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Carrie Kahn of member station KPBS in San Diego reports on the latest information from the investigation into yesterday's apparent mass suicide in a community outside San Diego. Thirty-nine people died, but answers about why are proving to be elusive.

The second oldest city in Belgium, Geraardsbergen (HAY-rards-bergen), celebrates its rich soil and bounteous river today by drinking live little fishes swimming in red wine. Not everyone in Begium thinks it's a tradition that should be continued. NPR's Edward Lifson reports.

- With the recent success by Serbia's opposition in forcing President Slobodan Milosevic to recognize opposition election victories, the political landscape in Serbia is changing. But as NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports, the psychological terrain has changed too, with jokes and biting satire making an appearance after years of silence.

The Clinton administration has mounted an intensive campaign to win U.S. Senate approval of the International Chemical Weapons Convention. But a small, determined group of Senators and lobbyists have successfully blocked the treaty...for now. NPR's Ted Clark reports.

President Clinton is expected to announce his new choice to head the Central Intelligence Agency soon, following Anthony Lake's decision not to continue in the confirmation process for that position. The leading candidate seems to be acting CIA director George Tenet. NPR's Martha Raddatz reports.

NPR's Mara Liasson reports from Helsinki, Finland, where Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin have ended their summit. The two men reached agreements on nuclear weapons and Russia's involvement in world economic institutions, but agreed to disagree on NATO expansion into eastern and central Europe.

NPR John Ydstie reports one of the first challenges President Elect Bush and his top advisors will likely face is how to restart the stalled US economy. Bush has said a tax cut is the solution. Some experts disagree.

The Chilean Supreme Court has delayed the questioning of General Augusto Pinochet. In its ruling, the court said medical tests are first needed to determine whether the former Chilean dictator is fit to stand trial. The tests must be conducted in the next 20 days. James Reynolds reports from Santiago for the BBC.

From member station WBGO Andrew Meyer reports that five police officers in Orange, New Jersey have been found guilty of civil rights violations in the beating and pepper-spraying of a man wrongly suspected of killing a officer.

NPR's Sarah Chayes reports that France is investigating its responsibility for the fall of Srebrenica during the war in Bosnia. About eight thousand Muslim men and boys were killed. The Muslim enclave was under the protection of UN peacekeeping forces, which was then commanded by a French general.