NEWS IMAGE COLLAGE / for 11-2015

A major Hollywood star is rumored to have been diagnosed as HIV positive. A 27-year-old porn star who has had sex with the star at his home fears he may have infected dozens of women - and men

Cyle Larin scored in the 38th minute Friday as Canada beat Honduras 1-0 to open the penultimate round of CONCACAF qualifying for the 2018 World Cup with a much-needed victory.

The Capital Regional District is advising people to stay away from several Greater Victoria beaches due to sewage overflows caused by Thursday's storm.

A Crown lawyer says an NHL player accused of illegally shooting a grizzly bear on British Columbia's central coast intends to plead guilty.

Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a miniature planet that is the most distant body ever found in the solar system, scientists said on Wednesday.

Canada may get a small boost at Friday's World Cup qualifier against Honduras, playing under an open roof in Vancouver - but fans may need to dress for the weather.

Parks Canada and the Haida Nation are excited hot water is flowing once more into pools on Haida Gwaii, three years after a 7.7 magnitude quake shut off the hot springs.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has called for a moratorium on crude oil tanker traffic for B.C.'s North Coast, a move that some environmental activists say will de facto kill the Northern Gateway pipeline project.

Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person's online behavior across a range of devices, including phones, TVs, tablets, and computers.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has directed the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to reopen the Kitsilano Coast Guard station. The Conservative government closed down the station amid much controversy and criticism that doing so would cost lives.

An Israeli man says being stabbed and almost beheaded by a Palestinian terrorist was a miracle in disguise -- because doctors operating on his wounds discovered a life-threatening tumor growing inside his intestines. "The terror attack saved my life,"

By shutting its doors to the tide of migrants now sweeping across Europe, Sweden proves that there is such a thing as being too nice

A U.S. hog slaughterhouse, where workers were videoed beating animals, took action on Thursday to meet demands from Hormel Foods Corp, its only customer, that it tighten controls and give extra training to staff. A video released on Wednesday by animal

Facebook Inc said in a report on Wednesday that government demands for its user data surged in the first half of 2015 around the world, including in Canada.

Document was left out in view when NTV and Channel One filmed Vladimir Putin meeting with military officials in Sochi

The letter describes the girl as 'pretty' and 'cute', but other kids started making fun of the boy and said that he wanted to see the girl naked, drawing the attention of the principal at the school in Tampa.

Chris Wideman's insurance goal turned out to be the winner for the Ottawa Senators, who escaped with a 3-2 win against the visiting Vancouver Canucks.

Tiny plastic bits, collectively known as called microplastics, are showing up in bodies of water around the world, and are accumulating in aquatic creatures, including fish and shellfish. Now scientists, after testing a sampling of commercial products in

It's being called the "fossil fuel bailout." A new report from an environmental advocacy group says G20 countries subsidize the fossil fuel industry to the tune of $450 billion a year, undermining efforts to deal with climate change.

Gayle Newland, pictured outside court yesterday, befriended her victim, a fellow student at the University of Chester, by posing on Facebook as a man named 'Kye Fortune'.

Clashes briefly broke out Thursday between riot police and youths in central Athens during the first general strike since the country's left-led government initially came to power in January.

An Abbotsford, B.C., man is selling everything he has in order to pay for a $250,000 surgery in the United States that he hopes will finally end his daily crushing headaches.

The U.S. Soccer Federation has given a red card to heading the ball for players under 10 after a class action concussion lawsuit. Should B.C. follow suit?

A member of the North Shore Rescue team has penned a blog aimed at ill-prepared hikers after witnessing scores of people on Mount Seymour's wintry trails clad in flimsy street clothes.

Winter conditions have arrived in B.C.'s Southern Interior highways. Up to four centimetres of snow is expected to fall on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Merritt Wednesday night and more flurries are on the way.

A rare sea turtle that washed ashore in Halls Harbour, N.S., is being nursed back to health after surviving in waters that are typically far too cold for the species.

