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Frank talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem, who's monitoring violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Clashes over the last four days have left 18 Palestinians dead and hundreds wounded in the deadliest encounter between the two sides in several years.

Jacki talks with the cameraman who shot footage of a Palestinian father and son caught in crossfire on Saturday. A 12-year-old Palestinian boy Mohammed Ramal Aldura was killed . Jacki talks with Talal Abu Rameh, a journalist and cameraman for France Two Television.

The Pope recently cannonized some 120 Chinese Catholics who died in China under religious persecution. Rob Gifford in Beijing reports on China's reaction.

The Internet has exploded the way we do business but according to author Christopher Kush, it hasn't had much impact on how we govern. Many of us can't find the information we want from all that's on line. Kush speaks to host Jacki Lyden about web sites that can make you a more informed voter.

Commentator Doug Brinkley celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Wolfe. The author of Look Homeward, Angel and You Can't Go Home Again was once considered on a par with Fitzgerald and Hemingway; today he's less well known then Tom Wolfe, the author of The Bonfire of Vanities and The Right Stuff.

Popular culture commentator Steven Stark prepares for this election's first presidential debate on Tuesday by offering his rules on how to score the candidates.

Jacki speaks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli from the capital of Montenegro about the scheduled plans for general strikes tomorrow through Serbia to hurry the process of Perident Slobodan Milosevic leaving office after a sound defeat in last week's elections.

Weekend Edition's resident satirists at The Montana Logging and Ballet Company offer some common sense solutions for those viewers who have not been pleased by NBC's tape-delayed Olympic television coverage.

NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on two developments from Virginia that involve the use of DNA testing to establish guilt or innocence in criminal cases. In one case, a man who once had been within five days of execution was exonerated of a rape and murder that occurred eighteen years ago. In the other case, a federal judge has ruled that prisoners who claim they were wrongfully convicted have a constitutional right to request DNA testing of the physical evidence.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on allegations that a British company managed to corner the market for a particular type of oil earlier this year. A lawsuit filed last month claims London-based Arcadia Petroleum engineered an elaborate scheme to drive up the price of North Sea Brent Crude and then enjoyed windfall profits.