Brazil wants to be energy independent. One thing it's doing toward that end is drilling for oil and natural gas in the Amazon rainforest. The World's Alex Gallafent visited the Urucu energy exploration facility in the Amazon and sent this report.

Famine is stalking Somalia again. More than two million Somalis are at risk and the number is rising fast. The CBC's David McGuffin reports from a displaced persons camp on the border.

There are increased calls for military intervention in Zimbabwe. But foreign leaders may be reluctant to commit troops to a potential humanitarian operation. The World's Jason Margolis has more.

Amb. Chidyausiku

Opposition leaders in Zimbabwe are calling on the United Nations to send armed peacekeepers to their country. Many supporters of the opposition have been threatened and killed in the run-up to this weekend's presidential runoff. But Zimbabwe's ambassador to the United Nations, Boniface Chidyausiku, tells anchor Lisa Mullins his country has no need for international intervention.

Today on The World: Drilling for oil in the Brazilian Amazon; Egypt outlaws the practice of female circumcision; and a Moroccan swim coach makes jazz in California.

A Jamaican school for troubled boys is known for producing some of the country's best known musicians in the 60s and 70s. Today, the Alpha Boys School is still teaching boys music and providing some order in their lives. The World's Marco Werman tells the story.

For today's Geo Quiz, we were looking for the name of the Canadian Province where polar bear hunting is popular and lucrative. The answer is the Northwest Territories.

The site of the world's worst nuclear disaster is turning into something of a tourist destination. The World's Jason Margolis recently took a tour of Chernobyl in Ukraine and he sent this report.

Our daily Geography puzzler.