The World's Aaron Schachter reports that Lebanon's world of fashion is gaining clout on the international stage.

For today's Geo Quiz, we were looking for an area in the west of Ireland marked by the Twelve Bens. The answer is Connemara, home of our featured Global Hit artist, singer Bridgit Fitzgerald.

Today on The World: What President Obama's budget says to the globe about U.S. priorities; Also, tensions between rival tribes in Kenya continue, a year after the country's leaders sought to end tribal violence; And a Canadian journalist compares the China she experienced as an exchange student in the 1970's to the China she sees today.

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Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with MIT economist Simon Johnson about what's in President Obama's proposed budget -- and what it says to the world about U.S. priorities.

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A key element of the proposed budget President Obama unveiled today is a plan to make renewable energy more profitable. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Mark Hertsgaard who writes about the environment for The Nation and Vanity Fair.

The Bush administration resisted efforts for an international agreement to control mercury pollution. But the Obama administration has taken a different position. And that's made way for a new agreement among environmental officials around the world. The World's Environmental Editor Peter Thomson has the story.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Canadian journalist Jan Wong about her new book, "A Comrade Lost and Found." In the early 1970s, Wong was one of only two Western exchange students at China's Beijing University. At one point Wong was approached by a Chinese student who wanted to go to the U.S. Wong, who supported Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution, reported the student to her teacher. Years later, a conscience-stricken Wong returned to China to try to trace the student and learn her fate. Along the way, she revisited many of the characters she knew in her youth and her book chronicles the changes which have taken place in China over the past three decades.

Rumors of censorship have kicked up a fuss at Dubai's first-ever literary festival. Anchor Lisa Mullins explains.

The Defense Department has announced it will allow news organizations to take photos of flag-draped coffins of fallen soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with David Perlmutter, a documentary photographer and journalism professor at the University of Kansas, about the impact of the policy shift and why the ban was first put in place.

President Obama's budget released today shows little change in military spending, but the President continues to hint that cuts could be forthcoming. The World's Jeb Sharp looks at what might end up on the chopping block.