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Finland changed its policy toward the military alliance after troops invaded Ukraine. Sweden has avoided all military alliances, but like Finland, has also grown closer and closer to NATO over time.

Puzzle master Will Shortz quizzes one of our listeners, and has a challenge for everyone at home. (This week's winner is Susan Fischer from Kitakyushu, Japan. She listens to Weekend Edition on the Web.)

Former Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling faces cross-examination by the prosecution as his trial resumes Monday. His appearance on the stand has revived bitter feelings among many of Enron's former employees.

Commentator Aaron Freeman loves to use dinner parties as a way to check out foreign cultures. Recently, he decided to cook and eat his way to Scandinavia with a little lutefisk.

At least 345 people are trampled to death and more than 200 are injured in Saudi Arabia on the last day of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Muslim pilgrims, participating in a stoning ritual on the desert plain of Mina outside Mecca, tripped over baggage, causing the crush.

James Farmer was a co-founder of CORE, the Congress On Racial Equality, where he was national director from 1961-1966. In the 1960s, CORE helped organize the Freedom Rides movement against Jim Crow laws in the South. Farmer died in 1999. This interview was originally broadcast in 1985.

Ben Bernanke, President Bush's nominee to become the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, goes before the Senate for a confirmation hearing Tuesday. Bernanke, the 51-year-old chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers, is expected to be confirmed with little difficulty.

Egyptian authorities report that at least three explosions struck the Red Sea resort city of Dahab on Monday night. The precise number of casualties remains unknown, but officials say at least 22 people have been killed, and 150 wounded.

Authors Louise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer discuss their new book, Rwanda Means the Universe. They describe years of peaceful coexistence between the Bahutu and Batutsi in Rwanda, and events leading up to the massacre of the Tutsi people in 1994.

Famed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward testified Monday that a senior Bush administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity nearly a month before it was publicly exposed.