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Since the war has mainly shifted to the east of Ukraine, residents and business owners have been returning to parts of the Kyiv region, including hard-hit Bucha.

Fisk University plans to sell an iconic Georgia O'Keeffe painting donated by the artist in 1949. The sale, designed to raise money for the cash-strapped Nashville university, could break an O'Keeffe sale record of $6.3 million. It also may violate the terms of O'Keeffe's gift, which specified the modern art collection of her late husband Alfred Stieglitz not be broken up.

For some people, chile peppers are wild enough when they're encountered in southwestern cooking. But Scott Simon and crew recently searched fruitlessly for chiles growing wild in the Sonoran desert.

The Oreck Corp.'s vacuum cleaner plant is up and running again in the Mississippi Gulf. The company plans to keep its factory there and its headquarters in New Orleans despite the devastation wrought by Katrina.

At least nine car bombs explode in Baghdad Wednesday, killing more than 150 and injuring hundreds. Iraq's arm of al Qaeda said in a statement that it was waging a suicide bombing campaign to avenge a U.S.-Iraqi military offensive against a rebel base.

World leaders gather in New York with the goal of adopting reforms at the United Nations. The General Assembly has approved a document that touches on issues like human rights, world poverty and terrorism. But the document was watered down greatly in negotiations just prior to the summit.

As France suffered weeks of riots last month, the colorful southern port of Marseille was spared. The city has one of France's highest concentrations of immigrants, but residents there do not live in segregated communities.

Tom Donohue is president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's most active pro-business lobby. He tells Steve Inskeep about his role in tempering the SEC and other regulators.

With her gift book selections, NPR's Ketzel Levine will take you wandering through old maps and contemporary art galleries, courtside at the NBA, inside the minds of raucous high school kids, and into the embrace of poems.

President Bush says he's made up his mind on a successor to take Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. The president will announce his pick at 9 p.m. ET, Tuesday.