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Federal investigators probe the crash of a commuter flight at Charlotte, N.C. The Air Midwest turboprop was operated by US Airways Express. It was bound for Greenville/Spartanburg, S.C. All 19 passengers and two crew members died. Scott Jagow of member station WFAE reports.

Liane speaks with NPR's Jennifer Ludden from Israel as thousands of pilgrims visit the Holy Land to celebrate Easter and violence continues this weekend. A bomb exploded in Gaza early today. Hezbollah guerillas claimed reponsibility for a rocket attack across the Lebanese border into a town in northern Israel Saturday. Israel responded with air strikes. And outside Tel Aviv, two explosions rocked residential neighborhoods.

NPR's Tom Goldman reports from Whidbey Island Naval Air Station on yesterday's return of 24 crew members from 11 days in captivity in China. This was the first opportunity for the full crew to publicly discuss the incident that led to the emergency landing of their EP-3E spy plane on Hainan Island. Thousands of supporters were on hand to welcome them home.

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine this week indicates that current levels of air pollution have chronic adverse effects on lung development in children aged 10 to 18. The large study's authors conclude that the exposure leads to clinically significant deficits in adult lung function. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this year goes to two Americans who have puzzled out the sense of smell. Richard Axel and Linda Buck will split $1.4 million for discovering how chemicals in the air trigger thousands of recognizably different odors. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and NPR's Richard Knox.

With writer Penny Valentine, Vicki Wickham is the author of Dancing with Demons: The Authorized Biography of Dusty Springfield. Wickham was Springfield's close friend and manager for over a decade of the enigmatic British singer's career.

Static, distortion and an air raid siren. Now, that's my kind of music.

To mark the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, NPR News provides comprehensive coverage on the air and online. For Weekend Edition Saturday, host Scott Simon talks with Jimmy Dunne, who is working to rebuild his investment firm after it lost 66 people in the attacks.

Birds may be a familiar sight, but studying their migration patterns is difficult. They travel at night — thousands of feet in the air — defying scientists' attempts to track them. Bird expert Miyoko Chu discusses the many mysteries of bird migration.

Director/producer Nick Park is the three-time Academy Award-winning creator of the much-loved animated British characters Wallace and Gromit. His newest film, Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, is now in theaters.