Hip-hop artists in Senegal are credited with helping elect a president in 2000. There's a new election next month. And as Rose Skelton reports from Dakar, Senegal's rap movement is now under political pressure to keep quiet.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Moscow. The World's David Leveille tells how Muscovites are dealing with their city's unusually warm winter.

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An Israeli film made its American debut this week at Sundance. The movie, "Sweet Mud," isn't exactly uplifting. That's true of most Israeli films that make it to the United States, as The World's Aaron Schachter reports.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says a new round of talks between Israel and the Palestinians could begin next month. Anchor Ken Bader gets details from reporter Matt Gutman.

Lawmakers in Venezuela are in the process of giving President Hugo Chavez the power to rule by decree for eighteen months. Anchor Ken Bader speaks with Michael Shifter, vice president for policy at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington.

The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports on "vegetarian vigilantes" in the Indian city of Mumbai. They are followers of the Jain religion, and firm believers in vegetarianism.

Yesh Prabha (left)

The Jain temple: The Jain temple pictured, in South Bombay's Nepinsi Road area, is the one that drove away a meat-serving restaurant with a demonstration that included some stone-throwing and breaking of windows.

Pregnant women from mainland China have been streaming into Hong Kong, and not just for the medical facilities. Children born in Hong Kong get residency rights. The influx of new patients is putting pressure on Hong Kong's hospitals. Ken Bader speaks with the BBC's Hong Kong reporter Vaudine England.

The test firing of a Chinese missile on a space-based weather satellite has caused international concern that China is militarizing space. The World's Matthew Bell reports on the Chinese test that may have put other satellites in danger.

Anchor Ken Bader speaks with Borzou Daragahi, Baghdad bureau chief for the Los Angles Times about the divisions between Shiite factions in Iraq.