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NPR's Mike Shuster reports on the relatively low profile the United States has kept in Liberia during that country's recent civil strife.

BBC middle east correspondant Stepher Sackur (SACK-er) reports on a Jordanian family that was forced to leave Jordan and emigrate to Israel because of the name they chose for their baby.

- Joe Neel reports from Vancouver Canada where an International AIDS Conference is taking place. Experts there are hopeful of a new treatment that reduces the level of HIV infection to undetectable levels.

Argentina agrees to pay a settlement decided by a Los Angeles court this week to compensate a victim of its "dirty war." NPR's Mandelit Del Barco reports.

Ina Jaffe reports on a ghoulish store Los Angeles. Necromance is its name, and it specializes in bones, heads and organs of all kinds of animals - including people.

The Justice Department announced yesterday that it would not appoint an independent counsel to investigate the fundraising activities of the Democratic National Committee. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports this decision is raising questions about the independent counsel law.

Lobbies - NPR's Kathy Schalch reports that the environmental lobby is focusing its campaign contributions on about 12 Congressional races, in an effort to make for a more environment-friendly legislature after the November election.

NPR's Tovia (TOE-vee-uh) Smith reports on the long suffering fans of the New England Patriots football team, which goes to the final round of the AFC playoffs this Sunday.

Kofi Annan, a career diplomat from Ghana, was chosen by the U-N's Security Council to be the international body's next Secretary General. NPR's Ann Cooper reports.

NPR's John Nielsen reports on plants that make a stink. For example: the voodoo lily. When it blooms -- people wilt.