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The U.S. Navy is celebrating 100 years of naval aviation this year, and San Diego is its birthplace. It all began on North Island, where Glen Curtiss taught Navy personnel how to fly. We explore San Diego's place in the history of naval aviation and what the navy has meant to San Diego.

The boom has helped manufacturing grow three times faster than the rest of the economy. President Obama has set a goal of doubling U.S. exports by 2015. To do this, the administration is providing small businesses loans to boost their ability to export and pushing Congress to enact trade deals.

A recent shelling and current military exercises have made the Korean peninsula more on edge than it has been in decades. Despite bellicose rhetoric, an outbreak of war seems unlikely -- in the short term. But North Korea presents a threat that may worsen in coming years.

For more on the diplomatic fallout from the leaked State Department cables, NPR's Guy Raz talks to Christopher Hill, the former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, and former chief U.S. negotiator with North Korea.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak took responsibility for failing to protect his country against attack and threatened retaliation against any further provocation by North Korea.

North Korea warned Friday that U.S.-South Korean plans for military maneuvers put the peninsula on the brink of war.

President Obama pledged the U.S. would defend South Korea after the North shot dozens of rounds of artillery onto Yeonpyeong island, near their disputed western border. Two South Korean marines were killed. The South Korean army fired back, deploying fighter jets to the area.

President Obama pledged Tuesday that the United States would defend South Korea after what the White House branded an outrageous attack by North Korea on its neighbor.

Steve Inskeep speaks with NPR's Scott Horsley, who is traveling with President Obama in Asia, about the Group of 20 summit in Seoul, South Korea. Horsley says the leaders agreed to develop yardsticks to help detect when a country is running too big of a deficit or too big of a surplus.

The U.S. and others say they are ready to broaden the leadership of key international institutions, but the emerging powers may not be satisfied with a share of the leadership. They may want to change the institutions themselves and the principles that guide them.