We take a look at the view from across the pond where American businesses are fretting over the eurozone debt crisis. We then head to Canada where the oil industry is turning to China as the Unites States spurns the offer of a joint pipeline. Finally, we see how a good American football performance on a Friday night can lead to fame and future in Texas.
Recent medical progress is allowing our pets to live longer, healthier lives. In this week's show we speak to vets in France, the UK and Canada to find out what's on offer in the growing world of pet medicine.
A Canadian jury on Sunday sentenced an Afghan father, mother and son to life in prison for killing the family's three teenage daughters, allegedly because they defied family rules on dress and socialising, as well as the father's first wife.
Two Canadian courts on Monday rejected an appeal for a stay of deportation from Leon Mugesera, accused of delivering a speech that helped incite the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which radical ethnic Hutus killed as many as 800,000 Tutsis.
Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the founders and CEOs of Canadian telecom company Research in Motion, resigned Sunday. The masterminds behind the popular BlackBerry phone said it was time to "pass the baton" to new leadership.
The Independent attacks the "moralising hypocrisy" of the super rich, but the Economist says the corporate elite are not as powerful as we think they are. And as the Keystone XL pipeline deal from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico is dropped, the papers wonder if Barack Obama is standing up to Big Oil, or simply putting a controversial plan on hold until the electoral winds blow over.
US President Barack Obama rejected on Wednesday a proposed Keystone oil pipeline that would run from Canada to Texas, saying he could not assess its environmental impact by a Feb. 21 deadline put forth by Republicans, which Obama called "arbitrary".
Remains exhumed this month in the Ivory Coast do not belong to a missing French-Canadian journalist, a family lawyer said Thursday. Guy-André Kieffer was investigating corruption in the cocoa industry when he disappeared in Abidjan in 2004.
The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday against a legal challenge to EU plans to charge airlines for their carbon emissions. The court dismissed claims from US, Canadian and other carriers that the plan violates international aviation pacts.
Canada's Foreign Minister John Baird (photo) announced Thursday that Ottawa would be organising a "voluntary evacuation" of its nationals from Syria over the next month, saying the situation in the country "continues to deteriorate".
