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More than 170 non-governmental organizations are currently working to provide basic services in Iraq. Most NGOs look forward to shifting from emergency relief to long-term development efforts, but they must first deal with the challenges of working in a country with no functioning government and a growing security problem. Hear NPR's Kate Seelye.

NPR's Anne Garrels in Baghdad reports on the Mukhtar, or mayor, of one district of the Iraqi capital, appointed by Saddam Hussein's Baath Party. The Mukhtar denies that he acted as Saddam's spy in the neighborhood, and says he was only responsible for humanitarian issues. But many in the neighborhood dispute that assertion.

A car bomb explodes outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad, killing at least 11 people. Secretary of State Colin Powell promises the Jordanian government that the U.S. will step up security around the compound. Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, at least two U.S. soldiers are wounded in a gun battle. Hear NPR's Anne Garrels.

The Dutch parliament agrees to send 1,100 soldiers to an Iraqi province. The Green and Socialist parties oppose the deployment, as did a part of the Labor party, which said the war in Iraq is still ongoing and the Netherlands should stay out of it. Gregory Crouch reports.

Guest host Jacki Lyden is joined by Randy Cohen, writer of "The Ethicist" column in The New York Times Magazine. This week, they discuss the case of a woman whose former husband is demanding that she refund alimony he paid out to her in excess of the amount she was due.

A growing number of girls under 18 are being arrested for violent crimes. That's led to the perception that girls have become much more violent in recent decades. But as NPR's Jon Hamilton reports in Part Three of the series Girls and the Juvenile Justice System, experts on juvenile crime have another theory. Listen to previous reports in the series.

The concept of "home economics" covers a lot of territory: It encompasses how we cook, eat, clean, make clothing and furniture, raise children -- pretty much everything involved with maintaining a home. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with the co-creator of a huge online archive of more than 1,500 books on the subject.

In some parts of the country, it wouldn't be summer without that fried dough treat, funnel cake. And for one man, who's known in some circles as the Funnel Cake King, they've helped make the American Dream come true. Frank Wilmer, a.k.a. Apple Frankie, talks with NPR's Vikki Valentine about his career in the funnel cake business.

In Part III of a series on how people in other countries view America since the war on terrorism, NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Josef Joffe, editor of the German newspaper, Die Zeit, in Hamburg. NPR's Renee Montagne talks to Francois Delahaye, general manager of the Plaza Athenee, a luxury hotel in Paris.

"Country Bobby" Lowry is the guardian of Walter Pierce Community Park in Washington, D.C. He's been keeping an eye on the park for almost three decades and knows more about it than any city official. He knows the trees, the plants and the kids. In the first of four stories about the park, Katie Davis introduces us to this transplanted farm boy who never takes short cuts in his work.