The World's Laura Lynch speaks with people in London who are reacting to the financial crisis by buying gold.
Pop star rises as stock market falls (1:00) October 2, 2008 download |permalink
Stocks crashed on Black Monday in 1987. It's also the same year British pop star Rick Astley had a hit. Anchor Lisa Mullins explains why Astley's musical stock is rising again.
Reporter Orin Gordon heads out on patrol with ex-American police officers on the anti-kidnapping beat in Haiti.
Telecommunications in Haiti aid effort (3:30) October 2, 2008 download |permalink
Haiti has suffered through four devastating storms in the past two months. Hundreds of thousands remain without adequate food, shelter and sanitation. United Nations relief efforts continue and key to the success of those efforts is telecommunications. The World's Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd reports.
Russia and the U.S. election (4:30) October 2, 2008 download |permalink
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with political consultant Mikhail Kouriatchev about Russia's bad press in the U.S. presidential election campaign.
Ukrainian-Americans on the vote (4:30) October 2, 2008 download |permalink
Roughly one million Americans claim Ukrainian ancestry. Many have been very worried about Ukraine's powerful neighbor Russia. And they're paying close attention to what the U.S. presidential candidates are saying about Russia, as The World's Jason Margolis reports.
Giving Lebanon’s Shia a political voice (4:30) October 2, 2008 download |permalink
Correspondent Ben Gilbert profiles Iranian-born Shia leader, Moussa al Sadr. Sadr gave Shiites a political voice in Lebanon. He disappeared 30 years ago on a visit to Libya.
Today's answer is Grosvenor Square in Westminster, London. That's where the US Embassy in London is located, but not for long. It's up for sale. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from historian Thomas Naftali.