Mexico is among many countries worldwide dealing with unrest caused by rising food prices. FRONTLINE/World reporter Malia Wollan discovers that increasing demand for corn-based biofuel in the United States is driving up the cost of Mexico's staple food, the tortilla. read more

Jason Margolis, who first reported this story for PRI's radio program The World, travels with producer Loren Mendell to the heart of rural Mexico to discover how a former schoolteacher is using the commodity of carbon to revitalize and entire region. read more

Chile once harbored Nazi fugitives and has a history of racial discrimination, but its predominantly mixed-race population makes in an unexpected home for a new-Nazi movement. Lygia Navarro examines why some brown-skinned working class kids have bought into Hitler's ideology. read more

In a joint project between FRONTLINE/World and the Christian Science Monitor, David Montero investigates a mysterious Taliban cleric who has been waging war against the Pakistani government in the mountainous former tourist haven of Swat Valley. Montero also reports from the capital, where President Pervez Musharraf is battling moderates who demand that he restore democracy and step down. read more

On the eve of the March 2 presidential election, FRONTLINE/World reporter Victoria Gamburg follows Russia's democratic opposition as it attempts to campaign against the most popular president in the country's modern history. While President Putin has named Dmitri Medvedev as his successor, he is expected to stay very much in control. read more

Natasha Del Toro travels to Cuba to see how visual artists have managed to create an art revolution in a country where political free speech has been largely supressed. There, she meets Los Carpinteros, whose huge sculptures are world renowned and command high prices on the international art market. read more

In 2007, photographer Seamus Murphy traveled to Nigeria to explore religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in the country''s fertile "middle belt." In this audio slideshow, Murphy describes the dramatic images he captured in the region as the two groups searched for redemption and battled for souls. read more

On the biggest day of the year for giving (and receiving) flowers, FRONTLINE/World reports from Ecuador, one of the largest suppliers of cut flowers to the U.S., to find out how the long-stem rose is going "green." read more

The village of Huangbaiyu in rural northeast China was supposed to be a model for energy-conscious design. But the joint China-U.S. project to initially build 400 sustainable homes went awry. Timothy Lesle investigates. read more

Last season, FRONTLINE/World ran a story from the Middle East that introduced viewers to the fastest selling comic book in the Arab world, The 99. In this follow-up, reporter Isaac Solotaroff followed the comic book's creator to Indonesia, where he is trying to sell his work to the largest Islamic country in the world. read more

This week's Rough Cut is a disturbing story. It deals with a sensitive and personal subject -- rape and sexual assault. Elena Ghanotakis reports from Cape Town, South Africa, home to extreme disparities between rich and poor and the highest levels of sexual violence in the world. read more

In this unflinching portrait of the continuing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Danish photojournalist Jan Grarup documents the human toll of the genocide in a sprawling displacement camp, home to some 100,000 people. read more

FRONTLINE/World reporter Barnaby Lo travels to the Philippines to report on the damaging effects of a medical brain drain in the country, where last year alone, 12,000 Filipino nurses left for more lucrative careers abroad. read more

In this week's Rough Cut, reporter Natasha Del Toro takes a musical adventure to Haiti to cover a chaotic first-time music festival during rainy season in a country where nothing works. read more

Photographer Ryan Anson documents the grievances shared by Muslim minorities in the Philippines and southern Thailand. read more

Cambodia has the highest rate of AIDS in Asia. But in recent years Buddhist monks have taken up the cause of caring for AIDS patients and trying to prevent the spread of the disease through education. read more

FRONTLINE/World correspondent T.R. Reid explores the ancient Indian health care system of Ayurveda to see if there is a better way than artificial joint replacement to treat his injured shoulder. read more

Four years ago, award-winning journalist Stephen Grey left his job at The Sunday Times in London to investigate one of the darkest sides of the Bush Administration's war on terror -- the CIA's controversial rendition and interrogation program. read more

China's churning economy runs on coal. But coal mining in China is a dangerous business, killing an average of thirteen miners every day. Digging for coal is also literally undermining whole villages, as Duane Moles reports in this week's Rough Cut video. read more

Cataracts are the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world. In Tibet, where many people live at 15,000 feet, the disease is epidemic. After meeting with the Dalai Lama and struggling with his own religious identity, American Dr. Marc Lieberman, set out to help. "Eye Camp" follows his mission to restore vision at the top of the world. read more

Known as the Las Vegas of the Persian Gulf, Dubai is a boomtown where men outnumber women three to one. Prostitution is illegal but rampant. Photojournalist Mimi Chakarova goes undercover to investigate. read more

