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Despite more than a year of war in Ukraine, regular missile strikes and power outages, the party goes all night long at a basement club in Kharkiv.

After seeing its sock industry decimated by competition from lower-wage countries, Fort Payne, Ala., aims to prepare its youngest residents for a high-tech future. It's investing in technologically advanced education tools in hopes that its high school graduates will be able to take advantage of a wave of new high-tech jobs coming to the region.

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women."

On their recent visit to West Texas, the national organization StoryCorps recorded conversations featuring locals from Presidio.

At least five people were killed and two boys injured Monday night when a gunman wearing a bulletproof vest opened fire in a Philadelphia neighborhood, police said.

The Walmart shooter faces life in prison. In February, he pleaded guilty to 90 federal charges including hate crimes.

Agents in Miami have arrested seven men who are indicted on terrorism charges. The seven are accused of conspiring to provide support to al-Qaida and planning to bomb the Sears Tower in Chicago, along with some government buildings in Miami.

The U.S. offensive against Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah continues, as the insurgency launches attacks elsewhere in the country. U.S. commanders say they control 80 percent of the city, and troops are pushing southward through the city amid frequent firefights. NPR's Anne Garrels reports.

The U.S. soccer team scores its first goal of the 2006 World Cup in a losing effort against Ghana, missing a chance to advance to the tournament's second round. Italy's 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic meant the U.S.-Ghana winner was assured a spot in the Round of 16.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Moscow to discuss the West's nuclear standoff with Iran. She's meeting with foreign ministers from the G8 -- the group of eight leading industrial countries. They'll also go over the agenda for next month's G8 summit in Russia's second city, St. Petersburg.