A new poll by Japanese newspaper Yomiuri suggests that the level of Japanese dissatisfaction with the United States is at its lowest since 2000. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out why from Leo Lewis, Tokyo correspondent for the Times of London.

In 2003 Libya paid out $2.7 billion dollars to the families of those who died in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. That money is still paying dividends. It's been a lifeline for the New York City school, De La Salle Academy. Anchor Lisa Mullins finds out more from the school's principal, Brother Brian Carty.

The Office of the Historian at the State Department is tasked with writing the official history of U.S. foreign policy. By law it must create a "thorough, reliable and accurate" record of U.S. foreign policy. The tradition dates back to 1861. But now critics say a crisis inside the office may put the series at risk. The World's Jeb Sharp has more.

Dozens of security officials from Iraq's Interior Ministry have been arrested. They're accused of being connected to a group created by supporters of Saddam Hussein's now-banned Baathist Party. The World's Matthew Bell reports.

Today on The World: Iraqi officials face charges of plotting to revive Saddam Hussein's now-banned Baath party, a look at how the "Office of the Historian" at the State Department is recording the war in Iraq; and the Latin roots music of the band "Sol y Canto."

Russia was shocked when the snow didn't show two years ago: now it looks like the warmest winter ever wasn't a freak event but a sign of an unprecedented change in the climate. This year, Moscow had record high temperatures in the first half of December. And it's not just the human beings who don't understand what's happening as the BBC's Moscow correspondent James Rodgers reports.

When Iranian rock musicians can't get government approval to play in public, they jam and perform in friends' basements. They call them "Kiosks." And it's a name adopted by an Iranian band in the U.S. Reporter Betto Arcos has the story.

The answer to today's Geo Quiz is Bandhavgarh National Park in the Indian state of Madya Pradesh. Photographer Art Wolf sends us an audio postcard.

Our daily geography puzzler.

There are growing reports that young people in South Africa are stealing an AIDS medication, called Efavirenz, and using it as a recreational drug. The World's Laura Lynch reports from Johannesburg.