Two British Columbia First Nations could be compensated millions for a mistake the Canadian government made 65 years ago. Justice Larry Whalen ruled that Canada failed to act in the best interests of the Doig River and Blueberry River First Nations by neg

The first of a couple of storms moved through the South Coast Tuesday night, but a bigger storm is forecast to arrive Thursday.

The curator of zoology at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History has released a free e-book chronicling sea monster sightings off the province's coast.

A video of a forest carpet in Nova Scotia breathing like a snoozing giant is getting a lot of attention online. In the video, the forest floor heaves like it is breathing. The video has garnered more than three million views from online spectators.

The oilsands have lots of problems, but transport isn't the biggest one as the U.S. rejection of Keystone XL sparks some soul searching in the oilpatch.

Sony has announced that it will stop selling Betamax video cassettes in March 2016.

Sheila Anderson is in Ottawa for Wednesday's Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial, where she'll represent all grieving parents as this year's Silver Cross Mother.

A photo exhibit which opens at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Remembrance Day displays the work of P.E.I. soldier and photographer Jack Turner. who was determined to tell the story of WW I, despite army rules forbidding cameras.

A motorist has been issued a ticket after driving a vehicle 120 kilometres per hour through a school zone where the limit is 30 km/h. Automated enforcement recorded the violation on Nov. 4 near St. Richard Elementary School, just minutes before kindergart

In 1944, a WWII British transport plane carrying two Canadian airmen disappeared on a night-time mission. New research is close to finally resolving where they died. But government red tape is blocking efforts to finish the search.

A small business jet crashed into an apartment building with a huge bang on Tuesday, killing at least two people and possibly as many as nine aboard and shaking furniture in homes several blocks away, authorities said.

Mounties in Surrey, B.C., say a would-be carjacker is in jail after picking the worst-possible vehicle to try and steal.

Brandon Sutter scored the tiebreaking goal with 5:08 remaining, and Jannik Hansen had a career high four points with a goal and three assists, to lift the Vancouver Canucks to a 5-3 victory over the Columbus Blue Jackets on Tuesday night.

Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson was voted major league player of the year and AL outstanding player in the annual Players Choice Awards.

At least 21 poppy donation boxes have been stolen across the city since they were placed in stores on or after Halloween, Calgary police say.

A retired couple from Toronto says cruise ship staff mishandled a serious medical emergency at sea that left the two in St. John's for 46 days and delayed care for the man, who had suffered a brain aneurysm.

The union representing House of Commons security guards has written to the RCMP expressing shock at what it calls an insult to the courage of its members. The guards are threatening to boycott an awards ceremony to honour those who showed bravery by stopp

BC Ferries says an incident in which a man threw one of its rescue boats overboard and jumped off a ferry near Galiano Island cost the publicly-owned company $40,000.

Archeologists in Egypt have found a 4,300-year-old pyramid. The pyramid, which is believed to have belonged to Queen Sesheshet, was discovered in the sprawling rulers' burial site near the ancient city of Memphis about 20 kilometres south of Cairo

At some point the NHL must decide whether to expand to Quebec, Las Vegas, both or neither, and whether to send its players to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Korea. But commissioner Gary Bettman reiterated Monday there's plenty of time before anything is figu

Two weeks of thermal scanning of Egypt's Giza pyramids have identified several anomalies, including a major one in the largest pyramid, the country's Antiquities Ministry announced Monday.

We asked the CBC News audience on Twitter and Facebook to share their memories and traditions for Remembrance Day using the hashtag #HowIRemember.

Demand for poppies is on the rise, the Royal Canadian Legion says, with more than 21 million distributed across the country this year.

The IOC suspended Lamine Diack as an honorary member Tuesday and said it was ready to strip medals from any Russian athletes found guilty of doping and consider retesting samples from the Sochi Olympics.

Russia will counter NATO's U.S.-led missile defence program by deploying new strike weapons capable of piercing the shield, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.

