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Linda Wertheimer talks with Sebastian Rotella, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times in Lima, Peru, about the four-month-old manhunt for Vladimiro Montesinos, Peru's former chief of the National Intelligence Service. He says that top officials fear Montesinos could still threaten the country's fragile democracy as long as he's still at large. Eighty investigators are looking for him.

Rare wild camels found in China and Mongolia may actually be a different species entirely from their domesticated cousins. Scientists never realized it was genetically different -- until they saw it drinking salt water. NPR's Chris Joyce has the story.

NPR's Melissa Block talks with Linda Wertheimer about today's testimony in the trial of four men accused of conspiring to blow up the U.S. embassies in east Africa in 1998.

Commentator Dinesh D'Souza suggests growing inequality is a reflection of something that is right with the economy, rather than something wrong.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports that the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil, is experiencing a vast increase in killings by local police. Many of the dead are found to have been shot in the back.

NPR's Snigdha Prakash reports on a gathering this weekend of some of the nation's most influential black thinkers, political, religious and business leaders. Only one in nine African-Americans cast their ballot for President Bush, and this day-long symposium was convened as a "State of the Black Union" meeting to address concerns important to African-Americans.

NPR's Susan Stone profiles Danielson Famile, an unusual alternative rock band who are sweethearts of the indie music scene, but as they sing of Christ in their lyrics, they raise the hackles of many within the Christian music industry.

In the week since the devastating earthquake in India, many have asked a familiar question: Why doesn't the government enforce earthquake building codes? Martha Ann Overland looks at corruption in the Indian construction industry.

Liane talks with NPR's Tom Goldman about hockey star Mario Lemieux, who will play in today's National Hockey League All-Star Game. Lemieux retired more than three years ago, suffering from Hodgskin's Disease and a bad back. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame, and went on to become owner of his team, the Pittsburgh Penguins. But he missed playing the game, returned to the ice in December, and already is back to All-Star form.

Amy Cordaro caters to women undergoing chemotherapy: she sells and styles wigs for them at her shop Amy of Denmark, in Silver Spring, Maryland. Cancer patients tell host Lisa Simeone they feel well-tended and soothed under Amy's guidance.