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NPR's Margot Adler reports there is a man in New York City who will condense your life story into a 60-second novel. With a few brief questions, a little light conversation, you can be immortalized on the World Wide Web through the prose of Dan Hurley.

Michigan State and Baylor meet in Indianapolis for the women's NCAA championship basketball game. Mechelle Voepel, with The Kansas City Star and ESPN.com, previews the matchup.

NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Glenn Grayson from Overland Park, Kansas. He listens to Weekend Edition on member station KCUR in Kansas City, Mo.

The Iraqi city of Samarra is calm Saturday after thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers fought their way to the center of town Friday. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Leaders of the youth movement Pora have organized a tent city at Kiev's Independence Square to support protesters of Ukraine's presidential election. NPR's Michele Norris talks with Anastasia Bezverkha, the group's press secretary.

Two locally famous red-tailed hawks have been evicted from their space high atop a pricey New York City apartment building. NPR's Scott Simon offers his thoughts on the birds' plight, and extends an invitation.

NPR's Meredith Ochs reviews New Orleans pianist Dr. John's new CD N'awlinz: Dis, Dat or D'udda. She says the disc brings together the many musical traditions that thrive in the Crescent City.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the latest bombing in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala late Monday has underscored fears of a growing confrontation between rival Shiite groups.

NPR's John Burnett in Baghdad reports on the first tentative steps by Marines to restore order in the eastern part of the city. U.S. commanders are making contact with neighborhood Muslim clergymen, seeking their help to stop the wave of looting and arson in the capital.

China's "zero COVID" approach requires tens of thousands of workers to test, isolate and lockdown entire cities.