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NPR's Scott Simon muses on the new poetry collection of deposed Serbian leader Radovan Karadzic. In 1995, the U.N. war crimes tribunal indicted Karadzic, a Bosnian Serb, for his role in a 1995 massacre in Srebrenica and the 1992 siege of Sarajevo. He remains in hiding.

German-born Pope Benedict XVI makes a solemn visit to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp, ending a four-day tour of Poland. Benedict called the Nazi death camp "a place of horror."

High school junior Lauryn Silverman of Youth Radio shares her struggle to recover from the eating disorder anorexia nervosa, an illness that affects one out of every 100 high school and college-age females in the United States.

Shanghai, China, is approaching the end of its third week of a near-total lockdown to fight COVID. As case numbers rise, so does the frustration of many in the city of more than 25 million people.

The Republican leadership has pulled a provision to allow drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge out of a House budget bill in an effort to secure support for passage. But opponents are seeking a written guarantee the measure won't reappear in the conference report.

Despite penguins, lions and gorillas battling for Hollywood supremacy, 2005 will go down as a box office disappointment. But NPR critic Bob Mondello says the year's films were high on quality.

Merck Chairman and CEO Raymond Gilmartin will step down ahead of his planned retirement next year. He says the decision for an early departure from the pharmaceutical company is his own. Merck faces thousands of lawsuits from people who suffered heart attacks or strokes while taking the painkiller Vioxx.

For years, NPR listener Phyllis Allen found her beliefs in the social movement of the times, from civil rights to Black Power. Now in her 50s, she is finally able to believe in the woman she is.

Two days after declaring a state of emergency in the Philippines, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo continues her clampdown on the political opposition and government critics. The turmoil came the week Filipinos were remembering the ouster of President Ferdinand Marcos 20 years ago.

Stanley Tookie Williams, a co-founder of the Crips gang, dies by lethal injection at San Quentin prison, where spent the last 25 years of his life. Supporters said the convicted killer was a changed man who worked from behind bars to end gang violence.