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A cease-fire has been in place for years, but Armenian and Azerbaijani soldiers kill each other every week in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The United States, Russia and France have been trying to negotiate a settlement.

The Supreme Court produces a split decision over the protection of wetlands areas. The justices decided 5-4 that regulators may have misinterpreted the federal Clean Water Act when they refused to allow two Michigan property owners to build on wetlands they own.

China's President Hu Jintao visits with President Bush. The two presidents discussed a wide range of issues, but made no major announcements. Hu wraps up his trip to the U.S. with a visit to Yale University in Connecticut.

The memories of those who survived Chernobyl were collected in the book Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich. We hear some of their stories.

President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao hold talks on nuclear proliferation and energy policy as they work for closer U.S.-China ties. Outside the White House, activists protested human rights abuses by Hu's government. At east one managed to get inside to disrupt the day's ceremony.

Several gaffes characterized Thursday's meeting between President Bush and President Hu Jintao, from a vocal Falun Gong protester to a misidentification of China's governmental name. But the incidents weren't reported in the Chinese media -- partly to protect Hu's standing.

The Bering Sea may be ice-free in 50 years. If that happens, what happens to its walrus population? Alaska Public Radio's Annie Feidt reports that U.S. and Russian scientists are gathering data to help protect the marine mammals.

More than 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide enter the U.S. atmosphere each year. Scientists in Baltimore are studying whether backyards help absorb carbon dioxide, and by so doing, slow the pace of climate change.

Novelist Muriel Spark, who died last week at the age of 88, was memorable not just for her writing (including the 1961 novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), but for her beloved pets.

How did "red hot tamales" get to be a staple of the Mississippi Delta? Southern Foodways Alliance director John T. Edge tells Debbie Elliott that it happened a century ago, when migrant Mexican farmworkers came to pick cotton side by side with African Americans in the deep South.