Today on The World: What the US can learn from Britain's auto crisis of forty years ago; Also, why Britain's school minister wants to import Confucian-style teaching into the country's schools. Plus, how websites like Facebook and Twitter are affecting Iran's presidential campaign.

General Motors has filed for bankruptcy protection giving the U.S. government a 60 % stake in the company. But GM is a multinational with half of its sales and workers outside the US. The World's Jason Margolis reports on how GM's troubles will impact the future of the global auto industry.

Global economic crisis

Business is actually booming for GM in China. Sales there for the first five months of this year rose by more than a third over the same period last year. Today, GM said its problems in the US will have no impact on its thriving operations in China. The World's China correspondent Mary Kay Magistad says the Chinese aren't too worried about GM's bankruptcy.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with British journalist Giles Chapman about the crisis in Britain's auto industry 40 years ago. Back then, the British government intervened in a big way, just as the US government has done now.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC's Adam Mynott, who is at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. That's where an Air France plane en route from Rio de Janeiro was supposed to land this morning. Investigators are still trying to determine why the plane disappeared from radar and perhaps crashed while flying over the Atlantic Ocean.

Iran's President Ahmadinejad has a blog, a Facebook page, a Twitter account, and YouTube videos. Iran's other presidential candidates are also on the web. As election day grows near, they're hoping to attract votes from Iran's many Internet users. Reporter Cyrus Farivar takes us on-line to follow the Iranian election.

A new report from Physicians for Human Rights documents the impact of rape and sexual violence on Darfuri women refugees living in Chad. Many women live with the trauma of attacks that happened when they first fled Darfur. But those are compounded by the ongoing daily threat of rape in and around the camps where they now live in Chad. The World's Jeb Sharp speaks with two of the doctors who published the report.

The ancient teachings of Chinese philosopher Confucius are serving as the modern-day inspiration for England's schools minister, Jim Knight. He wants to import Confucian-style teaching methods to classrooms across the country. The World's Laura Lynch has this report.

Our daily geography puzzler.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Some of the first photographs of an interesting new cloud formation, dubbed as Asperatus clouds, were submitted to the Cloud Appreciation Society from amateur sky gazers in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets details from the founder of the UK-based Cloud Appreciation Society, Gavin Pretor-Pinney.