Quebec loses out on $33 billion dollars worth of shipbuilding contracts.

The government announced they were awarding two multi-billion dollar contracts to shipyards on the East and West coast.

Halifax’s Irving Shipbuilding landed the golden goose. The government awarded them a $25 billion dollar contract to build vessels for the navy.

The Greek parliament is backing up austerity plans for their country. This comes after protesters and police clash in Athens. The march, which happened during a forty-eight hour general strike, turned violent.

There's hope in the global fight against malaria. Infants given the RTS-S vaccine in a clinical trial in Africa had fifty per cent less chance of getting the disease.

Read by Joel Balsam

Stories by Joel Balsam, Lindsay Briscoe, Jacqueline Di Bartolomeo, Sarah Moore

Produced by Michael Lemieux