chicago saw a big increase in fatal shootings last month, which was the deadliest September in more than a decade. Chicago News, Sports, Weather, Traffic, and the Best of Chicago - CBS 2 TV | WBBM Newsradio 780

The Toronto Blue Jays have made the cover of Sports Illustrated for the first time since 2005. The Jays are on the front of the magazine's annual MLB playoff preview with designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, pitcher David Price,

Montreal Canadiens forward Zack Kassian, who broke his nose and his left foot in a car crash over the weekend, has been suspended without pay and placed in the league's substance abuse program.

The aquarium says the veterinary team performed what's believed to be the first kidney removal and transfusion on a sea otter.

NEW YORK -- Dallas Keuchel continued his season-long mastery of the Yankees with six more scoreless innings, Colby Rasmus and Carlos Gomez homered off Masahiro Tanaka, and the Astros advanced to the American League Division Series with a 3-0 victory on Tu

Arthur McDonald, a Nova Scotia-born researcher who is professor emeritus at Queen's University, is co-winner with Japan's Takaaki Kajita of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for work done, in part, at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory showing neutrinos have

One college at the university is cutting back on gender-neutral bathrooms after two residents of Whitney Hall became the victims of voyeurism via cellphone.

A Conservative candidate in suburban Toronto is defending therapies that attempt to turn gays straight, having penned an editorial that referred to homosexuality as "unnatural behaviour" and heterosexuals as "normal."

The Harper government forged a partnership with a major Canadian accounting association at the same time as the group was fighting the CRA in court to shield the files of multimillionaires who had stashed money offshore.

Passions inflamed in Quebec and are likely to continue despite a unanimous vote condemning Islamophobia.

For two years from inside a Canadian prison, Carmelo Bruzzese denied being a Mafia boss from Italy who was a link between powerful criminal clans in both countries, but his appeals ended Friday with an unappreciated flight to Rome where Italian police wer

New etiquette guidelines reveal how heating up a sausage roll in the microwave and storing a bacon sandwich in the communal office fridge could cause offense in the workplace.

A discovery in mice could pave the way to a reversible, non-hormonal form of birth control for men, researchers report. The findings, published online Oct. 1 in the journal Science

ST. PETERSBURG -- Joey Butler hit two home runs, including a grand slam in a nine-run Rays first inning, as the Blue Jays missed their shot at home-field advantage throughout the postseason with a 12-3 loss on Sunday afternoon at Tropicana Field. Toronto

A man who wore pink tights, a lace shirt, a feather boa and a ball-and-chain during his bachelor party has been ordered by a B.C. judge to pay more than half a million dollars in damages after pushing another man who teased him.

Army veteran Chris Mintz was shot five times protecting classmates from the deranged mass murderer who killed 10 people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon on Thursday. Now Americans are rallying to help Mintz, as a GoFundMe campaign has raised more tha

Nissar Hussain, his wife Kubra and their six children (pictured) have suffered appalling abuse at the hands of their neighbours who regard them as 'blasphemers' and attack them in the street.

A Michigan farmer has made a mammoth find while digging in a field.

Government passes new law that will ensure resources are backing bona fide refugees

John Lennon was voted the seventh greatest Briton of all time, but DOMINIC SANDBROOK argues that his only driving thought was: 'Me, me, me.'

While the drought has most of us conserving water, one home in Bel Air guzzled nearly 12 million gallons of water in just one year. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of LA/OC

The SpaceX founder said the plan would use a new type of 'nuclear pulse bomb' to create two suns in the Martian atmosphere to warm the planet.

Eurotunnel services were suspended after a "large and co-ordinated" group" of migrants stormed the tracks, services won't resume until after 10am

President Xi Jinping said a terse "no" when Zuckerberg asked if the president would give the baby an honorary Chinese name.

Flooding on the US East Coast remains a concern through Monday, especially in parts of North and South Carolina that already have received up to 11 inches of rain this week.

A top paramedic says the fatal crash that claimed the lives of three children and their grandfather north of Toronto has had an unprecedented impact on the well being of first responders.

A B.C. two-year-old who used to be scared of monsters under her bed is now sleeping soundly, thanks to a special 'monster spray' from the local pharmacy.

BERLIN (AFP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel could win this year's Nobel Peace Prize, the influential Bild newspaper said Friday, as the leader is lauded worldwide for her courage in opening her country's doors to refugees fleeing war and persecution.

In total, America had accepted just 727 fleeing Christians at the start of 2015 - a fraction of the 4,200 Muslims granted asylum - and few since.

A study of blue whales off California's coast that used tags to track their movements and their prey shows the marine behemoths are not indiscriminate grazers, as long thought.

If merchandise sales in Regina are any indication, Roughriders fans may be shelling out less green for their football team and spending it on Toronto Blue Jays gear.

Brian Keating, a naturalist who spent 30 years working with the Calgary Zoo says children aren't spending time in nature, possibly suffering from nature deficiency disorder.

A Winnipeg woman who realized she forgot to bring her wallet to the grocery store when she was already at the till didn't leave empty handed thanks to a generous manager.

Troy Tulowitzki doubled and singled in his return to the Toronto lineup after missing three weeks with injuries, and the AL East champion Blue Jays rallied past the Tampa Bay Rays 8-4 Friday night.

Three people are in police custody after a car was stolen in Winnipeg and the suspected thieves took a selfie with the owner's phone and inadvertently sent it to her home computer.

Neeve Nutarariaq, her boyfriend, and three children are living in a tent outside of Igloolik, Nunavut, because they say there's a lack of housing in the community.

Despite a public backlash, the City of Montreal will proceed with plans to dump eight billion litres of untreated wastewater into the St. Lawrence River.

IS the film Independence Day about to become a reality?

Nikko Jenkins, 29, told court officials in Nebraska this week he cut his penis as an homage to the ancient Egyptian serpent god Apep, or Apophis, which he claims to worship.

A provincial politician from B.C.'s Interior is inviting Miley Cyrus to take her wrecking ball to the ongoing wolf cull in her region and save caribou.

The Toronto Blue Jays, who clinched their first American League East title in 22 years, will begin their opening round on Thursday, Oct. 8, at Rogers Centre.

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 54, is the only one of the 10 Canadians whose citizenship the government is seeking to revoke for terrorism who was convicted by a foreign court

Manchester Crown Court heard the terror attack in Melbourne, Australia being planned by the boy would 'in all probability' have resulted in a number of deaths if it was not thwarted.

For a brief moment last week, Canada's political leaders had to address the question of why we are selling $15 billion worth of armoured vehicles to a country with such a spotty human rights record as Saudi Arabia. It's a very good question, Neil Macdonal

Healthy captives of ISIS are being used as the terror group's personal blood bank for wounded fighters, an escaped prisoner says.

The cute, little Shih Tzu-Lhasa Apso-cross, whose home was in Pitt Meadows, was known in hospitals, seniors centres and even the library as the friendly and comforting St. John Ambulance therapy dog.

Simulated oral sex and nude bareback riding are just some of the sexual acts that extras on HBO's Westworld must be prepared to perform - according to a graphic contract.

In what's emerging as one of the most peculiar estate battles in recent Hollywood history, the couple claims they've been left high and dry by the trust of the late Simpsons co-creator and animal rights philanthropist Sam Simon, their close friend who beq