PRI's The World May 31, 2013

Russian scientists have discovered a woolly mammoth carcass with liquid blood on a remote Arctic island. It was preserved in ice below the Siberian permafrost for thousands of years. The find has fueled speculation that it may be possible to clone the Ice Age animal.

In Turkey, Islamic creationist guru Adnan Oktar has adopted a new weapon in his fight for Islamic values and against Darwinism: buxom television babes. Among other things, they host the talk show Building Bridges to win creationist converts.

Hundreds of Turks staged a protest against the government's plan to pave over an Istanbul park to build a shopping mall. What began several days ago as a peaceful protest to save trees has now grown to thousands of Turks who are fed up with many of their government's policies. Reporter Dalia Mortada tells anchor Marco Werman about how the protests have morphed and changed over the past several days.

German's Deutche Bahn says it cost nearly 10 million dollars to clean up graffiti last year alone along its railways and on train stations. The national railway is not going to take it anymore. It will deploy anti-graffiti, mini-helicopter drones to keep a watch on graffiti artists.

The indigenous peoples of Brazil were facing "extermination" in 1967 when a commission of inquiry reported on conditions they were facing. The report said the worst crimes were being carried out by the very agency supposed to be protecting the Indians. The Report quickly "disappeared" under the military dictatorship, only to be re-discovered earlier this year.

BBC journalist Shaimaa Khalil went back to her homeland, Egypt, to document the changes that occurred after the revolution. Her six-part series, "Egypt's challenge" describes the transformations her country is going through. More on The World.

A woman from Michigan has reportedly been killed in Syria. Nicole Mansfield's family says FBI agents told them of her death yesterday. Syrian state TV aired images of Mansfield's passport and driver's license. Anchor Marco Werman hears more details from Quinn Kleinfelter of Detroit public radio.

We find out more about an American woman from Michigan who was killed in Syria. Also, a creationist TV channel in Turkey that features Barbie doll look-alikes. Plus, why the ancient Egyptians appreciated some forms of graffiti.

Anchor Marco Werman features a few tracks by rappers from Egypt, Syria, and the Palestinian territories whose music is now inspired by the Arab Awakening.

The ancients had a much more relaxed attitude to graffiti than we do today. Egyptian muckety-mucks might even have welcomed a Chinese tourist's inscription on a stone relief of Alexander the Great. Also: in Germany, the state railway company is planning to deploy anti-graffiti spying drones. For more: http://www.theworld.org/language