October 12, 2007 full program

Anchor Lisa Mullins introduces us to a 22-year-old jazz bassist from France. Hadrien Feraud says he was inspired to play the bass after listening to music from the United States.

For today's Geo Quiz we were looking for the largest and most populous city in Ecuador. The answer is Guayaquil. The city is one of the ports of call for a floating university called the Scholar Ship. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more about the sea-faring school from Yvonne-Marie Linton, a scientist aboard the ship.

The Nobel Prize for literature was awarded today to British writer Doris Lessing. Lessing is the oldest writer ever to receive the prize. Anchor Lisa Mullins reports on Lessing's career and the writer's reaction to today's announcement.

Thousands of Somali refugees have been driven out of their homes by fighting around Mogadishu. Correspondent David McGuffin reports.

Our daily geography puzzler.

The North-West Passage is an ocean route that connects the Atlantic with the Pacific...though it's never been travelled by boat. The arctic passage has been frozen solid...until now. For the first time since scientists have monitored the area, the passage is mostly clear of ice. The BBC's David Shukman reports from a Canadian Coast Guard ship in northern Canada.

Al Gore's environmental documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," so impressed the British government that it's shown in British schools. But today a High Court judge in London ruled that the documentary contains unsubstantiated claims. The BBC's Roger Harrabin has the story.

Correspondent Beth Accomando checks out a horror film from Pakistan that's being promoted as "gore from Lahore." The film is called "Hell's Ground," and it's showing at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Israelis and Palestinians both consider Jerusalem their city. Israeli politicians have long refused to even consider the possibility of the city being a divided capital for both groups. But now Israeli politicians are actually discussing what Palestinians have long demanded: splitting Jerusalem into two capitals. Matt Gutman has the story.