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NPR's Kenneth Walker in Abidjan reports calm has returned to Ivory Coast after the new president and his main rival appealed for an end to the violence that has wracked the country for the past three days.

NPR's Anne Garrels reports from Mitrovica that nearly a year and a half after NATO forces entered Kosovo, this city remains a hotbed of ethnic tensions. Albanians and Serbs are locked in a stand-off over apartments, and jobs in the region's rusting heavy industry. But the United Nations administrator of the city, Bill Nash, is beginning to get the two sides to cooperate. Nash says the fall of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade should make it easier for moderate Serbs to deal with the ethnic Albanian community.

Noah talks to sportswriter Stefan Fatsis about the latest pro-basketball news, in advance of the National Basketball Association's new season, which starts next week. The Minnesota Timberwolves have been fined three-point-five million dollars and stripped of their next five first-round draft picks. The league says the Timberwolves violated the salary cap by making an under-the-table deal with player Joe Smith.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem reports Israel's symphony orchestra played the music of Richard Wagner in concert Friday, the first time the orchestra has ever presented works by Hitler's favorite composer.

Texas Governor George W. Bush has always been a man who made friends easily and kept them for a long time. That ability has helped him make use of his opportunities in business and politics and to succeed where other sons of presidents have failed. With the election now just eleven days away, NPR's Steve Inskeep has this profile of the Republican nominee.

Scott speaks with Wired magazine's John Heilemann about his article in the November issue about Microsoft and the government anti-trust case against the software giant.

Scott speaks with the mayor of South Padre Island, Texas, Ed Cyganiecwicz. South Padre Island has banned the necktie.

Carole Rabel reports on an exhibit of the work of Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon. The muti-media work, about life in Nazi-occupied Europe, is making its US debut at the Music of Fine Arts in Boston.

Scott speaks with Robert Beecroft who spearheads the US State Department's efforts to train foreigners in landmine excavation.

Scott speaks with Martha Stewart about her new CD Spooky Scary Sounds for Halloween.

Scott with some thoughts about Ralph Nader's presidential candidacy.

NPR's Anne Garrels previews today's parliamentary elections in Kosovo.