Robert Mugabe

Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Laura Lynch about a world food summit taking place in Rome, Italy. Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, is there. That has drawn criticism from those who say that he is responsible for food shortages in his own country.

The city of San Jose, California, has experienced a rash of unusual purse-snatchings lately: most of the victims are Vietnamese-American. Correspondent Lonny Shavelson reports from San Jose

John McCain is calling for a worldwide divestment campaign against Iran. And he's invoking the memory of a similar campaign against South Africa. The World's Matthew Bell reports.

The U.S. death toll in Iraq plunged last month to the lowest level since the war began. The Iraqi death toll also declined in May. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad about the factors that contribute to those statistics.

Today on The World: The US death toll in Iraq went down for the month of May -- we'll find out what factor may explain that statistic; Republican presidential candidate John McCain calls for a worldwide divestment campaign against Iran, similar to the one against apartheid-era South Africa; and how better weather forecasts could help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change.