Amina Masood Janjua was an ordinary Pakistani housewife, proud of her country and loyal to its military. But all that changed in July 2005, when her husband never came home. David Montero reports on how her campaign to find her husband sparked national protests challenging Pakistan's feared intelligence agency, the ISI, and led to events that would severely test Musharraf's power. read more

Since 1998, 4 million people have died in conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, more than in any other conflict since World War II. Despite a small arms trade embargo, Congo is awash in AK-47s, the weapon of choice for warring militias, and manufactured increasingly these days in China. Benjamin Pauker reports on China's growing influence in Africa. read more

Photographer Dong Lin has visited North Korea several times in recent years trying to glimpse life in this secretive state. As North and South Korea plan for a rare summit this Fall, we offer a black-and-white portrait of the North, taken surreptitiously and under constant watch, in a country long known for its isolation and paranoia. read more

With Iraq mired in a chaotic civil war, those who can get out are doing so. According to the latest United Nations figures, 50,000 Iraqis a month are now leaving their country. Those who remain try to survive any way they can, like the resourceful Kurdish smugglers in this week's Rough Cut. read more

It's a conflict that may be one of the least known in the world, but since 2004 more than 2,000 people have been killed in southern Thailand where Muslim insurgents have been fighting for a separate state. Aaron Goodman reports from the region on a group of women offering solace to both Buddhists and Muslims caught up in the violence. read more

The islands affected by last year's oil spill in the Philippines are part of an important marine biosphere and known for their breathtaking beauty. News of the oil tanker sinking hardly caused a ripple in U.S. mainstream media but FRONTLINE/World reporter Jason Margolis went to investigate what is being called the worst environmental disaster in Philippine history. read more

Trying to become a baseball star in a small, poor country in West Africa, where soccer is the sport of choice, is a tall order. But as reporter Zachary Stauffer discovers in this week's Rough Cut, Ghana has some true believers in America's game. read more

In a vivid FlashPoint slide show, Getty photojournalist Ami Vitale presents a portrait of "a magnificent but cursed landscape." Her images of Kashmir, taken over a period of five years, reveal the beauty and the violence in a place claimed by both Pakistan and India. read more

"You must learn how to say no," booms Ugandan evangelical minister Martin Ssempa. "Say 'I do not want to have sex. I have chosen not to have sex.'" So begins this week's Rough Cut, which looks at the controversy over U.S. funding for AIDS relief in Africa. We meet Ssempa, preaching to a classroom of students in Uganda's capital, Kampala. He's among a growing number of voices in the country who are teaching an abstinence-only approach to combat the spread of HIV. read more

Cambodian silk making is a traditional art that has been passed down through generations from mother to daughter. But when Japanese craftsman and businessman Kikuo Morimoto found that the practice was in danger of disappearing after decades of violence in the country, it became his life's mission to revive the lost art. read more

Move over Batman and Superman; the most popular comic book in the Arab world today is The 99, tales of Muslim superheroes based on Islamic culture. It was created by Naif al-Mutawa, a 36-year-old from Kuwait who was educated in the United States. FRONTLINE/World reporter Isaac Solotaroff follows al-Mutawa as he markets his comics across the Middle East, hoping to spread a moderate, modern image of Islam. read more

For the past seven years, Bart Weetjens has been running a unique lab in Tanzania, where he trains rats to sniff out deadly unexploded landmines. Although dogs have traditionally been used to help humans detect mines, Weetjens realized that rats are lighter, cheaper to maintain and less susceptible to disease. In "Hero Rats," FRONTLINE/World reporter Alexis Bloom accompanies Weetjens to work in Mozambique to watch his trained rodents in action. read more

For more than 1,000 years, the people of the Faroe Islands have hunted pilot whales, and whale meat continues to be an important part of their diet. Yet, the islanders now face a new threat: A landmark 20-year study of Faroese children has found that high levels of methyl mercury and other contaminants in the whale meat are harmful to a child's neurological development. read more

On December 24, 2004, the Indonesian province of Aceh was hit by the massive tsunami that killed 170,000 people and devastated villages and towns. In the wake of the catastrophe, the Indonesian army and local separatist rebels ended their decades-long war, which took 15,000 lives. In After the Wave, FRONTLINE/World correspondent Orlando de Guzman travels to Aceh to explore the prospects for continued peace read more

"A child on the street is what we call a roofless and rootless kid," says Father Thomas Koshy. For the past 17 years, the Salesian priest has been working in southern India providing education, shelter, and better opportunities to India's growing number of street children. As this report shows, many quickly become addicted to life on the street and find it hard to leave. read more

