A podcast that starts with a Skype message from Rangoon has got to be good folks. We talk Presidential technology, and NATO cyberdefense. We read out some great emails and Facebook messages, and we also hear about Estonia's bid to use technology to boost tourism. In addition, assessments of two new Google products, Ocean and Latitude. Also, a hidden track after the funder.

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The World's Emma Lydersen profiles the leader of a musical band from Italy called Funk Off. The group goes for a very big, American-style "big band" sound.

Today's answer is Mauritania, the next stop on a fantastical flight led by pilot Neil Laughton. Laughton is travelling in a flying car from London, England, to Timbuktu in Mali. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Laughton about his "Chitty-Chitty, Bang-Bang"-style adventure.

Our daily geography quiz. Today we're looking for a country near Africa northwest corner. It's capital is Nouakchott.

The British military is updating its rations, offering hungry soldiers new less-than-traditional British fare such as Chicken Tikka Masala and cassava stew. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Jay Rayner, restaurant critic for the London Observer, who sampled some of the new offerings.

The BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports on the recent murders of a journalist and a human rights lawyer in Moscow. The Russian government denies the killings had anything to do with politics. But others suspect otherwise.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with journalist Heba Aly, one of the few foreign journalists allowed to report from inside Sudan...until now. She was just told to leave the country. The International Criminal Court is deciding whether to charge Sudan's president with war crimes, and his government has launched a massive security crackdown.

Anchor Marco Werman tells us about Jorge Serguera, the man responsible for banning The Beatles from the airwaves in 1960's Cuba.

Abdul-Aziz SachedinaIran is marking the 30th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution -- which was led by Ayatollah Khomeini. Before the revolution, the Ayatollah was in exile and able to communicate with others through a secret messenger. That man was Abdul-Aziz Sachedina. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Sachedina about that time of turmoil in Iran.

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The tiny Baltic nation of Estonia used to be a cheap tourist destination for many Europeans. But the economic downturn has hurt the tourist trade, forcing at least one hotel to turn to another of Estonia's strengths -- information technology -- to cut costs. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Cyrus Farivar, author of a forthcoming book called "The Internet of Elsewhere."