Anchor Marco Werman speaks with The World's environment editor, Peter Thomson, about the latest science on climate change from a conference under way in Copenhagen.

The Thai-Cambodian border has long been a breeding ground for drug-resistant malaria. The World's Mary Kay Magistad reports on a new campaign to defeat the disease in that region and to keep it from spreading globally.

A doctor in Scotland prescribes putting a tax on chocolate. He says such a tax would remind people that it's an unhealthy snack and might help to slow the rise in obesity. Anchor Marco Werman has details.

Correspondent Phillip Martin has been examining the popularity of skin whitening products in Asia. Today, in the second part of his series, he describes how many middle-class Asians are moving away from creating white complexions and going for a Western-style tan.

Color Initiative

The World's Alex Gallafent explores what a smile means in different cultures -- from Russia to the U.S.

North Korea announced today it's going to launch a communications satellite in early April. The US suspects that it's more likely to be a ballistic missile test in disguise. The World's Matthew Bell reports.

North Korea's strategic arsenal

The Taliban's new operations officer in southern Afghanistan was living elsewhere until recently. He was a detainee at Guantánamo Bay. The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner says the case highlights the threat posed by the release of some Gitmo inmates.

Taliban resurgence

The BBC's Barbara Plett is in Pakistan, where police are cracking down on thousands of protesters who plan a four-day march on the capital Islamabad. They're demanding that Pakistan's president reinstate judges fired by his predecessor, Pervez Musharraf. Barbara Plett speaks with anchor Marco Werman.

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Today on The World: Thousands of protesters begin a 4-day march in Pakistan; A former inmate at Guantanamo is now a top Taliban officer; and health workers in Cambodia struggle to treat a form of malaria that's grown resistant to drugs.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with world-renowned conductor Benjamin Zander on occasion of Zander's 70th birthday.