The vote count is underway in Egypt after its landmark election, with the well-organized Muslim Brotherhood expected to make major gains.
Burmese cartoonist Harn Lay shows what Hillary Clinton is stepping through and around in making her historic trip to Burma.
This Week: We learn about a new report that provides an in-depth look at the Fukushima disaster, hours and days after north-eastern Japan was struck by an earthquake and tsunami. European scientists have turned to DNA technology to identify illegally harvested fish. What do humans and ants have in common? Warfare, says ant researcher Mark Moffett. He says humans and ants fight in similar ways.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Burma on the first visit by such a senior American diplomat in 50 years.
Aung Zaw, a veteran of the 1988 protests in Myanmar, says Hillary Clinton’s visit is welcome, but that the civilian government has to take certain concrete steps, like releasing the remaining political prisoners, before it can say it is serious about reform.
New conflict in Kachin State shows how hard reform in Myanmar will be.
For nearly 100 years, the Australian government forcibly took children from Aborigine families and placed them with white families. These children became known as the “Stolen Generations.” Most of these children remained in Australia, but a small number was taken abroad.
Oscar Wilde’s refurbished tomb has been officially unveiled in Paris. It seems the sculpture that adorns the grave had been damaged by the many visitors who planted kisses on the stone monument, leaving their lipstick behind.
Tunes spun on The World between our reports for November 30, 2011. Artists featured are: Baaba Maal, Mansour Seck, Aqua Velvet, Kaya Project, Toubab Krewe, Jali Musa Jawara.
Tens of thousands attend rallies around the UK as a public sector strike over pensions disrupts schools, hospitals and other services.
Lisa Mullins talks with Laith Kubba, Senior Director for the Middle East & North Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, about how Egypt’s elections are being viewed across the Arab world.
Southern Thailand is riven with clashes between ethnic Malay Muslims and Thai Buddhists. The conflict takes place on a local level but the Muslim imam and the Buddhist abbot in one town are childhood friends.
A judge in Chile has indicted a former US military officer in a murder case that inspired the 1982 Oscar-winning movie “Missing.” We talk with Joyce Horman, the widow of slain American journalist Charles Horman.
The former president of Ivory Coast, Laurent Gbagbo has gone to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. One of his biggest critics, Ivorian reggae singer Tiken Jah Fakoly, has a new album out with several choice songs for this moment.
