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Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Emily Boochever from Brunswick, Maine. She listens to Weekend Edition on member station WMEA in Portland, Maine.)

On his first full day in office, President George W. Bush started the day at Sunday service at Washington National Cathedral. NPR's Emily Harris reports that the party's over and the real work begins.

Actress Julie Harris is again performing a role she made famous a quarter of a century ago-- New England poet Emily Dickinson. In Seattle, Bellamy Pailthorpe reports.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on a night patrol with U.S. soldiers in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The area has experienced a recent upsurge in violence toward American soldiers.

NPR's Emily Harris reports on the crisis facing city officials in Bucharest, Romania, as they try to deal with the problem of an exploding stray dog population. One woman is trying to ease the situation by exporting the animals as pets for Western Europeans.

A bus exploded and caught fire, which spread to a second bus, Israeli police say. Two of the victims are children.

Evan Grant took off from the airport where he trained. Air traffic controllers talked him into landing. He's charged with grand theft auto, under a law that also covers planes.

Drummer Paul Motian has spent more than 50 years in music, working with jazz luminaries like Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk. At 75, he has a new CD of bebop jazz: Garden of Eden, featuring his own band.

Word of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death spread rapidly among his followers. By early Thursday, Internet chat rooms frequented by Islamist extremists were buzzing. Among those reading along was a young American by the name of Evan Kohlmann, who has become a sought-after expert on the sites.

China on Friday announced a new round of tariffs on $75 billion worth of American good. NPR's Emily Feng tells Morning Edition that U.S. cars will be subject to the new levies.