Correspondent Matthew Brunwasser reports on a small Bulgarian town where heavy metal still rules.

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This week's podcast comes to you from the Wired NextFest in New York City. Jason Margolis looks at all the newest technologies on display. The latest robots, looking to put your local bartender out of work. A surgical experiment in zero gravity. Bringing the Internet to rural Filipino seaweed farmers. Nomadic Mexicans using lanterns, powered by energy. New games, where the joystick is controlled by your brainwaves. And the airline boarding passes of tomorrow.

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The World's Aaron Schachter reports from southern Afghanistan on new challenges for girls attending school there. A Taliban resurgence in the region has left some students fearing for their lives if they continue attending classes.

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Host Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Martin Smith about the PBS-Frontline special airing tonight, entitled "Return of the Taliban." While following the story, Smith spent months in Pakistan interviewing current and former Pakistani and Talabani officials, including President Pervez Musharraf.

It has been a long journey for America's newest refugees, the Meskhetian Turks. Many are hoping to escape the escalating ethnic tensions and violence in their native southern Russia. Correspondent Julia Barton reports.

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France is abuzz with the announcement today of a new 126 million dollar art museum to be built in Paris. The World's Gerry Hadden has the story of the museum which is to be designed by US architect Frank Gehry.

The World's Matthew Bell reports on North Korea's announcement that it will carry out a nuclear test. The announcement was condemned by the United States and other nations today.

Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Dan Oberdofer of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies about Ban Ki-Moon, the South Korean diplomat poised to succeed Kofi Annan as United Nations Secretary General.

Today we're looking for the site of the oil and gas platform known as Troll A. It stands on the sea floor 1,000 feet below the surface of the body of water that we're searching for.