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The remains of U.S. civilian Nick Berg will be flown to the United States Wednesday, a day after an Islamist Web site posted a graphic videotape of his beheading. The video indicated the execution was in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops. In West Chester, Penn., Berg's hometown, people express sorrow and outrage. NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.

It's been 10 years since South Africa held all-race elections and ended apartheid. The country has been been more successful than other African nations in its transition to democratic rule. Its stability is due in large part to Nelson Mandela, the man who ended apartheid and became the nation's first post-apartheid president. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

In the 1990s, Stanford students Sergey Brin and Larry Page figured out how to use the structure of the Internet — the way pages link to one another — to put the most relevant items at the top of a search list. Their discovery transformed their garage startup, Google, into the Internet's top search engine, a household name and even a verb. NPR's Rick Karr reports.

Researchers at the Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina say sharing music files over the Internet has not adversely affected CD sales. The study compares downloads of music files with store sales of those same songs. Officials in the recording industry have long blamed file sharing for the decline in CD sales in recent years. NPR's Felix Contreras reports.

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice tells the commission investigating the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that the Bush administration had no specific warning of those attacks. But several commissioners probed for more detail on a confidential briefing memo from Aug. 6, 2001 -- and called for it to be made public. NPR's Pam Fessler reports.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry criticizes the stay-the-course strategy President George Bush reiterated in his White House news conference Tuesday night. Kerry, the presumed Democratic nominee for president, said at a news conference in New York that the president has been too inflexible in his plans and has alienated U.S. allies. NPR's David Welna reports.

Young female chimps learn how to use sticks to fish for termites faster than their male peers, according to a report in the journal Nature. Researcher Elizabeth Lonsdorf studied a test group of wild chimpanzees from the Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Similar sex-based differences have been seen in human children learning new skills. Hear NPR's Christopher Joyce and Lonsdorf.

The American Civil Liberties Union files a lawsuit challenging the federal "No-Fly" list of people barred from flying due to suspected terrorist ties. The plaintiffs in the suit are U.S. citizens who the ACLU says are wrongfully on the list, with no way to have their names removed. Those on the list are routinely stopped and searched during travel. NPR 's Larry Abramson reports.

The Supreme Court unanimously rules against releasing photographs from the investigation of the death of former Clinton administration lawyer Vincent Foster, citing privacy concerns. A California attorney had sued for the photographs' release, claiming Foster might have been murdered. Multiple investigations have determined that Foster died from a self-inflicted gunshot. NPR's Nina Totenberg reports.

American officials are helping Iraqis build a new, civilian-controlled defense department ahead of the U.S. transfer of sovereignty to Iraqis in July. U.S. officials have little time left to train dozens of officers from Iraq's old army -- long accustomed to working under a dictatorship -- how armed forces work in a democracy. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.