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Jacki talks to NPR's Davis Welna about today's municipal and legislative elections in Haiti. It was the first vote in Haiti since the U.S. military intervened there last September.

Micahel talks with NPR's Anne Garrels about the vote of confidence by the Russian Parliament for President Boris Yeltsin today. The last time Yeltsin faced the Russian Parliament like this, tanks ended up on the streets of Moscow. This time the vote was over Yeltsin's handling of the Chechen crisis.

The crisis in Bosnia escalated today with Bosnian Serbs shelling a suburb of Sarajevo and refusing to release more than 250 United Nations peacekeepers still held hostage. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on President Clinton's efforts to defend his Bosnian policy against Republican attack.

Daniel talks with journalist Gersh Kuntzman who has investigated the origins of what is now an international gesture....the HIGH 5.

NPR's Maria Hinojosa revisits a Cuban family she last saw boarding a makeshift raft headed towards the United States. Nine months later the family has settled in Miami, but they are far from happy with their new life.

Senegalese musician Vieux Diop spent his childhood listening to all kinds of music, but his favorite was American blues. Now, Diop lives in New York and travels to schools teaching kids about traditional African music. He joins us in our studios to play one of his instruments.

President Clinton spoke in Honolulu Hawaii today to comemorate the signing of the Japanese surrender 50 years ago which Second World War. We'll hear an excerpt from the President's speech.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists are looking into an ancient mystery...trying to determine what caused 80 percent of all plant and animal life on earth to vanish in an episode that pre-dated the dinosaurs.

A recent United Nations report on the world wide status of women ranks Sweden number one in terms of women's equality. Last year the Swedish Prime Minister decided that half of Sweden's parliament and half of Sweden's cabinet should be female and so many men were forced to resign. Daniel talks to the deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Mona Sahlin who is also the minister of equality affairs.

Daniel goes for a walk in the Virginia woods with USDA entomologist Dave Nickel to listen to the sounds of a summer night. Nickel says there is an incredible array of crickets, katydids, and cicadas, all contributing to the nighttime natural symphony we hear during the hot weather.