Today on The World: The US death toll in Iraq went down for the month of May -- we'll find out what factor may explain that statistic; Republican presidential candidate John McCain calls for a worldwide divestment campaign against Iran, similar to the one against apartheid-era South Africa; and how better weather forecasts could help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change.

The U.S. death toll in Iraq plunged last month to the lowest level since the war began. The Iraqi death toll also declined in May. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad about the factors that contribute to those statistics.

John McCain is calling for a worldwide divestment campaign against Iran. And he's invoking the memory of a similar campaign against South Africa. The World's Matthew Bell reports.

The city of San Jose, California, has experienced a rash of unusual purse-snatchings lately: most of the victims are Vietnamese-American. Correspondent Lonny Shavelson reports from San Jose

Robert Mugabe

Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Laura Lynch about a world food summit taking place in Rome, Italy. Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, is there. That has drawn criticism from those who say that he is responsible for food shortages in his own country.

Anchor Lisa Mullins has the story of a retired New York couple who came to the aid of school children in Zimbabwe. Mark Grashow and Sheri Saltzberg were traveling in southern Africa when they saw the deprivation experienced by hundreds of Zimbabwean school children and decided to do something about it.

Political scandals are nothing new in Israel. But now that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is under fire in the latest such scandal, many Israelis are fed up. Matt Gutman reports from Jerusalem.

In many developing countries, people can't turn on CNN or the BBC for a weather report. With climate change in the forecast, that's a problem, as Julia Kumari Drapkin reports.

For today's Geo Quiz we're looking for the name of the island nation that's home to the fastest man on earth, Usian Bolt.

The World's Gerry Hadden reports that Spanish shepherds are seeing the paths they use to move their flocks to pasture increasingly encroached upon by developers.