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A new documentary airing on HBO puts a human face on the statistics coming from Iraq. Filmmakers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill and Maj. Merritt Pember, an orthopedic surgeon featured in the documentary, talk with Debbie Elliott about Baghdad ER. Filmmakersspent two months in Iraq in 2006. Maj. Merritt Pember is an orthopedic surgeon who was featured in the film, and has returned to Fort Hood in Texas. They talk with Debbie Elliott about the documentary.

New York Times journalist C.J. Chivers has written a lengthy article for Esquire magazine on the bloody Sept. 2004 siege of a school in Beslan by Chechen militants. He talks with Liane Hansen.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans a Washington visit to seek support for an Israeli plan to withdraw from parts of the West Bank. The move would consolidate Israel's control over major settlement blocs in the occupied territory.

The lockdown of China's largest city has dealt a blow to the economy and frustrated residents.

More than 140 people have been killed by a series of bomb attacks on commuter trains in Mumbai, formerly known as Bombay. At least 400 more were injured. The explosions, at least seven in total, came during the evening rush hour in the Indian financial capital.

During WWII, hundreds of prisoners in the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia performed Verdi's Requiem as a way to passively defy their Nazi captors. On Sunday, American musicians performed the same requiem in the former Nazi camp as a tribute to Terezin's victims and survivors.

Fighting along the Israel-Lebanon border has been punctuated Saturday by confrontations inside Lebanon between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerillas. The ground combat came in addition to continuing Israeli bombardments of Lebanon, and Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

In the past few months, volunteers of local Iraqi men have pulled hundreds of corpses from the Tigris River in the Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiya near Baghdad. They don't get any help from the authorities.

British scientists had been trying to catch lobsters and crabs without using fish. They decided to bate their traps with LED lights. The light show did attract a lot of scallops.

The Saudi government has condemned Hezbollah for fomenting the latest round of violence, but many Saudis disagree with their government's position. Saudis vacationing in Zabadani, Syria, weigh in on the latest Mideast crisis and their government's diplomatic position.