More bad news for the auto industry, and this time it's not coming only from Detroit. Even the mighty Toyota is suffering from plummeting sales, as The World's Jason Margolis explains.

The latest figures from the Labor Department show a rise in unemployment, after nearly 600,000 people lost their jobs in January. The ripple effects are being felt overseas. The World's Laura Lynch reports from London.

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Today on The World: How the surge in US unemployment affects economies overseas; One journalist's experience reporting in Sudan until she was told to leave; And a food critic samples the British military's new rations for the troops.

Today's Global Hit focuses on a legal tangle over musical copyright infringement. Musician Manu Dibango from Cameroon is suing Michael Jackson and Rihanna for using one of his compositions without his permission.

Today's answer is the south-eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It's home to India's first rural, all-women's community radio station. The BBC's Tinku Ray profiles the women who launched Sangham Radio.

Anchor Marco Werman speaks with documentary filmmaker Roberta Grossman about her latest work, "Blessed is the Match." The film tells the story of Hannah Senesh who was part of a failed mission to evacuate Jews out of Nazi-occupied Europe.

The World's Laura Lynch reports on the continuing controversy surrounding the Pope's rehabilitation of Bishop Richard Williamson, who has repeatedly denied the existence of Nazi gas chambers.

The war in Gaza has made Israel's election campaign a short one -- and there are concerns that turnout be low next week. The World's Quil Lawrence reports from Jerusalem.

Preliminary results from last weekend's provincial elections in Iraq are rolling in. And they may signal a change in Iraq's political landscape. Anchor Marco Werman finds out who's in and who's out from the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad.

Thailand is accused of forcing some Burmese refugees out to sea and abandoning them. The refugees are Rohingya, a Muslim ethinic group in Myuanmar. Anchor Marco Werman learns more from Rohingya activist Abdur Rauf.