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Geo Answer

Download MP3 Today is Day of the Dead, and it's a big holiday in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, the answer to today's Geo Quiz. In recent years, Halloween imagery has been creeping into traditional Day...

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Olympics security

Download MP3 Sports writer Mihir Bose fills us in on London's security preparations for the upcoming 2012 Olympics.

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Geo Quiz

Download MP3 Our daily geography puzzler.

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Days after the Peshawar attacks

Download MP3 There was another deadly attack in Pakistan today.. this one in the city of Rawalpindi. Last week, an attack in the city of Peshawar killed more than 100 people. The BBC's Aleem Maqbool...

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Tensions in Northern Afghanistan

Download MP3 The contentious re-election of Afghan President Hamid Karzai is raising tensions in several provinces. One flashpoint is Balkh province in the north, where there are fears the Governor...

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Global Hit: Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax made an impressive career out of recording folk music all over the world; bringing it to American audiences, and preserving it for posterity. But few people heard the recordings that Lomax...

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Zen archers take aim in Manhattan

Before there was Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, there was the original: Zen in the Art of Archery. The 1953 book chronicled the story of Eugen Herrigel, a German who traveled to Japan to...

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Returning to Sudan

A refugee named Valentino Achak Deng returned from the United States to his home in southern Sudan. Deng built a school there, with proceeds from a book based on his life. The book was written by...

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A return to the East German border

Next week marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. But today, we're taking you to an even deadlier part of the former border between East and West Germany. Twenty four years ago, our...

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Karzai declared elected president

Hamid Karzai has been declared the elected president of Afghanistan by poll officials, after they scrapped the planned second round of the vote, Karzai's challenger, Abdullah Abdullah had pulled out...

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Entire program – November 2, 2009

Download MP3 Today on The World:Hamid Karzai has been declared winner of Afghanistan's elections - what that means for Afghanistan and U-S policy there; also, re-visiting what was once among the most...

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