This week we'd like to you to link the U.N.’s top climate official Yvo de Boer – who’s set an ambitious tone at the Copenhagen summit

and…

Oscar-winning film director James Cameron, who’s long-awaited science fiction epic “Avatar” has its world premiere here in London on Thursday.

Got a good idea to connect them? Here’s how to play.

Remember, you need to find five other people between the climate chief and the "Titanic" director: no more, no less.

If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below. To see previous challenges, click here.

Happy connecting!

Time to get your thinking caps on: it's time for the Connect The World Six Degrees game. Here’s how to play: We choose two people in the news this week and ask you to connect them in six short steps. 

This week we're asking you to take a giant leap because our newsmakers come from very different fields. We want you to link Abdulrahman Al Saleh – Director General of the Dubai Department of Finance - and star golfer Tiger Woods.

Up for the challenge?

Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection. We'll announce the winner on Friday's show.

Remember: you need five other people between those two: no more, no less. If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below. To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!

Time to get your thinking caps on: it's time for the Connect The World Six Degrees game.

What links Susan Boyle to Charles Darwin?

Here’s how to play: We choose two people in the news this week and ask you to connect them through the six short steps.

This week we're asking you to take a giant leap because our newsmakers come from very different fields. We want you to link reality TV singing star Susan Boyle to evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin.

Up for the challenge?

Leave your submissions for this week's challenge in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and we'll announce the winner on Friday's show.

Remember: you need five other people between those two: no more, no less. If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below. To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!

Time to think laterally, it's time for the Connect The World Six Degrees challenge.

What links Jenson Button to Hu Jintao?( Photos: AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Here’s how to play: We choose two people in the news this week and ask you to connect them through the six steps.

This week we want you to link Chinese President Hu Jintao to Formula 1 champion Jenson Button.

Need some inspiration? Check out this effort by last week's winner Sonja Osterwalder from Switzerland.

She connected singer Dolly Parton and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and here's how:

- In the 1980s Dolly Parton sang a duet on television with Oprah Winfrey...

– Whilst for her O-Magazine, Winfrey interviewed CNN's Christiane Amanpour...

– The Chief International Correspondent once attended a concert at London's Royal Albert Hall by Eric Clapton...

– Clapton had a short affair with the current French First Lady Carla Bruni...

– Bruni is now married to French President Nicolas Sarkozy...

– Who last week rekindled the flame of the unknown soldier in Paris, alongside Angela Merkel.

Leave your submissions for this week's challenge in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and we'll announce the winner on Friday's show.

Remember: you need five other people between those two: no more, no less. If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below. To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!

Time to think laterally, it's time for the Connect The World Six Degrees challenge. All you need to do is connect two personalities in six moves.

What links Ricki Lake to Hamid Karzai?

This week we want you to link chat show host Ricki Lake to re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and I'll announce the winner on Friday's show.

Remember: you need five other people between those two: no more, no less. If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below. To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!

Time to think laterally, it's time for the Connect The World Six Degrees challenge. All you need to do is connect two personalities in six moves.

This week we want you to link former England cricket captain Michael Vaughan to Californian first lady Maria Shriver.

Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and we'll announce the winner on Friday's show.

Remember: you need five other people between those two: no more, no less. If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below. To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!

It’s time for “Six Degrees” - our weekly challenge for Connect the World viewers and Web users.

Sunderland striker Darren Bent (obscured) shoots towards goal and the ball hits a beach ball that had been blown onto the pitch.

Here’s how to play: We choose two people in the news this week and ask you to connect them through the six steps.

This week we’ve chosen Sunderland striker Darren Bent, who scored one of the weirest goals in football when a beach ball thrown onto the pitch by a Liverpool fan rolled in front of Reds' goalkeeper Pepe Reina, from where it was struck by Bent – and Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud, who is being pursued by Pakistani forces in South Waziristan.

You need to come up with five other people between those two for a total of six links.

Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and we’ll announce the winner on Friday’s show.

If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below.

To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!

It’s time for “Six Degrees” — our weekly challenge for Connect the World viewers and Web users.

Maradona's Argentina side have a had a tough campaign.

Here’s how to play: We choose two people in the news this week and ask you to connect them through the six steps.

The week we’ve chosen billionaire investor, philanthropist and political activist George Soros – who has announced plans to invest up to $1 billion in clean energy technologies to combat climate change – and Diego Maradona, whose Argentina squad finally qualified for the World Cup finals Wednesday after a difficult campaign.

You need to come up with five other people between those two for a total of six links.

Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and we’ll announce the winner on Friday’s show.

If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below.

To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!

What links Alfred Nobel to Andrew Lloyd-Webber? (PHOTO: AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

LONDON, England – It’s time for “Six Degrees” — our weekly challenge for Connect the World viewers and Web users.

Here’s how to play: We choose two people in the news this week and ask you to connect them through the six steps.

The week we’ve chosen chemist Alfred Nobel – who established prizes for outstanding achievements in sciences, literature, and peacemaking – and composer Andrew Lloyd-Webber, who is launching the sequel to musical Phantom of the Opera in London’s West End and on Broadway.

You need to come up with five other people between those two for a total of six links.

Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and I’ll announce the winner on Friday’s show.

Need some inspiration? Check out last week’s winner, Matt Crean, who connected German Chancellor Angela Merkel to golfer Phil Mickelson.

Here’s how he did it:

– On a visit to Israel Angela Merkel was greeted at the airport by former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert.

– Olmert was also on the welcoming committee for former U.S. President George W. Bush.

– Bush was replaced at the White House by Barack Obama.

– Obama was obviously present when golfer Tiger Woods spoke at the presidential inauguration celebrations in Washington.

– Woods played with Padraig Harrington during the PGA Championship.

– And Harrington in turn has played against Phil Mickelson at the 2008 Ryder Cup.

Remember: you need five other people between those two: no more, no less.

If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below.

To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!

What links Angela Merkel to Phil Mickelson? (PHOTO: AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

LONDON, England - It’s time for “Six Degrees” — our weekly challenge for Connect the World viewers and Web users.

Here’s how to play: We choose two people in the news this week and ask you to connect them through the six steps.

In this week’s challenge we want you to connect Angela Merkel, who's just been elected German Chancellor for a second time, to golfer Phil Mickelson, who's won the U.S. Tour championship.

You need to come up with five other people between those two for a total of six links.

Leave your submissions in the comments section below, and the team will pick the most creative connection, and I’ll announce the winner on Friday’s show.

Need some inspiration? Check out last week’s winner, Dany Pelligrino, who connected tennis star Justine Henin to former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin.

Here’s how he did it:

- Justine Henin beat Serena Williams in the U.S. Open quarterfinals in 2007.

- Williams has appeared on "America's Next Top Model" hosted by Tyra Banks…

- Who has also interviewed model Iman…

- Who starred alongside Steve Martin in "L.A. Story".

- Martin also appeared in the film "Baby Mama" starring Tina Fey…

- Who returned to "Saturday Night Live" last year with a dead-on impersonation of - and on one show appeared alongside - former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Remember: you need five other people between those two: no more, no less. If you want your friends to take the challenge as well, then click the “share post” button below.

To see previous challenges, click here. Happy connecting!