In the state of Iowa, God and politics are intertwined. Evangelicals carry a lot of weight in the caucus: in 2008, over half of Republican caucus-goers were Evangelicals. With Newt Gingrich's popularity fading over his record as an adulterer who has married three times, Evangelicals are split. The results of their indecision will be soon be revealed.
Williston, North Dakota is confronted with the unusual problem of having too many unfilled jobs and not enough empty beds. The town's population has nearly doubled over the past three years, following the discovery of the biggest oil reserve ever found in the United States. As our reporters Emmanuel Saint-Martin and Nathan King found out, the discovery has had a huge impact on what was once a quiet town.
Thousands of firefighters, police officers and emergency crews who fought to save lives at the World Trade Center are now fighting to save their own, as they battle ailments caused from inhaling toxic dust as the buildings crumbled. It took the government nine years to pass a bill guaranteeing treatment and compensation for the so-called First Responders from 9/11.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is not the first person to be charged with sexually assaulting a New York chambermaid. The scandal brings back bad memories for Matthew Moorhouse, an Australian accused of attempting to rape a maid in a New York hotel in 2009. Today, although acquitted, he remains traumatised by his experience.
A newspaper - yet there's not a sheet of paper in sight. Rupert Murdoch's latest project shows just how news media has evolved in recent years. His new offering, The Daily, is a daily 'paper' that will be exclusively available on the iPad, and maximise use of 360° pictures, video and audio. It's a whole new way of catching up on what's happening in the world - but will it be better than its ink and paper brothers?
As Chinese President Hu Jintao meets his American counterpart Barack Obama in Washington, many Americans are worried about the dominance of Chinese trade in their country. They fear that the yuan is undervalued, meaning that US exports struggle to break into the Chinese markets, while imports from China are cheap to bring in and are in abundance. Yet some consumers are starting to fight back.
The oil slick is threatening to destroy the bayou in Venice, Louisiana, along with the livelihoods of the people who live there. France 24 takes you to the bayou...before it disappears for good.
It's a big week for Apple. Just the other day the creator of the iPod became the world's biggest technology firm. Apple overtook the former king of the hill Microsoft in terms of market capitalization. On Friday the company is passing another milestone: its newest addition, the iPad, goes on sale internationally.
Here is a movie review, entirely written and read by machine. A scary prospect? Yes, especially if you are a journalist, suddenly discovering that a robot could take your job. France 24 went to meet the two brains behind this fiendish plan: two professors at Northern University in Illinois, USA.
Providing health-care insurance to the 47 million Americans without it is Barack Obama's ambition. With Congress unlikely to act before their August recess, an army of supporters is campaigning to keep the issue alive.
