The late British disc jockey John Peel first attracted a British audience as a DJ on the pirate radio station "Radio London." When such rouge stations were outlawed in 1967, Peel made a final broadcast of his program, called "The Perfumed Garden." Anchor Ken Bader speaks with BBC producers Hermeet Chadha and Tom Ravenscroft, who've reconstructed that final broadcast.

Today we were looking for area where Earth's most intense thunderstorms occur. The answer -- according to researchers -- is a region in South America that includes northern Argentina, southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

For decades now, Cuba's been sending its doctors to other countries. They provide humanitarian assistance -- usually to countries that are friendly to Fidel Castro. But Cuban officials are worried because an increasing number of these doctors is choosing to defect. The World's Ruxandra Guidi has the story.

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Lawmakers in Nicaragua approved a new law that bans abortion under all circumstances. Host Ken Bader speaks with Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Chamorro about the new law and upcoming presidential elections in the Central American country.

Richard Lough reports from Kenya on the trial of Thomas Cholmondeley. He's a white Kenyan landowner who is facing murder charges after shooting a black man on his property. The case has stirred simmering animosities that date back to colonial times, in part because Cholmondeley is the great-grandson of one of Kenya's most prominent British colonial settlers.

The international airport in Johannesburg was renamed today for the anti-apartheid hero, Oliver Tambo. Not everyone in South Africa is happy about the move. Host Ken Bader gets reaction from Tim du Plessis, editor of Rapport, the largest Afrikaaner newspaper in South Africa.

A campaign ad for a Senate candidate in Tennessee has ruffled feathers in Canada. Part of the ad suggests that Canada isn't pulling its weight when it comes to international security. Host Ken Bader has details.

Ken Bader speaks with the BBC's Charles Scanlon, who is just back from a trip to North Korea. Scanlon was part of a group of journalists invited by the North Korean government to tour a mountain resort.

Both China and South Korea have signed on to UN-approved sanctions against North Korea. Today, diplomats from the two countries discussed how those sanctions should be implemented. The World's Jeb Sharp has more.