For the first time, foreign banana workers have had their day in US court. And they've won. A group of Nicaraguan workers sued Dole Food and Dow Chemical. They claimed they became sterile after exposure to a pesticide used in the 1970s on banana plantations around the world. The World's Julia Kumari Drapkin has the details.

In Russia, parliamentary elections are due to take place in December. But today the main European election watchdog abandoned its plans to monitor those elections. The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe says Russia has imposed too many restrictions and delays on its work. Russian officials reject the accusations. The World's Jeb Sharp reports.

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Senior US Envoy John Negroponte arrived in Pakistan as the country's leader, General Pervez Musharraf, continued to push ahead with his controversial plans to hold elections under a state of emergency. Host Marco Werman gets the latest on the political crisis engulfing Pakistan from the BBC's Barbara Plett in Islamabad.

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Matt Gutman profiles two women from an Arab section of northern Israel who are expressing themselves through music. The two women are rappers -- and their songs are about women's rights in the Arab world.

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Spain's King Juan Carlos and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez made headlines last week when the Spanish King told Chavez to "shut up" at a leadership summit. Actually he used a few more words than that, and as The World's Clark Boyd reports, those words have taken on a life of their own in cyberspace.

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For today's Geo Quiz we were looking for the Italian city where Leonardo Da Vinci painted his famous "Last Supper." The answer is Milan. A bit of a musical mystery has surrounded the painting for a number of years. But now Italian musical and computer expert Giovanni Maria Pala thinks he's solved it. He's published his work in a book called "La Musica Celata" -- or "The Hidden Music." Anchor Marco Werman speaks with him.

US presidential candidates have been campaigning for months now...and we're still a year away from presidential elections. While that may seem a bit of an early start to many Americans, foreigners are flabbergasted. The World's Aaron Schachter reports.

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In part IV of our series on global obesity, Patrick Cox reports on an American woman who is preaching "size acceptance" to the French. That's a challenge, because in France being overweight carries a big social stigma, in addition to a health warning.