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A group called the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta has grabbed four oil workers and also attacked pipelines and platforms of Royal Dutch Shell. Shell is the biggest producer in the swamplands of the Niger River Delta. Financial Times reporter Dino Mahtani discusses developments with Steve Inskeep.

The latest Steven Soderbergh movie, Bubble, opens Friday. It will be released simultaneously in theaters and on pay TV. Next week it will be released on DVD. Some say that kind of release is the way of the future, but theater owners are objecting.

The murder of two people on Maine's widely available sex-offender registry raises questions about who is on such lists. Experts say many states list hard-core predators alongside people who may pose little risk to the public.

As illegal immigrants challenge the tough words on Capitol Hill, many established leaders of minority organizations are being left in the dust, trying to figure out where the new movement -- if in fact it is a "movement" -- is headed.

What can scientists and the military learn from recent North Korean missile tests? David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists discusses the tests with Sheilah Kast.

Dr. Stuart F. Seides, associate director of cardiology at the Washington Hospital Center, discusses the potential cardiac care of Harry Whittington, the attorney who was accidentally shot Saturday by Vice President Dick Cheney. Whittington suffered a minor heart attack Tuesday.

Patients with Alzheimer's disease show clear damage to their brains as they age. But some have wondered whether this damage is a cause of the disease or a result of it. Scientists at the University of Minnesota have found a protein that appears to cause memory loss before brain damage appears.

Pakistani government sources report that four senior al Qaeda figures were among those killed in a U.S. missile strike on a village near the Afghan border last week. Al Qaeda's No. 2 official, Ayman al-Zawahiri -- the intended target of the attack -- was not hurt.

The election of Iraq's first parliament since the fall of Saddam Hussein is a big step in the country's attempt to redefine itself. Security analyst Anthony Cordesman says its just a beginning.

The United Nations had viewed its 1999 intervention in East Timor as a success. That intervention allowed the installation of a democratically elected government in the tiny country. Recent violence has people questioning their assumptions about the intervention.