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Reviewer Mark Jenkins reviews the CD by Indian Sitarist Ananda Shankar and a British DJ known as State of Bengal. It's a pop mix of hip beats and Indian pop music. (3:30) Note: The CD is "Ananda Shankar and the State of Bengal." It's on the Real World Records label.

The Pentagon conducted a test of an anti-missile system last night. It failed. NPR's Steve Inskeep reports.

Jacki talks to NPR's Philip Martin from Baltimore, where the NAACP opened its 91st National Convention today. Delegates are calling for more attention to criminal justice issues, racial profiling and economic inequality. Outside the convention, protesters demonstrated over the NAACP's support for removing the Confederate Flag from the South Carolina Statehouse.

In the first of a four part series, NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the debate in Congress over whether the proposed national missile defense system is realistic. The 60-billion-dollar system is designed to intercept a missile aimed at the United States, but as a test failure over the weekend showed, it's far from reliable.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports that staffing problems with the U-S Geological Survey could leave the agency unable to properly respond to volcanic eruptions. Many experienced geologists are retiring after long tenures, and few replacements are ready to take their place.

In this country, health officials are concerned about a spike in the levels of HIV infection in San Francisco, a city that serves as a bellweather for AIDS in the U.S. Last year, the rate of new infections doubled, to 900 people, and while that's still much smaller than during the 1980s, epidemiologists fear a younger generation may not take the threat of AIDS as seriously. Sabin Russell of the San Francisco Chronicle talks to Jacki about the changes researchers are noticing in behavior and attitudes toward AIDS.

Well??? Across America this weekend, hundreds of thousands of kids and many of their parents ignored television and sports, and instead read a book. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth in the children's series, went on sale Saturday to much hype. Jacki gets a review of the latest installment from Max Landerman, age 9, of Washington.

From Durban, South Africa, NPR's Richard Knox reports on the opening of the Thirteenth International AIDS Conference. The early discord at the conference centers on how to distribute anti-AIDS drugs in the economically weak African countries with millions of HIV-infected citizens.

NPR's Jack Speer reports on the record setting sales of J.K. Rowling's latest Harry Potter book. By the time Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire went on sale at bookstores at midnight Friday, it already was a best seller on the Internet. Online booksellers sold more than 700-thousand advance copies to eager fans.

Weekend Edition commentator Al Lubrano has been spending his weekends hanging out in the Pennsylvania countryside with would-be cowboys.