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Kate Seelye reports from Kuwait City on the 10th anniversary of Kuwait's liberation from Iraqi occupation. Attending the two-day celebration are former President George Bush, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and retired General and current Secretary of State, Colin Powell.

New York City has been touting its hotline for domestic violence victims who need emergency shelter. But those who call the hotline can wait weeks before a space opens up. As Beth Fertig of member station WNYC reports, victims of domestic violence are a significant share of the rising homeless population in New York City.

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from Rotterdam where Dutch prosecutors today opened their case against nine men accused in the deaths of 58 illegal Chinese migrants last year. The victims suffocated in a sealed truck crossing the English Channel in a ferry. The case has highlighted the growing traffic in human beings, who are smuggled into Europe from Asia, the Middle East and Africa by criminal gangs.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on a software development company, Disappearing Inc., that's producing a program to create self-destructing e-mail messages. The life-span of the e-mail can be set by the user, and their automatic deletion can help to reduce the huge archives of e-mail that most companies amass.

NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports that environmental groups and organized labor have suffered some setbacks in recent weeks -- as the Bush Administration has moved to block or undo Clinton era regulations. President Bush wants the federal government to do a much better job examining the costs and benefits of proposed regulations. The man he selected as the chief regulatory gatekeeper for his administration is an expert in the field of risk analysis.

For nearly 20 years, the United States has provided troops for a multinational peacekeeping force in the Sinai desert between Egypt and Israel. But the Bush administration has shown interest in reducing U.S. troop commitments around the world and the contingent in Sinai may be among those under scrutiny. NPR's Tom Gjelten reports from the Pentagon.

Quinn Klinefelter of member station WDET reports on a class action lawsuit that accuses the Detroit Police Department of routinely arresting witnesses in murder cases in an effort to get them to testify. Detroit police arrest an average of three people in every homicide case, a rate that's much higher than the national average. Yet fewer than half the city's murder cases are solved.

Claire Doole reports that once again, China has escaped censure at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva. The United States sponsored a resolution criticizing Beijing's human rights record but Chinese diplomats lobbied against it tirelessly, as they do every year. As always, they used a procedural device to prevent the U.S. sponsored resolution from even coming to a vote.

Day to Day technology contributor Xeni Jardin reports on the new film by Oscar-winning director James Cameron, Aliens of the Deep. The film, presented in 3-D at IMAX theaters, documents life two-and-a-half miles below the surface of the sea.

While foie gras is de rigueur at all celebratory meals in France, some activists are beginning to question the ethics behind its production. Eleanor Beardsley reports on the challenges to this billion-dollar industry.