Reporter Jason Strother introduces us to a South Korean man who escaped North Korea for his love of music. Pianist Kim Chul-Woong is the subject of today's Global Hit.

Anchor Lisa Mullins asks Luke Harding of London's Guardian newspaper about Russia's claim that it owns a chunk of the Arctic.

The Bahamas is the answer to today's Geo Quiz.

The World's book critic Christopher Merrill talks with anchor Lisa Mullins about recent literature from the Palestinian territories.

Ben Gilbert reports from Lebanon on the UN relief agency that helps Palestinian refugees in the country. The agency has been thrown into emergency mode by the recent fighting at one refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

Our daily geography puzzler.

North Korea says it's willing to shut down its Yongbyon nuclear facility. It could be a major breakthrough in the struggle to disarm the country. Correspondent Rob Schmitz reports.

Genevieve Oger reports from the suburbs of Paris, where a group of undocumented immigrants are staging a protest against their former employer. They say the Buffalo Grill restaurant hired them knowing that they were undocumented. The company says it was duped. The situation echoes similar incidents here in the United States.

A new UN report says that deserts around the world are expanding and could swallow up the homes of 50 million people in the next ten years. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets details from the BBC's Matt McGrath.

The World's Jeb Sharp reports on the growing troubles in the Central African Republic. The country is descending into chaos from lack of leadership. And conflicts in neighboring countries threaten to take much-needed humanitarian attention away from its plight.