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What motivates a woman to carry a child for another couple? How are surrogate mothers compensated for carrying that child for another family? Why do military wives make great surrogate moms? Host Tom Fudge speaks to Dr. Samuel Wood about the growing trend of military wives becoming surrogate mothers. We also speak with a military wife who has been a surrogate mother about her experience.

Dr. Jeff Myers of Tulane Hospital in New Orleans tells of being stranded at amid rising floodwaters and deteriorating conditions. He has since been evacuated.

Thousands of Iraqis attend funeral services for more than 900 people who died Wednesday in a panicked crush on a Baghdad bridge. The rumor of a suicide bomber sparked a mad rush during a Shiite religious festival. Amid the funerals there are calls for an investigation into the cause and accusations of a fumbled response to the disaster.

Despite the Castro crisis and the stormy weather, Cuba has never seemed calmer. That's what NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro found on her recent visit. Her conversations with residents of Havana revealed their hopes for the future: "No more extremes." And their fear that change will never come.

The Oct. 8 earthquake in Pakistan has left more than 3 million people at risk of disease and exposure as the winter intensifies. The earthquake killed more than 73,000 people, but aid officials warn this number will rise unless survivors get adequate shelter.

A Feminist for Obama

Jason Reitman was introduced to the world of film at a tender age. At a mere eleven days old, his dad Ivan brought him to the set of the film'

I sat in a Welsh village four autumns ago, happily hidden away from American politics and war. The local men's choir soothed me with the songs of my father's countryland.

Hou Hsiao Hsien is quite simply one of the world's premier filmmakers yet his films are lucky to play a few festival dates here in the U.S. The San Diego International Film Festival used to champion his work and Madstone Theaters brought in Hou's

A new report by Human Rights Watch disputes the Uzbek government's account of a brutal crackdown on protesters in the country's eastern Ferghana Valley. The report says government troops opened fire on unarmed demonstrators, killing as many as 500.