Mexico's President Felipe Calderón says the floods hitting southern Mexico are among the worst natural disasters in the country's history. Authorities say as much as 70 % of the state of Tabasco is under water. The World's William Troop reports.

While Buddhist monks in Burma continue to protest their country's military rulers, Burmese pro-democracy veterans in the U-S are trying to pass their revolutionary zeal to a younger generation. But the tech-savvy 2007 generation defines activism differently. Julia Kumari Drapkin reports.

The World's daily geography puzzler.

For today's Geo Quiz we were looking for a stop on the Paris Metro that opened it's doors 107 years ago and still sports its original Art Nouveau entrance gate. The answer is Paris's Port Dauphine station.

The public face of a Sri Lankan rebel group, the Tamil Tigers, S.P. Thamilselvan was killed today in an attack by the Sri Lankan air force. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the BBC's Roland Burk in the capital, Colombo, about the death of Thamilselvan and how it could lead to an escalation of civil war in Sri Lanka.

Indonesia's president has an unusual hobby for a political leader. He composes love songs. And now he's released a CD of them. Trish Anderton has a preview from Jakarta.

Police in Pakistan are cracking down on thousands of lawyers who are protesting the imposition of emergency rule in the country. President Pervez Musharraf declared the emergency and suspended the country's constitution on Saturday. The World's Aaron Schachter has the latest.

Political instability in Pakistan poses a foreign policy challenge for the United States. On the one hand, Washington wants Pakistan to move toward democracy. But the Bush Adminstration also relies heavily on cooperation from Pakistani President Musharraf in the fight against extremism in the region. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with James Traub, a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine.

There's outrage in Israel over a circumcision ceremony that took place yesterday. The ceremony happened on the 12th anniversary of prime mininster Yitzhak Rabin's assassination. And the baby's father was the man who killed him. Correspondent Matt Gutman reports from Jerusalem.