A former Canadian astronaut will be among those in the cockpit as the distinctive roar of a flyover by Second World War training aircraft greets those attending the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies in Toronto.

A British Columbia man convicted of trafficking underage girls for sex has been handed a 23-year prison sentence, three more years than even the Crown requested.

War medals stolen from a Hamilton veteran's family over 25 years ago were found on a bench and returned to the family Tuesday through a Facebook post.

A shipwreck hunter from Michigan says he's found a sunken freighter that has been sitting on the bottom of Lake Huron for more than a century. David Trotter has revealed that he has located the SS Hydrus, a freighter that sunk at this time of year in 1913

The Calgary Highlanders have unveiled a portrait of David McAndie, one of the most decorated members of the regiment whose bravery continues to inspire soldiers to this day.

Former Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Jose Reyes has been arrested for domestic abuse in Maui after allegedly assaulting his wife on Halloween, according to Hawaii News Now's report on the now Colorado Rockies player.

The P.E.I. Aquaculture Alliance will test drones later this month as a method of keeping sea ducks off their mussel socks.

Join CBC News Wednesday for live coverage of Canada's Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa.

While Remembrance Day offers the opportunity to think of the sacrifice made by soldiers on the front lines, an exhibit at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa is focusing attention on the many ways women contributed to the country's efforts during the First

As Americans mark 50 years since the start of their ground war in Vietnam, the story of a B.C. teen is being remembered alongside dozens of other Canadians who were killed fighting for U.S. forces.

Updated PBO forecast projects a $1.2-billion surplus this year, followed by a $3-billion deficit in 2016-17

Secretive cleric Abu Osama al-Masri, 42, has been named by Western intelligence officials as the prime suspect behind the attack on the Metrojet flight which killed 224 people in Sinai.

Canada will form a subcommittee to co-ordinate efforts to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to the country by the end of the year, says John McCallum, Canada's minister of immigration, refugees and citizenship.

A Canadian coffee giant and franchisee have lost their bid to toss out a human-rights complaint lodged by Mexican workers in northeastern British Columbia. hey allege they had to endure inferior working conditions, racist and derogatory comments and sub-s

Russia's status as a sports superpower and its participation in track and field events at next year's Olympics came under threat Monday after a report accused the Russians of widespread, state-supported doping reminiscent of the darkest days of cheating b

The Canadian military is already prepared to house 12,000 Syrian refugees -- nearly half of the 25,000 that the Liberal government has promised to bring to the country -- by the end of the year, CTV News has learned.

Iraqi officials temporarily seized a military aircraft carrying weapons for Canadian special forces in Kurdistan, amid a wave of anti-western conspiracy theories rife in Iraqi politics.

On Chinese social media, people lamented the limits of the state response. 'Waiting for the wind to change is how the government deals with air pollution'

This year is on track to be a record 1 degree Celsius hotter than the average temperature during the late 19th century, marking a symbolic milestone in the global warming that scientists blame on human activities, Britain's weather service said Monday.

Dozens of students encircled Yale college master Nicholas Christakis, who said he would not censor what people could wear on Halloween, with one girl screaming at him.

A Canadian Pacific Railway train carrying crude oil derailed Sunday in Wisconsin, the second day in a row a freight train derailed in the state.

Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday.

Southern Manitoba is experiencing an outbreak of the highly-contagious and possibly-fatal whooping cough.

A Facebook post from the mother of an unmuzzled Canadian government biologist has gone viral, shedding more insight into the changes in the control of information since the Liberals took office last week.

Fanendo Adi scored in the 31st minute and the Portland Timbers eliminated the Vancouver Whitecaps from the MLS playoffs with a 2-0 victory at BC Place on Sunday.

Kyle Palmieri scored on the power play with 1:27 left in overtime and the New Jersey Devils endured a third-period rally by the Vancouver Canucks for a 4-3 victory on Sunday night.

