Issa Bagayogo is known throughout Mali as Techno-Issa. He combines West African traditional music with European techno. Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us about his latest release.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is the Japanese city of Kyoto. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with travel writer Don George about his day wandering around the city in search of Japanese wood-block art.

For today's Geo Quiz, we're looking for a city of 1.5 million people on Japan's Honshu island.

Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us about two Americans who've learned to speak Mandarin Chinese, but still struggle occassionally with how to say the right thing.

John Pasden studies applied linguistics in Shanghai

Joe Sinisi has been trying his Mandarin in Beijing

China's push to urbanize its western reaches has increased the percentage of Han Chinese in those regions, and made local economies boom. But as The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports, this Western expansion has also left members of other ethnic groups feeling marginalized in their own lands.

Xining fan dance

Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us about a verbal skirmish between China and Taiwan over how Taiwan's official Olympic name is translated.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with sports writer Qaiser Mohammad Ali from India's "Sakaal Times" newspaper about India's traditionally poor performance at the Olympic Games.

Yoga champion Esak Garcia

There is a movement to get yoga into the Olympics. But not everyone in the yoga community supports the idea. The World's Kristine Allington reports.

Anchor Lisa Mullins talks with Rami Khouri, editor-at-large for Beirut's Daily Star newspaper, about how the ongoing tensions between Iran, Israel and the US could affect the balance of power in the Middle East.

Missile tests and military exercises have raised fears of a possible military conflict between Iran and Israel. But few experts are predicting a war, as the BBC's Jonathan Marcus reports from Israel.