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While DVD sales plummet in the U.S. and book publishers fear for their futures, pre-orders for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 totaled some nine million copies. Jamin Warrren of Kill Screen Magazine talks about how Modern Warfare 3 is extending an invitation to non-gamers to belly up to the console.

Last week, the Chinese government slapped artist Ai Weiwei — one of China's most famous dissidents — with a $2.4 million tax bill. So far, thousands of people have loaned Ai nearly $1 million to pay the fine. Ai says he will continue to attack the government for corruption and repression.

Researchers use a new, gentler technique to transport 19 rhinos out of a poacher-plagued region in South Africa.

If the mission ultimately fails, it will be another in a string of disappointments for the Russian space program that dates back to its Soviet Union days. Sixteen missions to Mars have failed entirely since 1960.

Robert Siegel and Guy Raz read emails from listeners: There's a correction, and there's passion.

Working with the national Get Schooled Foundation, Seattle officials are encouraging kids to sign up to receive celebrity wake-up calls — from Tyra Banks to rapper Wiz Khalifa. They say the recordings — plus a variety of prizes and mentorship programs — can give truant kids the extra push they need to make it to class.

Lawmakers in Jefferson County, Ala., voted Wednesday to file for bankruptcy. It will be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. For more, Guy Raz talks with Tanya Ott of member station WBHM in Birmingham.

Authorities continue to go after women who flout Saudi Arabia's ban on female drivers, but King Abdullah has pledged to give women more political power in the coming years. Conflicting messages from the kingdom on women's rights stir up hope, fear and frustration.

Lucas Papademos was named prime minister of the new Greek interim government Thursday. His main task will be to implement the multibillion-dollar bailout that Eurozone leaders agreed to last month. But can he convince Greeks to swallow the austerity measures they hate? Steve Inskeep talks to reporter Joanna Kakissis, who is in Athens.

The history of the more than $4 billion in debt spans a decade and mostly involves a failed sewer construction deal fraught with corruption. Experts worry that the municipal bond market in the United States will suffer the consequences.