Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: To Zimbabwe now, where elections are in 2008 elections were marred by extreme violence. Now, elections are once again on the horizon.

A study commissioned by Altia Eesti and carried out by TNS Emor indicated that the consumption of wine has increased by 18% in Estonia in 2011, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

Copyright © 2012 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. NEAL CONAN, HOST: Facebook hopes to raise more than $100 billion tomorrow in a monumental initial public stock offering.

Estonian government approved on Thursday of the needs-based student support bill, to enable students from low-income families to fully focus on their studies, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

TALLINN - Shipping company Tallink, which earned 37.5 million euros of profit last year, will not pay any dividends to its shareholders, Public Broadcasting reports. Tallink's council and b...

Estonian Riigikogu foreign committee chairman Marko Mihkelson, who met on Wednesday in Tallinn with Russian Federation Council foreign committee chairman Mikhail Margelov, said that parliamentary dialogue at the committees level has been restored now, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

An analysis of TNS Emor indicates that Estonians drank 11% more alcohol in 2011 than in 2010 and the consumption of strong alcohol also grew, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

Shipping company Tallink, which earned 37.5 million euros of profit in 2011, will not pay any dividends to shareholders, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

The council of Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR) elected PR specialist Agu Uudelepp as its new chairman; previous chairman Hagi Šein does not continue in the council, LETA/Postimees writes.

Flipboard, the popular social news magazine, has started integrating audio into its app for Apple's hand-held devices. The move makes it the first mobile reader of its kind to do so. Flipboard's partners in the deal are SoundCloud, National Public Radio and Public Radio International (PRI).

Social magazine Flipboard may have to think up a new tagline for itself, as tonight the company is rolling out an update which greatly expands its focus beyond text-based content to also include audio. The rollout features integrations from NPR, PRI (Public Radio International) and social sound platform, SoundCloud .

The trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards continued Tuesday in North Carolina. Edwards is accused of accepting almost a million dollars in secret payments to cover up an affair with his pregnant mistress. North Carolina Public Radio's Jeff Tiberii talks to Melissa Block about the case.

More than 300 members of the public, some carrying a coffin draped in the New Zealand flag, gathered in Auckland last night in protest over the pending loss of public broadcasting channel TVNZ7.The crowd packed out the Freemans...

Google launched today in Estonia its Street View, which enables to look at and navigate at 360° panorama angle pictures of streets and locations all over Estonia, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

The Estonian Riigikogu economy committee decided not to demand expropriation of the grid of Eesti Gaas but forces the company to sell its distribution pipelines with the help of a penalty payment, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

California Governor Jerry Brown says the state's budget deficit is now $16 billion. That's almost double the figure he gave in January. From Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, Ben Adler reports on what additional cuts to the troubled budget Brown is proposing.

In the Canadian province of Quebec, a plan to hike university tuition has led to weeks of violent rallies and clashes with police. The province faces a deficit of roughly three and a half billion dollars and students say the tuition hike is part of a larger austerity campaign. North Country Public Radio's Brian Mann reports.

A Swedish man accused of a deadly shooting spree against immigrants denied three murder and 12 attempted murder charges as his trial opened under tight security Monday. Peter Mangs, 40, denied 19 of 20 charges but pleaded guilty to vandalism for firing a shot through a shop window, Swedish public radio reported.

Finding the right gift for Mother's Day is often a challenge, so some students at Washington and Lee University are offering their classmates customized poems — at a price. Virginia Public Radio's Sandy Hausman reports.

Wisconsin Republicans convene this weekend at their state convention and may or may not endorse one of the party's candidates for the U.S. Senate. Former Gov. Tommy Thompson is running for the nomination, but his opponents consider Thompson insufficiently conservative. Wisconsin Public Radio's Chuck Quirmbach reports.

Finding the right gift for Mother's Day is often a challenge, so some students at Washington and Lee University are offering their classmates customized poems at a price. Virginia Public Radio's Sandy Hausman reports.

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announces long-predicted changes in his government on public radio. Mihály Varga will replace Tamás Fellegi as Hungary's chief negotiator with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the EU from 1 June. Mr. Varga is currently Minister of State at the Prime Minister's....

A fresh analysis of the auditing company KPMG indicated that Estonia's tax rates are average as compared to other Europeans states, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.

Estonian discount offer portals operator company Cherry Media acquired its Latvian competitor CityLife with a share swap, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports.