British television

With one week to November 4th, the countdown to the presidency is on, and the poll numbers all over the (Electoral College) map. The Takeaway look at the states in play and the ones on the sidelines.

The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is the village of Blackburn, in West Lothian, Scotland. It’s the hometown of Susan Boyle, the singing sensation who wowed judges on the British TV show “Britain’s Got Talent.”

A new documentary called “Baghdad High” chronicles the lives of four Iraqi boys during their last year in high school. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with co-director Laura Winter, and with one of the boys in the film, named Ali.

Britain’s prime minister Gordon Brown apologized today for causing millions of British citizens “inconvenience and worries.” The government says it’s lost track of two computer disks containing personal data on half the country’s population. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets details from the Washington Post’s London bureau chief Mary Jordan.