Benazir Bhutto

Reporter Laura Lynch describes the scene in Lahore, where Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is under house arrest and where many of her supporters have been rounded up. Bhutto had vowed to lead an opposition rally today.

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The foreign ministers of France and Germany are the subjects of our Global Hit today. The two ministers got together at a European summit on cultural integration. And they decided to use music to help make their point. Genevieve Oger has the story from Paris.

Soccer fans rioted in several Italian cities this weekend, and Italian authorities are still dealing with the aftermath. The riots were sparked by the accidental shooting of a soccer fan by a police officer. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Italian sportswriter Massimo Oriani.

Gabriele Sandri (26) was hit by a bullet in the neck

For today's Geo Quiz --- we're looking for an ocean strait where severe weather has led to an environmental disaster. The answer is the Kerch Strait, where a Russian oil tanker sank and split in two during a fierce storm. Anchor Marco Werman has details.

Our daily geography puzzler.

Pakistani police today issued a detention order against opposition leader Benazhir Bhutto. The order is aimed at keeping Bhutto from leading a planned motorcade from Lahore to Islamabad. Anchor Marco Werman gets the story from the CBC's Laura Lynch in Lahore.

The World's Patrick Cox travelled the globe to examine a rapidly growing health concern -- obesity. Surprisingly, obesity is becoming a serious health problem in countries usually associated with malnourishment. Today we begin a five-part series on global obesity -- with Patrick Cox's report from South Africa.

Capt. Alexander Stewart

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Cameron Stewart, who discovered his grandfather's memoir recounting the horrors of World War I and published it as a book on-line.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Iran specialist Baquer Moins about a violent clash in Iran yesterday between Sufi Muslims and Iranian security forces. The Sufis follow a mystical branch of Islam...and are generally regarded as a non-violent group. But tensions with Iran's majority Shiites have been growing.