For our Geo Quiz --- we wanted to match some "hard to translate" phrases with their country of origin. ("Poronkusema" means "the distance equal to how far a reindeer can travel without a comfort break". And "Hanyauku-Rukwangali" means "walking on tiptoes across warm sand." The first is heard in Finland, the second in Namibia.) Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Adam Jacot de Boinod, author of Toujours Tingo, a book about the extraordinary variety of international speech.

The World's Mary Kay Magistad tells us about a group of singing and dancing grandmothers from Tajikistan. The youngest is 50, the oldest 80.

This week we're going first to Africa, where we'll hear about an ingenious idea for bringing light to rural areas. Hint -- think wind-up. Also, Yahoo executives will be in Washington next week to testify before Congress on their activities in China. We'll have a podcast preview. Also, a new generation of Burmese pro-democracy activists are embracing new tools like Facebook. Finally, is it possible to go from Point A to Point B in the UK WITHOUT being filmed by a CCTV camera? We'll find out.

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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is calling for mass protests against the state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf this past Saturday. Bhutto says she'll hold a big rally in Lahore next week, followed by a march to the capital, if Musharraf doesn't lift emergency rule. Correspondent Laura Lynch reports from Islamabad.

Nawaz Sharif was Prime Minister of Pakistan until 1999 when he was ousted by General Musharraf in a military coup. He's currently in exile in Saudi Arabia. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with him today about the state of emergency imposed by President Musharraf.

A Canadian detainee at the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay is scheduled to get a hearing tomorrow. Omar Khadr is accused of throwing a grenade that killed a US soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. At issue is whether Khadr is an unlawful enemy combatant and thus subject to a trial. The hearing could be the first full military commission at Guantánamo. And the camp is building courtrooms to prepare for dozens more. The World's Katy Clark has more from Guantánamo.

An update on a story from yesterday's show. Doctors in India performed a complex operation on a two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs. The procedure took more than 24 hours. Doctors say the surgery was successful. Anchor Marco Werman has details.

He's a diminutive French leader of immigrant background who took the country by storm. We're not talking about French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who delivered an address to the US Congress today. We're talking about Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon is currently the subject of a major exhibit at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. The World's Adeline Sire took a tour.

In France, it's illegal to name a pig Napoleon. In the US, it's against the law to get a fish drunk in Ohio. Anchor Marco Werman looks at a list of ridiculous laws from around the world.