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From movies and musicals to hit songs, the French national anthem has been appropriated in many contexts. Are you enough of a Francophile to spot them?

Initial efforts at forming a post-Saddam Hussein government in Iraq end with an agreement to meet again in 10 days. About 100 representatives of Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish communities met with retired U.S. Army Gen. Jay Garner, who has been selected by the Bush administration to oversee the re-establishment of an Iraqi state. Hear NPR's Mike Shuster and NPR's Tom Gjelten.

Rainn Wilson plays beet-farming, archery-loving middle-management kook Dwight Shrute on NBC's The Office.

before Sunday's presidential election in Nicaragua. Former president and Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega is running against the conservative former mayor of Managua Arnoldo Aleman. Experts consider the outcome too close to call.

The Academy of American Poets gives prizes to university and college students. One of them is Lauren Chumbley.

The president became the first U.S. head of state to attend a parade to mark the day India adopted its constitution.

Since 1986, Ted Kooser has written an annual Valentine's Day poem and sent it to an ever-growing list of women. Now, he's collected those poems in a new book, Valentines.

Dozens of companies across the U.S. are offering freebies and discounts to veterans and active-duty military members on Veterans Day.

Several cast members are asking for millions of dollars they say is their fair share of revenues from T-shirts, DVDs and other Happy Days merchandise. The lawsuit was sparked when one of the actors saw the show's characters' on slot machines at a casino. CBS and Paramount tried to dismiss the claim, but a judge has cleared the way for the case to go to trial.

Ophira Eisenberg teams up with John Hodgman for a spirited reading of the poem popularly known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas," with the lines rewritten to be about some less popular holidays.