* More troops to fight the war in Afghanistan
* A mainstay of Main Street in Britain is wiped out
* Company Christmas Parties for song in Ireland
* 21st-century Africa: Rwanda aims for one laptop per child
* The story of an Iraqi girl blinded by war

Steven Chu currently runs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at the U. of California, and is a biofuels specialist. Read more about Chu’s research and experience, and about clean energy technologies…

Four million New Yorkers tune into THIRTEEN every week. And for each viewer, there’s a particular show, or personality, or connection that keeps them coming back. What’s your reason? Please tell us in our comments….

Over the last 50 years, NYC has lost around 900,000 manufacturing jobs. Today, New York’s surviving factories face stiff competition from foreign imports, and fight for space amongst condos and commercial developments. What has losing this source of jobs meant for New York’s economy?
See multimedia feature.

In the 25 years since this local documentary aired, ‘Style Wars‘ gathered a huge cult following amongst graffiti/tagging obsessives and hip-hop aficionados. Watch…

The best-selling author and historian Niall Ferguson shows how finance is the foundation of human progress in his latest book, “The Ascent of Money,” on which a new PBS program of the same title is based (airing in January). Watch interview.

‘Inheritance’ is the story of Monika Hertwig, the daughter of concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth. The film chronicles her meeting with survivor Helen Jonas, one of the few living eyewitnesses to Goeth’s unspeakable brutality. Watch online until January 4th.

Leaders from New York’s nonprofit, philanthropic, business and public sectors held a forum on Nov. 19, 2008, to discuss the current challenges and opportunities for nonprofits. Geoffrey Canada, President and CEO of Harlem Children’s Zone, delivers the keynote address. See more…

Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild idea – retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back – and spent two incredible years of their lives filming the trip. Watch full documentary.

* World Bank warns of a deep global recession
* Controversy in England over assisted suicide
* 21st-century Africa: Uganda’s hospitals
* Record warm December in Moscow
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