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The Bush Administration decides to bring a trade case against the European Union at the World Trade Organization. The administration says the EU is providing illegal subsidies to airplane manufacturer Airbus. The EU calls the U.S. decision "disappointing."

Melissa Block talks with Daniel Dombey, European diplomatic correspondent for the Financial Times, about the European constitution. French voters rejected the document in a referendum on Sunday. The European Union is now asking itself how to respond to this blow.

At the famous Fetish Market in Lome, Togo, traditional remedies and magical talismans compete with modern medicine for Africans looking to cure illness -- and also find love or cast a spell.

British voters go to the polls Thursday in an election that Prime Minister Tony Blair's Labour Party is expected to win. Voters appear ready to back a third Blair term despite anger at his government's support for the Iraq war.

The sentencing phase of Army Pfc. Lynndie England's court martial begins. She testified Monday that she was not coerced into abusing detainees at Abu Ghraib, and she pleaded guilty to most of the charges against her.

Slate human guinea pig Emily Yoffe goes head-to-head with a world-famous competitive eating champion, as she competes in this year's matzo ball-eating contest in New York City.

The Federal Reserve again has boosted the cost of borrowing for millions of consumers by raising short-term interest rates. The quarter-point hike -- the eighth since June 2004 -- bumps a key bank lending rate to 3 percent.

$90 million package lowers millage rate, gives employees raises.

Robert Siegel talks with French-born pianist Helene Grimaud about themes of death and transcendence in the work of Frederic Chopin and Sergei Rachmaninov. Grimaud explores their work in a new recording.

The home of Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner was rededicated this weekend in Oxford, Miss. Rowan Oak, which underwent a $1.3 million restoration, draws more than 20,000 literary pilgrims each year.