Road safety in Tanzania

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More than a million people die on the roads every year, the vast majority in the developing world. In some age groups the deaths outpace those from diseases like AIDS and malaria and yet those receive far more attention and funding. We go to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to witness a slice of the global epidemic in road traffic injuries and what can be done about it. Download MP3

• Audio slideshow: see images of the dangerous road from this report
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• World Health Organization: Road traffic injuries
• Make Roads Safe

The Jolly Boys revisited

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The Jolly Boys were playing dance music in Jamaica when Bob Marley was just a child. They’re still performing, and gaining a whole new audience for the music known as ‘mento.’ Madeleine Bair has the Global Hit from Kingston. Download MP3

• Video: ‘Rehab’ by The Jolly Boys
• Picture gallery
• Jolly Boys homepage
• Global Hit on Facebook

World Books Review: A Norwegian Ghost Story

Winner of this year’s prestigious International Ibsen Award, Norwegian writer Jon Fosse is considered one of Europe’s finest living playwrights. Yet he is virtually unknown in America. Judging from this compelling novella, the neglect is not deserved.

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Fraud claims mar Afghan elections

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC’s Dawood Azami about this weekend’s Afghan parliamentary vote. Election observers are voicing serious concerns about the process, citing reports of ballot stuffing; repeat-voting; and the use of fake voter IDs.

Indian epic gets modern treatment

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The ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata, is being retold in a new graphic novel that’s set to hit book stores around the world. Reporter Bruce Wallace has the story. (Artwork by Mukesh Singh. 18 DAYS © 2010 Liquid Comics LLC & Perspective Studios. All Rights Reserved) Download MP3

Millennium goals

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World leaders are gathering in New York to talk about progress on eight goals set back in 2000 as Millennium Development Goals to be met by 2015. Those goals include reducing poverty and hunger, promoting universal education and gender equality, and fighting HIV/AIDS. Anchor Lisa Mullins has the story.

Geo Quiz

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Our daily geography puzzler.

Indian companies encourage cultural training

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Correspondent Elliott Hannon reports from New Delhi, India where a demand for cross-cultural business training is growing.

Geo Answer

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The answer to our Geo Quiz today is the Kingdom of Bhutan, where a team of researchers has discovered tigers living more than 13,000 ft up in the Himalayas. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC’s Steve Backshall about some rare footage of the animals shot by a hidden camera in the mountains of Bhutan. Download MP3

• Video:Filming tigers in the Himalayas
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Letter to Mexican drug cartels

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A journalist for the Mexican newspaper, el Diario, was shot and killed in his car last week. This is the second journalist from the Juarez paper to be murdered in two years and people at the paper want to know why. The editors have just published an open letter appealing directly to various drug cartels in the city of Juarez. The World’s William Troop reports.

Music Heard on Air for September 20, 2010

Tunes Spun On The World Between Our Reports For September 20, 2010. Artists featured are Jan Garbarek, Outback, Los de Abajo, Kerekes Band, Moriba Koita, Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Edgar Meyer, Mongo Santamaria.

Lost land of the tiger

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For our Geo Quiz, we’re on the prowl for an unlikely tiger habitat. Scientists say fewer that 3,500 tigers remain in the wild throughout Asia. They’re limited to an area that’s about seven percent of their former range and they’re close to extinction. Some researchers recently set out to search for the tigers in a small kingdom at the eastern end of the Himalayas. Download MP3

Entire program – September 17, 2010

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Today on The World: The threat of Taliban violence looms over Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections tomorrow, Also, governments across Europe tell pharmaceutical companies they won’t pay as much for prescription drugs, And in Haiti, local artists find ways to create works of art from the rubble left behind by the earthquake.

Taliban threaten Afghan elections

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Afghans go to the polls this weekend, more than 2,500 candidates are competing for 249 seats in the lower house of parliament. Washington is watching the elections closely, as President Barack Obama prepares a war strategy review in December that is expected to consider the scale of plans to start withdrawing American troops from next year. Taliban insurgents are threatening to disrupt the vote. GlobalPost.com correspondent Jean Mackenzie is in Kabul. Download MP3

• BBC coverage: eve-of-poll kidnappings
• On The World: Female candidates risk all for Afghan elections
• BBC video:Young Afghans embrace polls

Haiti rubble art

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Artists in the Haitian coastal town of Jacmel, hard hit by the earthquake, are creating rubble art to sell to foreigners for much-needed income and to remind people of the tragedy. The World’s Amy Bracken reports. Download MP3

Slideshow: See photos of the artwork made of earthquake rubble

Neighbors improve relations over quake

Haiti health care system threatened