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Coalition commanders cited progress on Monday in their effort to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya and to cripple Moammar Gadhafi's military forces. An NPR news special examines the latest on the Libya conflict, the international response to the air strikes, and what allied forces hope to accomplish.

The California Republican party kicks off its semi-annual convention Friday in Sacramento. It takes place just blocks from the Capitol, where Gov. Jerry Brown has been meeting with a group of GOP lawmakers to try to win their votes for his budget.

"Tsunami" has been all over the news since a powerful earthquake sent a wall of water into northeastern Japan on March 11. It's a word that comes from Japan and dates from more than 1,000 years ago.

What can San Diegans do to help the victims of the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan? And, what challenges has the local Japanese community faced as it tries to contact family and friends back home? We speak to the president of UC San Diego's Japanese Student Association, the director of disaster services for the local Red Cross, and KPBS Science and Technology Reporter Peggy Pico.

Now that Discovery has safely touched down for good, NASA says it intends to offer the retired space shuttle to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. That leaves Atlantis and Endeavour, both of which are scheduled to fly one last time this year. Twenty-one museums are vying to house one of the iconic shuttles.

This year's Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences has gone to Paul Krugman for his theories on how economies of scale affect international trade. Krugman, a professor of economics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a columnist for The New York Times, says he was stark naked, about to step into the shower at 6:40 a.m. when his cell phone rang with the news. He called the award "an awesome surprise."

The Norwegian Nobel Committee announced Friday that Finland's former president, Martti Ahtisaari, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. He was cited for his long career of peace mediation work including a 2005 accord between Indonesia and rebels in its Aceh province.

Pulitzer-Prize winning composer Roger Reynolds and the UCSD percussion ensemble red fish, blue fish bring Reynold's work Sanctuary to life in the serene and minimal space of the Salk Institute in La J

The Swedish Academy praised Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio for his adventurous novels, essays, non-fiction and children's literature. His work is often about wanderers, people on a quest for meaning and grappling with national histories.

A UC San Diego researcher is sharing a Nobel Prize in chemistry with two other researchers. Roger Tsien was honored for developing colorful dyes called Green Fluorescent Protein. Tsien is using GFPs i