Where in the world will we go today?

Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah is in Britain today on a state visit. A British army band played several tunes while the Saudi King reviewed a guard of honor in central London. But one of their selections seemed a little unusual. Anchor Lisa Mullins has details.

Turkmenistan's president Berdimuhamedow recently released 9,000 people from jail at a stroke. Now that's the power of a dictator. Which got The World's Aaron Schachter thinking about some of the world's other colorful dictators.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Andrew Nagorski, author of "The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow That Changed the Course of World War Two." The book describes the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and Stalin's response. The Soviet dictator was at times indecisive, but in the end clamped down hard on his own people in order to tighten his hold on the city.

When a relationship ends...the mementos of that relationship are often put away or thrown away. Some of those photos, gifts, and other souvenirs of love gone wrong are now getting a second look. They're part of a traveling exhibition called the Museum of Broken Relationships. Susan Stone reports from Berlin.

Hydro electric dams have gotten a bad rap in the developing world. They're accused of causing economic and environmental ruin...and inviting massive corruption. But the South East Asian country of Laos is being hailed as a shining example of doing it right. Correspondent Jonathan Kent reports.

The violence in Iraq has caused many of the country's middle class professionals to flee. Doctors, university professors, and college students seek out more stable countries in the Middle East or Europe. But The World's Quil Lawrence reports that some of Iraq's educated class are choosing a more stable part of their own -- country the Northern Kurdish region.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with humanitarian studies expert Jacqueline Bhabha about the abduction case in Chad. Members of a French aid group called "Zoe's Ark" were detained in Chad yesterday when they attempted to fly 103 children to France.

Authorities in Chad today brought charges of abduction and fraud against nine French and seven Spanish nationals. The detainees are part of a French aid group known as "Zoe's Ark." Group members were detained yesterday as they tried to fly 103 children from Chad to France for what they say was a legal operation to unite orphans with new host families in Paris. But authorities in Chad say the charity was trying to kidnap the children.

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