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NPR's Kate Seelye reports from Damascus on efforts to restore many of the city's old homes, which are considered architectural and artistic treasures. After the exodus of the Syrian middle class in the 1950s and 1960s, many of these homes have been damaged by subdivision and neglect.

Eric Engleman reports that Russia's Parliament is expected to approve a plan to import nuclear waste and reprocess it. While Russia could earn billions through the program, it has environmentalists very upset.

NPR's Adam Hochberg reports on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in favor of keeping a North Carolina congressional district intact. Some white voters had complained it was racially drawn.

NPR's Andy Bowers reports that the ACLU is suing the U.S. government over a seven-foot high cross in the Mojave National Preserve. The cross has been there for 60 years and its removal is banned by a little-notice rider attached to a federal budget bill by a California Congressman.

With the 24-member Navy crew back in the U.S., the government is coming out with their version of what happened to cause the mid-air collision with a Chinese jet. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports more than 30 heads of state from Latin America and the Caribbean gather in Quebec City this weekend to discuss trade and hemispheric cooperation. The main item on the agenda is a free trade zone encompassing all of the Americas.

Robert talks with Sunday Times reporter Cornia Pretorius in Johannesburg, South Africa about recommendations by a committee of teachers to stop the use of certain books -- including some by Shakespeare and Nadine Gordimer -- in high schools and college.

Fred Kight reports from Athens, Ohio, on the comeback of the pawpaw, a green-and-yellow fruit native to North America, but with a tropical flavor. Some say it could be a replacement crop for farmers no longer growing tobacco.

NPR's John Burnett reports on the spread of tuberculosis across the U.S.-Mexico border. Health officials on both sides are joining together in efforts to keep infected people on their medication.

NPR's Phillip Davis reports from Miami that the "cold-war" mentality in relations between the U.S. and Cuba has disconnected direct long-distance phone service between the two countries.