The World's Matthew Bell reports that 12,000 US troops in Afghanistan are now under NATO command. It's the largest deployment of American soldiers under foreign command since World War Two.

The World's Marco Werman profiles Iraqi-American trumpeter and singer Amir El-Saffar. His latest work features a combination of jazz and an Iraqi vocal tradition called "maqam."

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Today's answers are China and India. Those are the two countries whose businesses are most likely to pay bribes when conducting international transactions, according to a new survey by Transparency International.

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Peter Norman died on Tuesday of a heart attack. Norman was the Australian sprinter who shared the medals podium with Tommie Smith and John Carlos while they gave their black power salutes at the 1968 Olympics. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Tommie Smith.

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The World's Matthew Bell meets an American artist, Jonathon Hexner, in Berlin whose has fallen victim to Germany's highly charged political climate.

Kelly McEvers reports that Azerbaijan is reaping billions of dollars in new oil and gas revenues. But there are concerns in the former Soviet republic that these revenues won't benefit the majority of Azeris. Ms McEvers is on a fellowship with the International Reporting Project of the John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

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Host Lisa Mullins speaks with New York Times columnist Joe Sharkey, one of the survivors on board the business jet that collided with a commercial airliner over Brazil's Amazon rainforest last Friday. All 155 people on board the airliner died. None of the seven people on the business jet was hurt.

The World's Aaron Schachter reports on one man's dream to carve an oasis of Western-style relaxation from the chaos and violence of Kandahar, in southern Afghanistan. Mohammed Nassim is an Afghan-American entrepreneur who's about to open the first Western-style café and pool hall in Kandahar.

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