The answer to our Geo Quiz is the British isle of Jersey. The island is now hosting a major international cricket tournament. Reporter Laura Lynch profiles the Afghan cricket team. It's the first time Afghanistan has had a national cricket team in competition.

For our Geo Quiz today, we're searching for the largest Channel Island off the northern coast of France.

Anchor Lisa Mullins explores how memorial days are marked around the world.

The World's Katy Clark goes to Marine "boot camp" with a group of high-school teachers and guidance counselors to learn first hand what it takes to make a U.S. Marine. The Marines run the special boot camp as an aid to recruitment.

NASA's Phoenix lander has touched down on the surface of Mars. Scientists around the world are watching. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the latest from Ivan Semeniuk Ivan Semeniuk, US bureau chief for New Scientist magazine.

Phoenix Mission overview
Mars vertical image
Pictures from the surface
Multimedia gallery

The impact of war on returning solders is the subject of a new documentary. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin about her film, "Gene Boy Came Home," The film tells the story of Eugene Benedict, an Abenaki Indian who served as in the US Marines in Vietnam, and his long journey back to the Odanak Indian Reserve in Quebec.

Israel and Syria are engaged in indirect peace talks for the first time in years. And what they're talking about is the Golan Heights, the territory that Israel won from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War. The World's Quil Lawrence traveled to the Golan Heights to see what people there make of the talks.

Lebanon has finally agreed on a new president, months after the previous one left office. The new president, Michel Suleiman, faces a huge task of uniting his fractured country. The World's Aaron Schachter has the story.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Paul Risley, the UN World Food Program's spokesman for Asia, about continuing efforts to get aid to devastated parts of Myanmar (Burma) in the wake of the deadly cyclone there.

Today on The World: A look at Lebanon's long-awaited new president; High-school teachers and guidance counselors try out Marine boot camp; and Guinea's all-women military band.