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Listeners respond to stories on IBM's project to match laid-off workers with jobs in developing countries at local wages, and Michael Phelps' troubles.

Readers responded to the story on clickers and on a California community's war on woodpeckers. Melissa Block and Robert Siegel read from listeners' comments.

Designer Alexander McQueen was found dead Thursday at his apartment in London. The British designer has been called the "hooligan of British fashion" — known for edgy designs, his bad boy attitude and his impeccable attention to detail. Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan says his tailoring was "a cut above" the rest.

Thousands of people in Greece's capital took to the streets to protest harsh spending cuts aimed at saving the country from bankruptcy. But the demonstrations turned deadly; a fire erupted, and at least three people were killed.

Supergroups have a long tradition in popular music. Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson once joined forces as The Highwaymen. There were the Fania All-Stars, The Four Tenors and Audioslave. Now Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, Jim James and M. Ward, calling themselves Monsters of Folk, have released their debut album.

PepsiCo released an iPhone app that recommends pickup lines and other ways for guys to get girls. It was designed to promote Pepsi's new energy drink, Amp. After some people were offended and complained on Twitter, PepsiCo apologized.

The director takes a break from his bloated Spider-Man franchise to toss off this tight, crackling B-movie about a yuppie plagued by a gypsy curse. (Recommended)

Federal investigators were scheduled to conduct simulated tests of the automatic controls on Washington, D.C., commuter trains Wednesday in an effort to determine why the computer-controlled system did not prevent a deadly train crash earlier this week.

Hombre Lobo is the first studio album in five years by the act known as Eels. Frontman Mark Oliver Everett — better known to his fans as "E" — turns in what he calls "12 songs of desire."

A NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan killed at least 27 civilians, the Afghan Cabinet said Monday. NATO forces confirmed in a statement that its planes fired Sunday on what it believed was a group of insurgents in southern Uruzgan province on their way to attack a joint NATO-Afghan patrol.