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NPR's Puzzlemaster Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. This week's winner is Dennis Taylor from Flagstaff, Arizona.

A car bomb explodes outside a mosque in northern Baghdad, killing at least 14 people. In southern Baghdad, insurgents attack a police station, killing at least six police officers and freeing more than 50 prisoners. Both attacks came around dawn. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

HBO's biopic The Life and Death of Peter Sellers debuts on the pay-cable network Sunday. Geoffrey Rush plays the great British comic. To celebrate, NPR's Scott Simon and New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell help movie fans brush up on some of Sellers' finest screen moments.

A confidential report commissioned by NASA concludes the agency's plan to use a robot to save the Hubble telescope is highly risky. The report suggests NASA should send up new instruments on a second, bare-bones telescope.

President Bush selects Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns to succeed Ann Veneman as secretary of agriculture. Johanns is a popular Republican with lifelong ties to agriculture. Also, John Danforth, U.S. ambassador for the United Nations, resigns. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

A bombing in the northern city of Beiji that targeted a U.S. convoy kills several Iraqis, as fighting continues in Fallujah. Hear NPR's Melissa Block and Alissa Rubin of the Los Angeles Times.

Under mounting pressure from President Bush and families of the Sept. 11 attacks, Congress will reconsider intelligence reforms this week. Key Republican lawmakers objected to some of its provisions. Hear Thomas Kean, co-chairman of the Sept. 11 commission and NPR's Steve Inskeep.

NPR'S Bob Mondello reviews the new film by Pedro Almodovar's new film, Bad Education Mondello says the film -- on its surface -- is about abuse and sexual transgression, but it is also a film about filmmaking.

The city of Fallujah is now in the control of U.S. and Iraqi forces. But observers say there's much more to the insurgence than just Fallujah, and the problem of holding timely elections remains. Hear NPR's Tom Gjelten and Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden talks with Frontline reporter Lowell Bergman about The Secret History of the Credit Card, a new documentary by PBS and The New York Times. The film traces the rise of America's credit card industry and raises concerns about some if its business practices.