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NPR's Sarah Chayes reports on today's municipal election in Paris. Because of recent government corruption scandals, Parisians may select liberal candidates for the first time in100 years.

An explosion in a rural school house in China last Tuesday is believed to have been caused by children making fireworks to supplement the teachers' income. Host Lisa Simeone speaks with NPR's Rob Gifford in Beijing about child labor in China.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with the translators of a new English edition of Leo Tolstoy's classic novel, Anna Karenina (Viking Penguin/2001). Larissa Volokhonsky and Richard Pevear are a husband and wife translating team. She's Russian, he's American. They talk about the delicate art of translation.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with NPR's Gerry Hadden about the end of the Zapatistas' trek to the capital to push for legislation that will guarantee the rights of indigenous people.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that jury selection begins today in Los Angeles in the federal trial of Ahmed Ressam , the Algerian man who's accused of trying to smuggle bomb making materials into the United States. He was arrested in December of 1999, while crossing from Canada into Washington State. Prosecutors will argue that Ressam was part of a conspiracy to blow up public facilities during the Year 2000 celebrations.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports on recent upheavals in the Brazilian Senate. The Senate's former president is threatening to topple the current government. And some think he has the evidence to do so.

As song-swapping service Napster braces to block 135,000 titles drawn up by record companies in compliance of a federal injunction, Weekend Edition technology commentator Rich Dean offers his thoughts on the continuing online music wars.

NPR's Steve Inskeep joined a dozen U.S. senators who are working on a Habitat for Humanity project in Capitol Heights, MD.

Joshua Levs of member station WABE in Atlanta takes us to the Everett family barn in Suwanee, Georgia. Every Saturday night since 1964, folks from all over come to the Everett Barn to listen to bluegrass music.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with KUNC station manager Neil Best about the recent sale of the public radio station in Greeley, Colorado. The University of Northern Colorado sold the station to the "friends of KUNC" after a battle for control with Colorado Public Radio, based in Denver.