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Egyptians are voting on the second and last day of the presidential runoff to choose ousted President Hosni Mubarak's successor. One region where the vote is expected to be particularly tight is in Egypt's Nile Delta, north of Cairo.

Rep. Lisa Brown will be joined on the Capitol steps in Lansing by the Tony Award-winning playwright Eve Ensler.

Impressionist Jim Meskimen does many, many celebrity voices. You may have heard his George W. Bush, or perhaps his Morgan Freeman.

Four years into Europe's debt crisis, the Eiffel Tower is rusting and London's Tower Bridge may soon be falling down. Parque Europa features replicas of 17 European monuments, but the Spanish theme park itself has become a monument of the European debt crisis.

Host Scott Simon talks with Joe Nocera, op-ed columnist for The New York Times, about the rocky debut of Facebook as a public company and what it means for the markets and the tech industry at large.

Some American employers say their businesses are starting to take a hit from the European debt crisis. NPR's Chris Arnold talks to a tour bus operator who relies on European vacationers and a factory owner who's exporting less to Europe and has scaled back hiring plans.

This week, the largest organization for U.S. Catholic Sisters issued their response to a critical report from the Vatican. The report accused the organization of "serious doctrinal problems." Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Barbara Bradley Hagerty for more on the conflict.

This week Britain's Advertising Standards Authority turned 50. To celebrate, it released a list of the 50 most-complained-about commercials in U.K. history. The one that generated the most viewer complaints was not about sex, violence or politics: It was a KFC ad in which the actors spoke with their mouths full.

Friday night in Syria, there was the third massacre in the space of one week. This time a dozen workers found shot to death, their bodies dumped in a field. Host Scott Simon speaks with United Nations spokesperson Kieran Dwyer about the options left on the table for conflict resolution in Syria.

This week, the British government reversed course on a plan to place a 20 percent tax on hot foods like pasties, a humble food more associated with the layman than a posh parliamentarian. Sometimes those politicians must eat their words.