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Robert Siegel talks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden in Jerusalem about today's vote by members of Israel's Labor Party to join a national unity government with supporters of Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon.

Arguments began yesterday in Microsoft's appeal of the court order that the company be split apart. NPR's Larry Abramson reports on the proceedings.

NPR's Howard Berkes reports on a newly released CD-ROM with searchable archives of a Civil War-era bank used by former slaves. For more information on the searchable archives, check out www.media.lds.org

Secretary of State Colin Powell sought support for revised sanctions against Iraq while in the Middle East this week. New sanctions would include easing restrictions on Iraqi imports of civilian goods while tightening controls over military technology transfers -- that would mean reinstating U.N. weapons inspectors. Iraq called the revised sanctions "rubish", saying they would never allow weapons inspectors back in the country. Robert Siegel talks with Meghan L. O'Sullivan about the effects of sanctions on Iraq and what the revised sanctions mean. O'Sullivan is a fellow at the Brooking Institution, specializing in economic sanctions, and co-author of the book Honey and Vinegar: Incentives, Sanctions and Foreign Policy.

NPR's Rob Gifford reports that the Chinese government today struck back at the United States, calling it hypocritical on human rights. China went on the offensive after the U.S. released a State Department report yesterday, saying that China's human rights record has greatly deteriorated over the past year. Chinese officials discussed the issue during a news conference as U.N. human rights chief Mary Robinson was in Beijing. The Chinese government didn't like her remarks either, saying she was ignorant of China's situation. She is pressing China to abolish its "re-education through labor" policy, under which minor offenders can be locked up for several years, without any judicial process.

Mark Moran, from member station KJZZ, reports on a new tax on tourists in Arizona, that will help build a state-of-the-art football stadium in Phoenix.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Paul Eisenstein, editor of The Car Connection.Com, about the plan unveiled yesterday by DaimlerChrysler to help pull its ailing partners--Chrysler and Mitsubishi--out of the red by 2002.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Khidhir Hamza, former head of Saddam Hussein's nuclear weapons program. After defecting from Iraq, he wrote a memoir -- in collaboration with Jeff Stein -- called Saddam's Bombmaker, in which he tells how close Iraq came to building a working bomb.

NPR's Alex Chadwick traipses through an Australian forest custom-grown for koala bears. He learns that koalas have the finicky appetites of toddlers -- they eat eucalyptus leaves, or nothing at all.

NPR's Jim Zarroli reports on how estate taxes work, and who pays them. A number of lawmakers, including President Bush, would like to repeal the estate tax. Others say its a progressive tax that generates revenue from only the wealthiest 2-percent of Americans.