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NPR's Robert Siegel talks to John Keegan, defense editor for the Daily Telegraph, about how the collapse of Saddam's regime is due to the complete ineptitude of the Iraqi military, which made no use of the country's natural defenses. He says whatever advantages they had were thrown away.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from downtown Baghdad that it was another day of battling in the streets of the Iraqi capital. The fighting and chaos of urban war has blown away the capital's spirit of defiance and is causing a mounting toll of Iraqi casualties.

U.S. Military officials say they don't know yet if Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was killed in an airstrike on Monday. U.S. fighter jets dropped bombs on a Baghdad building after intelligence sources said Saddam was inside. NPR's John Burnett, with the 1st Marine Division in eastern Baghdad, reports.

The Bush administration is warning Syria not to offer a haven to any fleeing members of the Iraqi regime. Speculation that Syria might be the next nation to attract U.S. military attention is debated on Capitol Hill. But the Pentagon and some analysts downplay the possibility. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to discuss postwar arrangements in Iraq. The three leaders are expected to urge the United Nations to lead Iraq's reconstruction. Hear NPR's Lawrence Sheets.

The distribution of humanitarian aid is just now getting started in the port town of Umm Qasr, the first Iraqi town taken by U.S. and British forces. The U.S. hope for establishing a provisional civil administration in Iraq is starting there as well. NPR's Mike Shuster has the story.

The northern city of Mosul, Iraq, falls peacefully after being abandoned by Iraqi forces early today. Kurdish militiamen and small numbers of U.S. troops entered Mosul following the Iraqi withdrawal. But the city, like others in the country, has been overtaken by a wave of looting and near-anarchy. NPR's Ivan Watson reports.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports on the events of the day in the Iraqi capital. U.S. Marines swept into the heart of the city from the east, meeting little resistance as they linked up with Army units that had entered western Baghdad earlier in the week.

A day after Baghdad collapses, leaders in Europe and the Arab world say attention must shift to the future. France and Germany issue no official statements, but say humanitarian aid is now a priority. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak calls for Iraqi self-governance as quickly as possible. Hear NPR's Sylvia Poggioli and NPR's Michael Sullivan.

In Sri Lanka, remittances sent from abroad constitute the number one source of foreign capital, due in large part to hundreds of thousands of poor rural women who migrate to the Middle East to work as housemaids. The mass migration of women is taking a heavy toll on Sri Lankan family traditions. Sandy Tolan reports.