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A court translator reads from the international arrest warrants issued today by the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal for Radovan Karadzic (RAH-doh-vahn KARE-uh-jitch) and General Ratko Mladic (RAHT-koh MLAH-ditch).

One of the nicest men in baseball, the Minnesota Twins All-Star outfielder Kirby Puckett is being forced to retire because of fading eyesight. Minnesota Public Radio's William Willcoxsin reports.

BBC middle east correspondant Stepher Sackur (SACK-er) reports on a Jordanian family that was forced to leave Jordan and emigrate to Israel because of the name they chose for their baby.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that scientists hav efound new evidence wxplaining why fireflies glow. Researchers have long known that fireflies flash as part of a mating ritual. In the new study, researchers found out specifically what it is about the glow that females find attractive-- females tend to mate with male fireflies that flash the fastest.

to mourn the American servicemen killed in the terrorist attack. At least five of the victims were from Eglin Air Force Base near Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The President will attend memorial services there on Sunday.

that some two thousand United Nations troops will be withdrawn from Haiti and how that would affect law enforcement efforts in that country. The fledgling local police force remains ill prepared to assume full responsibility, and the U.S. would be unlikely to allow that to happen.

NPR's Melissa Block reports on a memorial held today for the victims of TWA Flight 800. Relatives and friends were taken to a point of land closest to the crash site, where they threw flowers into the sea to remember their love ones.

A commentary from retired Lt. General Thomas McInerney who argues in favor of passage of the Chemical weapons Convention...a treaty that will make chemical weapons illegal. He says the U.S. military supports this treaty because there is scant military advantage to keeping chemical weapons and defending against them is an impediment to fighting forces.

and crash that killed 230 people. Searchers got a big break yesterday when they located a 30-by-60 foot section of the plane's fuselage... they also recovered six more bodies. The investigation has been hampered by bad weather, and mechanical and logistical problems.

- Daniel visits squid expert Clyde Roper of the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History. Roper - a biologist - is organizing an expedition to the South Pacific, where he hopes to find a kind of massive squid that reportedly has been sighted by soldiers and fishermen. Roper will search for the squid in a glass bubble that will descend hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.