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A free screening of documentaries on homeless youth will be presented at the Central Library on Sunday April 20. (MACSD) On Sunday April 20, the San Diego…

Kenneth Lieberthal, professor of political science at the University of Michigan, discusses the increase of unrest in China. He says protests are occurring across the country as the government's drive to industrialize is colliding with the rural population's wish to hold on to its land.

Legislation introduced in Sacramento would ensure that California ceases to be both a major supplier and consumer of shark fins through a ban on the possession, sale, trade, and distribution of fins. Hawaii has passed a similar ban. Oregon and Washington are also considering bans. Every year people kill up to 73 million sharks for shark fin soup, a practice considered wasteful and unsustainable. Some scientists say many shark populations have collapsed worldwide due to overfishing. We discuss the new legislation, the traditional Chinese shark fin soup and the status and importance of shark populations in the oceans.

President Bush and new Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad trade stern messages on the future of Iran's nuclear program. Hadi Semati, a professor of political science at Tehran University, says U.S. statements about a military option do not signal a policy shift.

Officials from some 25 nations gathered in Bahrain for a security conference that included discussions about the booming piracy business in the Gulf of Aden and elsewhere. No one seemed to be offering a workable strategy for fixing what many agreed is the root of the problem, the failed state of Somalia.

Kyrgyzstan says it is ending a deal that allows the U.S. to use a key air base to support its mission in Afghanistan. The announcement came quickly after Russia said it would give the Central Asian nation billions of dollars in aid.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe made his last pitch to voters Wednesday, the eve of the country's parliamentary elections. NPR's Madeleine Brand speaks with Abe McLaughlin of the Christian Science Monitor in Zimbabwe about the impact that the elections might have for the nation's future.

Today, we look back on yesterday’s election. We’ll talk about the results at the national, state and local level. And we’ll carry a live press conference by President Bush.

American Roger D. Kornberg, whose father won a Nobel Prize a half-century ago, was awarded the prize in chemistry Wednesday for his studies of how cells take information from genes to produce proteins.

Seen in the West as a vital democracy advocate, Yeltsin was disliked by many ordinary Russians. They blamed him for the economic chaos that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.