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Arab television broadcasts images of two hostages taken in Iraq, one reportedly a U.S. Marine and the other a Pakistani man working with the coalition authority. Militants claim to have captured the Marine after luring him from a base; they have threatened to behead the pair. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

The Cassini space probe will face a critical moment as it approaches Saturn late Wednesday night, when it will begin firing rockets to allow it to enter Saturn's orbit. If the maneuver fails, the $3 billion spacecraft will disappear into the farthest reaches of the solar system. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The chief of security for Iraq's northern oil fields was assassinated Wednesday, and bombings of Iraq's pipelines have all but shut down Iraq's oil exports. NPR's Emily Harris reports from Baghdad about the latest developments in Iraq.

As the allies of World War II prepare to mark the 60th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, German veterans make a quiet pilgrimage to a cemetery in Normandy where their former comrades are buried. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.

One of Mexico's most popular bands has a new song deploring the unsolved murders of hundreds of women in Ciudad Juarez. The hit song, "The Women of Juarez," is getting international airplay and attracting human rights activists, much to the chagrin of local politicians. NPR's Gerry Hadden reports.

Married Thai women have become an AIDS risk group. But in Thailand, as in many societies, women are in no position to tell their husbands to use condoms. That's giving new urgency to the drive to develop a gel that women can use to prevent HIV infection. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

German cyclist Jan Ullrich has finished second to Lance Armstrong three times in the Tour de France. He's trailing Armstrong again this year. No one questions Ullrich's immense talent, only his motivation. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

NPR's Ben Gilbert reports on the abandoned, but nearly complete, Cincinnati subway system. More than two miles of tunnels and three stations were constructed nearly 80 years ago to alleviate traffic congestion. The money ran out in 1927, but now groups offer tours of the system that's been a source of popular myth and legend for generations of Cincinnatians.

President Ronald Reagan was buried Friday after a day of tributes that began in Washington, D.C., and ended with a sunset ceremony at the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. His three surviving children offered fond memories of their father. NPR's Ina Jaffe reports.

Congress holds hearings to determine how the nation wound up facing a shortage of influenza vaccine. About 40 million doses -- roughly half the anticipated U.S. supply -- were impounded in Great Britain amid fears they were contaminated with bacteria. NPR's Julie Rovner reports.