President-elect Obama promised to help veterans. As Senator he co-sponsored the new GI Bill, and during the presidential campaign he promised more efficient delivery of government benefits. Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks to Steve Robertson, legislative director for the American Legion.

Veterans Day in the U.S. honors all those who've done military service. In other countries, the day is set aside to remember the Armistice that ended World War One. The World's Katy Clark has a global wrap-up of Veterans Day celebrations.

Veterans' stories

Today on The World: Veterans Day celebrations around the globe; A Burmese court hands down harsh sentences for anti-government protesters; and an American nuclear weapon is still unaccounted for 40 years after a plane crash in Greenland.

South African legend Miriam Makeba has died. Anchor Lisa Mullins revisits Makeba's historic speech to the United Nations in 1963. In that speech, Makeba pleaded with world leaders to help South Africans defeat apartheid.

Miriam Makeba in 2007 (Getty Images)

Video: Miriam Makeba remembered

Space probes have shown us what other planets look like, but what do they sound like? Two scientists, one from Britain and the other originally from Romania, have explored this question by simulating a Bach organ concert on Mars, Venus, and Saturn's moon Titan. Reporter Ari Daniel Shapiro has the cacophonous result.

Hellas Basin on Mars

The Asian island nation that is looking for a new homeland is the Maldives. The country's elevation is so low that rising sea levels associated with climate change could place it under water. So the country's government is looking for new land to move residents to, should that scenario become a reality.

Linda Gradstein reports on Jerusalem's mayoral race. The front-runners are ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Meir Porush and the secular high-tech millionaire Nir Barkat.

For today's Geo Quiz, we're looking for an Asian island nation that is shopping for a new homeland.

Kidnapping is a constant danger for Western journalists working in Pakistan or Afghanistan. But in the past couple days, there were happy endings to two kidnapping stories in Afghanistan. Host Lisa Mullins speaks with Graeme Smith, a Kandahar-based reporter with Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper.

Pakistan's problems and divisions go well beyond the militants on its border with Afghanistan. The country is wracked by financial problems, unemployment and ethnic divisions. The World's Aaron Schachter reports from Karachi.