In the midst of this week's global financial meltdown, we ask -- just what kind of risk management software were these financial giants using, anyway? Also, how much would you pay for therapy via cell phone? We also travel to India where we hear about a website designed to help busy Indians arrange their marriages. And we end with news that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will add a sixth book to the increasingly unaptly named trilogy. Find out who's going to write it. Show notes, links and pics at tinyurl.com/wtpblog.

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Today on The World: World leaders gathered at the United Nations address the global financial crisis; An espionage case in Estonia harks back to the Cold War; and a conversation with the American ambassador in Baghdad.

The global financial crisis was top of the agenda today as world leaders gathered in New York for the UN General Assembly. The World's Katy Clark has our story.

Video: President Bush calls for unity at the UN

The current US financial crisis has sparked calls for more regulation and oversight. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Adam Posen, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, about looking to Europe for regulatory models.

This weekend a former defense ministry official in Estonia was arrested for treason. The official is suspected of selling NATO secrets to Russia. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Edward Lucas, deputy editor of "The Economist," about the case.

The Chinese province of Ningxia is about a thousand miles from Beijing, but people there are feeling the effects of China's growing tainted milk scandal. The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports.

Food and nutrition professor Marion Nestle tells anchor Lisa Mullins that the infant formula scandal under way China isn't unprecedented. She says similar food quality scares have happened before in China and in the US.

Ambassador Crocker

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the US Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, about the current state of life in Iraq.

The corruption watchdog group, Transparency International, has released its list of most and least corrupt countries. We hear from four correspondents about some of the most corrupt countries, David McGuffin in Somalia, Quil Lawrence in Afghanistan, Gerry Hadden in Bulgaria and James Ingham in Venezuela.