Morning Edition

Steve Inskeep talks to NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, who's in the Libyan port town of Brega, the scene of intense fighting Wednesday between rebels and government forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi.

Some women in Ukraine say their country has become a destination for sex tourism and instant brides. A New Zealand radio station sponsored a trip to Ukraine for a listener to find a wife. Nine Ukranian women, who protested topless, say they are not a commodity.

An anonymous author in New York has posted individual pages of his novel on lampposts. One cabdriver told the New York Post that the book will take a long time to read this way.

Medicinal pot brownies, candies, and other infused products are here to stay in Colorado. A Republican lawmaker introduced a bill to ban medical marijuana centers from selling infused products. But after facing opposition from the medical marijuana industry and lawmakers, including some members of her own party, she is significantly changing the measure.

The death of the Pakistani minister is the second assassination in two months of a high-profile opponent of blasphemy laws that impose the death penalty for insulting Islam.