After meeting personally with opposition group leaders, AlJazeera English managing director Tony Burman seems to have secured a place for the channel in Canada's media landscape. Canadians now seem excited for a new voice in news, and ready for the network to hit airwaves this fall.

A new era in American politics begins next week as Barack Obama takes the oath making him the forty-forth president of the United States. But where will the reality meet expectation?

Mumbai is reeling in the wake of a string of co-ordinated attacks by armed men which left scores dead and hundreds injured.

Security forces on Saturday killed the last of the attackers at the Taj Mahal Hotel, three days after the gunmen had holed themselves up with several hostages. It seems that the terrorists came from Pakistan, and that they were targeting many different groups, including rich Western tourists, Orthodox Jews and most devastatingly, huge numbers of local citizens who were sprayed with gunfire at a busy train station.

Al Jazeera's Sohail Rahman looks at how the attacks and the subsequent security operations unfolded.