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Recent unrest in Mali and Algeria point to the growing influence of al-Qaida in North Africa. Wall Street Journal Pentagon reporter Julian Barnes and Ret. Col. Thomas Dempsey, chair for security studies at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, explain the latest developments and the threat al-Qaida presents in the region.

At least a dozen people were killed when a mob of people enraged over the burning of a Quran stormed a U.N. office in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Friday.

Federal Communications Commission members are encouraging more diverse content on the airwaves, minority ownership of commercial broadcast outlets and requirements for locally oriented programming. But with the Internet and niche communications, are the first and the last of those three ideas outmoded concepts?

We'll look at the changing nature of psychotherapy and the balancing act between medication and talk therapy to treating mental health issues.

>Taxi to the Dark Side

In the new film Gullivers Travels, Jack Black plays the big man in town. Despite what he says, no tiny actors were harmed in the making of the movie.

The murders of San Diego County teenagers Chelsea King and Amber Dubois have ignited concerns over child safety. A training session this week in San Diego will teach young girls how to protect themselves against predators. Joining us on Morning Edition is the 18-year-old founder of a non-profit group called Just Yell Fire.

Newt Gingrich made a fortune from the businesses he started after leaving Congress in 1999. Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty explains how Gingrich "transfigured himself from a political flameout into a thriving business conglomerate."

The videotapes that triggered a firestorm last week are being scrutinized. Footage posted by conservative activist James O'Keefe captured NPR's chief fundraising official disparaging conservatives, and saying the network would be better off without federal funding. But much of what Ron Schiller said was presented in a misleading light.

Thousands of people jammed the tiny hometown of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit on Tuesday to celebrate his arrival after more than five years in the captivity of Hamas militants.