The World's Adeline Sire reports on a little-known book of photographs depicting Galveston, Texas. The book includes pictures taken by the late French photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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The Obama and McCain campaigns are both targeting immigrants from Latin America. Kirk Siegler of public radio station KUNC in Denver tells us Latinos in Colorado are getting a lot of attention this week.
Door to Door: Ruth Sanchez of the non-partisan Latina Initiative tries to register Latino voters by knocking on doors in Commerce City, a suburb of Denver.

The World's Jason Margolis reports on what the US presidential campaign looks like in Michigan, a state where "globalization" has become a dirty word for many voters.
Yipsilanti, Michigan: Abandoned store fronts line the streets.

Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Tony Award-nominated Anna Deavere Smith about her on-going project called "On the Road: The Search for American Character."

France's traditional three-course lunch is not the same during these hard economic times. Many French restaurant-goers are ordering less, leading to a rise in restaurant bankruptcies. Anita Elash has the story.

The global economic crisis feels like deja-vu to some Japanese economists. Japan's banking industry weathered a number of economic storms in the 1990's. Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Jesper Koll who runs an investment firm in Japan.

As the U.S. bailout plan stumbles on Capitol Hill, European banks are suffering from their exposure to the U.S. crisis. The World's Laura Lynch reports that governments in Europe have had to intervene with bailouts of their own.

Today on The World: Japan's experience with financial crisis and how the Japanese are weathering the current financial storm; also, how Galveston's opulent past lives on -- with help from the late French photography master Henri Cartier-Bresson; and the music of rising Syrian jazz star Lena Chamamyan.

The Outlook program broadcasts unique human interest stories from all over the globe on the BBC World Service. Andres Schipani's feature on the growth in popularity of Women's wrestling in Bolivia is no exception. Schipani went to meet and watch the women as they faught it out in El Alto.

Video: Bolivian women wrestlers