Frustrated by his country's lack of healthcare for the poor, especially those in rural areas, Dr. Edgar Rodas started an organization of volunteer Ecuadorian doctors who trek high into the Andes and deep into the Amazon, performing surgeries on a hospital truck and boat. Watch these dedicated doctors in action in our latest video about individuals trying to make a difference in the world. read more

While trekking in Nepal in 1998, American John Wood saw that many children couldn't afford to go to school and that schools in the poorest rural areas had a chronic shortage of books. It was a transformational experience for Wood that spurred him to start a literacy program called Room to Read. This week's Rough Cut tells the story of Wood's nonprofit that now helps to educate millions of children in the developing world and visits some of the Nepalese communities his program has helped. read more

Every family has its secrets. Josef Sawyer found his in a drawer. As a boy living in suburban Massachusetts during the 1980s, he found a videotape stored among a collection of home movies and photographs. Watching the tape, Sawyer witnessed a murky, chaotic scene: A group of ragged soldiers, drinking beer and shouting, were torturing a man. read more

Reporter Joshua Fisher takes a cinematic journey to China where he meets with the country's new wave of independent filmmakers. Known as the "Sixth Generation," the group flouts censorship to tell gritty contemporary stories about the country's rapid modernization and the millions of migrants living at its margins. read more

I have traveled to Russia three times in the past year to investigate the Kremlin's crackdown on independent voices. I first grew interested in the topic in 2006, when I read about a new NGO (non-governmental organization) law that limited the ability of nonprofit organizations to operate freely in Russia. read more

Sakhalin Island is what international oilmen might call a "hardship post." It is on the very edge of the Russian Far East The narrow, 600-mile-long island is populated by only half a million people, and its seasons are severe even by Russian standards. But underneath the surface of the island and the surrounding seas is enough oil and gas to power the United States for as much as a decade. read more

I was always fascinated by the Indian traditions my family has preserved, even though my parents have never visited India. They were born in Uganda. In 1972, my parents were expelled from the country by the notorious dictator Idi Amin. By traveling to Uganda, I thought it would help me better understand my parents and, more profoundly, myself. I also wanted to investigate the racial dynamics in the country since the expulsion and discover which side -- if any -- I would "side" with: the Asians or the blacks ... or both. read more

Since 2002, photographer Pep Bonet has documented Medecins Sans Frontieres' ARV (anti-retroviral) program in six Sub-Saharan African countries: Zambia, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, South Africa and Kenya. In this audio slide show, Bonet talks about the project and the images he captured. read more

In 2006, when my wife and I traveled to India to live and work, the one issue that kept grabbing our attention was northern India's deep cultural preference for sons over daughters. The desire for sons can be so great, that some families, after having a girl or two, will abort female fetuses until they bear a son. The practice is called female feticide or sex selection. read more

Half of Mongolia's two million population still practice the ancient tradition of nomadic herding. Families have kept these herds -- mostly goats, sheep, and horses -- for generations, and parents often bequeath hundreds of animals to their children. Through my study-abroad program, I found myself living and working with such families, experiencing their grueling lives for a few weeks at a time. read more

Election season in France this year has provided high drama. As the French head to the polls, they are not simply choosing their next president but choosing an identity. The country is facing deep schisms over economic and social policy, and each candidate represents a very different future for the Gallic nation of 61 million people. read more

In "Sounds of Hope," FRONTLINE/World reporter Monica Lam journeys to Paraguay to meet Luis Szaran, a famous musician and social entrepreneur who has dedicated himself to helping redeem the lives of poor and neglected children through music. read more

As President Bush pledges another $10 billion to stabilize and rebuild Afghanistan, and a spring offensive is expected against a resurgent Taliban, FRONTLINE/World correspondent Sam Kiley reports from the frontlines of the conflict, where dual battles are being fought to win the trust of the Afghan people and combat the extremists living among them. read more

At a time when fair and accurate news coverage is more essential than ever, 2006 marked one of the deadliest years on record for journalists. Surprisingly, despite the fierce fighting in Iraq, most of the slain journalists did not die in combat. They were deliberately targeted, hunted down, and murdered for investigating corruption, crime, or human rights abuses in countries around the world. In Requiem, FRONTLINE/World essayist Sheila Coronel looks at the dangers journalists confront as they try to tell their stories and pays special tribute to reporters working in the Philippines, Russia, Turkey, Zimbabwe, China and Iraq who have been killed, jailed, or exiled for daring to speak truth to power. read more

