The power of the ocean: Wave Energy takes off in Portugal. A high-tech solution to, sadly, abandoned babies in Italy. Work from home? Ever get lonely? No longer the case in France. And cars are catching on in Vietnam.

Download mp3

Reporter Zoe Corneli from KALW in San Francisco has today's Global Hit from Stanford University in California. That's where drummers and percussionists from around the world are coming together for the Pan-Asian Music Festival.

Today's answer is The Seine, the 485-mile long river that flows through Paris. The World's Jason Margolis reports on a new initative to rehabilitate the river after years of neglect.

Where in the world will we go today?

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with historian Margaret Macmillan about the controversy surrounding Richard Nixon's visit to China 35 years ago this week. Many were appalled at the idea of talking openly with the ruthless, tyrannical enemy that China represented at the time...but Nixon was convinced he was right about the visit.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC's Elizabeth Blunt about worries in Liberia over the unrest in neighboring Guinea. Leaders are concerned that former fighters in Liberia could be recruited to fight in Guinea and spread the violence back across the border.

After fourteen years of civil war, Liberia is trying to rebuild. Among other things, its judicial system is in shambles. And many Liberians rely on a harsh, traditional form of justice -- "trial by ordeal." The World's Jessie Graham has more.

Thousands of Korean babies have been adopted by American families in the past 50 years. Jason Strother reports from Seoul about a small number of those adoptees who are choosing to return to Korea.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with The World's international literature critic Christopher Merrill about an Argentine writer who's been called one of Latin American literature's "best kept secrets"... author Cesar Aira.