The World's Gerry Hadden meets an elderly man in the Italian city of Turin who remembers when the action in the nearby mountains was more than just Olympic competition...it was war.

Several members of Spain's Olympic team got off to a bad start when they arrived in Turin today. Their luggage...including skis, snowboards, and cases...did not arrive with them. Host Marco Werman gets the story from Diego Torres, journalist with the Madrid newspaper, "El Pais".

The World's Aaron Schachter reports from Lebanon about the continued protests over the cartoon controversy.

Muslim anger exploded over the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed only last week. But the issue has been simmering in the Muslim world for months. Reporter Hassan Fattah has been following the controversy since it began. Host Quil Lawrence speaks with him.

A new Islamic television channel starts broadcasting next month across the Arab world. Its creators say they want to spread a modern message of Islam. Correspondent Ursula Lindsey reports from Cairo.

Our daily geography puzzler.

The World's Marco Werman meets partners in life and on stage...Mi and L'au. Their music has been called beautiful, quiet...and slooooooooow.

Today's geoanswers are Egypt and Ivory Coast, the two countries playing in the final soccer match of the Africa Cup of Nations.

For Technology Podcast #84, we're going to give you on update on the National Security Agency's domestic spying program. This week, behind mostly closed doors, NSA and other Bush Administration officials provided detailed technical and operational information about the surveillance program to intelligence committees in both the House and Senate. We look into the history of domestic surveillance in the United States, and what technologies were used. Also, an extended discussion with The World's Quil Lawrence, who is freshly back from Iraq. We talk war tech of all stripes, and give you a taste of what it's like for a foreign correspondent to file on deadline.

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Today Egyptian authorities allowed visitors the first public glimpse of a burial site in the Valley of the Kings. It's considered the most important discovery since the tomb of "King Tut'" was unearthed more than 80 years ago. Host Quil Lawrence speaks with BBC correspondent Ian Pannell, who was one of the lucky visitors.