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Woody Allen has a new movie out -- not that you can tell from the preview. NPR's Bob Mondello has this review of Anything Else, starring Christina Ricci and Jason Biggs.

The world's nerve center for disease detection is located in Geneva, Switzerland, at the World Health Organization. They've found a new way of combating disease, trying to spot it at its earliest stages and nip it in bud. WHO looks at what's going on everyday everywhere, assisted heavily by the Web. No longer can countries hide and obfuscate outbreaks, or even minimize them. NPR's Richard Knox reports.

The bells of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., tolled Monday in remembrance of the four girls who were killed in a bombing at the church 40 years ago. Melanie Peeples reports.

The Galileo spacecraft is sending back its final signals to Earth as its eight-year mission to Jupiter comes to an end. NASA mission managers are sending the spacecraft to its death by crashing it into the giant planet. NPR's Joe Palca reports.

U.S. Iraq administrator Paul Bremer appears before a Senate panel to defend President Bush's $87 billion funding request for U.S. operations in Iraq. Bremer warns that if Congress fails to approve more than $20 billion earmarked for reconstruction efforts, Iraq could become a haven for terrorists. Hear NPR's David Welna.

Three American soldiers die and two others are wounded in an ambush near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. Meanwhile, U.S. officials appear on Iraqi television asking Saddam's former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, to surrender. Hear NPR's Emily Harris.

Bill Gates says his foundation will donate $51.2 million to help start 67 small high schools in New York City. The Microsoft founder and chairman says the effort will help poor and minority students prepare for college and for jobs in today's economy. Hear Renee Montagne's extended interview with the software billionaire.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Triangle: The Fire That Changed America by David Von Drehle.

Violinist Hilary Hahn, 23, has just released a CD, Bach Concertos, with Jeffrey Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. As odd as it may seem, Hahn encourages listeners to dance to the classical composer's music. Hahn tells Liane Hansen about the CD.

On this ninth annual observance, the question is raised: Has success spoiled International Talk Like a Pirate Day? Columnist Dave Barry, the holiday's single most important booster, says he's fed up with the holiday -- sort of. He tells NPR's Robert Siegel that people need to expand their pirate vocabulary beyond "Arrrr."