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The banning of books across U.S. schools continuing at an alarming rate. Banned Books USA will send banned books to libraries, educational institutions or anyone living in the state of Florida.

The war in Ukraine has forced farmers to abandon millions of acres of the nation's most fertile farmland.

Sri Lankan government forces are battling with Tamil Tigers in northern Sri Lanka. The fighting has driven some out the northern city of Jaffna. And others, who were gone when the fighting started, are waiting to get back home.

With Israel's military poised to stage a land, sea and air invasion of Gaza, we hear from a Palestinian journalist who has already fled northern Gaza with her family.

India's monthlong elections are in full swing, and there's a new phenomenon afoot on the campaign trail. It's something borrowed from that moment when former President Bush proved his reflexes were still good in the face of flying objects.

A new Egyptian leader would reconfigure the politics in the Middle East. A departure by President Mubarak could have implications for many nations, including Israel which signed a peace treaty with Egypt in 1979.

BBC staff are on the first of two 48-hour strikes to protest pension changes. The walkout has disrupted many of the state-funded organization's broadcasts.

Political turmoil Pakistan entered 2008 with the country still enmeshed in the political turmoil caused by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Election officials will announce tomorrow whether to postpone next week's parliamentary elections next week. But officials say they're leaning toward a postponement.

Some 40,000 people gathered on the streets of Oslo on Thursday to sing a Norwegian nursery rhyme that mass murderer Anders Breivik says he hates. Breivik is on trial in connection with his slaughter of 77 people last summer in Norway.

Portugal looks like it's heading toward an international bailout, becoming the third European country to seek help after Greece and Ireland. After the Portuguese parliament rejected a series of austerity measures proposed by the prime minister, his government resigned. Since then, market pressures on Portugal increased, and the need for financial aid from the EU and IMF became all but inevitable.