In the fourth hour of News War, FRONTLINE/World reporter Greg Barker travels to the Middle East to examine the rise of Arab satellite TV channels and their impact on the "war of ideas" at a time of convulsive change and conflict in the region. His report focuses on the growing influence of Al Jazeera, and the controversy around the recent launch of Al Jazeera English, which U.S. satellite and cable companies have declined to carry. Barker also visits the "war room" of the State Department's Rapid Response Unit, which monitors Arab media 24 hours a day, and meets with U.S. military officers whose mission is to engage the Arab news channels in debate. read more

FRONTLINE/World reporter Vanessa Hua travels to the ultra-wired metropolis of Seoul, South Korea, to report on OhmyNews, the world's largest citizen journalism site, and to explore whether such a model could be replicated in the United States. read more

In this week's Rough Cut, producer Joe Rubin and Colombian reporter Paula Botero enter the world of the shamens, or medicine women, who comb the rich canopy of Panama's rain forests gathering plants with powerful healing properties. Known simply as "Neles'' and members of Panama's Kuna Indians, the women have passed down their knowledge of hundreds of plants through generations. But as the modern world and modern science encroaches, their practices and traditions are fast disappearing. read more

This week's Rough Cut recounts a war reporter's search for Islamist extremists harboring in Somalia and with links to Al Qaeda. On his intrepid journey into the south of Somalia, Dominique Christian Mollard, a veteran news reporter with the Associated Press, reveals a shadowy and dangerous country blighted by years of anarchy. read more

Moscow's version of Sex and the City explores what it means to be a young, single woman in modern-day Russia. Traveling to Moscow, filmmaker and FRONTLINE/World reporter Victoria Gamburg introduces us to the fictional characters and the stars of Russia's popular TV series, Balzac Age, and reveals how the show compares with the real-life experiences of single women making a life for themselves in Moscow. read more

In a story close to home, FRONTLINE/World and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation go inside a homegrown terrorist cell accused of planning mass destruction and murder on North American soil. The Cell Next Door retraces events leading up to last year's arrests in Toronto of 18, mostly young, Muslim men - who are now standing trial -- and talks to the radical Muslim informant within their ranks who helped foil the attacks. read more

"Flash Point" is a new series of online slideshows that will present the work of up-and-coming as well as established photojournalists. In the series debut, "The Price of Sex," documentary photographer Mimi Chakarova looks into the lives of young East European women trafficked into the sex trade. read more

This will be the third "Rough Cut" Karzan Sherabayani has produced for FRONTLINE/World from his native city of Kirkuk. To show what residents and the police must face in an increasingly violent city, Sherabayani goes on patrol with the city's police chief, a man he introduces as the most-wanted policeman in Kirkuk, because of the many insurgents who would like to kill him. read more

In this week's "Rough Cut," we travel to Pakistan to celebrate a wedding. Reporter Kim Perry first met the Asghars, a well-to-do Pakistani-American family living in California, in late 2005. When family matriarch Robina Asghar told Perry that her eldest son Tabriz was about to marry in Pakistan to a woman he barely knew, she invited Perry along. What follows is an affectionate portrait of a young man caught between his parents' cultural expectations and his own sense of himself as a 21st century American. read more

Before a peace deal was reached this November, FRONTLINE/World reporter Aaron Goodman traveled to Nepal to see what was tearing the country apart. He also wanted to know how journalists were able to report about the conflict after the government virtually shut down the media in 2005. Goodman follows Guna Raj Luitel, a Nepalese reporter, who has made it his mission to cover all sides of the conflict for his newspaper the Kantipur Daily. read more

Since gaining independence in 1960, the Democratic Republic of Congo has suffered through decades of dictatorship and war. In July 2006 the country went to the polls in the first democratic vote in more than 40 years. Reporter George Lerner travels to Congo to find out how people are reaching beyond a legacy of violence and what these historic elections represent. read more

Continuing our series on social entrepreneurs, FRONTLINE/World travels to Uganda to explore the impact of microfinance and, in particular, how one San Francisco-based nonprofit is using the Web to forge a more direct connection between lenders in the U.S. and borrowers in developing countries. read more

FRONTLINE/World reporter Evan Williams travels undercover to Burma to expose the violence and repression carried out by Burma's government against its own people. Williams, who was banned from the country for reporting on the democracy movement 10 years ago, meets secretly with the dissidents still pushing for change, and gathers evidence of the atrocities and slave labor that is helping keep the regime in power. read more