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President Bush meets British Prime Minister Tony Blair today in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to plan for new leadership of Iraq. Blair wants a larger role for the United Nations than Bush has indicated would be welcome. Hear from NPR's Melissa Block and NPR's Don Gonyea.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Family History, the new novel by Dani Shapiro.

The United States is getting ready to start a provisional civil administration for post-Saddam Iraq. It will be headed by a retired general who is sitting in Kuwait with a staff of advisers waiting for the green light to fly to Baghdad. Beyond that, the Pentagon has also flown a controversial exiled Iraqi leader and several hundred of his followers to Nasiriyah, Iraq, to add a loyal Iraqi component to the future administration. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

Two journalists are killed after U.S. forces fire on their hotel in Baghdad. Pentagon officials say the Army's 3rd Infantry Division targeted the Palestine Hotel, the base for most of the foreign media in the Iraqi capital, in response to sniper fire from the hotel's rooftop. But journalists said they heard no shots from the hotel. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

The small town of Conyers, southeast of Atlanta, has lost two soldiers in Iraq -- Pfc. Diego Rincon, 19, and Army Spc. Jamaal Addison, 22. Conyers has been growing because of its proximity to Georgia's capital city, but it still has a small-town personality -- and many people there have passionate feelings about the war, and the town's losses. Hear NPR's Kathy Lohr.

All Things Considered guest host John Ydstie talks with United Nations Assistant Emergency Relief Coordinator Ross Mountain about the situation on the ground in Iraq. Iraqi families currently have enough food to last through the month, and the expected flood of refugees has not yet materialized. But Mountain says the situation could worsen significantly.

Facing sporadic resistance from Iraqi troops, U.S. Army tanks enter Baghdad while armored vehicles encircle the Iraqi capital, a U.S. Central Command spokesman says. Col. David Perkins of the 3rd Infantry Division says U.S.-led forces will increase their stranglehold on the city and "take bites and pieces at a time until the regime does collapse." Hear NPR's Anne Garrels and NPR's Eric Westervelt.

U.S. troops seize Baghdad's main airport, 12 miles outside the city. Pentagon officials are pleased with the gains made, but still fear stronger opposition as they move forward. Saddam Hussein appears on TV to exhort the people of Baghdad to fight back. NPR's Bob Edwards speaks with NPR's Nick Spicer.

The U.S. military investigates reports that an American warplane bombed a convoy of Kurdish fighters and U.S. Special Forces soldiers in northern Iraq, killing several people. A BBC reporter traveling with the convoy says he counted at least 10 bodies lying near the burning vehicles. NPR's Liane Hansen talks to NPR's Ivan Watson.

NPR's John Burnett, with the Marine's 1st Division in Iraq, says forward movement of the column was slowed because of a firefight just south of Baghdad. Marine commanders say rifle fire and rocket-propelled grenades appeared to come from Iraqi irregulars -- some wearing black. Attacks such as these have slowed, but not stopped, forward movement of the Marines.