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Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik will marry Mary Donaldson, a Tasmanian and former Microsoft employee, in Copenhagen Friday. The country is abuzz with news of the wedding, with commemorative coins, stamps and royal wedding sales at malls. Melissa Block talks with Danish Broadcasting reporter Tine Goetze.

Nicholas Berg, the American whose death was depicted in a video posted on an Islamist Web site, is laid to rest Friday after a service at a synagogue in West Chester, Pa. Berg's family asked that only those who knew him attend the service. Hear NPR's Brian Naylor and NPR's Michele Norris.

The Gap clothes chain releases its first-ever social responsibility report, assessing working conditions in nearly 3,000 factories around the world. It calls for a coordinated response to improve conditions for garment workers. The Gap says it canceled contracts with 136 factories last year because of persistent or severe violations of its code of conduct. NPR's Kathleen Schalch reports.

Despite claims by the Department of Defense that sexual assault in the military has been cut in half, female soldiers and counselors say the problem remains acute. NPR's John Burnett reports.

Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee emphasized his opinion that a breakdown in military command led to the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Some senators are wondering how high up accountability should go. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

The court says it's routine for justices to circulate draft opinions internally. It's part of a larger procedure that involves deliberating, voting and assigning writers.

Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, a landmark civil rights victory that struck down "separate but equal" guidelines for public education. Commentator and legal scholar Walter Dellinger remembers the day the ruling was announced. He was in school that day at Myers Park Junior High in Charlotte, N.C. He says it's hard to overstate the impact the ruling had on the South, and on the country as a whole.

American soldiers are keeping photo travel logs of their tours in Iraq. These photos run the gamut from landscapes to dead bodies. The pictures then shapes the way the world sees the war. Youth Radio's Belia Mayeno hears the views of two Marine reservists, just back from Iraq.

Fifty years ago, school desegregation became the law of the land in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. But a decade after the decision, few students attended integrated schools. A three-part Morning Edition series examines the legacy of the school busing orders aimed at making desegregation a reality.

Tulane University medical student Andy Martin is hard at work searching for a cure for an extremely rare, highly fatal type of cancer called sinonasal undifferentiated carcinoma. For Martin, the quest is personal: he himself has been diagnosed with the illness. Martin speaks with NPR's Robert Siegel.