Houston's fans encouraged to watch funeral on TV

Brigitte Dusseau
Music greats and Hollywood icons joined family members of Whitney Houston at a church in her hometown to pay tribute to her a week after her death.

'We won't go!': Face-off looms at New York protest square

Brigitte Dusseau
Anti-Wall Street protesters vowed a pre-dawn show of strength to prevent their eviction from the symbolic Manhattan square.

Hurricane Irene sends Americans fleeing

Brigitte Dusseau
Hurricane Irene blasted ashore near Cape Lookout, North Carolina in a weakened but still massive category one storm that has sent Americans fleeing.

Strauss-Kahn charges may be dropped

Brigitte Dusseau
Dominique Strauss-Kahn could be freed this week, as prosecutors reportedly prepare to dismiss charges that he sexually assaulted a hotel maid.

Blair marks 10 years in power before bowing out

Brigitte Dusseau
British Prime Minister Tony Blair will celebrate 10 years in power next week, a landmark clouded by growing questions over his legacy as he prepares finally to stand down. The Iraq war and a "cash-for-honours" corruption probe over party funding both threaten to tarnish his image and overshadow Britain's booming economic success of the last decade.

Belfast's troubled past now a must-see for tourists

Brigitte Dusseau
"Over there is the Protestant area. And there, behind the wall in the middle of the road are the Catholics," says Alan Hoy with a smile as he tells tales of Belfast's hardest working-class areas. His taxi carefully parked on the kerb, Hoy works for one of seven cab firms that now take the curious to north and west Belfast to explain all about what is still euphemistically called around here "The Troubles".
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