More than 700 million Indians are eligible to vote in the country's month long general election. It's the world's biggest exercise in democracy. To document the event, a BBC team of journalists have embarked on an 18-day train journey across the nation.

Today on The World: The psychological effect of the swine flu outbreak on Mexicans; Also, the pressure grows for a US investigation of the alleged torture of terrorism suspects; How the head of Italian automaker FIAT could change things at Chrysler.

We start out all bookish this week. We hear about Google's plan to digitally scan every book in the world, and make those books available to everyone with an internet connection. Also, UNESCO wants in on that action too, with a project called The World Digital Library. Then, an in-depth look at e-publishing; are paper books a thing of the past? Then, we hear about some Internet filtering circumvention technology called Psiphon. And we end with Yahoo's bid to trick out bikes with net cams and geo-location software.

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The World's Lorne Matalon examines the psychological effect the swine flu outbreak has had so far on people in Mexico.

Lorne Matalon's Mexico stories

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Ellen Silbergeld, professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, about what scientists know so far about the swine flu virus, or "Influenza AH1N1." Some think industrial-size pig farms in Mexico may have played a role in creating the virus.

Global swine flu outbreak

The World's Jeb Sharp reports that the US government is under increasing pressure to launch an inquiry into the alleged abuse of terrorism suspects. Demonstrators protested outside the White House today. President Obama has so far been reluctant to begin an investigation.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks to literary critic Elaine Showalter about Britain's new poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. She's the first woman to hold the post.

Carol Ann Duffy

The BBC's Mike Costello reports on Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao -- a hero back home who's going for a world light welterweight crown tomorrow in Las Vegas.

May Day celebrations around the world were marked by protests over the global economic crisis. The World's Gerry Hadden has the story.

The World's Matthew Bell tries to explain why world stock markets jumped in April despite continued global economic troubles.

Global economic crisis