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The trend is official: Robots are serving food in Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and China. Should the developed world brace for a coming wave of robo-waiters? Maybe, according to some robotics experts. But waiter bots, they say, will remain less competent than humans for some time to come.

Looks like Washington's crisis du jour — the debt ceiling — will turn into the crisis du summer. Familiar territory in Congress, but it seems like there's extra drama this time around. Plus: President Obama talks immigration system overhaul. And Newt Gingrich tweets his hat in the ring for 2012.

Telecommunications mogul Carlos Slim calls the new Soumaya Museum in Mexico City a gift to his country. But critics say much of the art collection is made up of minor and mediocre pieces by big-name artists. Still, the museum is extremely popular with Mexicans.

The overwhelming conviction of Raj Rajaratnam this week didn't give federal prosecutors a breather in their campaign against insider trading. The U.S. attorney in Manhattan has 11 defendants waiting in the dock and another big trial scheduled to begin Monday.

Our panelists predict what will be the next world-changing, Earth-shattering invention.

You may not want the Ten Commandments reduced to a tweet, but some of history's great orators inspired the world in 140 characters. Lincoln's Gettysburg address message, "Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth," leaves 38 characters to spare.

Pakistan's parliament unanimously approved a resolution Saturday condemning the U.S. bin Laden mission as a "violation of Pakistan's sovereignty" and calling for a review of the country's "terms of engagement with the United States."

Our panelists tell three stories about green technology, only one of which is true.

At least six protesters were killed Friday in Syria. The protest movement there is two months old now, despite the most deadly government crackdown in the region since the Arab uprisings began. The United Nations says at least 850 people have been killed and thousands have been detained since the protests began. Host Scott Simon gets the latest from NPR's Kelly McEvers, who is monitoring the situation from Beirut, Lebanon.

The demonstrations against repressive regimes throughout the Middle East have become known as the Arab Spring. While it has meant more political freedoms for some, it has meant prison, torture and death for many others. Host Scott Simon talks with Rami Khouri, editor-at-large of the Beirut newspaper Daily Star, about where the movement is headed.