At least thirteen aid agencies have been kicked out of Darfur, Sudan this week. That's after the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes in the region.

General Motors Corp. sent the stock market lurching downward yesterday after its annual report expressed doubts about corporate viability. Could The Big Three go bankrupt? Critics such as The Truth About Cars blogger Robert Farago wonder if bailouts can save U.S. carmakers.

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Jimmy Fallon now sits in the throne of late-night giants Conan O'Brien and David Letterman, but it's been a tough week for the former Saturday Night Live star. Troy Patterson, the TV critic for Slate, reviews the first week of NBC's "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon."

Asian markets tumbled today after Wall Street closed at a 12-year low. Mark Gregory, international business reporter for the BBC, analyzes what happened and how it could affect us here in the United States.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wants to hold a conference on Afghanistan this month, and U.S. officials say Iran will receive an invite. Yes, that's "axis of evil" Iran. Ali Ansari of the University of St Andrews joins The Takeaway to explain the role Afghanistan could play in forming new international bonds.

Retail sales are down, as are orders for manufactured goods, and the number of people claiming jobless benefits remains near record highs. But the key for tracking the recession today is unemployment. Numbers are released later this morning. The Wall Street Journal's Kelly Evans tells The Takeaway how high it could go.

China's once-white-hot economic growth is cooling and an ambitious spending plan outlined yesterday has not convinced everyone that the nation can bounce back. Premier Wen Jiabao recently said that 2009 may be China's most difficult year for economic development since the start of the 21st century.

A dinner bowl, a pair of sandals and eyeglasses belonging to Indian nationalist leader Mohandas Gandhi fetched a price of $1.8 million in a New York auction. The auction was marred by controversy with the Indian government demanding the halt of the sale. The Takeaway talks to the New York Times' Jennifer 8. Lee who covered the story.

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In big cities, surveillance cameras are everywhere. But Canadian filmmaker Rob Spence is taking the all-seeing eye concept to a new level, combining reality TV, public journalism and documentary filmmaking. If he can raise the money, he'll install an always-on wireless video camera into his own prosthetic eye. Listen to Rob explain why.

And you can read more about Rob Spence on his EyeBorg Project blog at eyeborgblog.com.

None of The Takeaway staff was chosen as one of the seven "average Americans" in President Obama's health care summit in Washington, but we're making sure we — and you — stay part of the conversation. Dr. Marcia Angell, a senior lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, provides a national health check.

Watch President Obama's opening statements from the health care summit.

Unemployment numbers just came out and they tell a dismal story. The jobless rate jumped to 8.1 percent in February 2009. That's the highest level in more than 25 years. American payrolls shrunk by 651,000 workers.

Newsweek senior editor Daniel Gross, author of the new book Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, parses the numbers.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has more details and numbers.

David Leonhardt, New York Times "Economic Scene" columnist, listens to your stories about unemployment and breaks down the 8.1 percent unemployment rate for February 2009.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has more details and numbers.