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NPR's Robert Siegel speaks with NPR's Ann Garrels in Baghdad. She gives an update of today's events in Iraq, and the mood of the city now that night has overtaken an eventful day.

In the latest movie from Chinese director Chen Kaige, a young violin prodigy moves to the big city with his father. As Beth Accomondo of KPBS in San Diego explains, the movie is about music, family and the conflicts between "old" and "modern" China.

As the chaos of Fashion Week in New York City winds down, writer Najwa Moses reviews the style extravaganza that left her impressed with the shows -- but underwhelmed by the clothes.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on New York's latest attempt to improve its 'quality of life'...by criminalizing what it considers "aggressive panhandling" in the city. But thee are concerns that the move limits beggars' Constitutional rights to free speech.

- Lorna Benson of Minnesota Public Radio reports on a controversy involving a practitioner of holistic medicine in the twin cities. The state is trying to keep Helen Healy from practicing naturopathic medicine, but her patients as well as fellow practitioners are lobbying on her behalf.

- Nearly 125 years after the Great Fire of Chicago, the city's fire department still depends on an antiquated teletype machine to dispatch its fire trucks. NPR's Edward Lifson reports on the machine's imminent demise.

Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports on budget cuts and their effect on City University of New York, once commonly called the poor man's Harvard. Big cuts and rising tuition have made it more difficult for the mostly working-class student body.

to reach a settlement on Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank city of Hebron.

Ray talks with W. B. Harpool about the liklihood that someone could obtain the right elements for a bombing similar to the one in Oklahoma City. Harpool is the owner of Harpool Fertilizer Co., in Denver, TX.

found that northeast rustbelt cities are the most segregated in the nation.