The Geo Quiz takes us to an oil-rich city on the Caspian Sea where 42 countries are competing to win a song contest. The event is shining a spotlight on the poor human rights record of this former Soviet state.
It is the first time in the Egypt’s history that voters can freely choose their president.
Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov was already a wealthy man but the public trading of Facebook shares has made him even wealthier. He and his business associates own almost 10 percent of Facebook.
Reporter Allan Little has a reflection on the day he met Bosnia Serb General Ratko Mladic. “I shook his hand,” Little said. “He held it firmly and wouldn’t let go for what seemed to me to be many minutes. He drew unnervingly close – just a few inches from my face.”
JPMorgan confirmed that a senior executive involved in the firm’s $2 billion loss is to resign. A single trader, Bruno Iksil, is believed to be responsible for very costly derivative trades.
Algeria is holding parliamentary elections. The North African country’s military-backed government describes them as the most open and transparent for decades. But Algerians aren’t rushing to the polls, according to Financial Times correspondent Borzou Daragahi.
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has been given permission to study abroad. The US says it expects China to move quickly to allow the legal activist, Chen Guangcheng, to travel.
Chen Guangcheng has been persecuted in China for his work pressing for an end to forced abortions and sterilizations under China’s “one-child” policy. And that work has helped Chen gain support in the US.
There’s confusion and uncertainty in the West African state of Mali. Members of the military who staged a coup five weeks ago say they fought off an attempt by troops loyal to the ousted president to seize back power.
Human rights campaigners in China say the prominent dissident lawyer, Chen Guangcheng, has escaped from house arrest. Chen, who is blind, had been under house arrest since his release from jail in 2010.
The Soviet Union was a bureaucratic nightmare. Even the smallest task involved piles of paperwork and forms to fill out. Even now in modern-day Russia, that’s still the case if you want to get clothes dry cleaned.
Raymond Taavel was murdered on Tuesday in the Canadian city of Halifax when he tried to intervene in a fight outside of a bar.
A new report examines how deeply people in different countries believe in God, and how their belief has changed over time. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with report author Tom Smith, of the University of Chicago’s National Opinion Research Center.
Right-wing extremist Anders Breivik said at his trial on Tuesday that Norway’s capital, Oslo, is a “multicultural hell”. He said some neighborhoods in Oslo have become no-go zones for anyone but Muslims. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Daniella Van Dijk-Wennberg, of Oslo’s Intercultural Museum, about diversity and tolerance in Norway’s capital.
Ed Sheeran, at just 21-years-old, is already a household name in the his native England. He’s had a number one album in the UK. And a top 5 hit song. Now, he’s in the US to introduce his flavor of folky pop to American listeners. Anchor Marco Werman is joined in the studio by singer/songwriter Ed Sheeran.
