Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Shari Villarosa, an American diplomat who is in Burma's main city, Rangoon.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with 14-year-old violinist Aishu Venkataraman. She's been playing the classical music of South India since she was a small child, and she plays it beautifully in The World's studios.

We were looking for a place where people speak Frisian. The answer is Frisia -- a region that includes parts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark that border on the North Sea. The World's David Leveille reports on what makes the Frisian language unique.

There's a summit planned between North and South Korea next week. The meeting is expected to focus on reducing tensions and expanding economic ties between the two Koreas. But some North Korean refugees living in South Korea are skeptical, as Jason Strother reports from Seoul.

Our daily geography puzzler.

At the UN earlier this week President Bush publicly praised Nouri al-Maliki's administration but in private, the President reportedly pressed the Iraqi prime minister on long-delayed reforms. Another concern for Washington is corruption within the Iraqi government. A report recently prepared by the US embassy in Baghdad says the government there is totally unable to deal with it. The World's Katy Clark reports.

The controversy over the behavior of private security contractors in Iraq is moving into a new phase. A joint US-Iraqi commission is getting ready to start its review of how contractors operate. And the Iraqi government is considering legislation to strip contractors of their immunity from prosecution. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets an update on the story from BBC correspondent Jon Brain in Baghdad.

The South African township of Soweto has come a long way since the days of suffering under apartheid. One symbol of that progress is the opening of a new mall there today. Not just any mall - the biggest mall in southern Africa. The BBC's Peter Biles reports.

The Earth has been warming up since the start of the industrial age. Conventional wisdom says the machines of modern life -- and the fuels that powered them -- began to change the climate. But one scientist has a theory that climate change began much, much earlier... as in thousands of years ago. Dan Grossman explains in our report.