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NATO's expansion is the exact opposite of what Russia wanted, says Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. He spoke to NPR about its NATO's newest members, and when Ukraine might join them.

For three years starting in 1975, NBA referee Bob Delaney lived inside the New Jersey mafia. He chronicles his time undercover with the mob — and his subsequent career as an NBA referee — in a new memoir.

Tuesday night, for the first time ever, a beagle won "Best in Show" at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Uno, a 15-inch beagle, brought the crowd to its feet at the sold-out show at Madison Square Garden.

If you're confused about how the former Yugoslavia dissolved after the fall of communism, you're not alone. The country was melded together after World War I from six major Slavic groups and its post-communism breakup has largely followed ethnic lines. Michele Norris has a primer on the new states created in the Balkans since 1989.

The gunman in Thursday's shooting at Northern Illinois University had stopped taking his medication and became erratic before opening fire inside a lecture hall, police say. Five people were killed before Stephen Kazmierczack killed himself.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro says he will not seek re-election and has resigned as Cuba's president, after 49 years in power. Castro announced in Cuba's state-run newspaper that he is stepping down. At 81, he has been ailing and has not appeared in public in the past year and a half.

Wisconsin is the next battleground in the Democratic nomination contest. Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both campaigned in the state Saturday.

The Taliban has denied responsibility for what is being called the worst bombing in Afghanistan's history, in which at least 80 people were killed and dozens more wounded by a suicide bomber's blast at a dog-fighting event. Funerals have already begun in Kandahar, where the governor expressed outrage at the attack.

After winning the most seats in Pakistan's general election, the party of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is putting together a coalition that could restore the judges President Pervez Musharraf sacked last year. The judges, in turn, could throw Musharraf out of office.

Now that space shuttle Atlantis has safely returned to Earth, the Pentagon plans to shoot down a failing spy satellite as early as Wednesday night. The Navy will launch a missile in an attempt to destroy the satellite before it crashes to Earth.