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In the second of a three-part series on the Islam and the Internet, Weekend All Things Considered reporter/producer Davar Ardalan looks at how the Web provides new avenues for education and business to women often confined to traditional religious roles. (9:32)

The trial of Slobodan Milosevic entered its second week today. Milosevic finished his opening statement in front of the U.N. war crimes tribunal and prosecutors began calling their first witnesses. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from the Hague.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague, where Slobodan Milosevic continued making his opening statement in his own defense today. Milosevic is accused of war crimes, including genocide, in connection with the Balkan wars of the 1990s.

By some estimates, more than half the languages spoken in the world today will be gone by the end of the century. For Morning Edition, NPR's Joe Palca reports on one attempt in Alaska to slow the extinction process.

Can America become energy independent? In a series of reports, All Things Considered asks whether increased production, decreased consumption, or a combination of the two can free the nation from dependence on foreign oil in an unstable world. (7:30)

In the last of a six-part series of reports on New Yorkers keeping alive the legacy of jobs from a bygone era, Radio Diaries and All Things Considered profile Frank Sabatino, one of the last fishermen still docking his working boat in Brooklyn.

As the space shuttle Atlantis prepares for its latest mission to the International Space Station, some observers fear the will and money to finish the orbiting laboratory may be running out. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports for Morning Edition.

Some were world famous, some were anonymous, but all performed hush-hush duties for their country. Female spies are the subject of a new exhibition: Clandestine Women: The Untold Stories of Women in Espionage. NPR's Susan Stamberg reports on Morning Edition.

Kim Stanley Robins's new novel The Years of Rice and Salt (Bantam Doubleday Dell; ISBN: 0553109200) imagines 700 years of history, including China's discovery of the new world. Alternative history has long been popular with writers, but as NPR's Neda Ulaby reports, this form of novel writing is a reflection of the times.

NPR's Patricia Neighmond reports on a new study saying that the herbal remedy St. John's Wort is not effective against serious depression. (3:30)