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Reviewer Mark Jenkins reviews the CD by Indian Sitarist Ananda Shankar and a British DJ known as State of Bengal. It's a pop mix of hip beats and Indian pop music. (3:30) Note: The CD is "Ananda Shankar and the State of Bengal." It's on the Real World Records label.

Venus Williams beat defending champion Lindsay Davenport on Centre Court at Wimbledon today, to become the first black female to win there since 1958. Host Jacki Lyden talks to Robin Roberts of ABC News and ESPN about Venus' game and the significance of her win to young black athletes. Tomorrow, Williams joins younger sister Serena in Wimbledon's Doubles Championship match. Jacki also talks to 27 year-old Carla Perona of Compton, California, about her memories of watching the Williams sisters learn their game on the city's public courts.

Host Bob Edwards talks to reporter John McLean about the recovery efforts in Manila after a mountain of garbage collapsed on a shantytown killing at least 71 people. Approximately one-hundred people were injured and an unknown number still missing. The mountain of garbage was weakened by a typhoon that swept through the Philippines last week.

Host Bob Edwards talks to John Bogle a personal finance pioneer and founder of the Vanguard Group, about mutual funds. Bogle criticizes the management practices of mutual funds and provides advise for consumers who are interested in investing in these funds.

Host Bob Edwards talks to Hirsch Goodman of the Jerusalem Report about Prime Minister Ehud Barak's political problems at home, in trying to negotiate with the Palestinians. Any transfer of land from Israel to the Palestinians would require the approval of Israel's Knesset, and Barak is in a relatively weak position with regard to that parliamentary body.

NPR's Ina Jaffe reports that a fourth police officer has been charged with misconduct in the ongoing probe of corruption in the Los Angeles Police Department. New charges have also been filed against two of three officers already facing trial.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Matt Ridley, a science writer for the London Telegraph and the author of the book Genome, about what the implications are for knowing how to map the entire human genome.

In the second installment of our series on national missile defense, NPR's Mike Shuster examines some of the technical problems scientists would have to overcome, in order to make a missile defense system operational and effective.

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator John Feinstein about tonight's Major League All Star Game in Atlanta. The festivities began last night at Turner Field, when Sammy Sosa defeated Ken Griffey Junior to win the Home Run Derby.

NPR's Phillip Martin reports on the NAACP convention in Baltimore, Maryland. Yesterday before a skeptical audience Republican Presidential candidate George W. Bush said he recognized that the Republican Party has not always been seen as friendly toward blacks and promised to work to improve relations.