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A suicide bomb in Kabul Saturday killed a dozen Americans, making this the deadliest attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan's capital since the war began a decade ago. Weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz gets the latest from reporter Rod Nordland of the New York Times.

The Congressional Budget Office released a study this week that revealed a huge shift in the nation's wealth distribution. The top 1 percent of the country's earners more than doubled their take of the nation's wealth in just 30 years. James Fallows, national correspondent with The Atlantic, joins weekends on All Things Considered host Guy Raz to discuss that story and others from the past week.

A few months back, something terrible happened to millions of flies around Washington, D.C. They were attacked by a fungus that basically made them zombies, unable to control their behavior. and flies are far from the only vulnerable creatures out there.

In an interview, Assad said calls by the protest movement for a Libya-style no-fly zone over his country — or any other form of intervention — will cause chaos. Assad's regime has long made this argument to maintain its grip on power. But the U.S. and its allies have shown little appetite for intervening in another Arab nation.

The U.N. says today symbolically marks the moment when the world's population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion. How did it grow so big so fast? With the help of a sound montage and video, it gets a bit easier to see how the Earth can produce that kind of a crowd.

On Monday, the court hears arguments in two cases involving defendants who claim they were ill-served by their own lawyers. The defendants claim their attorneys gave them bad advice on plea bargain offers.

The morning's top stories include the Cain campaign's push back against what it says are "baseless" allegations concerning sexual harassment.

Because Cain has been commenting on the allegations, his accuser should be released from her confidentiality agreement, the attorney says.

Charlie Hebdo's director calls those responsible "idiots who betray their own religion."

European leaders are putting pressure on Greece. The WikiLeaks founder is fighting extradition from the U.K. to Sweden. In Oakland, thousands are expected downtown as part of a general strike sparked by the Occupy movement.