Aboriginal veterans marched through downtown Vancouver to mark National Aboriginal Veterans Day in Canada which was first was celebrated in Manitoba in 1994 and is now held every year on November 8.

Embankment to be searched with thermal imaging cameras to verify existence of possible cargo of stolen gold and artworks

Liberal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says his government is committed to federal workplaces free of harassment or sexual violence and will review cases of women with claims against the RCMP.

Afghanistan war veterans Donald Hookey and Mark Gauci spent 24 consecutive hours outside this weekend at the 2nd annual Vigil for Veterans.

Alberta is joining other provinces in Canada in recognizing military driving training, making it easier for veterans to find work as commercial truckers.

It's been 100 years since John McCrae penned 'In Flanders' Fields,' the famous First World War poem. When he wrote the poem, McCrae was a major and a doctor with the Canadian military in Belgium.

Officers from multiple police forces were on alert Saturday afternoon as around 300 people gathered east of Montreal for the funeral of a man who police have linked to the Hells Angels.

A 24-metre-long dead blue whale weighing over 100 tons washed ashore this week north of Gold Beach, Oregon. The emaciated whale was dead for about two weeks before it washed onto the sandy beach Monday 16 kilometres north of Gold Beach

Across Britain, people paused for a moment's silent reflection Sunday to remember the country's war dead as Queen Elizabeth II led an annual service in the capital.

A wartime art project that was inspired by Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson and was meant to bolster the morale of Canadian troops in the Second World War is on display at The Military Museums in Calgary.

Seven years after Katelynn Sampson's small, battered body was discovered in a Toronto apartment, a coroner's inquest will investigate just what allowed the little girl to be beaten to death by her legal guardians.

Emergency environment services are at the scene of a diesel leak in the St. Lawrence River.

The hiker from Ontario who died in Kluane National Park in July attempted to cross a creek without undoing the straps on his 36 kilogram pack, ruled Yukon's chief coroner.

For the first time in a decade, the Yukon River Quest has added a new category to its 715 kilometre race from Whitehorse to Dawson City. Solo stand up paddleboarding will be added to the roster in 2016, as an experimental class exempt from prize money.

International passengers departing Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh continued to line up for flights on Sunday, as the first of three teams of Russian inspectors was dispatched to the country to examine airport security following last weekend's a

Get in your seat early and be ready to clap, chant and cheer. That's the message from hardcore Vancouver Whitecaps supporters. The Vancouver Whitecaps will play the Portland Timbers on Sunday in the second game of the MLS Western Conference semi-final ser

Wayne Abbott travels to deserted battlefields looking for lost objects that will bring to life the memories of those who died in battle with their relatives around the world.

Rasmus Ristolainen scored two goals, including the game-winner with 16.8 seconds left in regulation, leading the Buffalo Sabres to a 3-2 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday.

Drew Tate threw for two touchdown passes and the Calgary Stampeders defeated the B.C. Lions 28-7 on Saturday in the regular-season finale for both teams.

Henry Burris set a single season record for completions, Greg Ellingson caught three touchdown passes and the Ottawa Redblacks clinched first place in the East Division with a 44-28 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats on Saturday.

Bill Reid's robust baritone has been filling the concrete halls of Appleby GO Station for 27 years leading up to Remembrance Day each year.

Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, a reserve officer, and Lt. Derrick Stafford, 32, were arrested Friday night by the Louisiana State Police for the fatal shooting of Jeremy Mardis on Tuesday.

One of the biggest parties in Indian culture has fallen on one of Canada's most solemn occasions. Diwali is also known as the Festival of Lights. Fireworks are a major part of the celebrations and festival organizers wanted to know whether fireworks were

A mosquito that is both invasive and able to carry a number of serious diseases has been found in stagnant water in the Lower Mainland.

A team of veterinarians successfully performed the first canine open-heart surgery in British Columbia this week.

Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for much of the South Coast for heavy rain Friday into Saturday morning.