The World's Gerry Hadden reports on the aftermath of France's legislative elections. French President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party won as expected, but didn't do as well as expected. And French opposition leaders came away from the vote with a new set of problems on their hands.

The BBC's Damian Grammaticas takes us through Afghanistan's eastern region with the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division. He's been embedded with the division for the past ten days. And he tells anchor Lisa Mullins how the soldiers are attempting to build trust with the Afghan villagers.

The World's Katy Clark has the latest on the upsurge of fighting in Afghanistan. Taliban and other militants are locked in daily battles with foreign and Afghan troops. And the death toll is climbing.

Anchor Marco Werman tells us about "Ojos de Brujo" a band from Barcelona that's about to kick-off a U-S tour. The group's gypsy roots are in flamenco and hip-hop, but they also take in influences from all over the globe.

Today's Geo Quiz answer is Barcelona, Spain, where a new program to provide residents with bicycles has encountered unexpected challenges. For one thing, the city's pedestrians are feeling tread upon. The World's Gerry Hadden reports.

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The area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine has been off limits to humans since the accident there in 1986. There's still too much radiation there. But Ukrainian officials are now moving to declare the area a sanctuary for wildlife. Anchor Marco Werman finds out why from the BBC's Helen Fawkes in Kiev.

The World's Katy Clark takes us to the US Army's Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. Before the war in Iraq, staff from the institute predicted many of the problems American soldiers have gone on to experience there. But few in Washington were listening before the war. The institute was almost shut down. Now it has a new lease on life.

There were more protests today in the Islamic world against author Salman Rushdie. His critics in countries like Iran and Pakistan claim Rushdie is guilty of blasphemy against Islam. The World's Alex Gallafent looks back the original source of Rushdie's troubles: his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses."