Brooklyn, NY and Bogota, Colombia are the answers to our Geo Quiz today. Both cities figure in our Global Hit too. Members of the musical group Monareta hail from Bogota, but spend a lot of time in Brooklyn.

The U.S. imports a lot of coal from Colombia... and the life of a coal miner there is hard, to say the least. But as Steven Dudley reports, the miners are not the only ones who are impacted by Colombia's coal-mining industry.

Our daily geography puzzler.

President-elect Barack Obama has said he could talk directly with Cuba's leaders. And as Cuba-scholar Peter Kornbluh tell us, this is not a new idea. Just about every U.S. president for the last 50 years has attempted some sort of quiet talks with the Cubans. President George W. Bush was not one of them, though.

50 years after helping to lead Cuba's revolution, Che Guevara is still everywhere in Latin America. Well, at least his image is. The BBC's Daniel Schweimler reports from Buenos Aires.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with The World's Mary Kay Magistad about the latest in the China tainted milk scandal. Authorities arrested parents of children who became ill from drinking the tainted milk, ahead of a planned press conference.

A family in Newcastle, England, found an unusual inheritance in a late relative's garage: a rare 1937 Bugatti automobile that could fetch millions at auction. Anchor Marco Werman has details.

2008 was a bad year for Europe's largest minority group, the Roma. Attacks against Roma minorities are on the rise in many countries, including the Czech Republic -- as The World's Gerry Hadden reports.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with BBC Moscow correspondent Rupert Winfield Hayes about the dispute over natural gas between Russia and Ukraine.

Before the current Israeli air strike on Gaza, the Palestinian territory was already plagued by economic woes. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Sami Abdel-Shafi, a Palestinian-American businessman living in Gaza, who says much of Gaza's economy is dead.

Gaza conflict