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A group of foreign mediators meets with Ukrainian government and opposition leaders in a bid to end the crisis sparked by this week's disputed presidential election. Tens of thousands of opposition supporters continue to march in the heart of the capital, Kiev. NPR's Lawrence Sheets reports.

NPR's Jennifer Ludden has a performance chat with American music icon Willie Nelson. Ludden caught up with Nelson while he was on tour promoting his new album It Will Always Be.

The new civil rights commission chairperson, Gerald Reynolds, is a former civil rights officer at the U.S. Department of Education and now a lawyer for an electric utility in Kansas City, Mo. He talks with Frank Morris of member staton KCUR.

Michele Norris talks with Evan Hendricks, editor and publisher of Privacy Times and author of Credit Scores and Credit Reports, about why people should be concerned about identity theft and what they can do to avoid it.

Results from Iraq's Jan. 30 national assembly elections are almost final, and it appears the Shiite Muslim alliance received about 48 percent of the vote. The Kurdish parties won about 26 percent. The Shiite coalition victory falls well short of the two-thirds majority required to elect a presidential council, which in turn will select a prime minister.

Boyden Gray is the chairman and founder of the group Committee for Justice, formed to promote conservative judicial nominees. Gray was instrumental in getting Clarence Thomas appointed to the Supreme Court. Wednesday, we heard from Ralph Neas of the liberal group People for the American Way.

The Duhks' music has been described as "progressive soulgrass" and "Blue Rodeo meets Celtic rock." The hard-to-categorize Canadian band hopes to take folk roots music in a new direction.

Television critic Andrew Wallenstein reviews the new mini-series Miracle's Boys. Based on the book by Jacqueline Woodson, the show tells the story of three brothers in Harlem who struggle to keep their family together.

The international Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming takes effect Wednesday. The United States has not signed onto it, but countries in Europe have. Carbon trader Dirk Forrister is helping them figure out how to buy and sell carbon credits.

In South Africa, mortality rates from AIDS have increased by 57 percent over five years, according to the South African government. While the reporting of AIDS deaths remains a matter of debate, the deaths of young men and women make up most of the increase.