On the Tail of the Right Whale December 2007
Julia Kumari Drapkin reports from Gloucester, Massachusetts on the whales' migration route from Canada to Florida. It follows one of the busiest shipping corridors in the world. 25 images View photos
The World in 2008 December 2007
The Economist's Daniel Franklin says US relations with Iran could thaw. The Beijing Olympics will put China "front and central" on the world stage. He says, Chinese athletes could even win the most gold medals for the first time ever. And he believes that the U.S. dollar will continue to fall. 13 images Listen to the full interview with Franklin
Palestinian refugees November 2007
Palestinian refugees still claim the right to return to the homes they had in Israel before 1967. Quil Lawrence reports on another group of Palestinians who've been waiting even longer: those who fled to Lebanon in 1948 when Israel was created. 12 images Listen to the full radio story
Obesity in South Africa November 2007
In decades past, obesity was almost exclusively a problem in the developed world. But today, people are actually getting fatter, faster, in places in India and Africa we're more likely to associate with malnourishment. The World's Patrick Cox reports from South Africa. 11 images Listen to the full radio story
Two days after Pakistan's President General Pervez Musharraf declared at state of emergency police in Pakistan were cracking down on thousands of protesting lawyers. 15 images Listen to the full radio story
Christopher Columbus lived in this town for several years. In fact one of the three boats he sailed from Spain in 1492 shares its name with the town in question. It's not the Nina, or the Pinta. That leaves the Santa Maria. So it's: El Puerto de Santa Maria. 11 images Listen to the radio story
Photographs of injured American veterans of the war in Iraq were featured the HBO documentary, "Alive Day Memories." The portraits will go on exhibit in November at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The man behind the lens was Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. For The World he narrates a slide show of his Iraq war veterans' photos. 6 images Listen to the radio story
Tijuana dump culture April 2007
Around 2,000 people live on and around the Tijuana city dump. They pick through the trash, and sell what they find. Their community has stores, a day care center, a school and even a cemetery. But life there is about to change. Tijuana has opened a new modern sanitary landfill. And no one will be able to live there. View an audio slideshow compiled by Jori Lewis. 14 images
