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Today, you are headed to the Europe, South America, Asia and the Middle East. This is CNN Student News, your passport to headlines around the globe.

Our first up is in Hawaii where an economic conference brings world leaders together. This is the APEC meeting, stands for Asia Pacific Economic Cooporation. There are 21 members, and that includes the U.S who hosted to the weekend meeting in Hawaii. President Obama had individual meetings with other leaders from China, Russia and Japan. He talked about business flowing back and forth between the U.S and other APEC nations.  President Obama said he thinks the U.S could do more to sell more American products overseas and to encourage other countries to invest in the United States.
These APEC meetings focus on economic issues in the Asia pacific region, but Europe's debt crisis also came up over the weekend, especially, some of the efforts to come up with solutions to help resolve it.

Some European countries are turning to new leaders to try to turn things around during this economic crisis. One of those nations is Italy where former prime minister resigned on Saturday. Italian political leaders got together over the weekend to talk about choices for the country's next prime miniter. Yesterday, Mario Monti was nominated for the job. He is an economist. One Italian official described him as experienced and well respected. but he is not a prime minister yet.  The Italian parilament has to decide whether or not to approve him for the position.

There's a lot to do to get ready to host these kind of major sporting events. We are not just talking about buidling stadiums and training workers. The Brazilian governmenet is trying to crack down on violence and illegal drugs, especially in some of the nation's shanty towns. These are slums and larger cities like Rio De Janario, a lot of people living in them. They can be incredibly dangerous. This weekend, thousands of Brazilian police and security forces raided shanty towns in Rio. Late Sundy, officials said they had taken a contol of the slums away from the slum dealers. Next, they promised to search for the criminals who escaped.

What you are looking at right now, are up-close, ground level pictures of the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant in Japan. This is the plant that had that massive meltdown after an earthquake and Tsunami hit back in March. Journalists got their first tour of the plant on Saturday. As they got near it, the radiation readings increased although they had never hit a level that's believed to mean an immediate health risk. Technicians are working to contol the damage caused by the meltdown. The power plant's owners say they are making in progress but it could take decades to completely clean up this facility.

But That's not the dead sea's only claim to fame. It's also one of the saltiest bodies of water on earth. And the salt and other minerals make it hard for anything to live there. We said hard, but not impossible. And the scientists that our reporter is reporting on hope that what they've found beneath the waves of the death sea could have a big impact upon land.

Reporter:
On the rocky shores of this large body of water, biologists prepare themselves for a dive in an ongoing research expedition. They treaded into the still waters and carefully make the plunge into the world below. At first glance, it looks like your standard underwater dive, but look closer you'll see what's missing. There are no fish and there are no plants here and nor will there ever be any, for this is the Dead Sea, the saltiest body of water on the planet. So you'll ask what are these marine biologists doing here. They are here making what they say is the first of its kind scientific diving expedition to study fresh and salt water springs at the bottom of the Dead Sea where new forms of life have recently been discovered, a find that may have significant implications for medical research.

"We found a large diversity of bacteria of microorganisams, several types of algae and none of this oraganisms have been described previously from the Dead Sea and that's fascinating. Most of them are, to the best of our knowledge, at the moment we did, preliminary data at hand, are not known to science in general."

Thirty meters below the surface, the researchers collect samples of sediment which they measure back on land.  They hope to learn more about the chemical compostion of the spring that allows for the micoroorganisms to live in such extreme environments. From the depth of the dead sea, springs life that one day may save lives back on land.

Our next stop is a big building in Florida. Big's  an understatement.  It's taller than the statue of liberty, takes up more volume than the entire Pentagon. You can fit more than 3 empire state buildings inside it. And for the first time in more than 30 years, you can actually go in the door.

Reporter:
The folks are some of the first inside. For more than 30 years, it had been closed to visitors.
"..took a lot of picutres? I did. and some of them, I only understand, because how do you take a picture of this, how do you take picture of the ceiling. It's unbelievable."

If you think, that's unbelievable. 'Shuttle Orbiter Endeavor.'

For current and future space geeks, this is heaven, a pinch- me moment. Endeavor is being housed here until its California museum home is ready. This is the vehicle assembly building, VAB, at the Cannedy space center, rich in history and now reopened for public tours.
From here, the massive Satern V moon rockets, were assembled before rolling out to the launch pad.

"It was just so busy in here. We had thounsands of people living in this building at the time. There were probably 6 thousands people in this building."

He worked on both the Apolo and space shuttle programs. "We are probabley not going to see anything like this in our lifetime. All 135 shuttles started out from this building too, mated it to the fuel tanks and boost rockets. Because of volatile feuls and chemicals used during the shuttle era. NASA closed the VAB doors to outsiders in 1978.
With the shuttle program over, NASA is again allowing tours from the visitor complex to stop here.

"We just sort of said, well, we absolutely have to do that part of the tour."

To this day, the VAB remains one of the biggest buildings in the world ,525 feet high, By volume it's the forth largest in the world. So here's one of those interesting NASA factoids. That, of course, is the Behicle Assembly Building behind me. And that American flag you see there. Well, it is so large that you can fit a city bus inside each of stripes.
Within a few years, NASA hopes to start assembling its next generation rocket in here, one that will take astronuats perhaps to Mars. The space agency has not decided yet whether the welcome mat remain or out once that new rocket gets here.

An lowa man got dressed up for his world record attempt. You know that old saying about someone giving you the shirt off his back? This guy is going the opposite way. He's putting on 247 T-shirts to set a new world record.
Looks like he needed some help with those last hundred or so. It wasn't hard to gather up the materials since he owns a T-shirt store. He's put in time training for the big day but we are sure that setting this record still wore him out, even if he though the victory was sure thing.
We were gonna put together a string of puns for you and They'd all follow the same thread.  But we thought that might be stretching it a little bit, so we will clothes things out here before they unravel and try to come up with better material tomorrow.  Alright, Eight pun and one show!