Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with sports writer Qaiser Mohammad Ali from India's "Sakaal Times" newspaper about India's traditionally poor performance at the Olympic Games.

Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us about a verbal skirmish between China and Taiwan over how Taiwan's official Olympic name is translated.

China's push to urbanize its western reaches has increased the percentage of Han Chinese in those regions, and made local economies boom. But as The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports, this Western expansion has also left members of other ethnic groups feeling marginalized in their own lands.

Xining fan dance

Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us about two Americans who've learned to speak Mandarin Chinese, but still struggle occassionally with how to say the right thing.

John Pasden studies applied linguistics in Shanghai

Joe Sinisi has been trying his Mandarin in Beijing

For today's Geo Quiz, we're looking for a city of 1.5 million people on Japan's Honshu island.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is the Japanese city of Kyoto. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with travel writer Don George about his day wandering around the city in search of Japanese wood-block art.

Issa Bagayogo is known throughout Mali as Techno-Issa. He combines West African traditional music with European techno. Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us about his latest release.

“Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover."

At least that's what a New Yorker spokesman said in a written statement about this week's magazine cover. It depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife Michelle as a gun-toting militant.

The American heritage dictionary defines satire as a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

Satire has a long history in American political cartoons and caricatures. But does satire translate globally? You be the judge. Here's an alternate New Yorker cover designed by Brazilian cartoonist Siamanca Ozmoni.

Obama on the New Yorker: July 21, 2008. "The Politics of Fear"

Spoofing the New Yorker: Alternative Cover: Siamanca Ozmoni, Brazil.

“Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd. And that's the spirit of this cover."

At least that's what a New Yorker spokesman said in a written statement about this week's magazine cover. It depicts Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed as a Muslim and his wife Michelle as a gun-toting militant.

The American heritage dictionary defines satire as a literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

Satire has a long history in American political cartoons and caricatures. But does satire translate globally? You be the judge. Here's an alternate New Yorker cover designed by Brazilian cartoonist Siamanca Ozmoni.

Obama on the New Yorker: July 21, 2008. "The Politics of Fear"

Spoofing the New Yorker: Alternative Cover: Siamanca Ozmoni, Brazil.

The Pew Global Attitudes Project surveyed more than 24,000 people in 24 countries to find out what the world thinks about the U.S. and the 2008 elections.