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The U.S. men's soccer team didn't make its debut in the 2006 World Cup as much as it endured it. In losing 3-0 to the Czech Republic, the Americans looked overmatched and outplayed. The Czechs, ranked No. 2 in the world ratings, moved the ball quickly through the American defense, scoring after just five minutes.

NPR special Africa corresondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault talks about Liberia's recruitment of women for its army and the impact of Chinese investment in the African economy.

Military authorities are investigating the precise circumstances of the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian al-Qaida figure killed Thursday in Iraq. There are reports that Zarqawi initially survived an air strike by U.S. warplanes.

The president of the United Automobile Workers will have tough words for his membership, according to a report in Monday's New York Times. He plans to tell them that the U.S. automobile industry is facing an unprecedented crisis that will require sacrifices from auto workers. Alex Chadwick talks to John Dimsdale of Marketplace.

Jazz critic Kevin Whitehead reviews It's All in the Game, by tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander.

The women's prison in Kadhmiya, a Shiite area in Baghdad, is one of three major prisons in Iraq that house several hundred female inmates. They've been convicted of crimes such as prostitution, murder and terrorism. Some are being held pending trial. Many say they've been abused and raped.

Vangelis composed the music for Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire, which won him an Academy Award.

Fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah guerillas in Lebanon is not likely to end anytime soon. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated his position Wednesday when he told his Cabinet ministers that the offensive will continue "as long as necessary."

The latest chapter in the singer's story is a solo album, Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, which serves as one of those rare pleasurable paradoxes: offbeat but faithful to the classics, artsy but accessible, emotional while remaining intriguingly playful.

Julia Choucair is an associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the deputy editor of the Carnegie's e-monthly, the Arab Reform Bulletin.