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Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist known as the "banker to the poor," was awareded the Nobel Peace Prize on Sunday in Oslo, Norway.

Frank McCourt, the Irish-American writer who turned a grim childhood in Ireland into a best-selling memoir, has died.

What can the U.S. military learn from the co-author of "Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time"? We speak to Greg Mortenson about the work he is doing with the military to build stronger relationships with community leaders in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Woody Allen Returns to New York

Pema Tseden is the first director in China ever to film movies entirely in the Tibetan language. His latest film, The Search, won the Grand Jury Prize at Shanghai's recent International Film Festival. He says Tibet has always been depicted by outsiders who pander to their own imagination.

Woody Allen has a new film back on American soil, Johnny Depp plays legendary gangster John Dillinger, and director Kathryn Bigelow brings us the critically acclaimed film The Hurt Locker. We'll discuss all these films and more on this month's Film Club of the Air.

Foreign companies could soon be pumping Iraqi oil for the first time in nearly 40 years. The companies are so eager for a crack at Iraq's vast oil wealth that they are willing to overlook some big negatives. But the deals currently on the table won't necessarily be highly profitable for the oil companies.

New Italian Film Looks to Life of Giulio Andreotti

Baby boomers are obsessed with ratings. They rank everything: best to worst, least to most, zero to 100, A to F. So we turn the tables and issue the generation its own cohort report card.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist William Styron died Wednesday after a long illness. He was 81. Styron won the Pulitzer for The Confessions of Nat Turner.