Today's Global Hit features a singer from Norway who grew up in a Muslim immigrant community there. For Deeyah - as she's known - success came early...but it was followed by harassment and threats from her own community. Reporter Andrea Smardon has her story.

Today's answer is China. The country is sending its navy to the coast of Somalia to conduct anti-pirate operations there. The World's Matthew Bell tells anchor Katy Clark that it's the first time in 600 hundreds years that Chinese ships will venture into east African waters.

Our daily geography puzzler.

A British company discovered massive oil reserves off Ghana's coast last year. The prospect of greater prosperity has excited many Ghanaians. But others fear the new wealth will bring new problems. The World's Laura Lynch reports.

Today marks the fourth anniversary of the tsunami that roared across the Indian ocean. It killed more than 230,000 people. The most devastated region was the Indonesian province of Aceh. People around the world donated generously to help survivors there, especially children. But as Jocelyn Ford reports the neediest children in Aceh these days are NOT tsunami survivors.

Illyas (left) and Nurliza both lost their fathers in the conflict photo: Jocelyn Ford

Fadli (left) has taken in four children of his foreign comrades and is paying for their education photo: Jocelyn Ford

The holidays can be a lonely time. And some cultures are more prone to feelings of loneliness and isolation than others. Anchor Katy Clark speaks with a loneliness expert, John Cacioppo, director of the University of Chicago's Center of Cognitive and Social Neuroscience.

After the East German communist regime fell in 1989, German authorities began to open records compiled by the Stasi secret police. But some former Stasi officials and informants are now suing, saying the revelations violate their privacy. Brett Neely reports from Berlin.

BBC Producer Rushdi abu Alouf speaks from Gaza with anchor Katy Clark about the temporary re-opening of the Gaza border as tensions rise between Hamas and Israel.

Some in Ukraine would like to see the country shake off its heavy reliance on Russian natural gas by tapping its huge coal resources. But Ukraine's coal mines are old, inefficient, and extremely dangerous. The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports from a mine in Ukraine's industrial east.

Anchor Katy Clark speaks with New York Times journalist Ken Belson about today's bad economic news from Japan. The one-time economic superpower is reporting a record one-month drop in industrial production.