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An accused drug dealer has turned the tables and helped prosecutors convict his defense lawyer of manufacturing evidence to help his case. The hard-nosed strategy is raising questions about whether the Justice Department is chilling the relationship between a defendant and his lawyer.

The Swedish home goods store is giving products nicknames based on what personal problems they solve. A pair of scissors is listed under, "My son plays too much computer games."

In Iraq, at least 17 people are dead and dozens wounded after a pair of bombs struck an outdoor market. It's just the latest deadly attack on the eve of Iraq's national parliamentary elections.

Robert Siegel talks to a pair of researchers who have studied how our names are perceived by others.

Biologist EDWARD O. WILSON has been called "The Ant Man" by "The New York Times Magazine." He has spent most of his life studying ants and other insects, and has written a number of books on the subject. He co-authored the critically-acclaimed "The Ants," with Bert Holldobler. The pair have just published a sequel to that work, "Journey to the Ants" (The Belkap Press of Harvard University Press), and WILSON has written a memoir, "Naturalist" (Island Press), that chronicles his love of ants.

A pair of 21-year-old twin Brazilian violinists are working their way out of poverty by playing classical music. Wagner and Walter Caldas grew up in a poor neighborhood near Rio de Janeiro. The brothers make their American debut this week, performing with their orchestra for the Brazil Foundation in New York City.

One of the most popular "bird cams" on the Web is focused on a pair of nesting bald eagles in Canada's British Columbia, near the city of Victoria on Vancouver Island. Fans have watched as two eaglets hatched and are almost ready to leave the nest.

President Bush meets with Russia's President Vladimir Putin outside Moscow, a day before ceremonies to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany. More than 50 other world leaders will join the pair on Red Square Monday.

Hotel guests dial 0, and the Book Butler arrives at their door with a copy of the selected book. There's even an option for guests to order specially paired meals with their book of choice.

NPR's David Welna profiles the man who single-handedly could bring down the president of Colombia and at the same time restore public confidence in public officials. Alfonso Valdivieso (vahl-dee-vee-AY-so) is Colombia's chief prosecutor; despite numerous death threats and at least one assassination attempt, he has doggedly pursued charges that President Ernesto Samper (sam-PAIR) took millions of dollars from drug traffickers. Valdivieso has already put Samper's defense minister in jail, along with several leading drug traffickers.