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"We are following developments concerning Sweden and Finland, but we are not of a favorable opinion," Erdogan told reporters.

Fishermen in Louisiana are assessing the damage and rebuilding the shrimping industry damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Some residents of Smyth County, Va., are struggling to pay the bills and feed their families. Robbie Hankins works full-time, and his wife, Wreatha, works part-time. Yet the couple must resort to extraordinary measures to keep food on the table.

For the past 18 years, Andy Linares has been running his family business, Bug Off Pest Control. Recently, he came to the StoryCorps booth in New York's Grand Central Terminal to talk about his work as an exterminator.

The Hollywood Sign was originally constructed in 1923. After several incarnations, the most recent version has become an unmistakable American landmark. This year the Los Angeles icon is getting a makeover. NPR’s Melissa Jaeger-Miller reports from the precarious hillside scene.

Iraq's draft constitution is likely to go to voters in October, over the objections of Sunni negotiators. Shiites and Kurds want a federalized Iraq with a relatively weak central government. Sunnis want a strong federal government.

Prince Faisal al Hussein of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan talks to host Michele Norris. The prince came to Washington this week with a delegation for annual bilateral security discussions at the Pentagon.

Residents of Dover, Penn., voted out almost every member of their local school board last week. Eight people ran against a policy requiring the mention of intelligent design in classrooms, and all of them won. Steve Inskeep talks to one of the newly elected board members, Bernadette Reinking.

Alan Cheuse reviews The Diviners, a satire by Rick Moody about an independent movie company trying to produce a television mini-series.

The arrest this week of a Nigerian warlord from the oil-producing Niger Delta has started a wave of violence on the streets of Port Harcourt.