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Liberians elect their next president in a runoff election Tuesday. The contenders are Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, who would be the first woman elected head of state in Africa, and George Weah, who became famous as an international soccer player.

Rain and storm surge from Hurricane Rita have sent water over and through breaches in patched levees around New Orleans. The lower Ninth Ward, which was completely flooded by Hurricane Katrina, is once again under water.

A 1900 hurricane that left at least 6,000 people dead has had a long-lasting impact on Galveston, Texas. Paul Burka, a Galveston native who is senior executive editor of Texas Monthly, tells Scott Simon about the storm.

Hurricane Rita comes ashore near the Texas-Louisiana border, blasting Lake Charles, La., with 120-mph winds. The Category 3 storm threatens a wide swath of the two states, but will pass well to the east of Houston.

Roman Panchenko moved to Poland from Chernihiv a few years ago and was afraid of singing in the streets. But now, after the war started, he sings Ukrainian songs in a Warsaw plaza to help his country.

The Biden administration is working to address the shortage of baby formula in the U.S. as it faces pressure in Congress to do more.

On a new album, the most accessible so far, the Grammy-winning group reaches out to an EDM wizard, a famous film score composer and Philip Glass.

Architect Daniel Liebeskind's design for the new structure undergoes a facelift to include more safety precautions. Melissa Block talks with Paul Goldberger, architecture critic for The New Yorker.

The dark comedy by David Hare chronicles the tangle of diplomatic maneuvers leading to the war. It hints that President Bush and top advisers intended to invade Iraq even before the Sept. 11 attacks.

China's growing appetite for energy may be driving the bid for Unocal by the country's third-largest oil company. But it may take Wall Street's appetite for cash to drive home the deal's acceptance in the United States.

For a closer look at Zimbabwe, Farai Chideya speaks with Duncan Campbell, a reporter with the British newspaper The Guardian, and Girley Tegama, who left Zimbabwe in 2000 with her journalist husband.

North Korea has decided to re-enter the six-nation negotiations about its nuclear weapons program. Madeleine Brand talks with Slate military affairs correspondent Fred Kaplan about why, after a year of refusing to negotiate, North Korea wants to resume the talks.

The Masters of Harmony are a barbershop chorus (not a quartet) from southern California who hold six international singing titles.

President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, comes under scrutiny from critics who say Rove is the informant that leaked the identity of a CIA operative. The White House has defended Rove while Senate Democrats are saying he should be fired.

After nearly two and a half years, NASA is on the verge of launching a space shuttle. If weather permits, Discovery will blast into orbit Wednesday afternoon. The mission will service the international space station, but it is also an important symbolic step after the Columbia disaster of 2003.

Florida lawmakers are looking into allegations that several of the state's farm labor camps are run like modern-day slave operations, where workers rack up huge debts and are sometimes paid with drugs.

Dr. Francis DuFrayne is a gastroenterologist in his 50s at the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia. He is also a captain in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He recently returned from a six-month tour of duty in Iraq, where he was called up to treat wounded soldiers. While he was in Iraq, his son was also serving there in the Marines.

White House deputy Karl Rove was the source Time reporter Mathew Cooper risked jail to protect in an inquiry into the leak of a CIA agent's name, according to Newsweek. Rove apparently didn't name agent Valerie Plame, saying instead that she was former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife.

The National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has a tiny new attraction: a five-ounce baby panda bear. Mother Mei Xiang gave birth early Saturday. The zoo's chief veterinarian, Suzan Murray, has more on mother bear and her newborn cub.

British police said Friday that more than 50 people were killed in Thursday's rush-hour attacks in London. Police also confirmed that four bombs exploded -- three on underground trains and one on a double-decker bus. Nick Fielding, senior reporter for The Financial Times in London, talks about the reaction of Scotland Yard to the bombings.

The Harp Consort has produced a new CD of ancient songs from the Isle of Guernsey: Les Travailleurs de la Mer. Director Andrew Lawrence-King, a native of Guernsey, tells Sheilah Kast about the project.

The parody movie Airplane!, a source of favorite comedic bits that are still recalled in conversations today, is marking its 25th anniversary. Brothers Jerry and David Zucker wrote the film with Jim Abrahams, who also directed.

Iraqi officials announce they have filed the first formal criminal charges against Saddam Hussein and members of his former regime. Saddam and others are accused of responsibility for the 1982 massacre of Shiite residents of Dujail, a town where there had been an attempt on Saddam's life.

Don Roos, the director of The Opposite of Sex, directs a film with 10 stories and intertwining characters. Happy Endings stars Lisa Kudrow, Laura Dern, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Ritter and others.

British police arrest six people in northern England under the country's anti-terrorism act. But they sat the six are not directly linked to the London bombings so far. British authorities are continuing to search properties outside London.