Nevada is considered a battleground state this presidential election season. The World's Matthew Bell reports on efforts by both the McCain and Obama campaigns to win over Nevada's Latino voters, a key constituency in a tight race.

The title of "world chess champion" is up for grabs in Bonn, Germany. The two finalists - from India and from Russia -- are battling through a 12-game match. Anchor Marco Werman gets the latest from reporters Macauley Peterson and Arvind Aaron, who are covering the showdown for the Internet Chess Club.

German Obama fan

Polls suggest that a majority of Germans would like to see Barack Obama in the White House...but that doesn't mean they'd consider electing a minority to high office in their own country. The World's Gerry Hadden reports.

Senator Obama in Berlin (July 2008)

The World's Quil Lawrence reports from one of Iraq's archeological treasures on a new U.S.-Iraqi fund aimed at preserving and developing Iraq's cultural heritage. On the agenda is preserving an ancient arch in the city of Salman Pak.

The British tabloid "News of the World" broke the story about executives from insurance giant, AIG, taking a lavish hunting trip just days after the company got a multi-billion dollar taxpayer bailout. Reporter Neville Thurlbeck tells anchor Marco Werman how he went undercover to investigate the $80,000 corporate outing.

The value of the American dollar is rising, something it hasn't been doing for some time. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with John Authers, Global Investment Editor at the Financial Times, to find out why the dollar is gaining value against foreign currencies.

Global financial crisis

Today on The World: The U.S. dollar gains value, despite the growing threat of a global recession, the U.S. and Iraq launch a joint project to preserve Iraq's cultural heritage, and the presidential candidates battle for the Latino vote in Nevada.

Dutch avant-garde composer Stephen Emmer has a new "music and spoken word project." The World's April Peavey tells us how Emmer wrote the music to complement the words of old recordings by writers such as Jorge Luis Borges.

Chandrayaan spacecraft

India is preparing to launch its first lunar mission. The launch will send an unmanned research craft to orbit the moon. The BBC's Tinku Ray reports on final preparations for tomorrow's launch.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Annapolis, Maryland, where a team of anthropologists from the University of Maryland has uncovered a bundle of artifacts used by African slaves for religious rites. The discovery may shed new light on the life of slaves in America. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from Mark Leone, head of the team that made the discovery.