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David D'Arcy profiles Cristina Branco, a young Portuguese singer, who's helping revive the popularity of traditional Fado music. Fado ballads are usually sad, sung in minor keys, and accompanied by guitar. Branco says she became interested in singing Fado after hearing recordings made by Portugal's greatest Fado singer, Amalia Rodrigues. In a documentary film, Rodrigues refers to Fado as an 'eternal lament.'

NPR's Julie McCarthy reports from England on the trial of a Dutch truck driver who was found with the bodies of 58 Chinese people.

Today marks 30 years from Susan Stamberg's first broadcast on National Public Radio. We take this time to look back on her marvelous career -- so far. See and hear more about Susan Stamberg.

Robert Siegel talks to Margo Wallstrom, the European Commission's top environmental official, about her visit to Washington today, and her discussion with EPA Administrator Christie Whitman. Wallstrom conveyed strong European concerns about the decision by the Bush administration not to ratify the Kyoto treaty on greenhouse gas emissions.

NPR's Michele Kelemen reports from Moscow that Russia's state-dominated gas monopoly is asserting control over the country's only nationwide independent television network. The monopoly, Gazprom, replaced NTV's board of directors today in a move the television journalists call a threat to press freedom.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Belgrade where Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica said today his government is not making plans to extradite Slobodan Milosevic to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Hague. At a news conference, Kostunica said Milosevic must stand trial at home.

Linda Wertheimer talks with Joe Kunches, acting space weather operations director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), about unusual solar flares over the past few days. (4:00) www.sec.noaa.gov

Robert Siegel talks with Chuck Sudetic, author of Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia, about other indicted Yugoslavian war criminals who have yet to be arrested, where they are and what they're doing. Sudetic suggests the Milosevic arrest may lead some of these accused war criminals to start betraying each other, and that will play into the hands of the Hague tribunal. Sudetic covered the collapse of Yugoslavia and the war in Bosnia for the New York Times from 1990-95. (4:00) Blood and Vengeance is published by Penguin, 1999.

NPR's Rob Gifford in Beijing reports that China has finally allowed U.S. Embassy personnel to meet with the crew of a damaged reconnaissance plane. The embassy reports all 24 are in good health but there's no word on when they or the plane will be released.

Joshua Levs reports a case involving alleged child abuse at church has created a stir in Atlanta. The House of Prayer disciplines its young parishioners with corporal punishment. Georgia officials believe the church and many of its parents are abusing the children with beatings and whippings. The state has put 41 children into temporary foster care.