We start in Canada, where peaceful protests turn riotous as students take to the streets to voice their opposition to government plans to hike university tuition fees. Next, in the US, we look at a case that has touched a nerve among gay rights activists - a man is jailed for 30 days for filming his college roommate's gay kiss. Finally, we get up close with Hawaii's lava hunters - a few intrepid tourists in search of Hawaii's active volcano Kilauea.
Hurricane Irene, currently on track to hit the US Southeast, grew into a Category 2 hurricane late Monday and has the potential to develop into a monster Category 4 storm within 72 hours, according to the US National Hurricane Centre.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic are in the path of tropical storm Emily, meteorologists have reported. In the Dominican Republic, the military are moving people out of high-risk zones.
South Sudan prepares for the referendum on independence. Citizens of the Dominican Republic are asking for more investment in education. And a lip dub paying tribute to the biggest web sensations in recent years.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic have reported their first case of cholera just weeks after the outbreak gripped neighbouring quake-hit Haiti. The patient was identified as a Haitian citizen who recently returned from a holiday in Haiti.
An alleged drug kingpin known as the "Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean" was arrested Saturday by US federal agents in Puerto Rico after a decade-long manhunt.
Last Friday 10 US citizens were seized as they tried to move from Haiti to the neighbouring Dominican Republic with 33 children and infants. The Baptist group that took them says its intentions were good, but Haiti's interim prosecutor has announced the Americans may face charges of kidnapping minors and child-trafficking.
Two young French women jailed in the Dominican Republic for trafficking cocaine arrived in Paris on Wednesday after 18 months in prison following pressure for their release from President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.
Two French women who spent 18 months behind bars in the Dominican Republic for drug smuggling were freed on Tuesday after receiving a Christmas pardon from the country's president, Leonel Fernandez.
A team of archaeologists from Egypt and the Dominican Republic revealed that, after three years of research and the use of a radar scan, they have isolated three possible locations for the tomb of Cleopatra near a temple west of Alexandria.
