The United States named a new poet laureate today. Charles Simic and his family fled what was then communist Yugoslavia in the 1950s. He didn't actually learn English until he came to the United States as a teenager. Anchor Aaron Schachter has more:

Today's answer is the Guatemalan city of Quetzaltanango, where tourists go to see Mayan culture and active volcanoes. A cemetery in the city is a local attraction. Many Guatemalans go there to seek advice about their love lives from a legendary woman. Reporter Chana Joffe-Walt explains.

Anchor Aaron Schachter introduces us to Argentinean Maria Volonte. She's one of the most celebrated tango singers today. But it's tango flavored with jazz and bossa nova.

Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with the BBC's John Sudworth in Bangladesh, where heavy monsoon rains have flooded large parts of the country. The flood waters have destroyed crops, washed out roads and killed hundreds. Millions of people have been displaced as well.

Wednesday's bridge collapse in Minneapolis is raising questions about aging infrastructure in many places around the world. Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Tom Foulkes, of the Institution of Civil Engineers in London, about Britain's aging infrastructure.

France's president Nicholas Sarkozy is taking a vacation. He's decided to spend the next two weeks at the lakeside resort of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Previous French leaders have given US vacations a pass. But the new French president has made no secret of his fondness for the United States. The World's Jeb Sharp reports.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has acknowledged that U-S officials underestimated how difficult it would be to make political progress in Iraq. Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Washington Post Baghdad correspondent Sudarsan Raghavan about the timing of Gates' comment.

The World's Rob Hugh Jones reports from London on a story that has captured the heart of many Britons. It's about John and Will Rigby, twins who served in the British military. They were deployed together in Iraq, until a roadside bomb hit one of them on their 24th birthday.

France has approved a 400 million dollar weapons deal with Libya. That's raised questions about French dealings with Libya. The French president was involved in negotiations to secure the recent release of Bulgarian nurses jailed by Libya. Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Rene Backmann, Foreign Editor of French newsmagazine "Le Nouvel Observateur."