The World's Alex Gallafent considers what politicians, diplomats and other officials think about when they talk about peace.

The winner of this year's Miss Belgium contest got into trouble recently. She couldn't answer a question in Dutch -- one of Belgium's official languages. She speaks French, the country's other official language. But her linguistic misstep highlights the country's current identity crisis. Anchor Lisa Mullins explains.

The man who could be Russia's next president has a good name for the job. Dmitri Medvedev last name has roots in the Russian word for bear. And the bear is a traditional symbol of Russia. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from Svetlana Savranskaya, who directs Russian programs at the National Security Archives of George Washington University.

For our Geo Quiz --- we wanted to match some "hard to translate" phrases with their country of origin. ("Poronkusema" means "the distance equal to how far a reindeer can travel without a comfort break". And "Hanyauku-Rukwangali" means "walking on tiptoes across warm sand." The first is heard in Finland, the second in Namibia.) Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Adam Jacot de Boinod, author of Toujours Tingo, a book about the extraordinary variety of international speech.

The language spoken in France's immigrant neighborhoods doesn't sound much like French -- especially that spoken by young people. But the kids do want to be understood. So they've created a slang dictionary to help others in France understand them. Genevieve Oger reports.

Terry Fitzpatrick reports on South Africa's national anthem. The song is a blend of protest lyrics from the anti-apartheid movement and lyrics from the country's old Afrikaaner anthem. The lyrics are in five different languages, and many South Africans have trouble remembering the words.

The BBC's Caroline Gluck reports on a village in Taiwan where people can speak only English. The village is not real -- it's attached to a school and is designed as a learning tool to teach young Taiwanese the English language.

Ruxandra Guidi reports from Bolivia on the launch of a new computer software that uses the Aymara language. That's an indigenous language spoken by more than a million Bolivians. Up to now, Aymara speakers had to use English or Spanish commands to use a computer. Now for the first time, they can use software developed for their own language.

The World's Patrick Cox takes us into South Africa's small but growing hip hop scene.

Dorian Merina takes us to New York City's Bangladeshi immigrant community where a new form of hip hop has emerged. The new music is popular not just with immigrants in New York, but with people back in Bangladesh as well.