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NPR's Renee Montagne previews Tuesday's talk with former Beatle Paul McCartney about his new double CD and tour documentary. For the first time, he's embraced old Beatles tunes with a new band. (2:03)

Over the past five years, Maverick Construction founder Michael McNally has seen revenues grow tenfold and even in the current economic slump, sales are up about 20 percent over last year. Still, McNally is feeling cautious about the future -- and he's not alone. NPR's Chris Arnold reports.

Austria's center-right People's Party scores a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections as its former coalition partner, the far-right Freedom Party led by Joerg Haider, slumps. NPR's Bob Edwards talks with reporter Bethany Bell.

Troubled companies rush to appoint new chief executive officers to appease stockholders as scandals and losses continue to plague many of the country's biggest firms. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with Jeffrey Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management.

A sound montage of some of the voices in this past week's news, including Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD); Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS); Chief United Nations Weapons Inspector Hans Blix; Palestinian spokesman Yasser Abed Rabbo; Israeli spokesman Rannan Gissin; National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; NATO Secretary-General Lord Robertson, and President George W. Bush.

Host Liane Hansen speaks with Charles Kupchan, professor of international relations at Georgetown University. In a new book and series of articles, he recently outlined the possible rise to power of the European Union as a challenge to American geopolitical dominance. His book is The End of an American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Geopolitics of the 21st Century

As people stay in the work force longer, some can look for inspiration to Martha Smith of Vineland , Kan., who has held the same job at the Coal Creek Library for most of the past 76 years. Frank Morris from member station KCUR reports.

Earlier this month, the Bush administration proposed a scheme by which government printing jobs could be outsourced to private companies, thus ending the virtual monopoly held by the Government Printing Office. Host Liane Hansen speaks with former director of the Library and Information Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Miriam Drake, about the concern that this may lead to a sharp drop-off in the amount of information made available to the general public.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Isobel Barnhill from Rochester, Minnesota. She listens to Weekend Edition on member stations KLSE and KZSE in Rochester.)

U.S. officials say they have al Qaeda's director of Persian Gulf operations in custody. Liane Hansen talks with NPR's Tom Gjelten about the latest developments in the war on terror.