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It's been a roller coaster week for Spain, amid speculation that it can't afford to rescue its troubled banks and might need European aid. Spain held a successful bond auction Thursday, but shortly afterward, the Fitch ratings agency downgraded the country's credit rating.

Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep is continuing a road trip through nations of the Arab Spring. As he prepared to travel from Tunisia into Libya, he spoke with a journalist who's covered Libya for years. Lindsey Hilsum is the author of Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution.

Renee Montagne talks to Harold Goldberg about E3, this week's video game expo in Los Angeles. Goldberg writes about the video game industry, and is the author of All Your Base Are Belong to Us: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture.

There's evidence of "serious violence" at a village where activists say dozens died. United Nations monitors and journalists reached the scene today. The killings reportedly happened on Wednesday.

Renee Montagne talks to behavioral psychologist Matt Wallaert about what motivates us to make certain food choices. The recent New York City proposal to ban large sugary drinks, among other moves, is prompting new discussions about the effectiveness of such regulations.

High school students graduating in Prince Georges County, Md., got a surprise on their diplomas: a typo. The diplomas celebrated that each of the 8,000 students had completed an "approved "progam" of study." The Washington Post reports that the school system has ordered new diplomas and apologized.

This week, a dry cleaner opened in the ruined Somali capital of Mogadishu. It's the first dry cleaner, according to the BBC, in the 25 years since the city has been overrun by warlords and al-Qaida-linked militants.

No NPR love was lost onPrometheus writer Damon Lindelof who visited our offices in Culver City, CA, this week and talked to Audie Cornish about his new film.

In this morning's roundup: Lev Grossman talks about walking while reading, Jimmy Fallon disses e-readers, and CBS is still upset that it may soon not have the only silly voyeuristic show of its kind.

Author Steven Johnson says that ideas don't come in a stroke of genius — they emerge from a network of people, places and real-world constraints.