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John Garang is leader of the People's Liberation Movement in southern Sudan. He will soon be vice president in a new Sudanese government of national unity. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that he hopes the new government will be able to end the widespread human rights abuses in the Darfur region.

Few basic services have been restored to Iraq despite vigorous U.S. efforts to repair damage from the war and the years of economic sanctions that preceded the conflict. Normal life may be a year or more away. Hear NPR's Linda Wertheimer and Lt. Col. Sam Gardiner, retired.

Autopsy results confirm that former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic died of a heart attack. Milosevic was found dead Saturday in his prison cell at The Hague. His death has fueled speculation that he was poisoned or committed suicide.

Big-league baseball returns to Washington, D.C., with a bang after a 34-years absence. The Washington Nationals defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 in the team's home opener Thursday night before a sellout crowd at a refurbished Robert F. Kennedy Stadium.

Growing up without a television at home, cartoonist Kate Wheeler and her brother shared the joys of listening to audiobooks as children.

Rising tensions with Iraq and deteriorating relations with the United States helped send oil prices skyward. Washington, D.C., sent envoys on a surprise visit to Ankara to urge restraint, as Turkey threatens to attack Kurdish separatists in Northern Iraq.

DeWine has encouraged people to get vaccinated after he recently tested positive for COVID-19.

In softcover nonfiction, mother-of-three Kelly Oxford wisecracks, Errol Morris reexamines the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case and Shereen El Feki travels across the Arab world asking people about their sexuality.

In softcover fiction, Irvine Welsh gives us a prequel to Trainspotting, and Regina O'Melveny tells the story of a 16th-century Renaissance woman. In nonfiction, Dan Ariely discovers what keeps us dishonest.

In softcover fiction, Hilary Mantel imagines Anne Boleyn's downfall, Martin Amis satirizes England, Paul Theroux sends a narrator back to the village he volunteered in, and Peter Heller depicts a post-apocalyptic life. In nonfiction, Robert Caro continues his LBJ biography.