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Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro pulls up with an ankle injury at the beginning of Saturday's Preakness Stakes. Bernardini wins the race going away, but a pall hangs over Pimlico as Barbaro's racing career may be over. In other sports news, Barry Bonds hits career home run 714, tying Babe Ruth.

Morning Edition is speaking this week with thinkers and scholars overseas about the transition from the Bush presidency to the Obama administration. We turn now to Africa. Renee Montagne talks with Veronique Tadjo, an author, poet and painter from Ivory Coast. She teaches in Johannesburg, South Africa, and gives workshops across Africa.

A Muslim cleric from Jordan went to the United Kingdom in the 1990s, where he gained asylum by claiming persecution. But he supposedly started preaching hate sermons. The British government wants to send him back to Jordan, but he says he'll be tortured there. Britain's human rights laws forbid deportation to a country that tortures.

Blindness takes place in an unnamed city whose unnamed inhabitants are struck, one by one, with a sudden "white blindness". The first victim goes blind…

Critics on the left are panning President-elect Barack Obama's choice of Rick Warren, an evangelical minister and author of The Purpose-Driven Life, to deliver the invocation at the inauguration. But in some ways, the two men share a worldview.

In these prepared remarks, President-Elect Barack Obama calls himself the unlikeliest presidential candidate, and warns supporters about the enormous problems the country must now face.

Supporters and opponents of a ballot initiative that would outlaw same-sex marriage in California braced for a long, tense wait Tuesday night after exit polls and initial returns showed neither side w

All's Fair in Love and Veto Power

Indonesia has gotten bad press for bombings by al-Qaida-linked militants and attacks on Christian churches. But the country is more tolerant than these acts suggest, and that tolerance seems to be growing. One sign: A preacher who waited 16 years has finally opened a Christian megachurch in Jakarta.

Preacher Moss, the founder of this comedy troupe, says in the press materials, "This film embodies a level of humor and truth that transcends religious affiliation. Being a Muslim in America comes with its joys and struggles, and it's constantly complicated. I think comedy is the best language to use to talk about sensitive issues, and we are ready to start this conversation with the world."