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 global fusion band Rupa and the April Fishes is on tour. For each performance audience members pedal bicycles that generate the electricity for the concerts.
Alex Gallafent looks at how countries go about creating their own government websites to market themselves to their own citizens. One North Korean website does it on the cheap, it uses a web template designed by someone in California.
Luz Elen Mendoza spent her summers among Mexicans immigrants and family members working the fields in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Those experiences helped form musical themes and images in the songs she has written for her band Y La Bamba.
Remembrance Day reminds Israelis and Palestinians that they still have a long road to peace.
Sufi music is being used in Turkish hospitals to calm patients. Reporter Matthew Brunwasser tells us that studies suggest that using music can cut stress quite significantly.
Last week, two Cuban actors, en route to the screening of their film “Una Noche” at the Tribeca film festival in New York, disappeared during a layover in Miami. It has been speculated that the two were defectors. Reporter Susan Stone interviewed the actors during the Berlin International Film Festival last February and speaks to anchor Marco Werman about her interview with them.
For the Geo Quiz, we want you to name a volcano about 35 miles outside Mexico City which has been rumbling and sending up clouds of ash and steam in recent days.
Austrian musical duo Attewenger mixes fast-paced accordion with dance-friendly (and a little bit crazed) beats. The World’s Alex Gallafent met the band in New York recently and spoke with them about road trips, swamps and funk.
“The World Before Her”, a new documentary film playing at Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, portrays a stark choice for Indian women, and a stark choice for India itself. The World’s Alex Gallafent takes a look.
Nearly 3,000 people died in Kabul last year as a result of an intangible threat – air pollution.
Paco de Lucía has been performing since he was 11-years-old and recorded his first album in 1964. Anchor Marco Werman spoke to him during a recent stop in Boston.
Low-budget artists from the West are exploring the opportunity to tap into India’s creative energy turning it into an arts outsourcing destination.
Just a year ago, trade between Turkey and Syria was booming. Gaziantep in southern Turkey is known as one of the “Anatolian Tigers” for its dramatic economic growth, driven by industry and border trade. But the boomtown has been hit hard by the crisis next door. From Gaziantep, Matthew Brunwasser reports.
A street festival featuring giant marionettes is taking place this weekend in Liverpool, England. Lisa Mullins talks with Liverpool City Council’s Judith Feather about the spectacle.
