A new Senate report on the state of Canada's media calls for an ad-free CBC and limits on market share for giant media companies.

The Beeb's Paul Reynolds on the Haditha massacre, where U.S. Marines are accused of going on a killing spree last November following a roadside bombing. Several factors may have led to the problems there, he finds.

Beeb journalist Steve Rosenberg has spent the past few weeks touring the North Caucasus region of southern Russia -- home to such newsworthy places as Chechnya and North Ossetia, where  Beslan is situated.