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Saddam Hussein, the former president of Iraq, testified for the first time on Wednesday at his trial in Baghdad. He called the proceedings a "comedy." The judge closed the session to the public when Saddam refused to follow orders.

John Taylor writes about the formative days of the National Basketball Associaton in The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball.

Saddam Hussein takes the stand and launches into a political speech, praising the insurgency and urging Iraqis to halt sectarian violence. Reporters are ordered out of the chamber when Saddam ignores the judge's orders to confine his statements to the charges against him.

Clarice Morant has been taking care of her sister for more than 20 years, and her brother for six. It's a natural role for a big sister, even if in this case, the big sister is 101.

In recent years, there has been increasing speculation that the Vatican is preparing to establish diplomatic relations with China. But China's 12 million Catholics are often still caught between the Church and the state.

The cowboy love story Brokeback Mountain leads the Oscar pack with a total of eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Heath Ledger. Madeleine Brand talks with Claude Brodesser, host of the public radio program The Business, about the Academy Award nominees announced Tuesday morning. The awards ceremony will be held March 5 in Los Angeles.

President Bush vows in his State of the Union speech to increase funding to develop coal-fired power plants that produce no polluting emissions. But the federal government is currently undermining efforts by states to require power companies to use an existing "green" technology that's already available.

When troops stationed in Iraq and elsewhere overseas watch the Super Bowl on TV, they don't see the commercials that everyone else does. Instead, they see taped messages recorded by players during the mayhem of Super Bowl media day.

In his State of the Union address, President Bush said the United States should kick its addiction to oil from "unstable parts of the world" and specifically mentioned the Middle East. Alex Chadwick talks to Eric Weiner about two of America's biggest sources of foreign oil, Nigeria and Venezuela -- nowhere near the Middle East, but just as unstable.

Nanotechnology is finding a home in beauty products. Some skin-cream makers, for instance, say buckyballs can prevent premature aging of the skin by acting as an anti-oxidant. But some experts wonder about the safety of these highly engineered nanostructures.