Anchor Katy Clark speaks with The World's Laura Lynch in Karachi for reaction in Pakistan to President Obama's plan for Pakistan.

Anchor Katy Clark gets reaction to President Obama's plans for Afghanistan from Shukria Barakzai, a member of Afghanistan's parliament.

President Obama outlined his new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan today. The World's Matthew Bell reports.

Video: President Obama on Afghanistan strategy

Taliban resurgence

Today on The World: President Obama unveils his new plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan -- and he calls on Iran to help out; An American college launches the first dual degree program with a Palestinian university; and funeral services in Ghana today honor the African musician responsible for bringing African percussion into American Jazz.

The United Nations says that more than half a million Pakistanis have fled their homes because of fighting between government forces and Islamic militants. Most of the fighting is focused on the tribal areas along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan where Taliban and al Qaeda militants have taken refuge. BBC World Service correspondent Jill McGivering has visited a camp in north-west Pakistan which caters for tens of thousands of internally displaced people.

Taliban resurgence

We hear from the author of the new book "Leaving India -- My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents." Minal Hajratwala also tells us about her favorite Indian "fusion music."

For today's Geo Quiz, we were searching for the location of the southern Africa headquarters of the Cheetah Conservation Fund. The answer is Otjiwarongo, Namibia. Chris Bartos of the Philadelphia Zoo just traveled there with her border collie Finn to help conservationists track endangered cheetahs.

For today's Geo Quiz, we're looking for a town in Namibia that's home to southern African headquarters of the Cheetah Conservation Fund.

Anchor Katy Clark speaks with journalist Agnes Poirier about French President Nicolas Sarkozy's use of colloquial French expressions and why some French don't like it.

President Sarkozy

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Mexico is so much more than the stories of violence that have recently grabbed headlines. Anchor Katy Clark traveled there recently to see how many Americans are learning Spanish in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca.

Learning Spanish in Mexico